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9.10 Technical Studies
Ten programmes showing how basic concepts in manufacturing technology are used in modem industry.
1: Capstan and Turret Lathes
9.38 Science Workshop Bread 'A'
Cottage, chapatti, granary, chola, nan, Vienna, pitta, and sliced white. All different, but all bread.
Series producer MICHAEL COYLE
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs imagine being weightless and going to the moon.
With MAGGIE OLLERENSHAW and FRANCES KAY , FRANCIS WRIGHT Puppets made by TIM ROSE
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
10.15 Maths File 1: Number Lines
How do you 'see' 96 + 7? Could a number line make the addition easier?
10.38 Maths Topics Trigonometry 1
Turning, revolutions, degrees - introducing sine, cosine, tangent as projections. Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
11.0 Words and Pictures Wicked Wolf
'Look out! It's the wolf!' warns the perceptive
Shirley Sharpeyes , not fooled for a moment by the wolf's various disguises.
11.17 The Music Arcade 1: Songwriting
11.39 General Studies:
Censorship-The Limits of Freedom
1: Who is Big Brother?
12.5 pm Russian Language and People
Learn a little Russian and look at daily life in the Soviet Union.
1: Introducing the Russian Alphabet
12.30 Sparks
Six programmes on young people making things happen. 1: The Crowdpullers.
How to be an impresario and influence people,
12.55 Inside YTS
Five programmes on the Youth Training Scheme in action.
1: Who Needs Guidance?
For background discussion notes send sae (12 x 9, 22p postage) to Inside YTS, BBC Television London [Postcode removed]
1.21 Encounter: France
First of five documentary films based on life in France - for European studies and background to language courses.
Land and Sea
1.38 Let's See. 1: Accident
2.0 Watch
Captain Cook. 1: All Aboard It's all aboard the Endeavour as Captain Cook sets sail on the first of his famous voyages. LOUISE HALL-TAYLOR and JAMES EARL ADAnt show how a sailing ship works and explain how Captain Cook put his men on a special diet. Music JIM PARKER
Producer TOM STANIER
2.18 Geography 11-13
What Ice Did to the Land BERNARD CLARK investigates how the Ice Age left its mark.
2.40 Zig Zag. Islam
Every day millions of people face towards Mecca. Zig Zag explains why and tells the story of Muhammad's life. *CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Producer:
Michael Coyle
Unknown:
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Unknown:
Frances Kay
Unknown:
Francis Wright
Unknown:
Tim Rose
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Producer:
David Roseveare
Unknown:
Shirley Sharpeyes
Unknown:
Louise Hall-Taylor
Unknown:
James Earl
Music:
Jim Parker
Producer:
Tom Stanier
Unknown:
Bernard Clark

The 1984 Greenall Whitley Waterloo Bowling Handicap
This afternoon in Blackpool, the final stages of the most coveted title in crown green bowling are taking place.
Months ago well over 2,000 bowlers started on the trail to glory and a first prize of E2,000, hoping to be included among names such as Noel Burrows , Brian Duncan ,
Arthur Murray and Dennis Mercer -all previous winners of this prestigious trophy.
RICHARD DUCKENFIELD introduces live coverage of the Final, with highlights of the semi-finals, direct from the most famous green in the country.
Commentator Harry Rigby Producer KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Burrows
Unknown:
Brian Duncan
Unknown:
Arthur Murray
Unknown:
Dennis Mercer
Introduces:
Richard Duckenfield
Commentator:
Harry Rigby
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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? Would they succeed?
Award-winning cameraman
Sid Perou accompanied them every mile of the way to find out.
In the second of four programmes the walkers pass the three peaks of Inglebrough, Pen-y-Ghent and Whernside. As they head north to Tan Hill, the highest inn in England, the mood becomes one of Harmony in the Limestone Dales.
Written and narrated by Paul Allen
Film editor BRYAN JONES Executive producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH
(Programme 3 tomorrow at 5.30)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Editor:
Bryan Jones
Producer:
Douglas B. Smith

An Australian drama series in I nine parts adapted from the autobiographical novels by ALAN MARSHALL starring Adam Gamett 3:Starlight
Desperate to be considered a normal child, Alan eagerly joins in with all his friends adventures. Although expressly forbidden to do so by his parents, he is determined to learn to ride and develops a fascination for a pony called Starlight ...
Written by SONIA BORG
Produced by JOHN GAUCI
Directed by KEVIN DOBSON An Australian Broadcasting
Commission production

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Marshall
Unknown:
Adam Gamett
Written By:
Sonia Borg
Produced By:
John Gauci
Directed By:
Kevin Dobson
Alan Marshall:
Adam Garnett
Father:
Tony Barry
Mother:
Julie Hamilton
Mary:
Ann Henderson
Joe:
David Clencie
Bob:
Marcus Duffy
Steve:
Darren McDonald
Skeeter:
Jeremy McArthur
Maggie:
Sally Ann Bourne
Freddie:
Jason Donovan

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy. Dr Harold's unorthodox medical treatment of a healthy but wealthy beauty exposes a quack medic in Dr Jack; in Never Touched Me he has to contend with some ferocious admirers of his flirtatious girlfriend.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

Six films unravelling some of the technical, scientific, economic and political threads in the story of one of the world's most important textiles. Written and presented by Anthony Burton Masters and Slaves
The demand for more raw cotton switched to America. In South Carolina and elsewhere experimental crop planting showed that the southern states were ideal sites. The slave society grew and brought social problems and Eli Whitney 's gin revolutionised production. A whole new transport system took the cotton down the rivers to the sea.
Film cameraman IAN PUNTER Film editor keith WILTON Producer MICHAEL GARROD
Book (same title) £10.95 from booksellers. The Cotton Kingdom leaflet prepared by the ETB is available from The Rise and Fall of King Cotton, BBCtv. London [Postcode removed]. Please enclose an sae

Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Eli Whitney
Producer:
Michael Garrod

The last of the series presented by John FitzMaurice Mills Next time you visit an art gallery, take a special look at the frames as well as the pictures. Original carved frames often cost more than the pictures for which they were made. To finish the series, he unveils two paintings freshly restored to their original glory.
Studio director FIONA MCKENZIE Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
John Fitzmaurice
Director:
Fiona McKenzie
Producer:
Christopher Lewis

from the Silk Cut Festival
Join commentator David Allan for more high spots from this year's bonanza of country music at the Wembley Arena. Featured tonight, in the last programme of the current series, are
Jim and Jesse, Vernon Oxford The Stoneman Family Jeannie C. Riley
Glen Campbell , Jim Glaser Festival organiserMERVYN CONN Sound
JOHN CAULFIELD. BARRIE HAWES Lighting JOHN KING
Designer PHIL ROBERSON Directors PETER CLEAVER
DAVID PICKTHALL. BOB WILD Producer DAVE PERROTTET

Contributors

Commentator:
David Allan
Unknown:
Jeannie C. Riley
Unknown:
Glen Campbell
Unknown:
Jim Glaser
Unknown:
Mervyn Conn
Unknown:
John Caulfield.
Unknown:
Barrie Hawes
Unknown:
John King
Designer:
Phil Roberson
Directors:
Peter Cleaver
Unknown:
David Pickthall.
Unknown:
Bob Wild
Producer:
Dave Perrottet

Don Cupitt, Dean of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, explores the revolution in ideas that has brought humanity from the secure world-view of the Middle Ages to today's crisis of faith.
2: The Human Animal
Until the time of Charles Darwin, faith had followed the book of Genesis in giving man a unique place in nature.
Suddenly Darwin's theory of evolution seemed to make the idea of special creation by God impossible.
Sigmund Freud's consulting room in Vienna was the scene of an even greater challenge to Christian orthodoxy. Freud applied Darwin's ideas to the human mind and came to see all religious experience as a

The 1984 Greenall Whitley Waterloo Bowling Handicap
RICHARD DUCKENFIELD introduces highlights of finals day of the biggest crown green tournament on the calendar. Commentator HARRY RIGBY Producer KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Commentator:
Harry Rigby
Producer:
Keith Phillips

11.50 The Autistic Child
Autism is often confused with mental handicap or even deafness. The strange private world of the autistic child is explored through the eyes of parents, teachers, and the children themselves, with psychiatrist LORNA WING.
12.15 Volunteers and Social Management
Elderly people can now stay m their own homes thanks to volunteers-a report on a Community Care scheme in Kent.

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