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9.8 Update USA 2: Sun Belt City
The growth of Phoenix, Arizona, due to its 'pro-business climate'.
9.30 Child Care and Parenthood 1: Where I'm At
9.52 Sex Education Someone New
A series on growing and human reproduction for 8- to 10-year-olds.
The birth of a baby is an exciting event in any family, but it also marks the end of a long period of growth and development inside the mother's body. Using modern techniques, this programme shows how the baby grows inside the womb, and includes film of a birth.
Producer DEREK LONGHURST
10.15 Home Economics Vitamin C
Many people run short of vitamin C in the late winter. LESLEY JUDD explains why it is important, which foods are good sources and how to preserve it in our cooking.
Producer MICHAEL COYLE
10.40 Mind Stretchers Calendars: The Solution
Series producer DAVID TAFr
10.45 Pages from Ceefax
11.22 Subtitle Slot
Zig Zag: Hungry Times Part 2 with subtitles for the benefit of hearing-impaired children
11.44 Going to Work: Life and Social Skills 1: Family Life
12.5 pm
Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Scene
What Are You Afraid 0/?
Is fear something we are born with or do we acquire it through experience? Do some people really enjoy the sensation of fear? Scene looks into frightening situations and asks teenagers about their fears, which range from feathers to rapists. Series producer ROGER TONGE
Producer ANDY WALKER
2.30-2.50 English File
Communicate: Advertising
Some of the techniques used by advertisers to get their message across. Producer BRUCE JAMSON

Contributors

Producer:
Derek Longhurst
Unknown:
Lesley Judd
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Producer:
Andy Walker
Producer:
Bruce Jamson

The last of four races covered by BBCtv cameras on this charity day's racing in aid of RADAR.
4.0 The Hue-Williams Stakes (6f) Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY , JOHN HANMER Producer RICHARD TILLING

Contributors

Commentators:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Jimmy Lindley
Unknown:
John Hanmer
Producer:
Richard Tilling

starring Tim Holt , Elaine Riley
Cowpunchers Dave and Chito are competing in a Tucson rodeo when they receive a telegram from an old friend. He has struck gold but a gang are trying to jump his mining claim.... The duo leave Arizona for Colorado to help their friend out of trouble....
Screenplay by ED EARL REPP Produced by HERMAN SCHLOM Directed by LESLEY SELANDER

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Holt
Unknown:
Elaine Riley
Unknown:
Cowpunchers Dave
Play By:
Ed Earl Repp
Produced By:
Herman Schlom
Directed By:
Lesley Selander
Dave:
Tim Holt
Jane:
Elaine Riley
Chito Rafferty:
Richard Martin
Rankin:
Douglas Fowley
Gypsy:
Veda Ann Borg
Avery:
Robert Shayne
Tug Caldwell:
William Phipps
Hardrock Jones:
Harry Tyler
Sheriff:
Luther Crockett
Mrs O'Reilly:
Dorothy Vaughan

Robin Denselow and his guests, including Holly of Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Radio 1 producer John Walters , take a critical look at this week's main rock and pop events, new releases, films, concerts, books and videos.
Executive producer MICHAEL appleton Director MAY MILLER
Producer TREVOR DANN

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Denselow
Producer:
John Walters
Producer:
Trevor Dann

While winter lingers, indomitable ravens nest on the bleak mountain crags. In March the lowland air brims with bird song; by April woods and hedgerows have a mosaic of wild flowers. Spring has arrived - the marvellous renewal-the cycle of life revived by the sun.
Narrator DOUGLAS LEACH
Producer KEITH HOPKINS

Contributors

Narrator:
Douglas Leach
Producer:
Keith Hopkins

A personal history of the United States written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
Travelling from Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston and Williamsburg, ALISTAIR COOKE unravels the tangled events that led the American colonists into conflict with Britain. Against all odds they succeeded in defeating one of the crack armies of Europe. How did they do it?
Cooke has allayed many of my fears by rising above the anecdotal to achieve the analytical: must viewing (OBSERVER) The usual collection of old prints, helicopter shots and elegant Alistair (SUNDAY TIMES)
Associate producer ANN TURNER
Produced and directed by MICHAEL GILL .

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Directed By:
Michael Gill

'From which song come the words "I kissed her on the ship"?' asks Steve Race of John Amis who partners Frank Muir against the team of Denis Norden and Ian Wallace in this week's popular musical quiz.
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

from Gwynedd
Roy Lancaster and Clay Jones visit the delightful garden of Maldwyn Thomas in Dolgellau - it's small, packed full of interest and colour, and with a backdrop of Cader Idris , affords spectacular views.
Obtaining stone troughs for alpines is now virtually impossible. Using natural slate Maldwyn Thomas shows how to construct and plant up an unusual alternative.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer DENIS w GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Maldwyn Thomas
Unknown:
Cader Idris
Unknown:
Maldwyn Thomas
Producer:
John Kenyon
Unknown:
Jean Laughton

A six-part comedy serial that takes the lid off the executive suite of a multinational corporation where the chairman's unique philosophy is 'suspicion breeds efficiency and anxiety breeds excellence'. starring
2: Ben Christian soon learns that the executives of Empire Industries are quite capable of taking care of themselves when it comes to the cover-up of four million dollars-worth of fiddles. But will covering up cold-blooded murder be quite so easy? Written by LAWRENCE J. COHEN and FRED FREEMAN
Directed by TERRY HUGHES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Christian
Written By:
Lawrence J. Cohen
Directed By:
Terry Hughes
Ben Christian:
Dennis Dugan
Calvin Cromwell:
Patrick MacNee
Peg:
Maureen Arthur
Jackie Willow:
Christine Belford
Meredith:
Caren Kaye
Jack Willow:
Richard Masur
Edward Roland:
Michael McGuire
Arthur Broderick:
Dick O'Neill
Roger Martinson:
Howard Platt
T Howard Daniels:
Edward Winter

An 11-part history of Britain at work. 6: Cutting Coal
Coal had powered Britain's industrial rise. Her mills and furnaces, railways and steamships, depended on it. In the peak years a million men laboured in the mines, many in conditions like those Dick Martin found when he began as pit boy aged 14:
'I was scared stiff by the atmosphere in the pit, the conditions we were expected to work under, the stench, the darkness, and I cried my eyes out to my father and said "I don't want to go back there, Dad". "Well, it's a case you've got to," he said.'
Miners and managers tell of the poor conditions, insecurity and technical backwardness that helped the case for nationalisation in 1947. But the new NCB over-estimated the future need for coal. After the massive post-war modernisation programme, too much coal was being brought up, by too many miners. With the cutbacks came more conflict, which continues today.
Music by CARL DAVIS
Played by GRIMETHORPE colliery BAND Arranged by RAY FARR
Assistant producer NIKKI RENDLE Producer RUTH JACKSON
Executive producer PETER PAGNAMENTA

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Martin
Music By:
Carl Davis
Played By:
Grimethorpe Colliery
Arranged By:
Ray Farr
Producer:
Nikki Rendle
Producer:
Ruth Jackson

Introduced by Chris Kelly
1984 sees the retirement of Sir Hugh Casson , President of the Royal Academy of Arts. In this special television recording, some of his friends and colleagues pay tribute to him and at the same time give us a preview of the 216th Summer Exhibition.
Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Kelly
Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson
Producer:
Ken Griffin

In the last of his Mediterranean cruise films, television cook Glynn Chris tian goes shopping in the market places on the Greek islands of Kos and Crete and samples village food in the shadow of Mount Olympus.

Contributors

Unknown:
Glynn Chris

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