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Schooltime Supplement: page 23

9.20 Let's Go - Series 1: 1: Let's Go Shopping by Bus
Ten programmes for moderately handicapped young adults, presented by Brian Rix.
(R)

9.35 Encounter: France: Land and Sea - Fecamp
On 14 July, Fecamp celebrates - but what's life like for the police, firemen and fishermen on other days?
(R)

9.52 Mathscore One 1: Know Your Place
Cavemen, clowns and Octo the counting octopus, all illustrate the importance of zero.
(R)

10.15 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 1: Dark Towers in Danger!
by Andrew Davies.
A reading series for 7- to-9-year-olds in ten episodes based on a ghost story.
(R)

10.38 Update USA: 1: Great Lakes City
Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie and one of the original capitals of industrial America, is struggling with the problems of decline as investment for new industry seeks out more profitable locations in the south and west of the USA.
(R)

11.0 Watch: Grain Harvest

11.17 Walrus 1: After Four
by Cathy Pellicer.
Those kids from the remedial class ought not to have been in the school television studio anyway...
(R)

11.39 Science Topics: Ecology and Conservation
Ecology has lots of interlocking questions and, as yet, few answers.
(R)

12.0 Year of the French: 1: The Queen of the Beaujolais
Another chance to see this series on French life and attitudes, seen through the experiences of individual French men and women.
Marguerite Chabert, 83, is President of the wine co-operative of Fleurie.
(R)

12.30 Deutsch Direkt!: 1: Programm eins
The first in a new 20-part series for beginners in German, made in West Germany and Austria.
How to say who you are, where you're from and ask where something is. And a look at Duhnen, a popular holiday resort on the North Sea coast. West German TV presenter Hanni Vanhaiden introduces the programme from her home town, Hamburg.
Book, £5.95, three cassettes £3.75 each, and Notes for Teachers from booksellers or BBC Publications

12.55 Switch On to English (1): 1: The Importance of Word Order
Key aspects of spoken and written English using extracts from popular television series as reinforcement.
Presented by Floella Benjamin.
(R)

1.20 Encounter: Spain: Town and Village
Life in a Castilian village - and in the provincial capital of Valladolid; Holy Week celebrations.
(R)

1.38 Let's See: Where We Live: 1: A Place to Call Home
Garry looks at why Bedouin Arabs, Eskimos and Scots build themselves such different kinds of homes, and just what and who are involved in building a house in Scotland today.

2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Cosmo and Dibs exchange presents with Indira Joshi. Introducing the numbers 2 and 4. Book: "Happy Birthday Sam"
(R)

2.15 History 11-13 The Middle Ages: 1: The Peasants' Revolt
by Keith Goodall.
The true story of an Essex peasant caught up in the violent events of 1381.
(R)

2.40 Exploring Science: Getting the Measure of It
Where would we be without a system of measurement agreed by everybody?
(R)

Contributors

Presenter (Let's Go!):
Brian Rix
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Producer (Update USA):
Len Brown
Writer (Walrus):
Cathy Pellicer
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy
Series producer (Science Topics):
Peter Bratt
Subject (Year of the French):
Marguerite Chabert
Producer (Year of the French):
Jonathan Gill
Presenter (Deutsch Direkt!):
Hanni Vanhaiden
Consultant (Deutsch Direkt!):
Katrin Kohl
Consultant (Deutsch Direkt!):
John Trim
Director (Deutsch Direkt!):
Marion Allinson
Producer (Deutsch Direkt!):
Maddalena Fagandini
Presenter (Switch On to English):
Floella Benjamin
Presenter (Let's See):
Garry Stewart
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Animation (You and Me):
Marjut Rimminen
Director (You and Me):
Rosemary Shepherd
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Writer (History 11-13):
Keith Goodall
Producer (History 11-13):
Jill Sheppard
[Actress]:
Isabel Lansdale
[Actor]:
Nigel Makin
[Actor]:
Edward Phillips
[Actor]:
Philip Antony
[Actor]:
Ian Gardiner
[Actor]:
Geoffrey Russell
[Actor]:
John Cording
[Actor]:
Peter Searles
Richard II:
Simon Gipps-Kent

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