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9.8 Update USA
5: Deep South Town
9.30 Child Care and Parenthood 4: The Child and the Family
9.52 Pages from Ceefax
10.15 Home Economics. Choices
To make good nutritional choices we need correct information. LESLEY JUDD asks whether we really get this on our food labels.
Producer michael COYLE
10.40 Mindstretchers
Solutions: Bridges
Series producer DAVID TAFT
10.45 Pages from Ceefax
11.0 Look, Look and Look Again Portrait of the Artist
Drawing, painting, sculpture, silhouette, mask and model-making. All can portray individuality. Producer EDWARD HAYWARD
11.22 Subtitle Slot with subtitles
For hearing-impaired children
Geography
What Ice Did to the Land
11.44 Going to Work: Life and Social Skills. 4: Out of Work
12.5 Computing and Computers
File Hierarchies and Reorganisation
For many years airlines have used computers for their seat reservations. To give good response times with rapidly changing data, a careful choice of file organisation is needed.
A BBC/Open University production
12.30 Pages from Ceefax
12.55 Polymer Engineering: Advanced Moulding Methods
Two award-winning British innovations point the way to the future of manufacturing with polymers - for products as diverse as tennis rackets and helicopter rotor blades. Series producer phil ASHBY
A BBC/Open University production
1.20 Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Scene. Good Neighbours
2.30 English File
Communicate! A Short Story
Irish writer FRANK O'CONNOR chose his short story 'themes' direct from life. His story Masculine Protest is based partly on his own son.
Producer BRUCE JAMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Judd
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Producer:
Edward Hayward
Unknown:
Frank O'Connor
Producer:
Bruce Jamson

Cricket: First Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v West Indies from Edgbaston Second day
International Tennis
The Stella Artois Championships from the Queen's Club, London
Live coverage of this afternoon's quarter-final matches. Can anyone prevent the odds-on favourite JOHN MCENROE from progressing to his seventh consecutive Queen's final? Introduced by HARRY CARPENTER Commentator DAN MASKELL
JOHN BARRETT , MARK COX
GERALD WILLIAMS , BILL THRELFALL

Contributors

Unknown:
John McEnroe
Introduced By:
Harry Carpenter
Commentator:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Unknown:
Bill Threlfall

Robin Denselow , with guests including Gary Kemp and Sandie Shaw , takes 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
Unknown:
Gary Kemp
Unknown:
Sandie Shaw
Producer:
Michael Appleton
Producer:
Trevor Dann

A 13-part personal history of the United States written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
8: Domesticating a Wilderness
The rail link across the continent,
.the invention of the wind-pump, the steel-faced plough and barbed wire-these developments were fatal not only to the Indian but to the free-ranging cowboy.
After seeing it I'd brave Indians, barbed wire and Mormonism to get the hell out.
(DAILY MAIL)
Director TIM SLESSOR
Producer MICHAEL GILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Director:
Tim Slessor
Producer:
Michael Gill

'Who first recorded the song 'This pullover'?' asks Steve Race during this week's game of musical knowledge, featuring Frank Muir , John Amis Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

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

from Lower Lydbrook , Glos with Geoff Hamilton , Clay Jones
Situated on the banks of the River Wye, this unusual garden was once part of the old quay used by the monks of Goodrich Monastery. It's only two years old, but already Doreen Rob erts has created a beautiful garden rich in design features and filled with unusual plants and colourful annuals.
Production assistant JANE DON
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Producer DENIS W. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Lower Lydbrook
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Doreen Rob
Producer:
John Kenyon
Producer:
Denis W. Gartside

The last of a six-part comedy serial that takes the lid off the executive suite of a multi-national corporation where the chairman's unique philosophy is 'suspicion breeds efficiency and anxiety breeds excellence'.
Cromwell's maxim that panic precipitates performance is put to the test when Ben's hot-headed father shows up on the eve of a presidential visit to mount a union protest - and also by some dramatic news from Africa.
Written by JIM GEOGHAN
Directed by TERRY HUGHES

Contributors

Written By:
Jim Geoghan
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
as T Howard Daniels:
Edward Winter
Amelia Lapidus:
Francine Tacker
Lou Christian:
Cameron Mitchell

An 11-part television history of Britain at work in the 20th century. 10: The Shock Wave
No other industrial revolution has been as rapid or as far-reaching as that of electronics. And it was in Britain that it all began. From the early days of valve and radio manufacture, Britain's new industry set the pace.
Television had just begun when the Second World War brought radar, and an unprecedented research effort. The industry has continued to grow and, today, affects all our lives. Yet, despite world-beating inventions and a skilled workforce, Britain has not taken a leading role in the mass production of electronics.
Assembly workers and engineers describe the excitement and risks of rapid change, on the frontiers of science.
Music CARL DAVIS
Film editor STUART DAVIDSON
Assistant producer COLLEEN TOOMEY Producer MICHAEL WALDMAN
Executive producer PETER PAGNAMENTA 0 SEE FEATURE PAGES
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Editor:
Stuart Davidson
Producer:
Colleen Toomey
Producer:
Michael Waldman

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
Producers PETER BELL. JOHN MORRELL
DAVE STANFORD. Directors JOHN WILKINSON GLEN DAVIS , CHRIS Fox. Assignment editors NICK GUTHRIE , HELEN JENKINS Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID DICKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Producers:
Peter Bell.
Producers:
John Morrell
Unknown:
Dave Stanford.
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Directors:
Glen Davis
Directors:
Chris Fox.
Editors:
Nick Guthrie
Editors:
Helen Jenkins
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Dickinson

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