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6.40am-7.55 Open University (UHF only)

9.52am For Schools, Colleges

9.52 Europe from the Air 10.15-10.35 Music Time 11.00 Merry-Go-Round

11.25 You and Me

11.40-11.55 For Schools, Colleges Encounter: Italy

12.45pm Midday News

1.00 Pebble Mill at One

1.45 Over the Moon with Sam Dale

2.01-3.00 For Schools, Colleges 2.01 Words and Pictures 2.18 Out of the Past 2.40 Going to Work

3.15 Songs of Praise

3.53 Regional News (exc London)

3.55 Play School with Chloe Ashcroft and Ben Bazell

4.20 Cheggers Plays Pop with guests Bad Manners, Smokie and The New Seekers

5.00 John Craven's Newsround

5.05 Blue Peter with Simon Groom, Christopher Wenner and Tina Heath

5.35 Captain Pugwash

5.40 Evening News with Richard Baker

5.55 Nationwide Look East, Look North, Look North West, Midlands Today, Points West, South Today, Spotlight South West, Reporting Scotland, Wales Today, Scene Around Six present news and views in your region. Then at 6.20 Frank Bough, Sue Lawley, Hugh Scully, John Stapleton and Bob Wellings bring you Britain's most watched current affairs programme.

6.55 Ask the Family The Marsh family from Glasgow challenges the Ward family from Berkhamsted

8.10 Panorama

9.00 Nine O'Clock News with Christopher Morris

9.25 The Monday Film: Catch 22

11.25 Bellamy's Europe

11.55-12.00 News Headlines; Weatherman

BBC SCOTLAND as above exc: 12.40pm-12.45 Scottish News

BBC WALES as above except: 1.45pm-2.00 Pili Pala 6.55-7.20 Heddiw

BBC2

6.40am-7.55 Open University

11.00-11.25 Play School

4.50pm Open University

6.55 Six English Towns A Pattern of Building, written and presented by Alex Clifton-Taylor. This week: Chichester, Sussex

7.25 Mid-Evening News

7.35 Around with Alliss

8.05 Bird Spot with Tony Soper. This week, the crow family

8.15 The Waltons

9.00 Not the Nine O'Clock News The Death Lasers of Kzaarn: huge evil squids threaten to destroy the universe, but the Doctor is trapped in the same concrete corridor as last week...

9.25 Brass Tacks Cruise Missile - Not for Public Debate

10.10 International Dressage

10.45 Newsnight Peter Snow, Peter Hobday, John Tusa and Charles Wheeler report and analyse the events of the day. Weather and sport from Fran Morrison and David Davies

11.30 Russian - Language and People

11.55-12.05am Closedown Rosalind Shanks reads In a Convent Garden

7.00am Dave Lee Travis

9.00 Simon Bates

11.30 Paul Burnett: incl 12.30pm Newsbeat

2.00pm Andy Peebles

4.30 Kid Jensen: incl 5.30 Newsbeat

7.00 Stayin' Alive: with Kid Jensen and Dr Alan Maryon-Davies

8.00 Mike Read

9.50 Newsbeat

10.00 John Peel

RADIO 2

5.00am Ray Moore

7.30 Terry Wogan

10.00 Jimmy Young

12.00 David Hamilton

2.00pm Ed Stewart's Request Show

5.05 Waggoners' Walk

5.20 Much More Music continues

6.00 John Dunn

8.00 Folk on 2

9.00 Humphrey Lyttleton

10.00 The Monday Movie Quiz

10.30 Star Sound

11.00 Brian Matthew

2.00am-5.00 You and the Night and the Music: with Len Jackson

May 1980 highlights

A standard weekday line-up from the start of the 1980s. Newly launched on BBC2 was Newsnight, but Panorama was still firmly ensconced in the 8.10pm slot on BBC1, with BBC2's alternative being the equally tedious The Waltons; but viewers wanting an alternative to the Nine O'Clock News could always tune to the second series of Not the Nine O'Clock News - complete with a totally irrelevant programme billing in Radio Times!

Primetime BBC1 on this day was dominated by The Dukes of Hazzard; the days when 50 minute American imports could be found on primetime BBC1 are now long gone.

A new team for the 1980s had arrived at Blue Peter, but of the three presenters only Simon Groom would still be there when the programme returned after the summer break. The New Seekers were among the guests on Cheggers Plays Pop - they also appeared on this week's Rolf on Saturday OK? which, along with a Frank Sinatra film and Val Doonican, made up BBC1's Saturday night line-up.

Continuing to look further across the week, and on Friday three Welsh towns were competing in It's a Knockout! while the Welsh legend Max Boyce (right) had somehow got himself a primetime BBC1 show on Thursday.

More needletime restrictions brought down Radio 1's opening hours, and DLT was back to starting his breakfast show at 7.00 again. Twelve hours later, in Radio 1's features slot, David Jensen (who still liked to be known as 'Kid') presented Stayin' Alive, a weekly health and fashion programme, believe it or not. And Radio 2's last soap opera, Waggoners' Walk, was finally drawing to a close.

And in Radio Times 10-16 May 1980 Price 17p

Radio Times's cover this week was devoted to the FA Cup Final, with a picture of the cup placed upon the famous Wembley twin towers. Unfortunately due to the poor condition of the copy of RT I was using for this feature, it was not possible to scan in the cover for this page.

The magazine moved into the 1980s looking exactly as it had done during most of the 1970s, although it was now under new editorship. New features to be introduced later in 1980 included the children's section John Craven's Back Page. Programmes previewed this week included a British eccentric in The Flying Machines of Ken Wallis, and the Sunday teatime serial Doom Castle.

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