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9.15 Job Bank: Short-Term Service
A short-term service commission in any branch of HM Forces offers you a chance to be a leader in challenging and interesting environments.
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9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs try to put a model back together. Sherbett the robot grows taller to fetch down a kite. Jaspal's mother makes him a new suit. Song: Kookaburra
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10.15 Music Time: Rhythm and the Beat
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10.40 Thinkabout: Rubbish Dump
Sally and the children sort out some rubbish to be thrown out, but Frank has other ideas.
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11.00 Zig Zag: The Norman Invasion
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11.20 English Time: Storytelling: Spells, Charms and Curses
Three different types of traditional tales: Willy and the Piece of Wood, told by professional storyteller Hugh Lupton; The Paper Bag Princess, an unconventional folk tale; The Lambton Worm, a well-known legend from the north east of England.
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11.45 Tutorial Topics: The Bully and the Victim: Parts 1 and 2
by John Challen
A look at a bullying incident from two viewpoints.
With Wayne Goddard, Demitri Jagger, Richard Chadwick, Simon Gilby, Gareth Armstrong, James Marcus, Maureen Morris, Barry Ewart and Judy Gridley
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12.08pm History File: Cold War - Confrontation
The Berlin blockade of 1948-9 and the Korean War of 1950-3: the issues which nearly brought the Soviet Union and the USA into full-scale war.
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12.30 General Studies: Music: Reggae, Madness and the Wild Things
With examples from reggae, the pop group Madness and Oliver Knussen's opera Where the Wild Things Are the programme asks the creators of this music what they are trying to communicate.
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1.00 Science in Action: In the Picture
Take 'hands on' science centres in Bristol, Liverpool, London and New York, add some film stories from the UK and USA, mix in some TV studios and you've got the second series of Science in Action. Find out why writing appears backwards in a mirror. Follow in the 150-year-old footsteps of William Henry Fox-Talbot and make your own photographic paper. Finally try out some live optical illusions.
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Contributors

Producer (Job Bank):
John Chapple
Presenter (You and Me):
Bharti Patel
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Animation (You and Me):
Mike Hibbert
Director (You and Me):
Julie Callanan
Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Storyteller (English Time):
Hugh Lupton
Storyteller (English Time):
Janet Palmer
Storyteller (English Time):
Brendan Healy
Producer (English Time):
David Meldrum
Writer (Tutorial Topics):
John Challen
Film Cameraman (Tutorial Topics):
Paul Morris
Producer (Tutorial Topics):
Len Brown
[Actor]:
Wayne Goddard
[Actor]:
Demitri Jagger
[Actor]:
Richard Chadwick
[Actor]:
Simon Gilby
[Actor]:
Gareth Armstrong
[Actor]:
James Marcus
[Actress]:
Maureen Morris
[Actor]:
Barry Ewart
[Actress]:
Judy Gridley
Commentary (History File):
John Tidmarsh
Writer (History File):
John Tusa
Producer (History File):
John Chaple
Series Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (General Studies):
Bruce Jamson
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Assistant Producer (Science in Action):
Lambros Atteshlis
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

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