6.30 Technology: Bridging the Gap
6.55 Primary Sources: Stratford-upon-Avon
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6.30 Technology: Bridging the Gap
6.55 Primary Sources: Stratford-upon-Avon
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9.38 Science Workshop: Water 'A'
How dry does a spin-drier get your clothes? How do you test hair-driers?
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Charu Bala Chokshi and the Puppets discuss friendship and love. Including a look at things over and under the water and a visit to a swimming class.
Story: Raju's Dream by Barindar Kalsi, illustrated by Jeroo Roy
10.15 Maths File: 9: Area
Inspector Newton pieces together the clues left by a cunning stamp thief.
With Tony Hughes, Jacqueline Clarke, Robin Scobey and James Coyle
10.38 A-Level Studies: Statistics: 2: Distributions
Counting defective TV sets in a manufacturer's sample and marram grass tillers in sand-dunes both involve statistical distributions.
11.0 Words and Pictures: Miss Jump, the Jockey
11.17 The Music Arcade: 7: Folk Tunes and the Violin
11.39 General Studies: The Baby Trade: 2
A film report by Margaret Jay on surrogate motherhood in Britain.
12.5 pm Russian Language and People: 18: How Do You Feel?
12.30 Honourable Members: 2: The Art of the Possible
Five programmes examining the role of MPs.
12.55 Switch On to English: 7: Using He and She
1.21 Descubra Espana: Vistas de provincia
Vida diaria; Frutos del campo; Tierra riojana
1.38 Let's See: 2: Rhythms and Dances
2.0 Watch: Our World: Smells
'Phew, what an awful smell!' says James, trying to identify some objects by their smell alone. louise discovers how good a dog's sense of smell is, but in the story of 'Scruff the dog finds out that the nasty smell is coming from him.
2.18 One World: Made in Barbados
Supplementing sugar and tourism, Barbados now exports manufacturing goods. To what cost and benefit?
2.40 Zig Zag: Roads: 1: Britons and Romans
(Ceefax Subtitles)
with subtitles; Weather
starring Brian Donlevy Gig Young
Three outlaws, helped by a beautiful girl accomplice, Lorabelle, contrive a series of hold-ups which threaten the fragile peace between the US Cavalry and the Navajo Indians. Captain
Dempster of Fort Marcy is faced with an awkward dilemma: whether to support his fellow white men or the cause of the wronged 'savages'.
Screenplay by SID KULLER produced and directed by IRVING ALLEN
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The second semi-final from Melbourne
England, Australia, India and Pakistan were drawn together in Group A while West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka made up Group B. Today the runners-up of Group A play the winner of Group B for a place in the final.
RICHIE BENAUD introduces the teams and the highlights of this 50-overs-a-side day/night match.
Television presentation CHANNEL 9. AUSTRALIA
Something's Burning
To the young people taken on by Shiftwork Theatre drama is something totally new. What emerges months later is 'documentary theatre' - surprising, tense, humorous and real.
Through improvisation, the raw material of their performance is coaxed from the reality of their lives.
'People are well an' scared now the money's tight.
But this ain't the time to lay back -it's the time to fight.'
(LENNIE'S RAP)
Tonight Open Space presents a special theatre recording of Something's Burning, one of Shiftwork Theatre's unique stage shows.
Originally produced and directed for the theatre by LUCY PARKER Directed by FIONA CUMMING Produced by JEREMY GIBSON COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT
(Shiftwork is the youth company at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Presented by Peter France
Churchill and Roosevelt exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World
War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tensions behind the friendship and Britain's collapse as a great superpower.
A Black and Terrible Troop was the name given to a gang of burglars and forgers who terrorised Westmorland 300 years ago. Timewatch traces their rise and fall through the private papers of the Justice who ran them to earth.
Ring a Ring o' Roses is the nursery rhyme everyone knows has its roots in the Great Plague. But does it? Iona Opie investigates its origins. Producer DIANA LASHMORE Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM
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Justin Hayward John Lodge Ray
Thomas Graeme Edge and Patrick Moraz return to the Wembley stage for the second part of their concert, recorded last November at the end of a successful nationwide tour.
'Nights in white satin' and 'I'm just a singer (in a rock and roll band)' are just two of the songs included tonight.
Sound JOHN CAUUTELD Television production RICK GARDNER
John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
11.30 Images of Health
Advertisements for drugs have changed over time and between different countries. The advertisers give their views as to why this is.
11.55 Biology: Cell Structure
A living cell is a dynamic and complex structure. But looking closely at that structure usually involves tissue that has been preserved and stained. So how accurate a picture do we get of the processes of life that once occurred in that cell?
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