Five to Eleven: the discoveries
 

Steven Pacey presenting Five to Eleven c1988 
 

Well, I wasn't wrong.  Five to Eleven, as I remember it, was a late morning show from the late 1980s (on at, erm, five to eleven) with gentle pipe music accompanying the opening credits and some garden-type images.  I just couldn't remember what it was about.  Everyone I have asked has said, 'Huh??' when I have asked them if they had heard of it, and left me feeling a bit like I imagined the whole thing.  
 
Well, God bless the power of Google:  
 
Five to eleven was definitely on in 1988: http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/tellyyears/august1988.htm  
 
It was apparently, as TV Cream describes it, a programme with B-list celebrities reading poems and short stories:  
 
Epilogue-type effort, but with the added novelty of being broadcast in the middle of the morning. Out-of-work thespian types, usually JOSS ACKLAND, read poems and short stories in sonorous tones.
http://tv.cream.org/a-z/f/f2.htm  
 
Joanna Lumley was guest presenter during Easter week 1987: http://www.jlmatrix.co.uk/joanna/fivetoeleven.htm  
 
Also Kenneth Branagh in the same year: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mosherm/tv.htm  
 
Very Famous Person Steven Pacey (he played Del Tarrant in Blake's 7 ) http://www.tarrantnostra.com/pacey/5to11.htm http://www.btinternet.com/~blakes.seven/main/
Beyond_B7/Pacey/body_pacey.html#tv
 
And folkie Jancis Harvey: http://www.jancis-harvey.co.uk/page%202.html
 
And on my google-travels I also came across this: http://www.sub-tv.co.uk/index.asp  
You learn new things every day in Googleland!  It makes you feel less mad and alone in the world.... sniifffffff!      
 
 
P.S. Also check this out: http://www.shifthappens.co.uk/
One of the best and funniest websites I have seen for ages. 
Check out the 'Solar Virals'. Cheers Z for pointing me towards this!