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9.10 Technical Studies Ten programmes
8: Drawing, Rolling and Extruding
9.38 Science Workshop Joins 'B'
The bridges at Ironbridge and across the Humber span more than 200 years of development in joining metals.
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Fruit and Veg
Dawn and her Grandad plant some seeds on his allotment and pick some fruit and veg for tea.
Director NICCI CROWTHER
10.15 Maths Counts by JOHN TULLY
4: A Table in Time
Sex on British Rail? Not quite! But SX enables Wendy to get Steve out of trouble. With
ROY KINNEAR , SARAH JAMES , NICK ORCHARD, LEO WRINGER ,
SARAH CAHN , NICHOLAS MCCARDLE and JR Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
10.38 Maths Topics
Statistics 3. Data reduction: measures of central tendency and of spread.
Producer PETER BRATT
11.0 Words and Pictures The Magic Fish
11.17 The Music Arcade 8: Early Music
11.39 General Studies
East versus West ' A panel of speakers drawn from the Eastern and Western blocs discuss some of the issues raised in the first two programmes with 6th formers.
12.5
Russian Language and People 9: Eating and Drinking Russian-style
12.30 People First
Five films aimed directly at parents of children with a mental handicap.
3: What Every Child Needs
Making the right educational choice.
12.55 L-Driver
Six programmes for learner drivers who speak English as a second language.
4: The Emergency Stop and Reversing
Presenter PETER DAVISON
1.21 Rendez-vous: France 3: Chemin faisant
En avion; par Ie train; a bord; sur la route.
Producer JOHN PRESCOTT THOMAS
1.38 Let's See
Water. 1: On Tap
2.0 Watch. Picture Books
Three well-known children's book illustrators demonstrate how they produce children's books. SHIRLEY HUGHES talks about her technique,
QUENTIN BLAKE shows how to use simple line drawings to convey feelings and character, and JAN pienkowski teaches a class of children how to make a pop-up card.
Producer DAVID TAFT
2.18 Brazil
Amazon Frontier
Brazil's hectic pace of economic development has carried new ventures to the depths of the Amazon region. Some have succeeded but many have failed.
Producer LEN BROWN
2.40-3.0 Zig Zag Tides and Winds
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Tully
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Sarah James
Unknown:
Leo Wringer
Unknown:
Sarah Cahn
Unknown:
Nicholas McCardle
Producer:
David Roseveare
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Presenter:
Peter Davison
Producer:
John Prescott Thomas
Talks:
Shirley Hughes
Unknown:
Quentin Blake
Producer:
Len Brown

Japan and the Legacy of the Samurai
A series of seven films
Narrated by Julian Pettifer 3: The Palace of the Dragon King
Three hundred years ago the Yoshiwara, Tokyo's notorious red light area, was a Bohemia where actors, artists, musicians and writers drew inspiration from its colourful atmosphere and celebrated the charms of the courtesans. Today in bars, restaurants and nightclubs, company executives spend £6-billion a year in expense account entertaining.
Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL
Produced by MICHAEL MACINTYRE

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Editor:
Malcolm Daniel
Produced By:
Michael MacIntyre

starring
Randolph Scott James Brown
World War U is the setting for this adventure film.
Following the death of his friend in a U-boat attack, Lt-Cmdr MacClain is given a new command - a little fighting ship, Corvette, K-225. On its perilous maiden voyage across the Atlantic K-225 faces gales and Nazi ambushes and the mettle of its crew is put to a supreme test.
Screenplay by LT JOHN THODES STURDY
Produced by HOWARD HAWKS Directed by RICHARD ROSSON
< FILMS: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Randolph Scott
Unknown:
James Brown
Unknown:
Lt John Thodes Sturdy
Produced By:
Howard Hawks
Directed By:
Richard Rosson
Lt-Cmdr MacClain:
Randolph Scott
Paul Cartwright:
James Brown
Joyce Cartwright:
Ella Raines
Pincher Martin:
Barry Fitzgerald
Walsh:
Andy Devine
Evans:
Walter Sande
Admiral:
Richard Lane
Gardner:
James Flavin
Cricket:
Fuzzy Knight
Jones:
Murray Alper
Rawlins:
David Bruce
Smithy:
Thomas Gomez
Stone:
Noah Berry
Wardroom steward:
Gene O'Donnell

with Floella Benjamin Joanna Monro
Andrew Secombe and Nick Wilton
Swimming in the Sahara Desert, drinking onion-flavoured milk shakes and being kissed by a baboon are very unpopular pastimes, a recent survey revealed. More popular are swimming in custard, camel spotting in Swindon and watching Fast Forward. Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Associate producer TREVOR MCCALLUM
Designer SARAH PARKINSON Series producer ANN REAY Producer JOHN SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Floella Benjamin
Unknown:
Joanna Monro
Unknown:
Andrew Secombe
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Director:
Jonathan Cohen
Producer:
Trevor McCallum
Designer:
Sarah Parkinson
Producer:
John Smith

Buck and John Cannon travel to the rancho of their powerful neighbour Don Sebastian Montoya. In a cantina somewhere along the route, they run into a drunken Montoya, son of Don Sebastian, who is on the run from the Mexican authorities.

Contributors

Writer:
Denne Bart Petitclerc
Director:
William F. Claxton
John Cannon:
Leif Erickson
Buck Cannon:
Cameron Mitchell
Billy Blue:
Mark Slade
Victoria:
Linda Cristal
Manolito:
Henry Darrow
Don Sebastian:
Frank Silvera

Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert take their weekly look at the news from the black communities. This week: Claudia Jones , founder of the popular black press in this country, died 20 years ago -a look at her life and work, and Syd Burke assesses some of the black British newspapers today.
Vastiana Belfon with another of her Ebony
Reports Washington and music from I Jah Man, one of the unique voices of Jamaican reggae.
Producer ROY CHAPMAN Series producer
AMANDA THEUNISSEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Alexander
Unknown:
Vince Herbert
Unknown:
Claudia Jones
Unknown:
Syd Burke
Unknown:
Vastiana Belfon
Producer:
Roy Chapman
Unknown:
Amanda Theunissen

Some stories by FREDERIC RAPHAEL and in Oxbridge Blues
A story of ups and downs Narrated by Norman Rodway
Victor is first-class and on the way to distinction; his hearty brother Philip looks to be booked for obscurity. But nobody in this game of snakes and ladders is quite what he, or she, seems.
Music composed by RICHARD HOLMES
Sung by CANTABILE Graphic designer ROSEMARY TURNER
Film recordist JOHN MURPHY Film editor JOHN STOTHART Photography JOHN HOOPER Designer DON HOMFRAY
Produced and directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
• FEATURE: page 98

Contributors

Stories By:
Frederic Raphael
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Composed By:
Richard Holmes
Designer:
Rosemary Turner
Unknown:
John Murphy
Editor:
John Stothart
Unknown:
John Hooper
Designer:
Don Homfray
Directed By:
James Cellan Jones
Victor Geary:
Ian Charleson
Philip Geary:
Malcolm Stoddard
Maxine:
Amanda Redman
Wendy:
Rosalyn Landor
Carlotta:
Diane Keen
Curly (Bonaventura):
Michael Elphick
Sir Patrick (Hankey):
Clifford Rose
Bald don:
Roger Hammond
Black poet:
Lewis St Juste

David Jessel and Sue Cook present television's law and order magazine; a weekly live investigation into crime, punishment and the machinery of justice. Reports by Ed Boyle
Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer HUGH PURCELL Editor PETER CHAFER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Hugh Purcell
Editor:
Peter Chafer

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Ian Smith and Paul Barry present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Paul Barry

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