Programme Index

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9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective Selection
A Comedy of Errors: Comedian ROY HUDD illustrates some of the timeless gags and comic routines that sharpen this comedy of mistaken identities.
9.26 Maths Counts by JOHN TULLY
1: Getting the Point
Uncle Bert puts 18-year-old twins Steve and Wendy to the test: can they handle the mathematics of everyday life? With ROY KINNEAR. SARAH JAMES NICK ORCHARD and ELIZABETH PROUD
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
9.48 Mathscore One 1: Know Your Place
Cavemen, clowns and Octo the counting octopus all illustrate the importance of zero.
10.10 New series Look and Read Badger Girl
1: Sounds in the night
Debbie doesn't think much of the country at the start of her farm holiday with Kiran and Norman. But an unexpected visitor in the early morning changes all that.
Written by ANDREW DAVIES e With MARGO GUNN. ASHIEK
MADHAVNI, JUNE MARLOW,
JULIA MlLLBANK , NICK ORCHARD. KIERON O'SHEA , CHARLES COLLINGWOOD ,
KATIE HEBB.
Assistant producer ROGER FRY Producer SUSAN PATON
10.35 Geography Casebook: Britain
1: Inner City
Two programmes about the fluctuating fortunes of Glasgow - from Victorian boom to the present day.
Producer LEN BROWN
11.0 Watch. Captain Cook 1: All Aboard
11.17 Walrus
Patterns in Chatter by CATHY PELUCER
'Wear' rhymes with 'hair' and with 'there' and 'care', but which is the exception and what is the rule?
Producer MORTON SURGUY
11.40 Job Bank Local Builder
12.0 Year of the French
1: The Queen of the Beaujolais Another chance to see ten programmes from this series on French life and attitudes, seen through the experience of individual French men and women. Eighty-three-year-old
MARGUERITE CHABERT is president of the wine co-operative of Fleurie.
Producer JONATHAN GILI
12.30 pm Life Power
A series of programmes surveying biotechnology
Biology Becomes Big Business What exactly is biotechnology and how is it reshaping the industrial scene?
1.0 Maths Help
For adults studying maths to
'0' level, this series offers help with common difficulties. 1: Decimals
1.15 Science Topics
Ecology and Conservation Do more reeds mean more birds, or should the reeds be harvested? How can the fisherman catch bigger pike and how will this affect the otters? Ecology has lots of interlocking questions and, as yet, few answers.
Series producer PETER BRATT
1.38 Let's See
Take Care. 1: Accident!
A boy is knocked down as he crosses the road on his way to school. Why did it happen? Drama script by CATHERINE CZERKAWSKA
Producer MARIANNE BAIRD BBC Scotland
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Cosmo and Dibs help GARY wilmot mend a concertina and introduce the number two. Book: Charlie Strong by FRANCES KNOWLES and BRIAN THOMPSON
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
2.15 British Social History Richard Arkwright and the First Factories
MAX MASON visits Cromford in Derbyshire to see where part of our new world began.
2.40 Junior Craft, Design and Technology
Teachers' Programmes
Up and Down the Hill: 1
Introducing Craft, Design and Technology to teachers and beginning a project on designing and making model vehicles.
Producer DAVID TAFT
(A companion programme for pupils, Downhill, Friday 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
John Tully
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear.
Unknown:
Sarah James
Written By:
Andrew Davies
Unknown:
Julia Mlllbank
Unknown:
Kieron O'Shea
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood
Unknown:
Katie Hebb.
Producer:
Roger Fry
Producer:
Susan Paton
Producer:
Len Brown
Unknown:
Cathy Pelucer
Unknown:
Marguerite Chabert
Producer:
Jonathan Gili
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Script By:
Catherine Czerkawska
Producer:
Marianne Baird
Unknown:
Frances Knowles
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Producer:
David Taft

BBC North challenges four young people to walk the Pennine Way - 270 wild and rugged miles from the Peak District to the Scottish Border. Jonathan Heydon and David Whiting were friends before the challenge. Sue Gartland and Sarah Gibson were strangers. How would they get on? Award-winning cameraman Sid Perou accompanied them every mile of the way to find out. In the first of four programmes the walkers know they have a chance If You Can Make It To Malham.
Written and narrated by Paul Allen
Film editor Bryan Jones
Executive producer Douglas B Smith

Contributors

Writer/Narrator:
Paul Allen
Cameraman:
Sid Perou
Editor:
Bryan Jones
Producer:
Douglas B. Smith

The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
Jim is more than a little disturbed by a self-styled mystic who convinces the police that Rockford knows more about a double murder than he has admitted.
Written by DAVID CHASE
Directed by RUSS MAYBERRY

Contributors

Written By:
David Chase
Directed By:
Russ Mayberry
Jim Rockford:
Starring James Garner
Joseph (Rocky) Rockford:
Noah Beery
Det Becker:
Joe Santos
Beth Davenport:
Gretchen Corbett
Clementi:
Robert Webber
Lt Chapman:
James Luisi
Ochoa:
Pepe Serna
Silverstein:
Robert Walden

Lee's Team v Jerry's Team for the Marley Trophy
This week's match features:
Sean Connery and Lee Trevino v Alan Price and Jerry Pate Sean Connery , one of Scotland's most famous sons, makes his regular appearance in these matches.
Singer-songwriter Alan Price makes his debut.
Peter Alliss commentates and talks with the players on the beautiful Queen's Course at
Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. Television presentation RICHARD TILLING
Producer DAVID KENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Jerry Pate
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Singer-Songwriter:
Alan Price
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Richard Tilling
Producer:
David Kenning

The People's Medicine ...Dr Chang's Casebook
Concentrating on remote villages in southern China, this programme follows the local doctor through an average day.
Narrator Anthony Clare Series editor MICK RHODES Producer JONATHAN CRANE

Contributors

Narrator:
Anthony Clare
Editor:
Mick Rhodes

From Mayflower Park,
Southampton and on board
Albafar, Paul Heiney takes a look at what's new in boating. At Buckler's Hard, on the Beaulieu River, a sailing family 'have a go' on eight family cruising boats, and there's a look at a top high street designer's first encounter with the interior of a modem sailing boat. Research MAGDA GULVIN
Directors STEVE MORRIS , BOB WILD Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Directors:
Steve Morris
Producer:
Ken Griffin

Continues BBC2's season of films from writer-director Mel Brooks.
Starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle with Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr
Though shamed by his infamous ancestry, brain surgeon Frederick Frankenstein ('That's Frahnkensteen') goes to Transylvania to receive a family legacy. Once there, he himself dreams of re-animating the dead. Aided by Igor and the beautiful Inga, Freddie finds a suitable body but Igor makes a horrible mistake with the brain.
Written by GENE WILDER and MEL BROOKS based on characters from the novel Frankenstein by MARY SHELLEY
Produced by MICHAEL GRUSKOFF
Directed by MEL BROOKS (Black and white)
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Contributors

Written By:
Gene Wilder
Unknown:
Mel Brooks
Produced By:
Michael Gruskoff
Directed By:
Mel Brooks
Dr Frankenstein:
Gene Wilder
Monster:
Peter Boyle
Igor:
Marty Feldman
Elizabeth:
Madeline Kahn
Frau Blucher:
Cloris Leachman
Inga:
Teri Garr
Inspector Kemp:
Kenneth Mars
Blind hermit:
Gene Hackman
Herr Falkstein:
Richard Haydn
Mr Hilltop:
Liam Dunn
Medical student:
Danny Goldman
Herr Waldman:
Leon Askin
Sadistic jailer:
Oscar Beregi

Including the Liberal Assembly Report
As delegates debate policies, they face a crucial underlying question - how far should they urge closer co-operation with their Alliance partners, the Social Democrats? Peter Snow and Vincent Hanna report from Bournemouth, with John Tusa and Donald MacConnick in London to assess the news at home and abroad.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Donald MacConnick

11.30 Classroom Interaction
Extracts from a remarkable film documentary The Space Between Words: School are subjected to a method of timed interaction analysis.
11.55 IATA: Clinching a Deal This film shows the joint negotiating power of the world's airlines when IATA met the Israel airport authority at Tel Aviv in 1979. 12.20 Continental Crust, Ancient and Modem
The Alps were formed about two billion years after the Highlands of West Scotland. What can be learned about the processes which formed them?

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