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9.15 Child Care and Parenthood: 5: The Child and Other People
For the young child, the prospect of starting school, going to the dentist, or to the hospital can be frightening.

9.38 Politics and You: 5: You and the Union
The popular image of trade unions is often a negative one, but YTS trainees and a group of fifth formers discover how unions can help them and how they themselves can become active members. The union is also helping Middlesbrough hospital workers fight the issue of privatisation.

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and-5-year-olds
Cosmo has a violent tantrum; Dibs and Indira Joshi try to calm her. Maths on the farm: matching eggs to the birds that laid them.
Book: "Brown Bear What Do You See?" by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr.

10.15 Music Time: 5: The Weavers
Some traditional African weaving, and a song sung by the weavers. The children print some African designs on cloth as they prepare their costumes for the musical Anansi and the Sky God. Grouping beats in twos, threes and fours.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School.

10.38 Twentieth-Century History: One Man's Revolution: Mao Tse Tung
Mao's 42-year leadership of the Chinese Communist Party changed the face of China.

11.0 Zig Zag: Energy: Turn to the Wind
The wind is a powerhouse of energy. How has it been used in the past? How will it be used in the future? (Ceefax Subtitles)

11.23 Alles klar: Having to Do Things; Likes and Dislikes; Comparing and Preferring
Basic skills in German.

11.42 A-level Studies: English: Jane Austen: Letters to Alice, On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
Through letters to her niece, Fay Weldon illuminates the life and work of one of the best known women novelists of the past.
With Anna Cropper, Cassie Stuart, Sarah Finch, Vicky Ireland, Michael Lumsden, Nancy Adams and Peter Whitaker

12.4 Mindstretchers: Solutions: Tight Living
Feroza Syal explains her bedsitter design to Antony Daniels. Is it comfortable? Does it work?

12.10 Under the Weather: 4: High and Dry
An introduction to the workings of the world weather systems.

12.35 Pages from Ceefax

1.30 Trumpton: The Window Cleaner
A See-Saw programme

1.45 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: Dizzy Duncan
Why Duncan ties a knot in his handkerchief, puts his cap on back to front, pulls down his socks and undoes his shoe laces remains a mystery until the end of the story Dizzy Duncan.

2.18 Office Studies: 5: Offices Today and Tomorrow
The role of office workers in the production and distribution of jeans; word processors and their uses; and computer booking in a major airline.
BBC Scotland

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Transport Planner
All aboard! How can a computer help solve the problems of conveying by sea a million or so people between the Greek mainland and the islands?

Contributors

Producer (Child Care and Parenthood):
John Chapple
Producer (Politics and You):
Andy Walker
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Writer (A-Level Studies:
English): Fay Weldon
Producer (A-Level Studies:
English): Sue Weeks
[Actress]:
Anna Cropper
[Actress]:
Cassie Stuart
[Actress]:
Sarah Finch
[Actress]:
Vicky Ireland
[Actor]:
Michael Lumsden
[Actress]:
Nancy Adams
[Actor]:
Peter Whitaker
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Feroza Syal
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Antony Daniels
Series Producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Puppets/Scripts/Production (Trumpton):
Gordon Murray
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (Office Studies):
Robert Clark
Producer (Computer Club):
Robin Gwyn

England v Australia for the Texaco Trophy from Lord's
Further coverage Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD
JIM LAKER
Summarisers
RAY ILLINGWORTH
TED DEXTER
Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. MIKE ADLEY
Executive producer NICK HUNTER Video, Botham's Ashes: the 1981 Cornhill Test series. BBCV/B 5015 from retailers

Contributors

Unknown:
Richie Benaud
Unknown:
Jim Laker
Unknown:
Ray Illingworth
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie.
Unknown:
Mike Adley
Producer:
Nick Hunter

Portly cyclist and writer
Tom Vernon brings the great plates of Portugal to the table of his Muswell Hill kitchen. A pudding full of simple drama, a touch of culinary poetry from the place where the port comes from, and the faithful friend for Friday lunches across the Mediterranean, salt cod. Film editor PETER MARSH Director SUE LOCHEAD
Executive producer CYRIL GATES BBC Manchester
If you would like a set of recipes from the series, write to: [address removed], enclosing £1 cheque or postal order made payable to the BBC * CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Vernon
Editor:
Peter Marsh

A dramatised account in five daily parts of the men and the times that shaped one of sporting history's most bitter encounters. starring
1: 1918. Douglas Jardine , a child of the British Raj, finishes a public school education which has forged for him an aloof and ruthless manner. A proven cricketer, by 1921 he is playing for
Surrey where he encounters the terrifying speed of the Nottinghamshire bowler
Harold Larwood. Meanwhile in Australia, a young boy is developing the cricketing talent that will set him on an irresistible course towards
Jardine and Larwood and the controversy of 'bodyline'. His name is Don Bradman.
Written by TERRY HAYES Directed by CARL SCHULTZ (Part 2 tomorrow at 9.0pm) 0 FEATURE: page 84

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Jardine
Unknown:
Harold Larwood.
Unknown:
Don Bradman.
Written By:
Terry Hayes
Directed By:
Carl Schultz
Douglas Jardine:
Hugo Weaving
Donald Bradman:
Gary Sweet
Harold Larwood:
Jim Holt
Edith:
Heather Mitchell
Jessie Bradman:
Julie Nihiu
Bill Woodfull:
John Walton
Pelham Warner:
Rhys McConnochie
Percy George Fender:
John Gregg
Clive Cooper:
Max Cullen
Ernest Jones:
Paul Chubb
Vie Richardson:
Michael O'Neill
Bill Ponsford:
John Sheerin
Jack Fingleton:
Ned Manning
Bert Oldfield:
Les Dayman
Bert Ironmonger:
Lauri Moran
Stan McCabe:
Michael Winchester
Bob Wyatt:
Terry Bader
Nawab of Pataudi:
Ashok Banthia
Eddie Paynter:
Alan David Lee
Gubby Allen:
John Doyle
Bill Voce:
Ric Carter
Bill Bowes:
Bill Young
Hedley Verity:
Ron Stephenson
Les Ames:
Peter Dahlsen
Aubrey Oxiade:
Peter Gwynne
Bill Jeanes:
Bruce Myles
Dr Allan Robertson:
Peter Whitford
Sir Stanley Jackson:
Colin Croft
Lord Hailsham:
Edward Howell
Lord Harris:
Frank Thring
Lord Hawke:
George Whaley

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