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9.15 Child Care and Parenthood: 4: The Child and the Family
The emergence of a toddler into a child can be a tricky time.
Five-year-old twins help their young sister, but it's not so easy if your elder brother is mentally handicapped.
(Repeat)

9.38 Politics and You: Bradford - A Local Issue
In 1982 flats in Newby Square, Bradford, were damaged by floods and serious structural faults revealed. The tenants demanded compensation and are now fighting to be rehoused and to have the flats demolished. But for the local council, the decisions are not that easy.

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
There's trouble when Dibs takes the 'wet paint' signs off the stall. Sam and his Dad make a kite. Rhyme: Hickety Tickety
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10.15 Music Time: 4: The Bush
'Palm and cedar' and 'Spirits of the bush' - a song and some percussion music from the story Anansi and the Sky God. Anansi has a chant to help him remember the name of the Sky God's daughter.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School

10.38 British Social History: The Motor Car
David Bellamy, with the aid of much archive film never before seen on television, traces the impact of the car on society.
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11.0 Zig Zag: Gardens and Growth: Fruits

Sheelagh Gilbey and Paul Coia explore a wildlife garden and tell the story of Persephone. The life cycle of plants comes full circle - from seeds to plants and back again.
(Ceefax Subtitles)

11.23 Alles klar: Making Requests; Quantities and Sizes; Asking the Time
Basic skills in German
(Rpt)

11.42 A-Level Studies: English: Geoffrey Chaucer: The Dreaming Poet
by Ian Taylor
When the Boughton-under-Blee Festival Players tackle Chaucer, their director finds that poetry and dreams become intertwined with reality.
With Derek Smith, Paul Blake, Maggie McCarthy, Suzy Aitchison, Timothy Kightley,
Michael Waterman and Paul Williamson

12.4 Mindstretchers: Solutions: Lies and Statistics
The statistics in the Ticky Tacky report are analysed.
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12.10 Under the Weather: 3: In a Depression
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12.35 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: Going, Going, Gone!
Tortoise, mouse, lion and elephant go for a row on the river and get very wet. So does the woman who argued, but that's another story.
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2.18 Office Studies: 4: The Money Machine
An explanation of cheques and of automatic banking, and a quick look at some of the plastic cards now in use.
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2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Map-maker
How can a computer help workmen digging a hole in the road?
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Contributors

Producer (Politics and You):
Andy Walker
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Director (Music Time):
Ann Throup
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter (British Social History):
David Bellamy
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Paul Coia
Producer (Zig Zag):
Chris Ellis
Writer (A-Level Studies:
English): Ian Taylor
Producer (A-Level Studies:
English): Sue Weeks
[Actor]:
Derek Smith
[Actor]:
Paul Blake
[Actress]:
Maggie McCarthy
[Actress]:
Suzy Aitchison
[Actor]:
Timothy Kightley
[Actor]:
Michael Waterman
[Actor]:
Paul Williamson

The second of three adaptations from Garson Kanin's best-selling novel.

The struggle for the coveted role of Scarlett in "Gone With the Wind" involved every leading lady in Hollywood. And before it was over, the disease that came to be known as 'Scarlett fever' would grip 'Tinsel Town.'
Written for TV by William Hanley.
A David L. Wolper/Stan Margulies Production.

Contributors

Author:
Garson Kanin
Writer:
William Hanley
Director:
John Erman
David O. Selznick:
Tony Curtis
Myron Selznick:
Bill Macy
Louis B. Mayer:
Harold Gould
Carole Lombard:
Sharon Gless
George Cukor:
George Furth
Clark Gable:
Edward Winter
Joan Crawford:
Barrie Youngfellow
Tallulah Bankhead:
Carrie Nye
Charlie Chaplin:
Clive Revill
Paulette Goddard:
Gwen Humble
Vivien Leigh:
Morgan Brittany

Jardine, rich, privileged, ruthless; Larwood, a simple ex-miner; Bradman, a brilliant young Australian. Three men at the centre of sport's most acrimonious feud. The background to their lives and the story of Bodyline, a dramatic new series coming soon to BBC2.

Tom Vernon 's culinary tour of the world brings Germany on to the table of his Muswell Hill kitchen. Tom ploughs through sausage and radish, gives a dumpling a test to destruction, stuffs a sow's stomach and finds himself dealing with a blushing girl. Film editor PETER MARSH Director SUE LOCHEAD
Executive producer CYRIL GATES BBC Manchester
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Editor:
Peter Marsh

"Horizon" was born on 2 May 1964. This celebration presents 99 excerpts from the series' first 21 years - a fast-moving collection of some of the best moments so far. Some are funny, some moving, some classic and some bizarre.

Crocodiles, microprocessors, super-tankers, test-tube babies, electric wheelbarrows, earthquakes, magnetic microbes, the moons of Jupiter, DNA, ECT, flying machines, victims of asbestos and of smoking, Peruvian peasants, Chinese nursery schools, tree museums, dancing plants, paradise pills, sticklebacks, tower blocks, lasers and jelly.... all these and many more have been the subject of "Horizon"'s probing of 21 years of science.

(Feature: page 9)

Contributors

Film Editor:
Christopher Woolley
"Horizon" Editor:
Graham Massey
Producer:
Simon Campbell-Jones

The second part 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 COUN SHAW Production by GEOFF POSNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Unknown:
Peter Webb
Production By:
Geoff Posner

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