6.40 Chemical Equilibrium
7.5 The Grand Inquisitor
7.30 Computers - File Processing
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6.40 Chemical Equilibrium
7.5 The Grand Inquisitor
7.30 Computers - File Processing
9.35-9.55 Twentieth-Century History: Israel and the Arab States
10.12-10.27 Words and Pictures: The Wonderful Cake
11.2 Everyday Maths: The Last Count
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A See-Saw programme The Special Pebble
Illustrated by JOAN HICKSON
Percussion GREG KNOWLES
Musical director PETER PETTINGER
Designer JOHN HOLLAND
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE written and produced by CAROLE WARD
Weather ANNE PURVIS
The Lawn Tennis Championships
The Semi-finals of the Ladies' Singles
The two top matches of the afternoon on the world-famous Centre Court will decide who goes through to Friday's Ladies final. BBC cameras bring you coverage direct from the All England Club. Harry Carpenter introduces all the highlights of the ninth day's play with news and results.
with Isla St Clair
This week Isla goes underground to mine coal and also works in a cotton mill to discover some of the stories and sing the songs of the men, women and children who were the power behind the industrial revolution.
with Johnny Ball and guest singer Angela Presman
A lighthearted exploration of science, technology and numbers. This week Johnny looks into
The Science of See Through Sand
He cooks, looks, hits, breaks and bends ... glass.
See some glass over 3,000 years old, a teardrop that goes with a bang and a singer who has a smashing time.
Meanwhile, see if you can see through this one. Divide a clock face with two straight lines so that the numbers in each part are equal.
Written by JOHNNY BALL
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ALBERT BARBER
BBC Bristol (Ilud tiata ul
Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
The Lawn Tennis Championships HARRY CARPENTER with highlights.
A series in six parts by TARA prem with and featuring
1: Happy Birthday
' The Olympian Way' is one today. A chance for slimmers, dieters and goal reachers to be reminded that their club is not only about losing weight. It's about feeling good-and, just occasionally, being good.
Title song LYNSEY DE PAUL Lighting BOB GELL
Designer NIGEL JONES
Producer PETER ANSORGE
Director LOVETT BICKFORD. BBC Birmingham Brookes On ... : page 73
The first of four programmes starring Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield
with special guest Toni Basil
and featuring Jane Darling, Tom Yang
Three new, young artists in a fast-moving comedy show introducing 'Gagfax'
with Peter Woods ; Weatherman
by Dave Humphries
The first of eight programmes starring Trevor Eve
with Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin and Liz Crowther
and featuring Glyn Houston and Anna Cropper
The Major is not the sort of man to crack easily. So why does his wife ring Eddie at Radio West?
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(Subtitles: on Ceefax page 170)
Have you ever believed that your fate has something to do with the conjunction or opposition of the stars? You are not alone. Since time immemorial, astrology has been a preoccupation of the human race.
This week Carl Sagan 's journey takes us to ancient sites which bear vivid witness to early man's obsession with the stars - and the dawn of scientific observation.
From there we go to the turbulent 16th-century world of Hand Kepler, a tortured genius whose integrity and perseverance made him the last scientific astrologer and the first astrophysicist.
A joint production of KCET and Carl Sagan Productions Inc in association with BBCtv.
(Profile of Carl Sagan, R4, Friday, 5.10)
with Terry Jones
This week we take a look at one of the most loved traditional children's series, Rupert Bear, and talk to the veteran illustrator Alfred Bestall, who drew the famous strip for 30 years. Terry Jones will also talk to Jan Pienkowski whose pop-up books such as The Haunted House are the height of sophisticated design and ingenuity.