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9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective Hamlet with CLIVE JAMES
9.26 Maths Counts by JOHN TULLY 4: A Table in Time
Sex on British Rail? Not quite! But SX enables Wendy to get Steve out of trouble.
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
9.48 Mathscore One: Get the Point 3,700, 370, 37, ... then what?
10.10 Look and Read
Dark Towers by ANDREW DAVIES
7: The Dark Tree. A reading series for 7- to 9-year-olds in ten episodes. Producer SUE WEEKS
10.35 Geography Casebook: Britain Textiles and After
How a single industry came to dominate Blackburn.
11.0 Watch! An Asian Wedding
11.17 Walrus. After Four by CATHY PELLICER 4: Dialects can be confusing, so in writing it's best to use language which is ' a bit posh '. Producer MORTON SURGUY
11.40 Geography 11-13
The Iron and Steel Industry With BERNARD CLARK
Producer LEN BROWN
12.3 pm Whatever Happened to
Britain?: an eight-part analysis presented by JOHN EATWELL
7: A Tale of Trade and Industry
12.30 Other People's Lives
Ten films about the social values and organisations of five cultures. 7: Bali - Cremation
12.55-1.8 Maths Help (2)
A series for adults studying maths O-level. 7: Similarity
Presented by NORMAN GOWAR
1.19 Science Topics: Fluids
Air and water have many things in common. They both flow.
Series producer PETER BRATT
1.40 Let's See: Getting Around 1: Overland. Presented by ANN-LOUISE ROSS and JOHN RAMAGE Producer MARIANNE BAIRD
2.0 You and Me
For 4- and 5-year-olds. Wash and Dry: ANTON PHILLIPS and his young friends at the launderette. Producer BARBARA PARKER
2.15 British Social History
Man Made the Slave by ALAN PLATER The story of Thomas Cooper and the Leicester Chartists, starring DAVID NEAL and MARTIN FRENCH. Producer RONALD SMEDLEY
2.40 Junior Craft, Design and Technology: Up and Down the Hill Teachers' Programme: 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
John Tully
Producer:
David Roseveare
Unknown:
Andrew Davies
Unknown:
Cathy Pellicer
Unknown:
Bernard Clark
Producer:
Len Brown
Presented By:
John Eatwell
Presented By:
Norman Gowar
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Presented By:
Ann-Louise Ross
Presented By:
John Ramage
Producer:
Marianne Baird
Unknown:
Anton Phillips
Producer:
Barbara Parker
Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Thomas Cooper
Unknown:
David Neal
Unknown:
Martin French.
Producer:
Ronald Smedley
Bert Drummond:
Roy Kinnear
Wendy Austin:
Sarah James
Steve Austin:
Nick Orchard
Dave Harper:
Leo Wringer
Pauline Macfarlane:
Sarah Cahn
Hamish Macfarlane:
Nicholas McCardle
Angus:
J R

Harold wants to marry an unpleasant businessman's daughter in Ask Father; and dreams he's aboard a female pirate ship in Captain Kidd's Skids.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON. Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston.
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

This Way Up
Inside your brain is a complex map of your world. But sometimes you don't let it tell you everything it knows. And sometimes you believe the evidence of your own eyes, when you should be letting your ears do the talking.
So how do you know what's real and what isn't? The answer is not as simple as you might think. Tonight, in the second of a series of six programmes, James Burke goes to the circus, climbs Black-pool Tower, and turns upside down in order to discover how you know where you are, and which way is down.
Photography KEN MACMILLAN , DAVID FEIG Produced by MICK JACKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Ken MacMillan
Produced By:
Mick Jackson

In rock, tuning is mainly a question of getting the guitar, bass and drums to sound and feel right. As long as the instruments in a band seem to fit together, then it doesn't matter if they're perfectly tuned. This week Deirdre Cartwright (guitar), Geoff Nicholls (drums) and Henry Thomas (bass) look at string types and gauges, drum sticks and drum heads, and the importance these all have in your own playing and the overall sound of your band.
With comments from
WILKO JOHNSON, NEIL MURRAY
BOOTSY COLLINS , BERNARD EDWARDS IAN PAICE , CARL PALMER and SLY DUNBAR
Produced by CHRIS LENT

Contributors

Guitar:
Deirdre Cartwright
Guitar:
Geoff Nicholls
Guitar:
Henry Thomas
Unknown:
Neil Murray
Unknown:
Bootsy Collins
Unknown:
Bernard Edwards
Unknown:
Ian Paice
Unknown:
Carl Palmer
Unknown:
Sly Dunbar
Produced By:
Chris Lent

Hidcote Manor
Alan Titchmarsh goes to Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire where at the turn of the century 280 acres of farmland changed into one of Britain's great gardens.
Producer GILL BALLIN Editor ROGER BOLTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Producer:
Gill Ballin
Editor:
Roger Bolton

Jerash - Pompeii of the East Introduced by Erik de Mauny
Jerash, the most spectacular Roman city in the East, lies high in the hills of Gilead in Jordan. Destroyed by earthquakes in the eighth century it has remained forgotten for many centuries.
Among the city's most celebrated features are its great central colonnaded street which runs for over half a mile, its unique Oval Piazza and its theatres, temples and 15 churches. A five-year plan is already under way to uncover more of the city and restore it to its former glory. Every day teams of international architects and archaeologists reveal some new clues to the past.
Produced by JULIA CAVE Editor BRUCE NORMAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Erik de Mauny
Produced By:
Julia Cave
Editor:
Bruce Norman

The popular series featuring Kelly's unique observations on life. Written by KELLY MONTEITH , NEIL SHAND featuring
Ian Barritt , Philip Kendall
Helene Hunt , Lisa Venderpump With TREVOR CLARKE
MARIO MCCARTHY , LOUIS
MANSI JOHN LESTER , GEORGINA COOMBS DEREK ROYLE and OLIVER WHITE
Signature tune by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Sound JOHN DELANY , Lighting KEN MACGREGOR
Designers ROGER CANN , DINAH WALKER
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER

Contributors

Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Ian Barritt
Unknown:
Philip Kendall
Unknown:
Helene Hunt
Unknown:
Lisa Venderpump
Unknown:
With Trevor Clarke
Unknown:
Mario McCarthy
Unknown:
Mansi John Lester
Unknown:
Georgina Coombs
Unknown:
Derek Royle
Unknown:
Oliver White
Unknown:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Unknown:
Sound John Delany
Unknown:
Ken MacGregor
Unknown:
Designers Roger Cann
Directed By:
Geoff Posner

with Robert Lacey
The third of six films on the noble families of Europe.
Italy: The Marquis of Frescobaldi Warriors, merchants, bankers to the Kings of England, tax collectors for the Pope, musicians, scholars and poets, the Frescobaldi family have lived in palazzos on the same Florentine site for over 800 years.
In a country where aristocracy no longer officially exists, the Marquis of Frescobaldi remains the head of one of Florence's oldest titled families. The Frescobaldi own eight Tuscan estates and produce some of the best chianti wine. And they manage to combine the elegant style of the aristocrat with a thoroughly business-like approach to the noble art of survival.
Assistant producer ANNE MORRISON Photography NIGEL WALTERS Film editor ALAN LYGO
Series producer JOHN BIRD Producer JEREMY BENNETT
Book (same title): £9.95 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Lacey
Producer:
Anne Morrison
Producer:
Photography Nigel Walters
Producer:
Jeremy Bennett

David Jessel and Sue Cook meet those who make or break the law, enforce it or think it's an ass, in this weekly look at law and order: with reports from Ed Boyle and expert comment from Michael Molyneux.
Studio director PIETER MORPURGO Producer HUGH PURCELL Editor PETER CHAFER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux.
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Hugh Purcell
Editor:
Peter Chafer

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald Maccormick , with Joan Bakewell , present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
Producers PETER BELL , TONY HALL DAVE STANFORD , JOHN MORRELL Directors
MIKE CATHERWOOD , JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editor NICK GUTHRIE Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID DICKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Producers:
Peter Bell
Producers:
Tony Hall
Unknown:
Dave Stanford
Unknown:
John Morrell
Directors:
Mike Catherwood
Unknown:
John Wilkinson
Editor:
Nick Guthrie
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Dickinson

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