This week’s show mainly focuses on 1998. The main feature will be another Play For Today. Red Shift is an adaptation of Alan Garner’s 1973 fantasy novel of the same name, directed by John Mackenzie. We’ll finish off with an episode of Alas Smith and Jones and a Panorama fragment featuring MI5 whistleblower David Shayler.

4.00 Pages From Ceefax
4.40 Geordie Racer – Episode 5
5.00 Playdays
5.25 Chucklevision
5.40 Bodger and Badger
6.05 Clarissa Explains it All
6.30 Newsround
6.40 Neighbours – Episode 14
7.00 BBC News
7.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E18 Coming of Age
8.00 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E10 Truth or Dick
8.25 Robot Wars
8.55 Gardeners World
9.25 BBC Evening News
9.40 Play For Today: Red Shift
11.05 Alas Smith and Jones
11.35 Panorama (fragment)
11.55 Closedown