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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4-and-5-year-olds. Dibs can't wait for his radish seeds to grow, Cosmo and JENI BARNETT try to explain patiently. Book: Meg's Veg by HELEN NICOLL and JAN PIENKOWSKI. Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
10.13 Pages from Ceefax
11.0 Words and Pictures Frog and Toad are Friends
11.16 Pages from Ceefax
12.5 Tele-Montage
The last of a series of eight programmes based on excerpts from French-speaking television networks. Les Enfants d'd cote Research JANE COTTAVE
Producer SUSAN PATON
12.30 Caring For Older People: Voluntary Workers
Increasing numbers of very elderly people living at home have needs that the statutory services can't always meet. How much additional help can be provided by neighbourhood volunteers?
A BBC/Open University production
12.55 International Marketing: Outward Bound
When a British reporter tries to develop sales outlets in France, what reception does he receive from potential French agents?
A BBC/Open University production
1.20 Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Watch
Water Creatures 2: In this programme the presenters look at some of the star performers of fresh water ponds; a fish which builds a nest, a spider which spins a web under water, and creatures which change their form as they grow up - such as dragonflies and frogs.
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.
Going to Work Overcoming
Handicaps. Some young disabled people, coping with a variety of jobs.
2.40 Zig Zag
Outward Bound - Town Trail

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeni Barnett
Unknown:
Helen Nicoll
Unknown:
Jan Pienkowski.
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Producer:
Susan Paton
Presenters:
Louise Hall-Taylor
Producer:
David Taft

The Lawn Tennis Championships
HARRY CARPENTER introduces the action on the show courts of the All England Club on the ninth day of the competition which features the Men's Singles quarter-finals.

Contributors

Introduces:
Harry Carpenter

on Peter Goodwright
Outstanding impressionist and a fine raconteur, PETER GOODWRIGHT recalls his switch from bank clerk to entertainer, his radio shows with Ken Dodd , touring abroad, his passion for dialects, the pleasure he gets from entertaining children in panto and his amusing encounters of a show business kind.
Introduced by Gordon Peters
Recorded at the College Theatre, Melton Mowbray
Lighting DEREK PRICE Producer DON SAYER

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Goodwright
Unknown:
Peter Goodwright
Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Introduced By:
Gordon Peters
Producer:
Don Sayer

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 Majorca.
Holiday currencies - what's your pound worth today?
Jim Bacon 's weather facts and forecasts.
And The Travel Show's hitch-hiker-how's he doing?
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
Written by Carla Lane
Martha and Daniel are trying to leave each other - the children have learned to live with the dilemma - but the dog is finding it different and raises some objection.
Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Writer:
Carla Lane
Designer:
Nigel Curzon
Producer/Director:
John B. Hobbs
Daniel Ford:
Keith Barron
Martha Ford:
Susan Hampshire
Gina Ford:
Lucy Aston
Matthew Ford:
Gary Cady
Mrs Ford:
Elizabeth Bradley
Josephine:
Caroline Dennis
Delia:
Christine Shaw

by DAVID CREGAN
Young Joan and Evelyn are lifelong friends and both 'daft as brushes'. Now Joan is off to New Zealand so they spend a day together before the parting of their ways.
Paintings by DAVID INSHAW
Music composed by GEOFFREY BURGON Film editor DAVE KING
Film recordist JOHN MURPHY
Photography PHILIP BONHAM CARTER Producer ROSEMARY HILL Directed by JOHN HOOPER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Cregan
Unknown:
Young Joan
Composed By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Editor:
Dave King
Unknown:
John Murphy
Unknown:
Photography Philip Bonham
Directed By:
John Hooper
Joan:
Georgia Allen
Evelyn:
Suzanna Hamilton
Armitage:
Bernard Horsfall
Wall mender:
Reginald Jessup
Salesman:
Michael Crompton
Emma:
Gillian Martell
Joan's father:
John Pennington
Joan's mother:
Caroline John
Auctioneer:
P J Davidson
Farmer:
Martin Oldfield
Shepherd:
Ian Keith

News, views, people and music from Britain's black communities presented by Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert.
Discs or Disciples? What effect is the growing popularity of gospel music having on the black-led churches?
Is the gospel boom selling the Christian message-or is it just selling records? Ebony hears from London's newest gospel choir The Angelical Voices, and top gospel soloist Lavine Hudson.
King of Karate: a profile of World Champion Jeoff Thompson as he prepares to defend his title".
Sharon Foster , Hackney's girl poet, with some thoughts on being young and black in Britain today.
Producer ROY CHAPMAN
Series producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Juliet Alexander
Presented By:
Vince Herbert.
Soloist:
Lavine Hudson.
Unknown:
Jeoff Thompson
Unknown:
Sharon Foster
Producer:
Roy Chapman
Producer:
Christopher Graham

A series of programmes surveying Biotechnology.
The Chemistry of Life
Biotechnology's promise for the future is to replace many of the violent energy-consuming processes which are so much a part of our chemical industry. This programme is about the difference between man-made and living chemistry, and looks at some of the surprising and exciting applications of the new science, from copper-mining to food processing.
Producer PAUL KRIWACZEK

12.0 Regression
Do tall parents tend to have tall children? In fact, they do, but what's the statistical nature of the relationship?
12.25 First World Capital: Third World Labour
The programme looks at the links which exist between organised labour in the First and Third Worlds.
12.50 Maths Across the Curriculum
Did you eat breakfast? Pupils from a Birmingham school carry out a project on diet.

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