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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Against the advice of both Dibs and JENI BARNETT , Cosmo sets up her own whistle stall. There's a song about faces and they make a Nigerian mask. Book Maisie Middleton
Film animation RICHARD TAYLOR
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN

10.12 Pages from Ceefax

11.0 Words and Pictures I Am Better Than You
VICKY IRELAND tells a story of rivalry between two lizards.

11.15 Pages from Ceefax

12.5 Tele-Montage
A series of eight programmes based on excerpts from French-speaking television networks.
7: Women Entertainers Research JANE COTTAVE
Production SUSAN PATON

12.30 Mechanics: A Visit to the Circus
The basic laws of mechanics in action. A BBC/Open University production

12.55 Gases - The Kinetic Theory
Gas laws, diffusion and Maxwell-Boltzman distribution explained. A BBC/Open University production

1.20 The Origin of X-ray Spectra
Producer TED SMITH
A BBC/Open University production

1.45 Pages from Ceefax

2.1 Watch
Water Creatures. 1: James watches some children dipping for water creatures. Back in the studio he and Louise look closer at a few of the creatures the children found and examine some of the remarkable animals which live in freshwater ponds. Presenters LOUISE HALL-TAYLOR and JAMES EARL-ADAIR
Producer DAVID TAFT

2.18 Subtitle Slot
A series of programmes with subtitles for the benefit of hearing-impaired children. Scene
Girl in Brazil: the day-to-day life of a young working girl living with her family in a poor area of a large city.

2.40 Zig Zag
Outward Bound - On the Trail

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeni Barnett
Unknown:
Richard Taylor
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Unknown:
Susan Paton
Producer:
Ted Smith
Presenters:
Louise Hall-Taylor
Producer:
David Taft

The Lawn Tennis Championships direct from the All England Club
The world's greatest tennis tournament moves into its third day and HARRY CARPENTER introduces live coverage from the show courts and provides all the latest news and results.

Contributors

Introduces:
Harry Carpenter

The first in this year's series of five one-man shows in which established entertainers look back over their show business careers.

One of the most famous stand-up variety comedians, Bill Maynard has shown his versatility by entertaining us on radio, in panto, in film and even as a straight actor. He has enjoyed enormous success starring in popular television series like The Gaffer, Selwyn Froggitt and Life of Riley.

Tonight in an intimate theatre setting, he dares you not to laugh at some of the amusing highlights in his varied career.

Introduced by Gordon Peters
Recorded at the College Theatre, Melton Mowbray

Feature: page 15

Contributors

Presenter:
Gordon Peters
Subject:
Bill Maynard
Lighting:
Derek Price
Producer:
Don Sayer

The first of eight programmes presented by Paul Heiney
The magazine that helps you get more out of your holiday, with news, features and essential information for everybody on the move this summer. Kathy Rochford 's Mediterranean report - this week Corfu.
Holiday currencies - what's your pound worth today?
Traffic jam of the week, and how to miss it.
Jim Bacon 's weather facts and forecasts.
And seven weeks in the sun for only E150, is it possible?
Director SUE LOCHEAD
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Kathy Rochford
Unknown:
Jim Bacon
Producer:
Roger MacDonald
Producer:
Alan Dobson

starring
Keith Barron , Susan Hampshire by CARLA LANE
2: Martha and Daniel are already discovering that leaving each other nicely is not easy - they had not taken into consideration people and things.
Designer NIGEL CURZON
Produced and directed by JOHN B. HOBBS
*Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Barron
Designer:
Nigel Curzon
Directed By:
John B. Hobbs
Daniel Ford:
Keith Barron
Martha Ford:
Susan Hampshire
Mr Chessington:
Richard Vernon
Gina Ford:
Lucy Aston
Matthew Ford:
Gary Cady
Mrs Ford:
Elizabeth Bradley
Josephine:
Caroline Dennis
Jan:
Rachel Da Vies
Delia:
Christine Shaw
Bruce:
Glen Bexfield
Mrs Barry:
Myrtle Devenish
Roller skaters:
Russell Armitage
Roller skaters:
Adam Johnson
Roller skaters:
Shaun Midgley
Roller skaters:
Junior Willocks

by HARRY BARTON with Dilys Hamlett as the driver
Derek Halligan as the hitch-hiker
At the beginning of the M2, heading north out of Belfast, the driver stops to give a lift to the hitch-hiker. She and he recognise each other. They have met before ...
Camera supervisors
SAM WILSON , BRIAN LITTLER Lighting CLIVE THOMAS Designer PHIL RODGERS Producer CHRIS PARR Director JAN SARGENT
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Barton
Unknown:
Dilys Hamlett
Unknown:
Derek Halligan
Unknown:
Sam Wilson
Unknown:
Brian Littler
Unknown:
Clive Thomas
Designer:
Phil Rodgers
Producer:
Chris Parr
Tommy Mullan:
Ollver Maguire
First prison officer:
Des McAleer
Second prison officer:
Dick Holland
Third prison officer:
John Munn
Loyalist person Coyle:
David Coyle
RUC constable:
Adrian Gordon
RUC sergeant:
Derek Lord
The governor:
John Keyes
McMasters:
Ian McElhinney
IRA OC:
John Hewitt

News, views, people and music from Britain's black communities presented by Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert.
Clive Lloyd : on the eve of the Lord's 'test match Ebony profiles the West Indies captain with the help of Viv Richards and Ian Botham.
Bring on de fastest man you got', says De Master Batsman, Trinidad's dialect humorist Paul Keens Douglas. Inquest on Inquests: Ebony reports on the operation of the coroner's system and hears from critics of the inquest procedure who believe that it fails to answer the questions raised by deaths in suspicious circumstances.
Producer ROY CHAPMAN
Series producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Juliet Alexander
Presented By:
Vince Herbert.
Unknown:
Clive Lloyd
Unknown:
Viv Richards
Unknown:
Ian Botham.
Unknown:
Paul Keens Douglas.
Producer:
Roy Chapman
Producer:
Christopher Graham

The first of six programmes surveying biotechnology.
Biology Becomes Big Business
Just as we are getting used to the effects of the computer revolution, the next major industrial change is waiting in the wings: biotechnology will soon be receiving some 6,000 million dollars a year in commercial investment.
But what exactly is biotechnology? And how is it reshaping the industrial scene?
Producer PAUL KRIWACZEK

12.0 Numerical Computation 'Functional Approximation'
The problem of calculating logarithms invokes the numerical methods of functional representation for function ln(l + x)

12.25 Inquiry: Symbolic Deaths
The bullfight is symbolic of Spanish cultural life, and this finds expression in the pageantry of the conflict between man and beast.

12.50 Vidar's Right - Special Education in Norway
Norway has gone further than most countries in integrating pupils with special needs into ordinary schools. This programme looks at what they have achieved.

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