8.40 Maths: Curve Sketching. 7.5 How Electricity is Generated. 7.30 Computing at Scottish Gas.
Story: Three Billy Goats Gruff
Gusst storyteller Johnny Ball Presenters Heather Williams and Ben Thomas
1: My Door is Always Open
Knottley Fields Comprehensive School at the beginning of the summer term. The Head, Mr Blyth , is hoping to introduce some changes in the fourth form curriculum,. but there are unforeseen problems.
Producer ED MILNER
A BBC/Open University production
A Tale of the Vienna Woods and The Milky Way
He was an actor with only one role, a ukulele player who couldn't read music, and a comedian who couldn't tell jokes. And yet for 35 years George Formby topped variety bills throughout the land. But his private life was a mystery. This portrait of George Formby , by Michael Dean , is an attempt to unravel the complications of an extraordinary life.
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer ANN PAUL
The third of six vignettes from last year's International Folklore Festival at Sidmouth. East Devon. Featuring:
Somerville Gentlemen's Band Bob Roberts
Pitebygdcns FolkdanslagKadrelln (from Holland) Heritage
Czuplak Ukrainian Dancers (from Nottingham) *
Eight programmes about renovating old furniture at home. Presented by DAVID DAY and ALBERT JACKSON 6: Cabinet Work
Most cabinets are variations on a simple box structure. Understanding their construction makes the repairs a lot more straightforward.
Film editor AL CELL
Producer RON bi.oomfield
Book (same title). £4.75 from booksellers 0 BETTER THAN NEW: page 77
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Men and women on the industrial production line stop for a breather -and to talk about their lives, jobs and concerns.
3: Heavy Vehicle Builders at ERF, Sandbach, Cheshire
Film cameraman STEVE SAUNDERSON Film editor GREG miller
Producer PHILIP DONNELLAN <
The last programme in this series Presented by Roy Castle and featuring
The Murrays and The Mowbrays from Leicester. Two families who get together to pool their talents on a whole range of musical activities: musical evenings at home, a weekly folk club, home-made musicals.
John Bayne from Luton, who thinks nothing of recording an 18-piece jazz band in his 8ft by 10ft dining room. With a bit of electronic magic, JOHN bayne 's ' one-man-family-band' makes a TV debut with a difference. Reporter JILL PHILLIPS
Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON Film director HILARY murphy Producer TONY STAVEACRE BBC Bristol
starring Johnny Mathis In Concert at the Dominion Theatre, London and in conversation with Noel Edmonds
The last of three silver anniversary programmes of words and music, recorded during his autumn tour of Britain.
Musical director Jim GANDUGLfA Videotape editor IAN WILLIAMS Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BILL MILLAR
Engineering manager REG HUTCHINGS VTOM YARDLEY-JONES
Production YVONNE LITTLEWOOD
by DOUGLAS ADAMS adapted in six parts from the BBC Radio series, starring the voice of Peter Jones
David Dixon , Simon Jones Sandra Dickinson Mark Wing-Davey featuring Martin Benson
2: Rescued from Earth, moments before its destruction to make way for a vast hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent and his alien friend, Ford Prefect, find themselves on board the actual demolition spacecraft in the capture of the evil, heartless, callous, slimy-green Vogons. But all is not well. They have a major decision to make! Should they face certain death by being flung into the cold vacuum of space? Or should they tell the Vogon captain how good they think his poetry?
Animated sequences ROD LORD
Radiophonic music PADDY KINGSLAND Sound MIKE MCCARTHY
Producer ALAN J. W. BELL
Language
The third of seven films about the source of human abilities.
Charles Landry was a lawyer until he had a stroke five years ago. Now he can speak, and when asked to name ' a small object for charting the passage of the hours' he unhesitatingly says ' watch '. Yet simpler sentences totally confuse him. He cannot answer the question: 'The leopard was killed by the lion. Which animal died? ', even though he can repeat it accurately.
Percy Ward was a Borough Clerk. Now when asked to read ' Duel' aloud, he says ' Rapier and for ' Hermit' he reads ' Recluse '.
Do such bizarre disabilities of damaged brains indicate how language is produced and analysed? Professor Norman Geschwind of Harvard University believes they do. Brains preserved for 120 years tell him where language is: now modern scanning techniques are beginning to tell us how three pounds of soft tissue actually produce words.
Narrator Colin Blakely
Music composed by PETER HOWELL of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Film cameramen ian STONE, COLIN MUNN Film editor LES NEWMAN
Research MAX WHITBY, gill nevill Written and produced by ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
A Money Programme special
Around the world lies 80 billion dollars-worth of Muslim funds, un-banked because the Islamic code forbids the charging of interest.
From Geneva, Cairo and Khartoum, Brian Widlake reports on the Saudi prince who believes he his found a way to attack this vast pool of money.
Producer PETER MOLLOY
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor DAVID LLOYD
Presenters Peter Snow, John Tusa and Donald MacCormick bring you the major events of the day.
Joan Bakewell has first news of stories from the arts; David Icke and Marshall Lee have the stories from behind the world of sport.