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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.
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
with subtitles; Weather
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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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
Behind the Lines
The End is Where We Start From
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
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
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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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
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.
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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