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9.8 Update USA 4: Energy Boom
Did Evanston, Wyoming, really want the oil boom?
9.30 Child Care and Parenthood 3: The First Vital Months
The babies have now arrived - how is everyone coping?
9.50 Pages from Ceefax
10.15 Home Economics Plant Foods
Plants are a rich source of important micronutrients and fibre. LESLEY JUDD describes a meal-choosing system that ensures we don't miss out.
Producer MICHAEL COYLE
10.40 Mindstretchers Solutions: Weather
Series producer DAVID TAFT
10.45 Pages from Ceefax
11.22 Subtitle Slot with subtitles for hearing-impaired children
Science Workshop Materials
11.44 Going to Work: Life and Social Skills 3: Looking for Work
12.5 pm
Computer Studies: Computing and Computers
Mainframes and Micro Units
Do computers really compete with large traditional computers? Or are their roles complementary? Producer DAVID SAUNDERS
A BBC/Open University production
12.30 Pages from Ceefax
12.55 Polymer Engineering Melts into Moulds
Injection moulding is the major production process for plastics. The technique needs careful control-and design is now being influenced by computer techniques. Producer PHIL ASHBY
A BBC/Open University production
1.20 Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Scene
The Hunt Saboteurs
A shortened version of the Forty Minutes film about a group of young people who aim to create havoc at the fox-hunt, enrage the hunters and help the fox escape.
Producer JOHN PERCIVAL
2.30 English File
Communicate! Inside Radio
NOEL EDMONDS , DAVID SELF and MICHELLE MORRIS reveal some of the techniques they use in making programmes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Judd
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Producer:
David Saunders
Producer:
Phil Ashby
Producer:
John Percival
Unknown:
Noel Edmonds
Unknown:
Michelle Morris

The way we talk to other people varies according to who they are. A look at how language changes in different situations, by following a day in the life of a 15-year-old schoolgirl.
Producer vie LOCKWOOD
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
Vie Lockwood

Over a period of 25 years, a deaf and dumb cowherd has built a huge merry-go-round in the forest of Orleans in France. This captivatingly beautiful film has won several international awards.
Directed by EMMANUEL CLOT

Contributors

Directed By:
Emmanuel Clot

starring Tim Holt , Noah Beery Jr When government agent Hutchins stops delivery of food supplies to an Indian reservation, the natives understandably become restless. Cowpunchers Dave and Chito stop the Indians from going on the warpath but then they have to find out what is happening to the missing supplies ...
Screenplay by NORMAN HOUSTON Produced by HERMAN SCHLOM Directed by LESLEY SELANDER
Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Holt
Play By:
Norman Houston
Produced By:
Herman Schlom
Directed By:
Lesley Selander
Dave:
Tim Holt
Redfox:
Noah Beery Jr
Chito:
Richard Martin
Ellen:
Nan Leslie
Carter:
Harry Woods
Hutchins:
Richard Powers
Turquoise:
Claudia Drake
Nichols:
Robert Bray
Inky:
Lee White

Robin Denselow is joined live in the studio by John Taylor of Duran Duran and Robin Campbell of UB40. Among the week's rock and pop events they'll be discussing is the new album by The Special AKA.
Executive producer MICHAEL APPLETON Director MAY MILLER
Producer TREVOR DANN

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Denselow
Unknown:
John Taylor
Unknown:
Duran Duran
Unknown:
Robin Campbell
Producer:
Michael Appleton
Producer:
Trevor Dann

A 13-part history of the USA written and narrated by Alistair Cooke 7: A Firebell in the Night
In the towns and plantations of the old South, ALISTAIR COOKE considers the causes of the Civil War and analyses the character of its chief protagonists, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee.
Cooke at his best and not only that but pictures to match. Rarely can so much have been packed into 50 minutes. And more than that, the film seen as a whole has the compelling sweep of the best documentaries
(THE GUARDIAN)
Associate producer ANN TURNER
Produced, directed by MICHAEL GILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Abraham Lincoln
Unknown:
Robert E. Lee.
Directed By:
Michael Gill

Ian Wallace , Denis Norden Frank Muir and John Amis with questions set by Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Douglas Hespe

from Otley,
Suffolk Percy Edwards 's professional recognition as 'the bird man' has come from his expert mimicry of bird and animal calls. Not surprisingly his garden is filled with plants which provide food and shelter for a wide range of wildlife and with many of their natural habitats being destroyed provides a sanctuary for both wild plants and animals. Geoff Hamilton and Terry Wells , from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, spend a fascinating day with PERCY EDWARDS and suggest ways in which people can help to conserve wild plants and animals in their own gardens.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Executive producer JOHN KENYON Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Suffolk Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Terry Wells
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Jean Laughton
Producer:
John Kenyon
Producer:
Denis W. Gartside

A comedy serial in six parts starring
5: Led by the vengeful Jack Willow , the board of Empire Industries are for once united in making sure that Ben's African visit does little to further his career. Meanwhile, Martinson's vow of repentance wavers....
Written by DENNIS DANZIGER , ELLEN SANDLER Directed by TERRY HUGHES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Willow
Written By:
Dennis Danziger
Written By:
Ellen Sandler
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
Amelia:
Francine Tacker

An 11-part history of Britain at work 9: The Inheritance
Making steel depended on the trained eye of the men who ran the furnaces. For melters like Don Owen there was a special satisfaction. 'It was your achievement. You made the steel up to a specification, and when it was running out it was money in your pocket.' But the old craft skills were not enough to keep the steelmaking lead that Britain once held. Other countries built huge new plants, close to cheap raw materials. Britain was tied to the Victorian inheritance with too many small and outdated works. Though many saw the need for rationalisation, little was done about it.
Steel managers and workers describe the boom times when they could sell everything they could make, and the painful upheavals of the past ten years, as change was forced on them.
Music by CARL DAVIS. Film editor DAVID HEAD Producer GLYNN JONES
Executive producer PETER PAGNAMENTA
+ Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Owen
Music By:
Carl Davis.
Producer:
Peter Pagnamenta

The silent film starring Lon Chaney The 'Man of a Thousand Faces' appears in one of the classic horror films, presented in a specially-tinted version with an organ soundtrack.
A mad, disfigured musician haunts the sewers of Paris. A hopeless victim of his own ugliness, he kidnaps Christine, a young singer....
Adaptation by RAYMOND SCHROCK and ELLIOTT J. CLAWSON Based on the novel by GASTON LEROUX
Directed by RUPERT JULIAN. Films: page 16 (Postponed from 17 March)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lon Chaney
Unknown:
Raymond Schrock
Unknown:
Elliott J. Clawson
Novel By:
Gaston Leroux
Directed By:
Rupert Julian.
The Phantom:
Lon Chaney
Christine Daae:
Mary Philbin
Raoul de Chagny:
Norman Kerry
Ledoux:
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Floriene Papillon:
Snitz Edwards

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