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9.35 Encounter: Austria: On the Farm; Ski-ing on the Dachstein
Learning to ski in Austria is as common as swimming lessons here, so - what is it like?
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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Living Images
Yorkshire children use a model for a portrait of a character from fiction.
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: Stripey the Badger
Debbie has befriended Stripey the badger. But can a badger be a pet? And shouldn't the children tell Mrs Rudge about him?
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10.38 Science in Action: Sporting Chance
Having a go yourself is the theme of this new 'Hands-on-Science' series. This week: explore the physics of pedal power, find out how to make a bike go faster and marvel at human-powered vehicles.
Presented by Kjartan Poskitt and Terry Marsh
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11.0 Watch: Visual Arts: Making and Modelling
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11.17 Near and Far: Concrete
The look of many towns and cities owes much to the use of concrete. However, the extraction of its raw materials - limestone, clay, sand and gravel has had an even more dramatic effect on rural areas.
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 2
The spaceship Investigator strays into a powercloud. To find their way out, Stella and Zak must recognise and model marker-buoys made of cubes.
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
3: Arithmetic Progressions
How to make a number sequence add up without really trying.
4: Shuffles
From riffling cards to ringing the changes - what patterns emerge?
(R) (E)

12.18 pm Maths Counts: 2: Round About
by John Tully
Seven dollars and 99 cents. Call it eight dollars. Steve and Wendy learn how to round numbers up - and down?
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12.40 Honourable Members: 2: The Art of the Possible
Five programmes examining the role of MPs.
Life at Westminster; ancient ritual, legislation, the Whip and the guillotine, Question Time, select committees. MPs and former MPs taking part include John Biffen, Edward Du Cann, Julian Critchley, Michael Cocks and George Cunningham.
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1.5 Pages from Ceefax

1.33 English Time: Buddy: 1: Raining in My Heart
by Nigel Hinton
A drama serial in five parts based on the novel by the same author. Featuring Roger Daltrey as Terry.
Buddy steals things from shops. He wants to stop - especially as it seems as if his Teddy Boy dad, Terry, might be getting back into his old criminal ways. But Buddy badly needs money for the school trip...
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2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo has a violent tantrum, Dibs and Indira try to calm her. Maths on the farm: 'Matching eggs to the birds that laid them'. Book: Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr
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Contributors

Producer (Encounter:
Austria/Look and Read): Susan Paton
Producer (Look, Look and Look Again):
Judith Miles
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Assistant producer (Look and Read):
Roger Fry
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Assistant producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Series producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn
Designer (Wondermaths):
Rory Mitchell
Series producer (Wondermaths):
David Scott Cowan
Presenter (MI 10):
Hilary Clough
Animation (MI 10):
Stewart Hardy Films
Film Editor (MI 10):
John Billingham
Producer (MI 10):
David Roseveare
Writer (Maths Counts):
John Tully
Interviewee (Honourable Members):
John Biffen
Interviewee (Honourable Members):
Edward Du Cann
Interviewee (Honourable Members):
Julian Critchley
Interviewee (Honourable Members):
Michael Cocks
Interviewee (Honourable Members):
George Cunningham
Consultant (Honourable Members):
Malcolm Davies
Director (Honourable Members):
Nicholas Metcalfe
Producer (Honourable Members):
Tony Roberts
Writer/Based on the same novel by (English File:
Buddy): Nigel Hinton
Editor (English File:
Buddy): Alastair MacKay
Producer (English File:
Buddy): Roger Tonge
Terry:
Roger Daltrey
Buddy:
Wayne Goddard
Carol:
Kay Stonham
Mr Normington:
Norman Bird
Charmian:
Lorraine Plummer
Julius:
Dennis Victory
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright

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