6.30 Reading Development

6.55 Pictures of Politics

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9.10 Encounter: Italy: Fruits of the Land
Italian food and farming; olives and olive oil; farms in Basilicata and Tuscany; ham; cheese and gastronomy in Parma.

9.48 Maths at Work

10.10 Sex Education: Life Begins
A baby grows inside its mother's womb for nine months, but what makes it start to grow? The final programme in this series for 8- to 10-year-olds explains why both a man and a woman are necessary for a baby to be conceived.

10.35 Japan: The Crowded Islands: Factory
A close-up view of a Hiroshima car factory and the everyday life of an assembly line worker and his family.

11.0 Watch: Going on Holiday: By the Sea

11.17 Walrus - Guess What?: The More You Know...
The More You Know... about the background to a story, the easier it becomes to understand what is going on. So Michael Rosen and the team visit a museum. Clues presented by David Freeman

11.40 Home Economics: Micronutrients
Micronutrients such as iron and vitamin D are important parts of every diet. Lesley Judd explains their role and how to choose the right foods to get all we need.

12.02 Mindstretchers: Problems: Lies and Statistics

12.10 Earth's Physical Resources: Pine-Point Mine: A Lead-Zinc Deposit
Pine-Point, one of the world's largest metal mines, was discovered by prospectors on the Klondike Trail, but it was 80 years before the mine opened

12.35 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 You and Me: My Wheels
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Mike Maynard and some young friends find out about things with wheels and go for a ride on bikes.

2.15 British Social History: The Motor Car
David Bellamy, with the aid of much archive film never seen before on television, traces the impact of the car on society, starting from the days when the only thing that stood outside the suburban house to polish was a monkey-puzzle tree.

3.0-5.30 Pages from Ceefax

with subtitles, followed by 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. 3: Stepping on the Tee Producer GORDON MENZIES BBC Scotland

The classic Western series set in a wild part of Wyoming Territory in the years after the Civil War starring
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 (Postponed from 7 May)

Alan Freeman
Steve Blacknell pops in on pop picker Freeman and talks to him about some of his personal favourites culled from his three decades of DJ'ing. All right? Stay bright. Producer JON PLOWMAN Director CHRIS HALL
(Postponed from 30April)

Is country music a sentimental irrelevance or honest, unpretentious and newly fashionable? A very sincere Andy Kershaw juins the dudes at Wembley for this year's Silk Cut Festival and talks to Boxcar Willie, the Osmond Brothers and Hank Wangford.
David Hepworth introduces live studio sessions from US megastar Rick Springfield and Nashville rockers Jason and the Scorchers.
Hindsight recalls a vintage Simple Minds performance from 1979. Richard Skinner surveys the new charts and you can call [number removed]to register your Video Vote. Producers TREVOR DANN and JOHN BURROWES
Director TOM CORCORAN
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

written by ROY CLARKE starring Roy Kinnear Sandra Dickinson with David Lyon Philip Dunbar John Arthur
Used-car dealer Arnold Bristow regains consciousness after a hit-and-run accident with some rather startling revelations. Was it really who he says it was driving the car that hit him? Was what the driver shouted at him of such spiritual significance?
Was the incident simply a reminder that he should be going out into the world to put to use a certain - hitherto unused-gift?
Designer STEPHEN MELLOR Produced and directed by ALAN J. W. BELL

continues the season devoted to one of Hollywood's greatest film-makers starring
Frederic Forrest Peter Boyle
Fact meets fiction in this story derived from the life of detective writer Dashiell Hammett , one of the acknowledged masters of the genre. In this imaginary story, set in San Francisco in 1928, Hammett becomes involved in a complex murder mystery. The story, within a story, is later seen as the basis of a seminal work,
The Maltese Falcon.This homage to film noir was a production of Coppola's Zoetrope Studios.
Screenplay by ROSS THOMAS and DENNIS O'FLAHERTY
Produced by FRED ROOS
RONALD COLBY and DON GUEST Directed by wim WENDERS Executive producer
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
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11.20 Weatherview

11.30 Pathways in the Brain
At its simplest level, the brain may be viewed as a complex wiring network which links its various parts. But how to tell which part links to which?

11.55 The Plough and the Hoe: 1: A Village in Punjab
The village of Jodhan in India has undergone rapid agricultural changes in the last 15 years. Some of the complexities and contradictions are explored.

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