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9.26 Twentieth-Century History: Israel and the Arab States
Palestine in the 1930s and the relationship between the new state of Israel and her Arab neighbours from 1948 to 1973.

9.46 Pages from Ceefax

11.0 Watch: North American Indians: 5: Thunderbird
Watch visits a modern Coastal Indian artist who carves a totem pole and demonstrates his animal masks. The programme ends with the story of the Thunderbird, sworn enemy of the killer whale.
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11.15 Pages from Ceefax

12.55 Physics Demonstrations for Schools: 8: Exploring with Physics: 2
This compilation shows how physics is used to investigate material evidence derived from boreholes, and the role of the petrological microscope in earth sciences.
A BBC/Open University production

1.20 Polymer Engineering: On the Right Track
The Arctic is a challenging environment for any engineering material, but particularly for the track of a snowmobile. This film, shot in Finland, examines the manufacture of such products.
A BBC/Open University production

1.45 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs fear they can't do what Gary asks of them. Henry the Kangaroo eats baked beans with Ellie. Mitul Patel celebrates his third birthday. Song:'Michael Finnegan'

2.15 Near and Far: Exploiting the Rhine
Between the Rhur's industrial area and Europe's premier port, Rotterdam - the busiest stretch of the Rhine.

2.40 Look, Look and Look Again: Bits and Pieces
In Wiltshire they examined light and dark; in Leeds they made a model city of the future, and filmed a story set there.

Contributors

Producer (Watch):
Tom Stanier
Producer (Physics Demonstrations for Schools):
Ted Smith
Producer (Polymer Engineering):
Kevin Newport
Subject (You and Me):
Mitul Patel
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn
Producer (Look, Look and Look Again):
Edward Hayward

The Lawn Tennis Championships
The Ladies Singles
Championship begins today and HARRY CARPENTER introduces coverage direct from the All England Club. Commentators
DAN MASKELL
JOHN BARRETT ,
GERALD WILLIAMS. BARRY DA VIES
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:
Threlfall Ann Jones
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston.
Unknown:
Fred Viner.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

Handful of Light with Anthony Clare
Making the blind see for E4 has to be a bargain. And an artifical leg, for a one-legged cyclist, costing not much more is good value too.
It happened in Rajasthan in northern India when Q.E.D. went to film a mobile hospital. Five operating tables in a schoolroom.
Sparrows flying in and out through the windows. Series editor DAVID filkin Producer RANI DUBE
Written and directed by MICK RHODES
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Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Clare
Directed By:
Mick Rhodes

Last of seven programmes The End is Where We Start From
If the Marines can ski
200 miles in ten days carrying 1001b packs, taking time off to meet Norwegian agents and plan the destruction of a railway station, they pass the course. The instructors lay an ambush, and wish they hadn't.
Written and narrated by Ian Wooldridge Film cameramen
IAN KENNEDY , MICHAEL RADFORD Sound FRED CLARK MERVYN BROADWAY
MICHAEL HORWOOD
Film editor DICK PULL
Producer MICHAEL BEGG

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Wooldridge
Unknown:
Ian Kennedy
Unknown:
Michael Radford
Unknown:
Fred Clark
Unknown:
Mervyn Broadway
Unknown:
Michael Horwood
Producer:
Michael Begg

Behind the Lines

The End is Where We Start From

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for over a year

First transmitted in 1985. The 25 Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre trainees must complete a 200 mile ski-yomp in the snow before they discover whether they have passed. Show more

Contributors

Film Recordist:
Fred Clark
Film Recordist:
Mervyn Broadway
Dubbing Mixer:
Mike Harwood
Camera Operator:
Ian Kennedy
Camera Operator:
Michael Radford
Film Editor:
Dick Pull
Producer:
Michael Begg

Genres

Robin Ray presents the third round of this year's nationwide competition to find out who knows most about the movies.
Apart from questions to test their all-round knowledge, each contestant is examined on a specific area of the cinema.
David Haley answers questions on Australian films of the 70s
Peter Leach on Barbara Stanwyck Dave Hayward on Steven Spielberg
Leslie Powner on Jean Gabin Devised by ROBIN RAY Film editor/researcher MALCOLM ILLINGWORTH Director PAUL LOOSLEY Producer JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
David Haley
Unknown:
Peter Leach
Unknown:
Barbara Stanwyck
Unknown:
Dave Hayward
Unknown:
Steven Spielberg
Unknown:
Leslie Powner
Unknown:
Jean Gabin
Unknown:
Robin Ray

by RONALD FRAME starring You see them everywhere: dear sweet old ladies; harmless, eccentric - but not always quite what they seem.
Music composed by MARTIN DALBY Script editor MARILYN IRELAND Designer GUTHRIE HUTTON Produced and directed by TOM KINNINMONT BBC Scotland
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Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Frame
Composed By:
Martin Dalby
Editor:
Marilyn Ireland
Designer:
Guthrie Hutton
Directed By:
Tom Kinninmont
Miss McLeod:
Jean Anderson
Miss Nesbit:
Noel Dyson
Mrs Black:
Eileen McCallum
French waitress:
Susie Maguire
Woman in patisserie:
Sheila Latimer

An international competition for singers at the start of their professional careers.
Tonight's programme is the second of the preliminary rounds.
Anne Williams-King (Wales) Kiyomi Toyoda (Japan) Branko Robinsak (Yugoslavia)
Angeles de las Heras (Spain) with BBC WELSH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by JAMES LOCKHART
INGRID SURGENOR (piano) Presenter Brian Kay

Contributors

Unknown:
Kiyomi Toyoda
Unknown:
Branko Robinsak
Unknown:
Barry Haskey
Conducted By:
James Lockhart
Piano:
Ingrid Surgenor
Presenter:
Brian Kay

John Tusa
Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith

11.55 Spatial Learning and the Hippocampus
Most animals have quite remarkable powers of spatial memory.
Researchers seeking the brain regions involved have centred their search on the hippocampus.

12.20 Brazil: Fuelling the Miracle
The oil crisis of the 70s forced Brazilian planners to seek alternative sources of home-produced energy to sustain development.

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