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9.10 A Good Job with Prospects
Open Spaces: outside in all weathers, tending birds, cataloguing trees, preserving old buildings and packhorse paths - such is the variety of work for four young people who are helping to restore the beauty of the countryside. Producer JILL GLINDON REED Series editor RON SMEDLEY

9.38 Going to Work
The Modern Office: how far has modern technology changed office work? Series producer PAUL MITCHELL

10.0 You and Me. Dressing Up
Pik-sen Lim and the Chen family celebrate a festival and tell a traditional Chinese story in English.

10.15 Music Time

10.20: The Sleeping Beauty. The complete story, illustrated by puppets, with music by Tchaikovsky. with JONATHAN COHEN , HELEN SPEIRS Puppet film ALAN PLATT
Animation BURA AND HARDWICK Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT

10.38 British Social History
Education for All: our state education system has been developing for over 100 years. How has it changed since the Act of 1870? 11.0 Zig Zag
Generation After Generation: history is everywhere. How can you find out more about your ancestors?

11.23 Talkabout
The Challenging Bull: 'Anything you can do I can do better', challenges Bull, and the other animals are forced to take up the challenge.

11.42 General Studies. Music Cues Producer BRUCE JAMSON

12.10 pm Hold Down a Chord
Folk guitar for beginners

12.25 Pages from Ceefax

12.50-1.15 Inside YTS
Last of five programmes on the Youth Training Scheme in action.
What Do You Think of it So Far? 'Why aren't more supervisors being trained to work with YTS trainees?' 'Who is gaining most from YTS - employers or trainees?' BRIAN REDHEAD discusses these and other questions with KEN ATKINSON , Director of Training, msc; KEITH LATHROPE, Stewart Wrightson Ltd, and BEVERLEY HARDSTONE, NACRO, who run schemes; and with HUGH NORMAN and DI KAMP who are training the trainers.

1.20 Encounter: Italy
A Land of Custom: Italian traditions: a contrada in Siena; a primitive ritual in Basilicata; the 'race of the saints' in Gubbio.

1.38 Scotland this Century
5: Better Life: improvements in housing, health and the status of women, illustrated by archive film. Producer ROBERT CLARK

2.1 Words and Pictures: Trog and the Dog

2.18 Exploring Science
Reproduction and Survival: plants and animals have evolved a variety of reproduction techniques in order to survive.

2.40 The Music Arcade
10: Children's Film Music: 'The Fisherman' film with a selection of soundtracks which children have sent in. INSIGHT: page 83

Contributors

Producer:
Jill Glindon
Editor:
Ron Smedley
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Unknown:
Pik-Sen Lim
Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Unknown:
Helen Speirs
Unknown:
Alan Platt
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Bruce Jamson
Unknown:
Ken Atkinson
Unknown:
Hugh Norman
Unknown:
Di Kamp
Producer:
Robert Clark

The Hebridean island of Lewis remains a bastion of a particular Christian tradition against the onslaught of modern secular society. A Calvinist commitment covers not only the church, but the home and the school also, and the film explores what this means for the community.
Producer SUZANNE CAMPBELL-JONES
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Also starring
Susan Hayward Dennis O'Keefe
The story of the Seabees, a battalion of construction workers responsible for building vital installations in the Pacific during World War II. Wayne plays their tough leader, 'Wedge' Donovan, who bravely organises men obliged to work in the front line without any weaponry of their own.
Screenplay by BORDEN CHASE and AENEAS MACKENZIE
Produced by ALBERT J. COHEN Directed by EDWARD LUDWIG Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hayward
Unknown:
Dennis O'Keefe
Play By:
Borden Chase
Unknown:
Aeneas MacKenzie
Produced By:
Albert J. Cohen
Directed By:
Edward Ludwig
Wedge Donovan:
John Wayne
Constance Chesley:
Susan Hayward
Lt Cmdr Robert Yarrow:
Dennis O'Keefe
Eddie Powers:
William Frawley
Johnny Novasky:
Leonid Kinskey
Sawyer Collins:
J M Kerrigan
Whanger Spreckles:
Grant Withers
Ding Jacobs:
Paul Fix
Yump Lumkin:
Ben Welden
Lt Kerrick:
William Forrest
Captain Joyce:
Addison Richards
Joe Brick:
Jay Norris
Juan:
Duncan Renaldo

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A series of eight programmes
The novelist and playwright Beryl Bainbridge makes a journey around England and Englishness. She travels to many of the places visited by J.B. Priestley for his book English Journey, which describes an England still suffering from the Great Depression but showing signs of many social changes. What has happened to England, and some of the English, in the years between 1933 and today?
At Southampton the Ocean Terminal has been demolished, and laid-up supertankers replace the luxury liners. Salisbury has a classic ring-road problem. Bristol gets a better deal from the planners, but still reflects upon the riot in St Paul's. Narrated by J. B. PRIESTLEY, BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Film editor DAVID KITSON
Photography JOHN WARWICK
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR
Producer DAVID PRITCHARD
BBC West
FEATURE: page 4
Also featured on Ceefax pages 185-6

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Editor:
David Kitson
Unknown:
John Warwick
Producer:
James Dewar
Producer:
David Pritchard

A duel of words and wit between
Arthur Marshall
Lynsey de Paul , John Dunn and Frank Muir
Virginia McKenna Sir Huw Wheldon
Referee Robert Robinson
Call My Bluff devised by MARK GOODSON and BILL TODMAN
Produced and directed by PAUL CIANI

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Lynsey de Paul
Unknown:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Virginia McKenna
Unknown:
Sir Huw Wheldon
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Goodson
Unknown:
Bill Todman
Directed By:
Paul Ciani

Presented by Anneka Rice
A series of eight programmes in which a number of well-known personalities take up the sport of their choice.
2: ANNEKA RICE and Martin Shaw continue with their chosen sports of orienteering and gliding. Newcomer Joe Brown tackles the French game of boules - 'It's like our game of bowls except you don't need the green, so we're going to play in the pub car park'..
Anneka gets wet in the rain and Martin is given some important advice on planning the landing of a glider.
Film editor PATRICK FLEMING Research vicki MOORE
Produced by PETER RAMSDEN

Contributors

Presented By:
Anneka Rice
Presented By:
Martin Shaw
Unknown:
Joe Brown
Produced By:
Peter Ramsden

by JILL TWEEDIE and CHRISTOPHER BOND starring
Lynn Redgrave with Jonathan Newth
Sarah Neville , Helen Cotterill and Polly Adams
At short notice Josh invites his new boss Irene home for a quiet dinner, but is dismayed to discover that Martha has invited the militant Mary to join them....
Woman in supermarket. GILLY FLOWER
Lighting director HARRY BRADLEY Designer TONY THORPE
Executive producer ALAN J. W. BELL Produced by ZANNA BESWICK Directed by MANDIE FLETCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Tweedie
Unknown:
Christopher Bond
Unknown:
Lynn Redgrave
Unknown:
Jonathan Newth
Unknown:
Sarah Neville
Unknown:
Helen Cotterill
Unknown:
Polly Adams
Director:
Harry Bradley
Designer:
Tony Thorpe
Producer:
Alan J. W. Bell
Produced By:
Zanna Beswick
Directed By:
Mandie Fletcher
Martha:
Lynn Redgrave
Josh:
Jonathan Newth
Mary:
Sarah Neville
Mo:
Helen Cotterill
Jane:
Sara Sugarman
Ben:
Andrew Paley
Bess:
Linda Polan
May:
Julia Swift
Irene:
Polly Adams

Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales The haunting song of the humpback whale and the rich clatter of wild apes both seem full of meaning. But can animals use language-or is man unique in this respect? This film looks at the attempt of a number of scientists to teach other species - including chimpanzees, gorillas, dolphins and even parrots-to communicate with humans and each other using special signs and symbols. Fierce controversy surrounds this work, but it now seems that the 'language' produced by animals in these artificial experiments is less sophisticated than we once thought.
In the wild, however, a different story is emerging. Recent evidence shows that the alarm calls of vervet monkeys carry a precise meaning; and we are at last beginning to understand the complex song of the humpback whale. Narrator Paul Vaughan
Produced for WGBH BOSTON by LINDA HARRAR Adapted for BBCtv by MAX whitby Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Graham Massey

A selection of the best in British boxing over the last two decades. Written and narrated by Harry Carpenter
In action: WALTER MCGOWAN ,
ALAN RUDKIN , CHARLIE MAGRI , PAT COWDELL Tonight, the little men. In the last two decades the standard set by immortals such as Jimmy Wilde has not been debased. Charlie Magri flies the flag proudly, and MCGOWAN v RUDKIN was a classic encounter of the finest style. As an example of courage and endeavour, Pat Cowdell went to Houston, Texas, and showed British boxing at its very best.
Producer BOB DUNCAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Carpenter
Unknown:
Walter McGowan
Unknown:
Alan Rudkin
Unknown:
Charlie Magri
Unknown:
Jimmy Wilde
Unknown:
Charlie Magri
Unknown:
Pat Cowdell
Producer:
Bob Duncan

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with MAUREEN CARTER and BRIDGET KENDALL present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Maureen Carter
Unknown:
Bridget Kendall

Four programmes about the pioneering days of television outside broadcasts narrated by John Craven 'They were all "firsts"... and there was always the excitement: would things go right, would they go wrong? That was the essence of live television. (PETER DIMMOCK) 1: Saturday Night Out
Assistant producer MICHAEL PARKER Producer MARTIN L. BELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Craven
Producer:
Michael Parker
Producer:
Martin L. Bell

12.5 Antony and Cleopatra
How is it possible to give full weight to Shakespeare's verse while at the same time getting into a full suit of armour and preparing for battle? .
12.30 Problems of Pollution
The programme examines the effects of pollution on two Canadian lakes. The first, in the Sudbury area of Ontario, looks at the air pollutants derived from the smelting of metals. The second investigates the effects of inorganic mercury on the lives of the Ojibwe Indians.

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