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9.15 Child Care and Parenthood: 3: The First Vital Months
A look at the families featured in the previous programme - the babies have now arrived. How is everyone coping?

9.38 Politics and You: Who Benefits?
One of the main points of contact between the individual and the state is over taxes and benefits - the unemployed, single parents and the disabled have strong views on this.

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Harry Towb helps Cosmo and Dibs organise a rota for working on the stall. Martin goes to stay overnight with his grandparents.
Song: 'Join in the game'.

10.15 Music Time: 3: Pottery
Some traditional African pottery and the song 'Work the clay' from the musical story set in Ghana - Anansi and the Sky God. The children play some percussion music describing the 'Spirits of the bush'.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School.

10.38 Twentieth-Century History: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev
Further development in the Cold War. The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union leading to the Cuban missile crisis.

11.0 Zig Zag: Gardens and Growth: Flowers
Why do some flowers look and smell like rotting flesh? What's the secret of the bucket orchid? And when is a garden a knot garden? Further exploration of the world of plants with Paul Coia and Sheelagh Gilbey.
(Ceefax Subtitles)

11.23 Alles klar: Wanting and asking; Dealing with Money; Needing Things

11.42 A-Level Studies: History: Munich
Why did Chamberlain make an agreement with Hitler? Was he weak - or was he trying to buy time? What was at stake? Nick Ross examines the documentary evidence and talks to leading historians.

12.4 Mindstretchers: Solutions: Package Deal
Wrapping a single egg with two sheets of paper, or one of card, can involve a number of construction techniques.

12.10 Under the Weather: 2: Among the Clouds

12.35 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: The Door That Would Not Open
An inquisitive prince is puzzled when one of the palace doors fails to open. Various members of the palace staff come to his aid but it is the young page who finds the solution.

2.18 Office Studies: 3: Fact Finding
Terminal digit filing, the micro-filming of records; and a computer-based retrieval system.
BBC Scotland

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the TV Producer
Can a computer help solve the problem of trying to produce the BBC's 5,500 television programmes every year?

3.0-5.25 Pages from Ceefax

Contributors

Film editor (Politics and You):
Al Gell Producer (Politics and You): Andy Walker
Presenter (You and Me):
Harry Towb
Film director (You and Me):
Sue Aron
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Paul Coia
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer (Zig Zag):
Chris Ellis
Presenter (A-Level Studies:
History): Nick Ross
Director (A-Level Studies:
History): Caroline Godley
Series producer (A-Level Studies:
History): Jill Sheppard
Series producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Producer (Office Studies):
Robert Clark
Producer (Computer Club):
Robin Gwyn

When Dr Beeching took his axe to the rural railway network few cuts were as savage, or as deeply resented, as that of the entire Somerset and Dorset system. Its staff took great pride in working this steeply graded line over the Mendip Hills and a strong sense of family loyalty existed. Before it was all swept away in 1966, Bath enthusiast Ivo Peters recorded the railway on film. Film camera CLIVE NORTH Film editor RICHARD BUSS
Assistant producer DAVID KITSON Director ANDREW JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivo Peters
Producer:
David Kitson
Director:
Andrew Johnston

The first of three adaptations from Garson Kanin's best-selling novel starring

The untold love affair that launched Marilyn Monroe's career. He was Johnny Hyde. 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet - destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. It was Johnny Hyde who recognised that Monroe was the rarest of all commodities - an original!

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Garson Kanin
Written for television by:
William Hanley
Producer:
David L. Wolper
Producer:
Stan Margulies
Director:
John Erman
Marilyn Monroe:
Constance Forslund
Johnny Hyde:
Lloyd Bridges
Pat Toledo:
Norman Fell
Harry Cohn:
Vic Tayback
Jack Warner:
Michael Lerner
Joe Schenck:
John Marley
Norman:
Richard Seer
Sam Goldwyn:
Lee Wallace
John Huston:
William Frankfather
Dr Freed:
Phllip Sterling
Mrs Baker:
Sondra Blake
Eddie Mannix:
Barney Martin
Darryl Zanuck:
Peter Maloney
Dore Schary:
Stephen Keep

Cyclist, writer, and well-rounded Tom Vernon brings Australia into his Muswell
Hill kitchen. But he finds the Down Under over the top with its display of culinary exotica. The humble rabbit gets ravished by prunes, a modest fish swims in a sea of lime juice and an avocado gets a good dressing down. Film editor PETER MARSH Director SUE LOCHEAD
Executive producer CYRIL GATES BBC Manchester
For a set of recipes write to [address removed] enclosing £1. 00 cheque or Postal order made payable to the BBC
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Editor:
Peter Marsh
Producer:
Cyril Gates

The cool, combative, macho style of the military pilot has been dubbed in book and film 'the right stuff'. But when that behaviour ends up in a commercial cockpit it's a positive menace to safety - it's 'the wrong stuff'! Commercial aviation is safer than crossing the road, but when accidents do happen it's rarely the fault of the plane.

Eighty per cent of all crashes are caused by 'human error'. Finding out what that means in terms of human behaviour has been called the last great frontier in aviation safety. "Horizon" goes behind the closed door of the airline cockpit into a very private workplace - to find out what goes wrong there and how to put it right.

Contributors

Narrator:
Peter Wilson
Film Editor:
Peter Essex
"Horizon" Editor:
Graham Massey
Written and Produced by:
Jeremy Taylor

Bambi written by BEN ELTON, RIK MAYALL, LISE MAYER
This week, the man who writes the listings in RADIO TIMES, which is actually a very difficult job at which he works very hard and he is not getting home very much because he is out earning money to keep his family, comes home late one night to find his wife in bed with another man and has a nervous breakdown.... wakka wakka ooooooh aaaaaaah.
Starring Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle with Motorhead and ROBBIE COLTRANE, BEN ELTON, STEPHEN FRY, TAMSIN HEATLEY, HUGH LAURIE, TONY ROBINSON, EMMA THOMPSON and GRIFF RHYS JONES, MEL SMITH
Additional material ALEXEI SAYLE
Music PETER BREWIS
Designer GRAEME STORY
Production PAUL JACKSON

Contributors

Written By:
Ben Elton
Written By:
Rik Mayall
Written By:
Lise Mayer
Unknown:
Adrian Edmondson
Unknown:
Rik Mayall
Unknown:
Nigel Planer
Unknown:
Christopher Ryan
Unknown:
Alexei Sayle
Unknown:
Robbie Coltrane
Unknown:
Ben Elton
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Tamsin Heatley.
Unknown:
Hugh Laurie
Unknown:
Tony Robinson
Unknown:
Emma Thompson
Unknown:
Griff Rhys
Unknown:
Mel Smith
Unknown:
Alexei Sayle
Music:
Peter Brewis
Designer:
Graeme Story
Unknown:
Paul Jackson

A recording of Kelly
Monteith's recent one man show from the Ambassadors Theatre, London, featuring Kelly's unique observations on life.
Written by KELLY MONTEITH OB lighting PETER WEBB
OB sound GRAHAM HAINES Television designer COLIN SHAW
Production by GEOFF POSNER

Contributors

Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Unknown:
Peter Webb
Designer:
Colin Shaw
Production By:
Geoff Posner

A concert at the Zinc Fence in Jamaica, the venue for many famous reggae artistes, tonight brings together for the first time some of the island's music-based Dub poets. Along with Mutabaruka, Gean Breeze , and Poets in Unity, is the more conventional poetry of Mervyn Morris and Edward Braithwaite.
Editor DENISE PERRIN Producer JOHN PETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Gean Breeze
Unknown:
Edward Braithwaite.
Editor:
Denise Perrin
Producer:
John Pett

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith Producers HOWARD ANDERSON
DAVE STANFORD. MIKE ROBINSON
Directors JOHN WILKINSON. CHRIS FOX Assignment editors NICK GUTHRIE , TIM ROBERTS
Deputy editor JOHN MAHONEY Editor DAVID DICKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Producers:
Howard Anderson
Unknown:
Dave Stanford.
Unknown:
Mike Robinson
Directors:
John Wilkinson.
Editors:
Nick Guthrie
Editors:
Tim Roberts
Editor:
John Mahoney
Editor:
David Dickinson

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