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6.30 Instrumentation: Trains
6.55 Early Music-Hall
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Many Asian women may be using cosmetics from the subcontinent which are dangerous. Chanchal Jain from the West Midlands
Consumer Services talks to Ghazala Amin and Savita Mehra about cosmetics it would be better to avoid. Chhanda De Majumdar provides a Bengali translation.
Ghulam Ali sings a ghazal. An Asian Unit presentation BBCPebbleMill
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9.25 Mind How You Go: 1: Every 90 Seconds
Ten programmes about road accident prevention presented by Jimmy Savile, OBE.
(R)
9.38 Science Workshop: 1: Fruit and Vegetables (A)
When is a fruit not a fruit?
Written by Eurfron Gwynne Jones
(R)
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs try to mend the hole in their bucket with help from Indira Joshi. A look at children doing mime.
Book: "Buzz, Buzz, Buzz"
(R)
10.15 MI10: Mathematical Investigations
1: Pascal's Triangle (1)
Routes on a square grid.
2: Gears
Bicycles, cars and the Great Westminster Clock.
10.38 Maths Topics: Trigonometry (1)
Turning, revolutions, degrees - introducing sine, cosine, tangent as projections.
(R)
11.0 Words and Pictures: Tigers
11.17 Let's See: Where We Live: 1: A Place to Call Home
11.40 Scene: Judo Champ
by Geoffrey Case
12.10 On the Rocks: 1: Out of the Fire
Ten programmes about the evolution of the landscape.
Igneous rocks and volcanoes
(R)
12.35 Swim: 1: For Beginners
A series for swimmers and non-swimmers of all ages - with the accent on recreation.
(R)
(A change from details published in the Schools Annual Timetable)
1.0 Maths Help: 1: Decimals
A series for adults studying maths to O-level, offering help with common difficulties.
(R)
1.15 Job Bank: Caring for Animals
1.38 Outlook: Great Archaeological Mysteries: 1: Cave Paintings of Lascaux
Deep inside the caves of the Perigord region of France there are paintings of astonishing artistic ability. But who painted them, and why?
(R)
BBC Wales
2.0 Watch: Grain Harvest
James and Louise look at different cereal products. James visits a farm to watch the progress of the wheat crop and then sees the grain being milled into flour and the flour baked into bread.
A greedy corn dolly comes to an unfortunate end in the story of "The Corn Dolly". (R)
2.18 Geography 11-14: What Ice Did to the Land
How the ice age left its mark.
(R)
2.40 Zig Zag: The Norman Invasion
with subtitles, followed by Weather
The Unipart British
Professional Championship from Redcar Bowl
Highlights of the best second round matches played yesterday evening.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
The fourth of five films in celebration of the legendary actress's 80th birthday with Charles Boyer For Countess
Walewska and other patriotic Poles, Napoleon was their possible saviour from the Cossacks. But when the Emperor visits Poland he is more inclined to pursue the beautiful Countess than the warring Cossacks. Her fellow nobles urge Marie to make
'the supreme sacrifice' to save her country. Thus begins one of history's great love stories.
Screenplay by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN , SALKA VIERTEL and S.N. BEHRMAN Based on the novel Pani Walewska by WACLAW GASlOROWSKI and a dramatisation by HELEN JEROME Produced by BERNARD H. HYMAN Directed by CLARENCE BROWN
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Our sense of humour baffles them, our politics bother them, our preoccupation with tradition bemuses them.
Apparently, we don't wash, and we are morose and miserable even on holiday. On the other hand, we are polite, and kind to animals. Each week, Derek Jameson looks at the way foreign TV reports this country.
Tonight he looks at reports on sex, food and fashion in Britain and discovers that
'continental men have sex lives - Englishmen have hot water bottles'.
Research MARK ROGERS
Producer LAURENCE REES
Part 1 of a concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall , London.
In this evening's programme Howard Keel talks about his varied career, on stage and screen, and sings some memorable favourites from the many musical productions in which he has starred.
Musical director RICHARD HOLMES Sound BARRY HAWES Lighting JOHN KING
TV presentation BRIAN WHITEHOUSE (In association with Clifford Productions Inc)
(Part 2 next Wednesday)
continues a season of films new to television, tonight starring
John Savage and Willie Nelson
This award-winning movie is based on the incredible true story of teenager Victor Herman who visited Russia with his parents in 1931. As a fine athlete Victor was persuaded to stay in the Soviet Union to take up training opportunities he would not have in his native Detroit. It was 36 years before he was allowed to return home - and 18 of those years were spent in Siberian labour camps. This is the story of his experiences....
Screenplay by Alan Sharp
From the book by Victor Herman Produced by Christopher Pearce Directed by Warris Hussein
(First showing on British television)
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11.20 Weatherview
The Unipart British
Professional Championship from Redcar Bowl
The first quarter-final match is also played this evening and, seeded to be on the oche are ERIC BRISTOW (1) and TERRY O'DEA (8).
TONY GUBBA introduces highlights of this match which now steps up to the best of nine sets, three legs per set.
Commentators SID WADDELL and TONY GREEN Director MIKE ADLEY
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
11.55 Modern Art: Beaubourg
The Beaubourg, or Centre Georges Pompidou, had been seen as the most controversial modern building in Paris since 1968.
12.20 Biology: Unity and Diversity
Animals and plants come in all shapes and sizes, but out of this diversity we often find extraordinary similarities.
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