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9.10 Higher Education
4: What Sort of Course? An introduction to polytechnics, colleges and institutes of higher education - and to the idea behind ' sandwich courses. Narrator LIBBY PURVES Producer ROSANNA HIBBERT
9.38 Going to Work
Overcoming Handicaps
How young handicapped people are learning to cope with a variety of jobs.
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Wait/Danger
Introduced by MICHAEL MAYNARD and Duncan the Dragon.
10.15 Music Time
9: Grouping Beats. The children try out different ways of accenting the first beat in a bar. Presenters JONATHAN COHEN and HELEN SPEIRS Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT
10.38 Twentieth-Century History Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia
How Stalin's rise to power affected the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
11.0 Zig-Zag
Computers in Society ,
Some of the uses being made of computers and robots.
SHEELAGH GILBEY and PAUL COlA try out a robotic arm, a computer graphics machine and a flight simulator.
11.23 Talkabout
Not This Bear!
11.42 General Studies: Biography Fragments of the Truth
How close to the truth about a person's life can a biographer get?
Is it easier to write about a subject who is still alive?
MICHAEL HOLROYD , ROBERT GITTINGS , GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE and MICHAEL DEAN explore some of the issues involved in presenting people s lives. Narrator JUDY GEESON Producer BRUCE JAMSON
12.10 pm Wheels of Fire
Ten films about development issues in India... ,
9: All in the Family. How internal success has affected workers in the bicycle, truck and bus manufacturing companies.
12.40 On the Rocks 9: After the Ice
How much the landscape we know today owes to the action of ice in the last glaciation.
1.5-1.30 Multi-Cultural Education Ten case studies for teachers
9: Great Expectations
1.38 Politics in Action
4- Living Apart, Working Together
How the people of Barra and Vatersay solve some of their problems by co-operative enterprises.
2.1 Words and Pictures
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll
2.18 The History Trail
A Restoration Christmas. A nobleman tries to restore his fortunes - and some old festivities.
2.40 The Music Arcade
9: Pantomime Preparation
The children rehearse their songs and percussion music.

Contributors

Narrator:
Libby Purves
Producer:
Rosanna Hibbert
Introduced By:
Michael Maynard
Presenters:
Jonathan Cohen
Presenters:
Helen Speirs
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Unknown:
Sheelagh Gilbey
Unknown:
Michael Holroyd
Unknown:
Robert Gittings
Unknown:
Gillian Widdicombe
Unknown:
Michael Dean
Narrator:
Judy Geeson
Producer:
Bruce Jamson

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