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9.15 Maths at Work: 2
Young people use maths: a clerk, sales assistant, process worker and sample cutter.
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9.38 Lifeschool: Economics: A Question of Choice: To Buy or Not to Buy
Why choose one product rather than another? What effect do choices as consumers have on people and resources? An investigation into the implications of marketing a chocolate bar, buying British, and launching a new product.
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo, Dibs and Gary Wilmot are sharing out the food for a picnic. You are introduced to the words 'in' and 'out' and watch a girl at her karate class.
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10.15 Music Time: The Regular Beat
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(For details see Thursday at 1.38pm)

10.40 Thinkabout: Keeping Warm
The boiler's broken down. Frank and Sally find out why, while the children discover that newspaper coats can keep out the cold!
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11.00 Zig Zag: The Channel Tunnel
(e) (For details see Wednesday at 1.38pm)

11.20 English Time: Buddy: That'll Be the Day
by Nigel Hinton
Starring Roger Daltrey as Terry
His Mum has made contact and Buddy hopes desperately that she'll come home.
With Wayne Goddard, Kay Stonham, Virginia Denham, Anne Dyson, Lorraine Plummer, Trevor Ray
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11.45 Why? Because...: How Far is it to...?
Places play an important part in people's religious experience. The programme looks at three very different 'holy' places, Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument; the Ganges, a river; Jerusalem, a city.
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12.08pm History File: Twentieth-Century History: Britain Alone
The fall of Europe to Nazi Germany was swift and unexpected. From June 1940 Britain was fighting alone.
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12.30 General Studies: The Spirit Moves
Why is it that in almost every human society Man has turned to religion for fulfilment, help and an explanation of the world? This programme considers some of the ways in which the spiritual life has been expressed.
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1.00 Science in Action: Body Machine
Fitness in general, and muscles in particular, are the theme of this week's programme; from hearts to hamstrings.
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Contributors

Narrator (Maths at Work):
Kieran Prendiville
Producer (Maths at Work/Lifeschool):
Roger Fry
Series Producer (Maths at Work):
David Roseveare
Consultant (Lifeschool):
Steven Hodkinson
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Film Director (You and Me):
Lelia Guinery-Green
Studio Director (You and Me):
Clare Elstow
Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Writer (English Time):
Nigel Hinton
Produced and directed by (English Time):
Roger Tonge
Terry:
Roger Daltrey
[Actor]:
Wayne Goddard
[Actress]:
Kay Stonham
[Actress]:
Virginia Denham
[Actress]:
Anne Dyson
[Actress]:
Lorraine Plummer
[Actor]:
Trevor Ray
Narrator (Why? Because...):
Michael Heath
Narrator (Why? Because...):
Indira Joshi
Producer (Why? Because...):
Sue Weeks
Producer (History File):
Alan Ereira
Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (General Studies):
Edward Hayward
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

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