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9.10 Higher Education
3: What Use is a Degree?
9.38 Science Workshop. Floating 'A' Writer EURFRON GWYNNE JONES
Producer MICHAEL COYLE
10.0 You and Me
Splash and Swim
10.15 Maths at Work
10.40 Mindstretchers: Problems
10.45 Pages from Ceefax
11.0 Words and Pictures
The Hungry Fox and the Foxy Duck Fox is determined to have roast duck for supper, but Duck outwits him. Producer moyra gambleton
11.17 One World
11.39 Advanced Level Studies Statistics. 2: Distributions
12.5 pm Télé-Montage
Eight programmes based on excerpts from French-speaking TV networks. 3: Jean Michel Folon Research JANE COTTAVE
Production SUSAN PATON
12.30 Sharing a House
Living with an elderly relative. A BBC/Open University production
12.55 pm Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Watch. Trees. 3: Life on a tree
JAMES EARL ADAIR and LOUISE HALL-TAYLOR looks at some of the living things which live on trees, including looper caterpillars and oak galls. Louise tells the story of Charles II's escape from the Roundheads. Producer DAVID TAFT
2.18 Subtitle Slot
A series of programmes with subtitles for the benefit of hearing-impaired children.
Science Workshop
One of a series of programmes chosen from the year's Schools TV output. Fruits and Vegetables
The story of tinned pineapple and baked beans and scientists' attempts to make an all-British baked bean. Producer MORTON SURGUY
2.40 Zig-Zag
The Olympics - Human Bodies

Contributors

Unknown:
Eurfron Gwynne
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Unknown:
Foxy Duck
Unknown:
Susan Paton
Producer:
David Taft

concludes the season of British comedies. Starring Norman Wisdom with Joan Rice
Norman's efforts to save an orphanage lead him into a succession of wild adventures - a riotous backstage chase, the London-Brighton walking race and a dare-devil drive in a model car are all part of the trail of crazy chaos he leaves behind him.
Screenplay MAURICE COWAN , JOHN CARSTAIRS TED willis. Produced by MAURICE COWAN Directed by JOHN PADDY CARSTAUTS . Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Wisdom
Unknown:
Joan Rice
Unknown:
Maurice Cowan
Unknown:
John Carstairs
Unknown:
Ted Willis.
Produced By:
Maurice Cowan
Directed By:
John Paddy Carstauts
Norman:
Norman Wisdom
Iris:
Joan Rice
Mary:
Shirley Abicair
Cook:
Thora Hird
Alee:
William Russell
Bigley:
Richard Caldicot

The power of music to create a mood and arouse emotions is well-known to composers writing for films and TV. Richard Harvey blends together a string trio and synthesiser for TV commercials designed to sell sliced meat and mayonnaise. Elizabeth Parker builds on the sounds of the natural world for the music she wrote for The Living Planet series. Dominic Muldowney and Richard Eyre describe the effects they were trying to create in the feature film Loose Connections. Narrator NICK ROSS
Producer BRUCE JAMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Harvey
Unknown:
Elizabeth Parker
Unknown:
Dominic Muldowney
Unknown:
Richard Eyre
Narrator:
Nick Ross
Producer:
Bruce Jamson

From vitamins to yoga, ginseng to the cells of unborn lambs - all sorts of recipes have had their followers, who often pay huge sums of money for their chosen elixirs. But does scientific evidence suggest that it is money well spent? Judith Hann , herself just turned 40, continues her search for the best we can do to stay young - with the help of Russell Grant , several scientists, some mice and some rather special fish.
Film editors GRAHAM BUNN, SIMON ROSE Assistant producer TERESA HUNT Producer DAVID filkin

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Hann
Unknown:
Russell Grant
Producer:
Teresa Hunt
Producer:
David Filkin

Each year nearly a quarter of a million people converge on the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, to view this exciting spectacle of colour, fragrance and design. Peter Seabrook and Alan Titchmarsh are among the crowds at the most prestigious event of the gardening calendar.
Producer NEIL ECCLES

Contributors

Design:
Peter Seabrook
Design:
Alan Titchmarsh

Presented by Jonathan King
This week: Los Angeles Revisited
Jonathan returns to the West Coast to meet some of the most bizarre characters so far in the series. Among them, Hollywood television's superwitch Elvira and controversial rock star Ozzy Osbourne. At Universal City he talks to K.I.T.T.... a car! Then it's on to the magnificent Crystal Cathedral to find out about television's latest smash hit - hard sell religion.
Plus chart news, film clips and videos.
Executive producer MICHAEL HURLL Producer GORDON ELSBURY

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan King
Unknown:
Ozzy Osbourne.
Producer:
Michael Hurll
Producer:
Gordon Elsbury

by JULIET ACE
How can Simon pass his A-level and accept his place at medical school if his mother has a nervous breakdown? His solution is very strange indeed ...
Script editor DAVID SNODIN ComposerSTEPHEN CROOK Producer BRENDA REID
DirectorPRUDENCE FITZGERALD

Contributors

Editor:
David Snodin
Unknown:
Stephen Crook
Producer:
Brenda Reid
Director:
Prudence Fitzgerald
Sandra Dando:
Sarah Badel
Simon Dando:
Marcus D'Amico

with Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert
Are young blacks losing out at school? Later this summer the Swann Committee is due to report on the education of black children. Tonight Ebony reports from Bradford, Notting Hill and Brent on the special needs of blacks in school and hears the views of teachers, parents and the kids themselves.
Assistant producer IMRUH BAKARI CAESAR Series producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Alexander
Unknown:
Vince Herbert
Producer:
Imruh Bakari
Producer:
Christopher Graham

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