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9.35 Encounter: Italy: A Country at Work
Italian industries: fishing in the Bay of Naples: factories (and pollution) in the North; a geothermal energy town.
(R)

9.52 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 2: The Man in the Picture
by Andrew Davies
(Shown on Tuesday at 10.15 am)

10.15 Mathscore One: 1: Know Your Place
Cavemen, clowns and Octo the counting octopus all illustrate the importance of zero.
(R)

10.38 History 11-13: 1: The Peasants' Revolt
by Keith Goodall
The true story of an Essex peasant caught up in the violent events of 1381.
(R)

11.0 Around Scotland: Glasgow: 2: The Old City
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)

11.22 Brazil: 1: Skyscrapers and Slums
Wealth and poverty in Sao Paulo - Brazil's biggest, richest and fastest growing city.
(R)

11.44 Going to Work: Family and Friends
by Bill Lyons
(Shown on Monday at 9.38 am)

12.5 The Computer Programme: Just One Thing After Another
An introduction for beginners to the use of computers, with the emphasis on small machines. The language used is BBC BASIC.
What is a computer?
(R)

12.35-1.0 Electronic Office: 2: The Stand-Alone Micro
A six-part examination of the office technology of today and tomorrow.
Word-processing, financial planning and data base management.
(R)

1.10 Science Topics: Darwin and Evolution
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.39 am)

1.33 General Studies: What's Wrong with Britain?: 2
(Shown on Monday at 11.40 am)

2.0 Scene: Stunts and Daredevils
Some people enjoy doing daring things just for the sake of excitement, others do them for a living. What makes these people sometimes literally risk their lives?
(Shown on Wednesday at 11.40 am)

2.30 English File: A Taste of Honey: Part 1
by Sheelagh Delaney
Sheelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey when she was only 18: 'When I started this play, I had only two people in it - the mother and the daughter. Then I realised there had to be other characters so that these two could reveal themselves more fully. It built up on its own from that.'
(R)

Contributors

Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Writer (History 11-13):
Keith Goodall
Producer (Brazil):
Len Brown
Writer (Going to Work):
Bill Lyons
Producer (Scene):
Andy Walker
Series producer (Scene):
Roger Tonge
Author (English File:
A Taste of Honey): Sheelagh Delaney
Producer (English File:
A Taste of Honey): Ronald Smedley
Director (English File:
A Taste of Honey): Michael Simpson
Helen:
Jane Freeman
Jo:
Sara Sugerman
Peter:
Peter Egan
Sailor:
Tony Armatrading

What is Wisdom?
Monkey falls out with a Taoist monk and is severely rebuked by his companions. Sulking, he leaves them to make their own way. But the Taoist has unexpected magical powers, and evil in his heart.
English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL for World Wide Sound London Produced by NTV and KOKUSAI hoei (R)

Contributors

Directed By:
Michael Bakewell
Monkey:
Masaaki Sakai
Tripitaka:
Masako Natsume
Sandy:
Shiro Kishibe
Pigsy:
Tonpei Hidari
Yu-Lung:
Shunji Fujimura

starring
Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Sullivan When Boy goes in search of adventure he finds his life threatened by the savage Ubardi tribe. He is saved by a scientific expedition led by Professor Elliott, but it soon becomes clear that the expedition itself threatens the peace of the jungle.
Screenplay by MYLES CONNOLLY and PAUL GABGEUN
Produced by B. P FINEMAN
Directed by RICHARD THORPE
0 FILMS: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Weissmuller
Unknown:
Maureen O'Sullivan
Unknown:
Myles Connolly
Directed By:
Richard Thorpe
Tarzan:
Johnny Weissmuller
Jane:
Maureen O'Sullivan
Boy:
Johnny Sheffield
Prof Elliott:
Reginald Owen
O'Doul:
Barry Fitzgerald
Medford:
Tom Conway
Vandermeer:
Philip Dorn
Tumbo:
Cordell Hickman

Pascual Flores
Built over 60 years ago, in southern Spain, as a fast schooner, Pascual Flores very nearly ended her days as a scruffy motor coaster. Now, in Bristol, she's being restored, and has earned her living by appearing on television in James Onedin 's fleet.
Narrator Tom Salmon Director JENNI BURROWS Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Pascual Flores
Unknown:
Pascual Flores
Unknown:
James Onedin
Narrator:
Tom Salmon
Director:
Jenni Burrows
Producer:
Robin Drake

The last of six programmes on how micro-technology can help disabled people to live more independent lives. Inventing
Britain leads the world in inventing aids for disabled people. This programme follows the development of a number of different types of aid, from the Micromike, made in an airing-cupboard in the inventor's home, to the Electronic Book, now marketed by Tandy. It looks at some of the pitfalls, the achievements and sources of help and advice.
Film editor JOHN BILUNGHAM Producer ANNA JACKSON
Director GEORGE AUCKLAND
For fully illustrated booklet, send a large sae with 28p stamp to:
[address removed]
Queries about any aspect of disability and micro-technology will be dealt with if you write to the above address.
• CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Editor:
John Bilungham
Producer:
Anna Jackson
Director:
George Auckland

A series of wildlife films by the young award-winning cameraman Simon King 5:Winter
Simon presents an intimate view of the countryside as it changes through the seasons: a film chronicle of English wildlife, secret and yet accessible, familiar and yet deeply mysterious.
Film editor TONY WILLIAMS Producer JOHN KING

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon King
Editor:
Tony Williams
Producer:
John King

from Kings Ripton, near Huntingdon with Geoff Hamilton and Clay Jones
Aim to do as much cultivation as possible in the next three months and as little as you can get away with in the spring.
This is an old Suffolk farming saying, and, if you are one of the many gardeners working on a clay soil, then these words of advice still apply.
David Urquhart has spent the last ten years dealing with heavy clay soils and agrees that every day spent now on improving the soil structure is worth six or seven in the spring. Production assistant
JEAN LAUGHTON
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
David Urquhart
Unknown:
Jean Laughton
Producer:
John Kenyon
Producer:
Denis W. Gartside

In a change from the regular team Benny Green joins Ian Wallace to compete with Frank Muir and John Amis in tonight's edition of the popular musical challenge. Questionmaster Steve Race TV presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Douglas Hespe

A series of eight films about Britain from 1945 to 1951. 2:Making Do
My dream after the war was to buy a quarter-pound block of milk chocolate and eat it all up myself, all at one go. I didn't care if I would be sick.
(VERA MATHER, housewife)
The first years of peace don't bring the longed-for treats. If anything, life gets harder. There is more rationing and more queuing. Snoek, whalemeat, and even a roast beaver, enter the British diet. The black market flourishes and so does the spiv. But people are growing tired of controls. Protest is led by a respectable but militant group - the Housewives' League.
Film editor CHRISTOPHER HALE Producer PETER GRIMSDALE Executive producer
ANGELA HOLDSWORTH
Book, Now the War is Over,
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Contributors

Editor:
Christopher Hale
Producer:
Peter Grimsdale
Unknown:
Angela Holdsworth

In the first of a new series of 11 programmes Ludovic Kennedy makes his choice of the week's television, and with his studio guests discusses in detail: In Sickness and In Health (BBC1), Probation (BBC2) and The Eleventh Hour: Video (C4)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Director:
Philip Chilvers
Producer:
Charles Miller

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray
Ian Smith and David Davies present reports, interviews and analysis.
Including reports from the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth
John Tusa and Vincent Hanna report on the day's debates and the issues raised by them.
Producer JANA BENNETT Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
David Davies
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Producer:
Jana Bennett
Editor:
Richard Tait

starring
Anne Bancroft and Sue Lyon
At the height of a revolutionary war on the Chinese-Mongolian border during the mid-1930s, a group of women are trapped in a Christian
Mission. When a murderous bandit takes over the Mission, the women's courage is put to an appalling test.
Screenplay by JANET GREEN and JOHN MCCORMICK
Produced by BERNARD SMITH Directed by JOHN FORD 0 FILMS: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Bancroft
Unknown:
Sue Lyon
Unknown:
Janet Green
Unknown:
John McCormick
Produced By:
Bernard Smith
Directed By:
John Ford
Dr Cartwright:
.Anne Bancroft
Emma Clark:
Sue Lyon
Agatha Andrews:
Margaret Leighton
Miss Binns:
Flora Robson
Jane Argent:
Mildred Dunnock
Florrie Pether:
Betty Field
Mrs Russell:
Anna Lee
Charles Pether:
Eddie Albert
Tunga Khan:
Mike Mazurki
Lean Warrior:
Woody Strode

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