9.10 A Good Job with Prospects Telecommunications
Trainee Technician Apprentices learn to repair and maintain the telephone network. Producer DAVID TAFT
Series producer JILL SHEPPARD
9.38 Going to Work Outdoor Work
Council workers, gardeners, farmers, and sea front attendants are just some of the people who have to work in the open air regardless of the weather. Producer PETER BRAn
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL
My Wheels
10.15 Music Time
Sounds by the Sea: 2
Music Time (record REC 362, cassette zcm 362), from retailers
10.38 Twentieth-Century History Boom or Bust
11.0 Merry-go-Round
Anima! Homes
11.23 Talkabout
The Foolish Tortoise
11.42 General Studies An Everyday Miracle
Narrated by DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
This film sheds new light on the way we spend the first nine months of our lives before birth and includes astonishing scenes of the baby at different stages of development inside the womb. The film ends with the birth itself. Producer ANDREW NEAL
12.10 pm Play it Safe!
4: Quick as a Flash
Archive footage illustrates this focus on the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United States until the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart
Weather MICHAEL FISH
(London and SE only: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
Bob Langley , Donny MacLeod and Marian Foster present the cheerful and informal lunchtime magazine. which celebrates its tenth birthday this week. To mark the event, the Pebble Mill Dash is being staged again - a frivolous sort of rally in which competitors are asked to make their Way to Pebble Mill by the most bizarre means possible, the winner being the most original mode of transport.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE. BBC Pebble Mill
2.1 Words and Pictures The Hat
The hat that Frog gives Toad as a birthday present is too big. Thinking big thoughts to enlarge his head is suggested to Toad but then a more practical solution to the problem is found.
Presenter VICKY IRELAND Puppets ALAN PLATT
Animation BURA a and hardwick Producer MOYRA GAUBLETON
2.18 Exploring Science
The Body Machine
2.40 The Music Arcade 4: Vocal Music
The children vocally imitate radio stations, led by a 'dial' which fades the stations in and out. Presenters
TIM WHITNALL , LUCIE SKEAPING With ELECTRIC PHOENIX children from
HENRY FAWCETT JUNIOR SCHOOL Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT
A weekly programme for people with hearing problems.
Nowhere Bear
Starstormers by NICHOLAS FISK
1: The worst thing on earth is being stuck in boarding school, when your parents are a million miles away working on another planet. So why not build a space-ship to go and join them!
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with Simon Groom , Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan
Meet Captain Webb-Foote and Vaniiuht Fannv Jones - not forget-tine Fiona and her amazing. ballet performed upside down with her head in a bucket.
Assistant editor IAN OLIVER
Editor BIDDY BAXTER
with Richard Baker; Weatherman
Presented by Laurie Mayer and Fran Morrison with reporters
SUSANNAH GREENBERG and MAGGIE NELSON and all the region's sport by MICHAEL WALE
At 6.25 the Nationwide team of Sue Lawley, Frank Bough , Richard Kershaw and Hugh Scully bring you the issues, the stories and the people that matter from BBC studios in the capital and across the country.
Including Watchdog
Deputy editors
MICHAEL HOGAN , PAUL WOOLWICH Editor ROGER BOLTON
Presented by Richard Lindley
The issues, the people and the stories that matter, reported by television's top journalists:
MICHAEL COCKERELL , DAVID LOMAX TOM MANGOLD , JEREMY PAXMAN
PETER TAYLOR , PHILIP TIBENHAM
Deputy editor TOM BOWER Editor GEORGE CAREY
with John Humphrys Weatherman
starring
Linda Blair , Martin Sheen
When Leonard Hatch , a mental patient, escapes from an asylum, he heads for his mountain-top hideaway. Unexpectedly Leonard encounters teenager Doris Mae. At first he holds her by force but gradually the bond between the kidnapper and 'victim' grows. This unusual love story stars Martin Sheen in one of his most powerful performances, as the sensitive patient who becomes the girl's friend, teacher and lover.
Screenplay by ED HUME
Based on the novel Welcome to Xanadu by NATHANIEL BENCHLEY Produced by RICHARD t. LYONS. SIDNEY D. BALXIN Directed by LEE PHILIPS
with Iain Johnstone
Including regular reviews of current releases and up-to-the-minute news of the latest films in production and the personalities involved. Deathtrap: Michael Calne , Christopher Reeve and Dyan Cannon star in this film adaptation of the long-running comedy thriller on both the London and Broadway stages. Hammett: Dashiel Hammett , author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, comes out of retirement to solve another case in Wim Wenders ' fictional tribute.
Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer JUDY LINDSAY