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9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective The Merry Wives of Windsor Journalist jilly cooper offers her personal view of the play.
9.26 Maths Counts by JOHN TULLY 5: Give a Third, Take a Quarter
9.48 Mathscore One Graphic Description
An inexperienced salesman learns how to put his sales figures into shape.
10.10 Look and Read Badger Girl
9: Panic on the Lake by ANDREW DA VIES
Mick and the Badgerman are rushing to save the ponies - so are the children. But they face real danger on the lake ...
With MARGO GUNN , JOHN HOLLIS
ASHIEK MADHVANI , JAMES MARSTON JUUA MILLBANK, NICK ORCHARD KIERON O'SHEA , WILLIAM SQUIRE CHARLES COLLINGWOOD
KATIE HEBB and GARY WATSON
10.35
Geography Casebook: Britain The Changing Coastline
BERNARD CLARK investigates man's efforts to defend Dorset and Hampshire.
Producer LEN BROWN
11.0 Watch
11.17 Walrus
Writing for an Audience
How some first-years at a London school made A Passport to Pimlico.
Producer MORTON SURGUY
11.40 Job Bank. Office Jobs
12.0 Year of the French The Ski-ing Gendarme
BERNARD CAPDERREY - on call day and night for mountain rescue duty during the winter. Producer JOHN BIRD
12.30 pm Pages from Ceefax
1.0 Maths Help
For adults studying to O-level 9: Graphs
1.15 Science Topics Biotechnology
Traditional uses of microbes are in making cheese and beer or wine. Today the techniques are undergoing a revolution as a result of genetic engineering and we can alter microbes to suit our own purposes. Producer CLARE ELSTOW
1.38 Let's See
2: Water Power
Water has been used over the centuries for many purposes, from grinding corn to making electricity.
Presented by BLYTHE BROCKETT Producer PETER WHITEFORD
2.0 You and Me
HARRY TOWB helps Cosmo and Dibs organise a rota for working on the stall. Martin goes to stay overnight with his grandparents.
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
2.15 British Social History 5: Railways. KEITH CHEGWIN visits the Liverpool to
Manchester line. 2.40-3.0 Junior Craft, Design and Technology
Up and Down the Hill Teachers' discussion
(Pupils programme on Friday at
11.0 am. Repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tully
Unknown:
Andrew Da Vies
Unknown:
Margo Gunn
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Ashiek Madhvani
Unknown:
James Marston
Unknown:
Nick Orchard
Unknown:
Kieron O'Shea
Unknown:
William Squire
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood
Unknown:
Katie Hebb
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Bernard Clark
Producer:
Len Brown
Presented By:
Blythe Brockett
Producer:
Peter Whiteford
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Unknown:
Keith Chegwin
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
DibS:
Francis Wright

Japan and the Legacy of the Samurai
6: Music of a Thousand Autumns
Under the stern rule of the Samurai and the Shogun dictators, the Japanese people were obliged to live in strict accordance with their class status, and this included even the type of entertainment they were permitted to enjoy.

Film-maker Eric Ashby is affectionately known as the 'silent watcher'. In this, a selection of his best work, that ability to see without being seen is evident. The collection of wildlife portraits he has captured on film throws fresh light on one of our most popular forests - the New Forest.
Narrated by Martin Jarvis Produced by ROBIN hellier BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Ashby
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Produced By:
Robin Hellier

The BBC Television
International Sheepdog Championship
Introduced by Phil Drabble with Eric Halsall
The second semi-finals are run on the trials course at Kelburn in Ayrshire
Singles: DENIS BIRCHALL with Eve (Ireland); DICK NICHOLLS with Rod (Wales)
Brace: JOHN TEMPLETON with Roy and Ben (Scotland)
TIM LONGTON with Clun Roy and Tweed (England) Director MICHAEL KERR
Producer IAN SMITH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Eric Halsall
Unknown:
Denis Birchall
Unknown:
Dick Nicholls
Unknown:
John Templeton
Unknown:
Clun Roy
Director:
Michael Kerr
Producer:
Ian Smith

Six films introduced by Duncan Carse
3: Home of the Head-hunters (Borneo 1915)
The first motion pictures ever taken in Borneo, the land of the head-hunters, were secured by Dr Carl Lumholtz, during two years spent among the native tribes. And Land of Mystery and Charm (China 1934)
Frances Hotham filmed, travelled and lectured her way around the world. The splendours of Peking are among the many scenes observed.
Narrators Michael Kilgarriff Jo Manning Wilson Assistant producer DAWN A. SWERLING
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Duncan Carse
Narrators:
Michael Kilgarriff
Narrators:
Jo Manning Wilson
Producer:
Dawn A. Swerling
Producer:
Richard Robinson

starring James Garner as Jim Rockford
There's One in Every Port Jim agrees to play high-stakes poker to raise money for a sick friend.
When masked gunmen clean out the game, Jim is left kicking himself for something he should have seen coming....
Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL Directed by META ROSENBERG

Contributors

Unknown:
James Garner
Unknown:
Jim Rockford
Written By:
Stephen J. Cannell
Directed By:
Meta Rosenberg

from the heart of beautiful downtown Burbank, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin with guest
Bob Newhart and the Laugh-In regulars.
Director MARK WARREN Executive producer
GEORGE SCHLATTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Rowan
Unknown:
Dick Martin
Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Director:
Mark Warren
Unknown:
George Schlatter

Andy Kershaw and David Hepworth introduce a rare television appearance by ballet star Michael Clark, dancing to live music by The Fall.

Also, a studio session from REM; a report on soul music old and new; the Video Vote (call [number removed]); Hindsight - a clip from the archives - and Richard Skinner's survey of today's new charts.

Top 40 on Ceefax page 264
Videos Toyah at the Rainbow (BBCV 3012); Deep Purple California Jam (BBCV 3000) from retailers

Contributors

Presenter:
Andy Kershaw
Presenter:
David Hepworth
Dancer:
Michael Clark
Musicians:
The Fall
Reporter:
Richard Skinner
Producer:
Trevor Dann
Producer:
John Burrowes
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Editor:
Michael Appleton

Have you ever thought how nice your car might look with different-coloured tyres? Perhaps a tasteful shade of green, yellow or blue? It's not as outrageous as it seems, as William Woollard found out when he visited one of the world's major tyre manufacturers at its research and development centre in Luxemburg.
Closer to home, Top Gear drops in at a spectacular get-together of Rolls-Royce owners and takes to the racetrack testing 'hot hatchbacks' to the limit. Producer Philip FRANKLIN
Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS BBC Pebble Mill
Motoring magazine on Ceefax page 263

Contributors

Unknown:
William Woollard
Producer:
Philip Franklin
Producer:
Dennis Adams

starring
Jeff Bridges Sally Field and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Despite his money, mansion and good connections among the social set of Birmingham, Alabama, Craig Blake 's restlessness is evident. In the course of buying up a gymnasium as part of a property deal he becomes intrigued by a group of bodybuilders preparing for the Mr Universe Contest, whose attitudes differ so radically from those of the privileged southern society to which he is accustomed. But as Craig's involvement with these real people deepens, the pressures of his upbringing and business responsibilities begin to escalate....
Bob Rafelson 's film takes a witty and unusual look at the different sides of the 'American dream'.
Screenplay by CHARLES GAINES and BOB RAFELSON based on the novel by CHARLES GAINES
Produced by HAROLD SCHNEIDER and BOB RAFELSON
Directed by BOB RAFELSON
(First showing on British television) •FILMS: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeff Bridges
Unknown:
Sally Field
Unknown:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Unknown:
Craig Blake
Unknown:
Bob Rafelson
Unknown:
Charles Gaines
Unknown:
Bob Rafelson
Novel By:
Charles Gaines
Produced By:
Harold Schneider
Produced By:
Bob Rafelson
Directed By:
Bob Rafelson
Craig Blake:
Jeff Bridges
Mary Tate Farnsworth:
Sally Field
Joe Santo:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thor Erickson:
R. G. Armstrong
Franklin:
Robert Englund
Anita:
Helena Kallianiotes
Newton:
Roger E Mosley
Craig's uncle:
Woodrow Parfrey
William:
Scatman Crothers
Dorothy Stephens:
Kathleen Miller
Amy Walterson:
Fannie Flagg
Zoe Mason:
Joanna Cassidy

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