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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo gloats that she has been to the fair. Dibs gets his own back. Transport song:
'Travelling through the air'. Book: Alex's Outing by Mary Dickinson and Charlotte Firmin.
(Repeat)

10.15 Pages from Ceefax

10.40 Mindstretchers: Problems Bypass
(Shown yesterday at 12.2 pm)

10.45 Pages from Ceefax

11.0 Words and Pictures: What Made Tiddalik Laugh?
(Shown on Monday at 2.0 pm)

11.15 Pages from Ceefax

12.30 Caring for Older People: Hospital
A sudden enforced spell in hospital does not mean that an inevitable decline in health has begun for older patients, as this documentary film demonstrates.
A BBC/Open University production

12.55 Physics Demonstrations for Schools: 1: Mechanics - A Visit to the Circus
The basic laws of mechanics are shown in action - simple trajectories in a juggling act, and angular momentum in a high-wire act.
A BBC/Open University production

1.20 Polymer Engineering: A Cut Above the Rest?
Modem manufacturing with plastics can be highly automated and cost-effective, if plant and component are properly designed. This film is the first of six examining the modern plastics industry.
A BBC/Open University production

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2.0 Watch: North American Indians 3: Growing Up
Louise and James make a cradleboard for a papoose and learn how to communicate with sign language and picture writing.
(Shown yesterday at 11.0 am)

2.18 Subtitle Slot: Sex Education: Life Begins
A series of programmes from the year's school television output, repeated in subtitled form for hearing-impaired children.
The changes at puberty and conception.
(Repeat)

2.40 Zig Zag: Energy: Water Working
Water contains vast amounts of energy. How can it be tapped?
(Ceefax Subtitles)
(Shown on Monday at 11.0 am)

3.0 Pages from Ceefax

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Liz Smith
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Producer (Caring for Older People):
Philip Ashby
Producer (Physics Demonstrations for Schools):
Ted Smith
Producer (Polymer Engineering):
Kevin Newport
Producer (Watch):
Tom Stanier
Producer (Subtitle Slot:
Sex Education): Derek Longhurst

Polesden Lacey , Surrey A house once used for entertaining Edwardian society provides the perfect place for Arthur to admire the quality of the furniture, while Hugo Morley-Fletcher examines some of the finest European porcelain ever made.
Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Polesden Lacey
Unknown:
Hugo Morley-Fletcher
Director:
David Mitchell
Producer:
Robin Drake

starring
Sandy Dennis
Patrick Bedford
When Sylvia Barrett arrives at her first teaching job in a slum area of New York city, she is full of the ideals and enthusiasms of her recently-completed training.
Overwhelmed at first by the sheer size and noise of the place, she soon finds herself doing battle with bureaucracy, cynical teaching staff - and 40 unruly children.
Screenplay by TAD MOSEL
Based on the novel by BEL KAUFMAN Produced by ALAN J. PAKULA Directed by ROBERT MULUGAN 0 FILMS: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Dennis
Unknown:
Patrick Bedford
Unknown:
Sylvia Barrett
Play By:
Tad Mosel
Novel By:
Bel Kaufman
Produced By:
Alan J. Pakula
Directed By:
Robert Mulugan
Sylvia Barrett:
Sandy Dennis
Paul Barringer:
Patrick Bedford
Henrietta Pastorfield:
Eileen Heckart
Beatrice Schracter:
Ruth White
Sadie Finch:
Jean Stapleton
Dr Bester:
Sorrell Booke
McHabe:
Roy Poole
Ella Friedenberg:
Florence Stanley
Joe Ferone:
Jeff Howard
Alice Blake:
Ellen O'Mara
Jose Rodriguez:
Jose Rodriguez
Ed Williams:
John Fantauzzi
Linda Rosen:
Candy Culkin
Harry A Kagan:
Salvatore Rosa

The first of three programmes
Forty Years of Northern Townscape
The years since the end of the Second World War have seen more changes wrought to the towns and cities of the north than were thought possible - even during the Blitz.
But there has also been a massive turn-round of public opinion: away from the great Corbusier-inspired dreams of the ideal modern city towards more modest, intimate schemes. The future has been seen - and it doesn't work.
Between the end of the Second World War and the dawn of the swinging 60s - 15 years during which the foundations of a brave new world were laid. Or so it was thought....
Written and presented by Patrick Nuttgens
Film editor BOB GEOGHEGAN Producer JOHN GRAHAM
0 HELPLINES: page 77

Contributors

Presented By:
Patrick Nuttgens
Editor:
Bob Geoghegan
Producer:
John Graham

The first of ten programmes Presented by Paul Heiney
News and vital information for everybody interested in going away this summer.
Have bomb threats, higher prices, and the fear of being mugged caused the British to desert Spain? Kathy Rochford reports from Benidorm.
Weather for all the major sun spots from Jim Bacon.
Plus traffic news, today's closing exchange rates, and if you can just get up and go - the latest holiday bargains.
The Travel Show information line: [number removed]
Studio director SUE LOCHEAD
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON BBC Manchester
0 HELPLINES: page 77

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Kathy Rochford
Unknown:
Jim Bacon.
Producer:
Alan Dobson

opens a season of television films dealing with controversial subjects. starring Ted Danson Glenn Close and Roxana Zal
As 13-year-old Amelia Bennett becomes increasingly shy and depressed, her school counsellor attempts to find the cause of her problem.
Eventually Amelia reveals that her father is forcing her to have sex with him....
This sensitive, prize-winning film examines the devastating effect on the child and parents involved in an incestuous relationship.
Screenplay by WILLIAM HANLEY
Produced by MICHELE RAPPAPORT Directed by RANDA HAINES
(First showing on British television) 0 FILMS: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Danson
Unknown:
Glenn Close
Unknown:
Roxana Zal
Unknown:
Amelia Bennett
Unknown:
William Hanley
Produced By:
Michele Rappaport
Directed By:
Randa Haines
Steven Bennett:
Ted Danson
Gail Bennett:
Glenn Close
Ruth Walters:
Olivia Cole
Amelia Bennett:
Roxana Zal
Officer Dealy:
Lane Smith
Mrs Hall:
Jane Kaczmarek
Beth Bennett:
Missy Francis
Dr Kevin Farley:
Kevin Conway

11.30 Modern Art: Monuments
After the Russian Revolution, old monuments were dismantled and new ones designed. Peter Wollen talks about Tatlin's Tower, an unbuilt monument to the Third International.

11.55 Diabetes: Causes and Effects
Many of us know someone suffering from diabetes - an inability to control the amount of glucose in the blood. Modern treatments mean that diabetics can now control their blood glucose, but secondary problems may anse.

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Contributors

Presenter (Modern Art):
Peter Wollen

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