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Brian Cant explains which action rhymes are to be used and a teacher comments on their value in her day nursery.
Illustrator QUENTIN BLAKE
Producer CHRISTINE HEWITT Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Blake
Producer:
Christine Hewitt
Editor:
Cynthia Felgate

A second series of 12 programmes 8: Functions and Inequalities
Problem: A company makes televisions and stereos. It has to supply at least 100 stereos and 150 televisions each week to the warehouse. The warehouse cannot store a weight of more than 9,000kg and the storeman cannot cope with ... This kind of problem is full of words but no mathematical symbols. How can we introduce mathematics in a way that will lead to a picture of the problem.
Presented by NORMAN GOWAR (Open University)
Books, Maths Help parts 1 and 2, 13.95 each from booksellers

Contributors

Presented By:
Norman Gowar

Last of five reports by BOB SALKELD Games, Gadgets or Gimmicks?
A flight simulator, a model tank, a turtle, a plotter and a lathe all have one thing in common: they're examples of the new concept of control technology using microcomputers and microprocessors. Why is it becoming important in schools?

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Salkeld

Just what does society expect its education system to do, and why? The Ministers of Education in the 1980 Swedish and British governments, together with the top educational administrator in pre-Solidarity Poland, give their views.
Producer KEN LITTLE
A BBC/Open University production

Our pets are not only a joy, they re a responsibility. Marian Foster and Brian Watkins meet some ot the animals that live in our homes. Today: Rabbits and Guinea-pigs with advice from
ALISON DUTTON and CONNIE COOPER
Produced by ANDREW MEIKLE
Executive producer john KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
(' Dobs ' is on Friday at 6.45 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Foster
Unknown:
Brian Watkins
Unknown:
Alison Dutton
Unknown:
Connie Cooper
Produced By:
Andrew Meikle
Producer:
John Kenyon

A Riverside dance special Mantis Dance Company with guests 23 Skidoo
After ten years with the London
Contemporary Dance Theatre a.s a leading soloist and associ ate choreographer, German-born
Micha Bergese formed MANTIS in 1980. The company has evolved from its early all-male beginnings into a form that now includes the joint female elements of Carolyn Choa from Hong Kong and Wendy McPhee from Australia. This interesting racial mix of dancers is continued with Gurmit Hukam from India, Gregory Nash ,
Matthew Hawkins and Dance Director
MICHA BERGESE.
Together they promise an exciting programme of experimental modern dance, performed to music ranging from live performance by 23 SKIDOO, to a NEIL ARTHUR and STEPHEN LUSCOMBE (Blancmange) composition, to a concerto by BACH.
In addition, Gary Hurst talks to Bergese about his work and the thoughts that inspired several of today's programme pieces.
Executive producer MICHAEL APPLETON Director DAVID G. CROFT Producer JOHN BURROWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Micha Bergese
Unknown:
Carolyn Choa
Unknown:
Wendy McPhee
Unknown:
Gurmit Hukam
Unknown:
Gregory Nash
Unknown:
Matthew Hawkins
Unknown:
Micha Bergese.
Unknown:
Stephen Luscombe
Talks:
Gary Hurst
Producer:
Michael Appleton
Director:
David G. Croft
Producer:
John Burrowes

Michael Dean introduces more entries in this competition for film enthusiasts and film-makers.
Heat 3' Cartoons and Animations Tonight's jury Philip Jenkinson
Richard Williams , Philip Strick
Director ROSALIND GOLD
Producer MARK PATTERSON

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Dean
Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson
Unknown:
Richard Williams
Unknown:
Philip Strick
Director:
Rosalind Gold
Producer:
Mark Patterson

Tennis -Wimbledon 1977
For years the nation had willed
Virginia Wade to win Wimbledon. In 1977 she duly obliged, but not before she had won a truly great semi-final match against Chris Evert.
Series producer JEFF GODDARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Virginia Wade
Unknown:
Chris Evert.
Producer:
Jeff Goddard

BBC2 Snooker Championship The llth frame for the 1983 Pot Black Trophy Featuring in Group 1:
Ray Reardon (Wales) beaten finalist in the 1982 World Championship against
Kirk Stevens (Canada), a quarter-finalist in the 1982 World Championship.
In the last game in the group, a former world champion meets a former Canadian champion. Reardon is unbeaten so far and Stevens needs a win to have a chance of reaching the semi-finals.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee JOHN WILLIAMS Commentator TED LOWE
Director JOHN G. SMITH
Producer REG PERRIN. BBC Pebble Mill
Book, Pot Black, £2.25 from booksellers; BBC videobook, The People's Champion (BBCV 5017). on the 1982 Embassy World Professional Snooker title, from retailers

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Reardon
Unknown:
Kirk Stevens
Introduced By:
Alan Weeks
Unknown:
John Williams
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
John G. Smith
Producer:
Reg Perrin.

by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised in four parts by HUGH WHITEMORE
2: Ambrose is unexpectedly dead - his widow. Rachel, disappeared. Shattered by the turn of events, Philip attempts to pick up the threads of his normal life again when, without warning, Rachel arrives in England.
Music composed and conducted by PATRICK COWERS
Studio lighting CLIVE THOMAS
Costume designer PRUE HANDLEY Designer DON GILES
Producer RICHARD BEYNON
Directed by BRIAN FARNHAM * Ceefax subtitles page 270

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Whitemore
Conducted By:
Patrick Cowers
Unknown:
Clive Thomas
Designer:
Prue Handley
Designer:
Don Giles
Producer:
Richard Beynon
Directed By:
Brian Farnham
Cousin Rachel:
Geraldine Chaplin
Philip:
Christopher Guard
Seecombe:
Bert Parnaby
Ambrose Ashley:
John Shrapnel
Tamlyn:
Richard Williams
John:
Jamie Cresswell
Mrs Pascoe:
Elizabeth Stewart
The Rev Pascoe:
Keith Marsh
Nick Kendall:
John Stratton
Louise Kendall:
Arianda Kirby
Mr Couch:
John Bryans
Rainaldi:
Charles Kay
Toby:
Himself

Hard Rock
One Thursday last July, there was an inrush of water into Tunnel C, deep underground beneath the Derbyshire hills. Within minutes it had flooded the tunnel face. No one was hurt, but it was yet another set-back for the biggest tunnelling scheme in Britain, which will eventually run for five miles from the River Derwent to a new reservoir at Carsington. By now, the miners should have dug almost the whole distance, but this ambitious scheme is already a year behind schedule. This film follows the miners underground and shows for the first time how they are held back by mud, rock and water. Delays lead to disputes between the contractor and the consulting engineer as cost estimates rise from £15m to £25m. They may rise more: there are still another four miles to dig. Narrator Colin Blakely
Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY Written and produced by ROBIN BRIGHTWELL

Contributors

Narrator:
Colin Blakely
Editor:
Keith Raven
Editor:
Graham Massey
Produced By:
Robin Brightwell

by PETER RANSLEY
A story in five episodes, based on A Shepherd's Life by w. H. HUDSON starring Malcolm Storry as Isaac with Carolyn Pickles , Ian Redford
3: Childhood
Summer 1827. As the men bring in the harvest, concern grows at the enclosure of local land and automatic guns hidden in the woods pose an ugly threat.
Extraordinary integrity (FINANCIAL TIMES) The best of its kind (THE OBSERVER) Producer RUTH CALEB
Directed by PETER SMITII

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ransley
Unknown:
H. Hudson
Unknown:
Malcolm Storry
Unknown:
Carolyn Pickles
Unknown:
Ian Redford
Directed By:
Peter Smitii
Caleb Bawcombe:
Andrew Parsons
David Jarvis:
Glyn Burton
Emily Jarvis:
Sophle Clissold
Dick Toomer:
Matthew Cassidy
Susan Toomer:
Pauline Wise
Harbutt:
Milton Johns
Benson:
David Calder
Cooper:
Philip Joseph
Pope:
Bryan Murray
Toomer:
Sean Baker
Ellerby:
George Malpas
Jarvis:
Ian Redford
Mary:
Carolyn Pickles
Mrs Bawcombe:
Sandra Voe
Mrs Jarvis:
Sandra Kneller

11.40 Borehole Logging. How the presence of oil reserves are inferred from geological data on the structure and properties of rocks in the vicinity.
12.5 Telecommunications Systems: Multiplexing. How can you send hundreds of different telephone signals down a single length of wire? Telecommunication authorities use a technique called ' multiplexing '. which changes the frequency or duration of individual signals.

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