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The Embassy World Professional Championship from The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

Today the Championship moves into the quarter-final stages. This morning the final pair of second-round matches are concluded; this afternoon at 3.15 the quarter-finals continue as the original field of 73 is narrowed down to the eight who are in contention for the really big money - and the world title.

Contributors

Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Commentator:
Jack Karnehm
Commentator:
Clive Everton

No school thinks it has enough money, but London schools are luckier than most. In London, through the AUR scheme, ILEA ensures that schools have a bigger say in the money they get and the way they spend it. RON GLATTER looks at how the scheme works in two contrasting primary schools.
Producer NICK BRENTON
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
Ron Glatter
Producer:
Nick Brenton

in the company of David Hepworth and Mark Ellen takes its own look at the rock scene.
With studio guests Pale Fountains and Big Country
On video Neil Young
Plus news, views, clues and reviews.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Hepworth
Presenter:
Mark Ellen
Musicians:
Pale Fountains
Musicians:
Big Country
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Producer:
Michael Appleton

opens a season of films starring Hollywood's legendary actress.
Also starring Tom Ewell with Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
Billy Wilder's screen version of George Axelrod 's famous comedy firmly established Marilyn as a major star and sex symbol. She displays an enormous talent for comedy as 'The girl' who rents an apartment upstairs from a middle-aged business executive and who innocently becomes the object of his sexual fantasies. In the role he originally created on Broadway, Tom Ewell is at his deadpan best as the grass widower with the 'itch' for infidelity.
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Contributors

Screenplay/Producer/Director:
Billy Wilder
Screenplay:
George Axelrod
Producer:
Charles K. Feldman
The girl:
Marilyn Monroe
Richard Sherman:
Tom Ewell
Helen Sherman:
Evelyn Keyes
Tom MacKenzie:
Sonny Tufts
Krukulik:
Robert Strauss
Dr Brubaker:
Oscar Homolka
Plumber:
Victor Moore
Mr Brady:
Donald MacBride
Miss Finch:
Carolyn Jones
Miss Morris:
Marguerite Chapman
Waitress:
Doro Merande

4: Strategies for Survival
From the moment of their birth birds must struggle for survival. As fledgelings they must learn to fly and avoid predators, then in winter they must grapple with the danger of starvation. Only the strongest and cleverest survive until the next breeding season.
Film editor AL GELL
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD

by PETER ADAWON
Ten yea on the borderlands of the Sahara, thousands of people starved to death during the Great Sahel Drought. Since then the yearly rainjs. have returned, but each year millions of people still struggle to grow enough food to make "one harvest stretch to the next. This' film tetts the'story of just two of them.
After two visits to a small village in Upper Volta, Peter Adamson has re-created the story of Minata and Boureima. It tells of their personal struggle to survive and of the 10-year-old daughter who was about to become a woman - in the week of Sweet water.
Photography bavib south Sound DAVID BRINICQMBE
Production assistant JANINA kolodziej Film editor fetebiooIe Producer david wiLLACt

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Adawon
Unknown:
Peter Adamson

12.15Design:AssemblyofLorries
A iorry manufacturer's problems are used to investigate what critical path analysis can accomplish
12.40 Psychology: Landing an Aircraft
Using the problem of landing an aircraft the programme discusses the cues for perception-of distance, height and speed.

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