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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Jeni's guinea pig has died. How will Cosmo and Dibs cope? Maths on the farm: loading bales of hay. Book: The Walking Coat by Pauline Watson
(Rpt)

10.15 Music Time: 8: Follow the Drum
Singing a round in two groups, following visual signals, and a game in which the children follow the sound of a drum.
Children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School.

10.38 British Social History: 1945-51: The Social Effects of War
The Labour Government of 1945 promised to use the lessons of wartime organisation to fight poverty, bad housing and bad health. This film, largely constructed of propaganda films and cinema newsreels of the period, shows how these ideas were expressed, and how the mood of the country changed in the years that followed.
(Repeat)

11.0 Zig Zag: Energy: Power Plants
There is more to sewage and rotting vegetation than meets the eye (or the nose). Methane gas can help to solve the country's energy problems.
(Ceefax subtitles)

11.23 Unter uns...: Was wir mbgen; schmeckt das?; krank sein
Interviews and everyday exchanges in basic conversational German.
(Rpt)

11.38 Pages from Ceefax

12.4 pm Mindstretchers: Solutions: The Spy Who Came in From the Code
Vicky Licorish deciphers the three messages and talks about different ways of making words hard to understand, unless you have the key!
(Repeat)

12.10 Pages from Ceefax

1.10 Physics Demonstrations for Schools: 7: Exploring with Physics: 1
The physics underlying gravity and magnetism can be exploited to provide an insight into the structure of the earth.
A BBC/Open University production

1.35 Polymer Engineering: Composites on the Move
Truck cabs and minesweepers made of glass? Surprising proof of the strength of a modern family of materials - reinforced composites.
A BBC/Open University production

2.0 Words and Pictures: Dogger
'Policeman, have you seen my child?' is a good guessing game for children to play. Viewers also have to guess how Dave lost his toy dog in the story of Dogger. The pictures provide a clue.
(Rpt)

2.15 Pages from Ceefax

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Art Historian
How can a computer help solve the problem of dating a Tudor painting?
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Director (Music Time):
Ann Throup
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer (British Social History):
Alan Ereira
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Vicky Licorish
Producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Producer (Physics Demonstrations for Schools):
Ted Smith
Producer (Polymer Engineering):
Philip Ashby
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (Computer Club):
Robin Gwyn

The Lawn Tennis
Championships
Direct from the All England Club, featuring the first round of the Men's Singles Championship.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces the action on the show courts and provides up-to-date news and results of all the matches. Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS
BARRY DAVIES , MARK COX
BILL THRELFALL, ANN JONES and VIRGINIA WADE Television presentation
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON. FRED VINER ALASTAIR SCOTT and HUW JONES Producer MARTIN HOPKINS Executive producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Introduces:
Harry Carpenter
Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Unknown:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston.
Unknown:
Fred Viner
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

A Bird Walk with Bill Oddie Fair Isle is the setting for the second of six British walks.
Islands are wonderful places to watch birds, and Fair Isle attracts many rare migrants - and 'birders' like Bill Oddie , who shows that this is not a recreation for the impatient. You can have a long wait before you spot a 'crippler', but meanwhile you can always just enjoy the walk. Photography MARTIN SINGLETON Producer MIKE WEATHERLEY
A free leaflet, produced with the English Tourist Board, can be obtained by sending sae (220mm x 110mm) to [address removed]
(Oddie in Paradise: Wednesday,
7.35pm BBCI)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Unknown:
Martin Singleton
Producer:
Mike Weatherley

Join Paul Daniels for another show of magic, comedy and audience participation.
Tonight he invokes the aid of the spirits in a most unusual game of Scrabble and introduces his special guests: From Switzerland, George Schlick , the renowned comedy ventriloquist, and from the USA, comedy mime artist Geoff Hoyle as 'Mr Sniff. with special guests Richard Stilgoe and Bill Johnson with Debbie McGee
Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO
Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Director GEOFF MILES
Produced by JOHN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
George Schlick
Artist:
Geoff Hoyle
Unknown:
Mr Sniff.
Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Bill Johnson
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Unknown:
Gil Leaney
Director:
Geoff Miles
Produced By:
John Fisher

An international competition for singers at the start of their professional careers.
Tonight's programme is the first of the preliminary rounds.
Martha Collins (Canada) Kjeld Christoffersen (Denmark)
Rita Piron (Belgium)
Stefan Dahlberg (Sweden) Faith Elliott (Scotland) with the ORCHESTRA OF
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA leader JOHN STEIN conductor
RICHARD ARMSTRONG
JULIAN SMITH (piano) Presenter Brian Kay Directors
DELYTH EDWARDS. MARI GRIFFITH
VINCENT DOWDALL. ANDREW QUICK Producer HEFIN OWEN Executive producer
J. MERVYN WILLIAMS BBC Wales
0 FEATURE: page 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Collins
Unknown:
Kjeld Christoffersen
Unknown:
Rita Piron
Unknown:
Stefan Dahlberg
Leader:
John Stein
Conductor:
Richard Armstrong
Piano:
Julian Smith
Presenter:
Brian Kay
Directors:
Delyth Edwards.
Unknown:
Mari Griffith
Unknown:
Vincent Dowdall.

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith Producers HOWARD ANDERSON JANA BENNETT. MIKE ROBINSON
Directors JOHN WILKINSON. CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE. TOM ROBERTS
Deputy editor JOHN MAHONEY Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Producers:
Howard Anderson
Producers:
Jana Bennett.
Producers:
Mike Robinson
Directors:
John Wilkinson.
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie.
Unknown:
Tom Roberts
Editor:
John Mahoney
Editor:
Richard Tait

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