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9.30 Science Topics: Darwin and Evolution

9.52 Look and Read: Badger Girl: 2

10.15 Mathscore One: 1: Know Your Place
Cavemen, clowns and Octo the counting octopus all illustrate the importance of zero.
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE

10.38 Everyday Science: Textiles
A murderer is brought to justice on the basis of forensic examination of fibres found at the scene of the crime.
Producer MICHAEL COYLE

11.0 History 11-13: 1: The Peasants' Revolt
by Keith Goodall
The true story of an Essex peasant caught up in the violent events of 1381. With Isabel Lansdale, Spencer Banks, Nigel Makin, Edward Phillips, Philip Antony, Ian Gardiner, Geoffrey Russell, John Cording, Peter Searles and Simon Gipps-Kent as Richard II
Producer JILL SHEPPARD

11.22 Geography Casebook: Britain: 1: Inner City: 1
The fluctuating fortunes of Glasgow - from Victorian boom to present day.

11.44 Going to Work: Going for the Interview

12.5 pm The Computer Programme
The use of computers with the emphasis on small machines.
2: Just One Thing After Another
What is a computer?

12.30 Electronic Office: 2: The Stand-alone Micro
Ian McNaught-Davis examines word-processing, financial planning and data base management.

12.55 Whatever Happened to Britain?
Britain's performance as an economic force since the industrial revolution. 2: Voices in the Air
The influence of economic theorists.

1.20 Let's Go
Presented by Brian Rix
2: Let's Look After our Clothes
Let's Go Book 3 from BBC Publications, £1.50 including postage

1.38 Around Scotland: Nature Study. 2: City Wildlife

2.0 Scene: The Cage
by Ray Jenkins
Paula has a special reason for wanting to escape from the assessment centre - why won't she tell anyone?

2.30 English File: A Taste of Honey: 1
A new production in three parts of Shelagh Delaney's classic play.
Producer RONALD SMEDLEY
Director MICHAEL SIMPSON

Contributors

Producer:
David Roseveare
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Unknown:
Keith Goodall
Unknown:
Nigel Makin
Unknown:
Edward Phillips
Unknown:
Philip Antony
Unknown:
Ian Gardiner
Unknown:
Geoffrey Russell
Unknown:
John Cording
Unknown:
Peter Searles
Unknown:
Simon Gipps-Kent
Producer:
Jill Sheppard
Presenter (Let's Go):
Brian Rix
Unknown:
Ray Jenkins
Unknown:
Shelagh Delaney
Producer:
Ronald Smedley
Director:
Michael Simpson
Helen:
Jane Freeman
Jo:
Sara Sugerman
Peter:
Peter Egan
Sailor:
Tony Armatrading

International Golf
The Suntory World Matchplay Championship from Wentworth Golf Club
Harry Carpenter introduces live coverage of today's second-round matches as the surviving eight players try for semi-final places in the 21st year of this great championship.

Racing from Ascot
3.55 The Queensway Furniture Stakes (Handicap. 1¼ m)
Introduced by Julian Wilson

Contributors

Presenter (Golf):
Harry Carpenter
Commentator (Golf):
Peter Alliss
Commentator (Golf):
Clive Clark
Commentator (Golf):
Bruce Critchley
Commentator (Golf):
Alex Hay
Commentator (Golf):
Mark McCormack
Presenter (Racing):
Julian Wilson
Commentator (Racing):
Peter O'Sullevan
Commentator (Racing):
Jimmy Lindley
Commentator (Racing):
John Hanmer
Television Presentation (Racing):
Bill Taylor

helps you plan your weekend by previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open University.
This week's selection includes the Piazza della signoria and Reunion.
Producer DAVID SAUNDERS
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
David Saunders

The Word and Action Theatre Group specialises in improvision and audience participation, while the Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre concentrates on topical theatre.
What are their aims and how do they work?
Producer JOHN SELWYN GILBERT
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
John Selwyn Gilbert

How does a nightmare begin? For David Vincent it began at four in the morning, looking for a short cut he never found. What he found instead were creatures from another world....
The Leeches starring
After a rash of disappearances among top scientists, electronics expert Warren Doneghan contacts
David Vincent - fearful of his own safety. Their plan allows the aliens to kidnap Doneghan - a calculated risk or a guaranteed death sentence?
Directed by PAUL WENDKOS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Vincent
Unknown:
Warren Doneghan
Unknown:
David Vincent
Directed By:
Paul Wendkos
David Vincent:
Roy Thinnes
Warren Doneghan:
Arthur Hill
Tom Wiley:
Mark Richman
Eve Doneghan:
Diana Van Dervus

Now that summer holidays and days at the seaside are over, sit back at home, put your feet up and listen to the bands.
Gerald Harrison introduces BBC2's own brass band knock-out competition from
The Assembly Rooms, Derby. Round 1, programme 1
Yorkshire Imperial Band from Leeds, conducted by Ray Farr compete against Kirkintilloch Silver Band, Scottish champions, conducted by Professor Walter Hargreaves. Soloists Alan Exley , playing the cornet for Yorkshire
Imperial Band, and Jim Smith , also playing the cornet, for Kirkintilloch Silver Band compete for the Viewers' Sovereign Award.
Special guest supporters Harry Gration and Ken Bruce Judges Lt-Col Trevor L. Sharpe and Bernard Keeffe
Lighting JOHN ALLINSON Sound NEIL MURRAY
Designer ANDY DIMOND Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Introduces:
Gerald Harrison
Conducted By:
Ray Farr
Soloists:
Professor Walter Hargreaves.
Soloists:
Alan Exley
Soloists:
Jim Smith
Unknown:
Harry Gration
Unknown:
Ken Bruce
Designer:
Andy Dimond
Producer:
Ken Griffin

Maori - the New Dawn Reporter Michael Dean New Zealand's Maoris have always had a cosy image abroad but it's one they have come to resent. They never were the happily integrated minority of popular legend and now, in the 1980s, as their white-dominated society begins to falter in the grip of long recession, Maoris are beginning to assert themselves.
Michael Dean , a New Zealander himself, reports on what Maoris believe is a new dawn in the land that for a thousand years was theirs alone.
Producer TOM CONWAY
Series editor ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Dean
Editor:
Anthony Isaacs

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Mayo
Now is the ideal time for giving the lawn an autumn treatment, but with the recent month of dry weather Geoff Hamilton is recommending a different approach to normal years. Anne Mayo demonstrates the annual lifting and preparation of dahlias, carrots and beetroot for over-winter storing and looks at a wide range of climbers.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON
Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Anne Mayo
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Anne Mayo
Producer:
John Kenyon
Unknown:
Jean Laughton
Producer:
Denis W. Gartside

'S Wonderful
Rhoda is not at all happy about her young sister's new romance and, rather unsportingly, indulges in a spot of un-matchmaking.
Written by MARILYN MILLER
Directed by ROBERT MOORE

Contributors

Written By:
Marilyn Miller
Directed By:
Robert Moore
Rhoda:
Valerie Harper
Joe:
David Groh
Brenda:
Julie Kavner
Carlton's voice:
Lorenzo Music
Jimmy Klein:
Barry Brown
Waitress:
Pat Sturges

A six-part dramatisation of the life, work and ideas of Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis.
Written by Carey Harrison
Starring David Suchet as Sigmund Freud

Vienna 1891. Now set up in practice at 19 Berggasse, Freud is enthralled by the revelations of his patients which relate, invariably, to matters sexual - a theory of neurosis begins to evolve. Breuer's cautious reaction threatens their collaboration, driving Sigmund to an intense new friendship with Wilhelm Fliess whose radical thinking matches that of his own.

(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Carey Harrison
Music composed by:
Ilona Sekacz
Lighting Director:
Howard King
Designer:
Peter Blacker
Designer:
Susan Spence
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Producer:
John Purdie
Sigmund Freud:
David Suchet
Anna Freud:
Alison Key
Martha:
Helen Bourne
Elizabeth von Reitberg:
Juliet Stevenson
Wilhelm Fliess:
Anton Lesser
Joseph Breuer:
David Swift
Kastner:
John Rapley
Emma Eckstein:
Clare Clifford
Sophie Eckstein:
Aviva Goldkorn
Oscar Rie:
Allan Corduner
Anna Lichteim:
Anna Sharkey
Mathilde Freud:
Amber Jane Raab
Rosannes:
Ian Thompson
Fleischl:
Michael Kitchen
Baroness von Lieben:
Miriam Margolyes

The Unipart British
Professional Championship from the Coatham Bowl, Redcar
Tonight the most strenuous matches in the competition are played as the semi-finals take place on stage at the Coatham Bowl in front of one of the most enthusiastic audiences in the darts world.
At stake is the title of the best player in Britain and the first prize of E8,000 and, if the form is right, number one seed eric BRISTOW should be on his way to retaining the championship he won in 1982, in the first semi-final on stage.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentator
SID WADDELL and TONY GREEN Directors
MIKE ADLEY and KEITH MACKENZIE Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Commentator:
Sid Waddell
Unknown:
Mike Adley
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie
Producer:
Keith Phillips

The Unipart British
Professional Championship from the Coatham Bowl, Redcar
Coverage of the second semi-final played earlier this evening and again, if the seedings work, a classic match will be contested between ex-world champion and title holder jocky WILSON and new Star MIKE GREGORY.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Gregory.

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