6.30 Geology: Rock Textures

6.55 Is Social Science Really Necessary?

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9.10 Encounter: Italy: A Country at Work
Italian industries; fishing in the Bay of Naples; factories (and pollution) in the north; a geothermal energy town.
(Repeat)

9.26 Twentieth-Century History: Cold War-Confrontation
The Berlin blockade of 1948-9 and the Korean War of 1950-3: the issues which nearly brought the Soviet Union and the USA into full-scale war.
(Rpt)

9.48 Maths at Work (2)
Young people use CSE maths: a clerk, sales assistant, process worker and sample cutter.
(Repeat)

10.10 Sex Education: Someone New
The birth of a baby is a tremendously exciting event in the life of any family, but it also marks the end of a long period of growth and development inside the mother's body. Using modern techniques, this programme for 8- to 10-year-olds shows how the baby grows inside the womb, and includes film of an actual birth.
(Rpt)

10.35 Japan: The Crowded Islands. Countryside
How the Ito family makes a living from a farm 30 times smaller than an average farm in Britain.
(Repeat)

11.0 Watch: Going on Holiday: Looking Around
Louise Hall-Taylor looks around St Malo and sees what it has to offer the tourist. She buys some souvenirs for James Earl Adair, who has been left behind, and meets children who are keeping alive traditional Breton songs and dances.

11.15 Pages from Ceefax

11.23 Alles klar: Asking permission; asking the way; tickets and travel
Basic skills in German
(Repeat)

11.40 Home Economics: Vitamin C
Many people run short of Vitamin C in the late winter. Lesley Judd explains why it is important, which foods are good sources and how to preserve it in our cooking.
(Repeat)

12.2 pm Mindstretchers: Problems: Package Deal
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds to work on, with suggested solutions. Designing a package which is strong, simple to make and attractive, all from minimum materials.
(Solution on Friday at 10.40 am)

12.8 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 You and Me: My Favourite Drink
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Mike Maynard and some young friends have a party and Mike finds out about their favourite drinks.
(Repeat)

2.15 Near and Far: Living in the Alps
The winter sports centre, Livigno, was once an inaccessible farming community. Why did it change? What was the effect?
(Repeat)

2.40 Look, Look and Look Again: My Place
Classes in Dorset and North Yorkshire produce artwork to reflect the special atmosphere of their own community.
(Rpt)

Continuing coverage of the first day of this three-day meeting.
3.45 Ladbroke Racing
Handicap. (lm 2f 85yds) Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

with subtitles; Weather

with Peter Alliss
A series of ten programmes for those who want to take up golf and for golfers who want to improve their game. And an opportunity for everyone to watch top players demonstrate their skills. 2: A Swing That Lasts Producer GORDON MENZIES BBC Scotland

The classic Western series set in a wild corner of Wyoming Territory in the years after the Civil War. starring with Ladies' Day
Slim and Jess desperately need a housekeeper to avoid having to surrender Mike Williams , an orphan they recently adopted. When Daisy Cooper arrives at the ranch she seems ideal for the part but keeping house is the last thing she has in mind. Written by ROD PETERSON
Directed by LESLEY SELANDER

Jimmy Nail
Auf Wiedersehen's Oz bids willkommen to
Richard Skinner and reveals some of his favourite records - apart from his current hit.
Including archive clips of David Bowie , Diana Ross and Paul Robeson.
Director YABBA BADOE Producer JON PLOWMAN

Mark Ellen and David Hepworth introduce live music from Marc Almond , the Bangles and Richard Thompson. Paul Weller calls in with his latest video and accompanying film shot on location in Poland. Gary
Moore and Phil Lynott talk about their recent musical reunion and Andy Kershaw samples life on the road with Tears for Fears' support group The Adventures. Hindsight features
Alice Cooper from 1971.
Richard Skinner surveys today's new charts and the Video Vote number is [number removed]. Producers
JOHN BURROWES. TREVOR DANN Director DAVID G. CROFT
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

For the final semi-repeat in this series, Jonathan
'Sundance' King is back in Phoenix, Arizona, meeting among others Cyndi Lauper , Glen Campbell and Rob Halford of heavy metal band Judas Priest.
He visits a Wild West town called Rawhide, sees the world's tallest fountain and has something precious cut off when he finds himself improperly dressed in a restaurant!
As always between 30 to 50 per cent of the programme is brand new, featuring latest videos, movie trailers, chart information and showbiz news.
Also this week: a chance to see the item you voted for as your all-time favourite moment from
Entertainment USA. Series compiled by COLIN MARCHANT
Executive producer MICHAEL HURLL
Producer GORDON ELSBURY

continues the season of films by one of Hollywood's greatest directors starring
Fred Astaire
Petula Clark
Tommy Steele
Finian McLonergan arrives in America from Ireland with a crock of gold, intending to bury it near Fort Knox in the hope that it will multiply in value. But complications arise in the form of his daughter Sharon's amorous adventures and the arrival of a leprechaun who wants the gold back. All this plus a socially bigotted Senator who turns black!
This enchanting musical, which mixes fantasy with social satire, contains such memorable songs as 'That old devil moon', 'If this isn't love', 'When I'm not near the girl I love' and 'How are things in Glocca Morra ?'
Screenplay by E. Y. HARBURG Music by BURTON LANE Lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG
Produced by JOSEPH LANDON
Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
* IN THE PICTURE: page 39

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter.

11.35 Physics: Painting Potentials
Spraying paint entirely around an object without moving it is possible when you can draw the potential contours of an electric field.

12.0 Religion: Sikhs in Britain
A look at the practice and content of the Sikh religion. The film shows some of the problems inherent in being a Sikh in Britain and how some of the younger generation are coping with conflicting cultural pressures.

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