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9.15 Job Bank: Engineering Work
A look at job opportunities at operator level in manufacturing companies.
(R)

9.38 Going to Work: Working Hours
'Unsocial' hours can be quite a shock after leaving school.
(R)

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs cannot be sure if Cosmo can read or not. There's a film about a six-month-old baby and the puppets musically ask 'Do your ears hang low?'

10.15 Music Time: The Sound of Words
The children listen to, and make up, words which are used for their sound, not their meaning.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs
with Keith Bragg (flute), Colin Courtney (clarinet), John Harle (alto sax), Graham Ashton (trumpet), Mark Stephenson (cello) and Kevin Hathaway (percussion)
(R)

10.38 History File: Stalin and the Modernisation of Russia
How Stalin's rise to power affected Russia in the 30s.
(R)

11.0 Zig Zag: The Normans: Hungry Times: 2
by Ian Taylor
A two-part play set among the Normans and Saxons.
(R)

11.22 Thinkabout: Noodles in the Air
Jim and the children make Sally a surprise birthday meal
with Jim Dunk and Vicky Licorish
(R)

11.40 General Studies: The Great British Diet
Nutrition experts and teenagers discuss the latest evidence linking diet and disease.
(R)

12.10 pm Whatever Happened to Britain?: 5: A Tendency to Deflate
Britain's performance as an economic force since the Industrial Revolution.
(R)

12.40 Technical Studies: 5: Forging
How basic concepts in manufacturing technology are used in modem industry.
(R)

1.5 Marketing in Action: If the Customer's Happy...
How important are reward and incentive for salespeople in the service sector?
A BBC/Open University production

1.30 Interval

1.38 Casebook Scotland: 5: Coping with the Weather
Muriel Gray finds out how Scots cope with their climate.

2.0 Words and Pictures: Witches Four
In today's Hallowe'en story, four witches zoom off for a ride on their broomsticks.
(R)

2.18 English 11-13: Rhyme and Reason
Poetry and 'pop'
(R)

2.40 Politics and You: You and the Union
How trade unions work for the rights of their members.
(R)

Contributors

Director (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Flautist (Music Time):
Keith Bragg
Clarinettist (Music Time):
Colin Courtney
Alto sax (Music Time):
John Harle
Trumpeter (Music Time):
Graham Ashton
Cellist (Music Time):
Mark Stephenson
Percussionist (Music Time):
Kevin Hathaway
Writer (Zig Zag):
Ian Taylor
Jim (Thinkabout):
Jim Dunk
Sally (Thinkabout):
Vicky Licorish
Producer (Marketing in Action):
Roger Penfound
Presenter (Casebook Scotland):
Muriel Gray
Director (Casebook Scotland):
Michael Tosh
Producer (Casebook Scotland):
Robert Clark

The CIS Insurance UK Indoor Singles Championship
Twenty-eight of the leading players from the flat and four from crown green are bowling this week for E24,000 and the UK Indoor title.
This afternoon Tony Allcock of England, the defeated finalist last year and the British Open Champion, plays Andrew McLachlan , the 64-year-old Scot who was runner-up in his country's Indoor Singles.
Jim Baker , the Irish Indoor Singles Champion and 1984 World Champion, then plays Wales's John Applegate. DAVID ICKE introduces coverage of both matches from the Guild Hall, Preston. Commentators
DAVID VINE. DAVID RHYS JONES Summarisers
JIMMY DAVIDSON , MAL HUGHES Television presentation KEITH PHILLIPS
MIKE ADLEY. KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Allcock
Unknown:
Andrew McLachlan
Unknown:
Jim Baker
Unknown:
John Applegate.
Introduces:
David Icke
Unknown:
Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Jimmy Davidson
Unknown:
Keith Phillips
Unknown:
Mike Adley.
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie
Producer:
Nick Hunter

If I Had a Hammer....
Narrated by Lesley Judd
Few rock and pop records are made today without the help of sophisticated computer-based synthesisers.
They can produce the sound of any instrument and replay strings of notes more accurately than session musicians. Micro Live traces the development of such synthesisers, from the 19th-century Telharmonium, to the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument which impersonates an orchestra. Film editor HORACIO QUEIRO Producer PATRICK titley

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Judd

í continuing a season of films featuring sm
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 'S famous detective, starring
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson
The blood-soaked past of the 'Borgia pearl' reaches violently into the present when a series of murders are committed in a search for the gem. Holmes is under pressure to solve the case - his life and reputation are at stake ...
Screenplay by BERTRAM MILLHAUSER Directed by ROY WILLIAM NEILL
0 FILMS: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Basil Rathbone
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Nigel Bruce
Play By:
Bertram Millhauser
Directed By:
Roy William Neill
Naomi Drake:
Evelyn Ankers
Giles Conover:
Miles Mander
Lestrade:
Denis Hoey
'The Creeper':
Rondo Hatton
Bates:
Richard Nugent

with Geoffrey Smith Dahlias
A border of dahlias provides a spectacular autumn display, a kaleidoscope of varied shapes and colour combinations.
But to achieve this they need some tender, loving care.
Geoffrey Smith shows how to look after the precious dahlia tuber from lifting it for the winter to planting out the new cuttings in the spring. Film editor PETER RINGSTED Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Erica Griffiths

Narrated by Chris Kelly

How does a Sheffield lorry driver come to be cooking lunch for one of the world's top chefs? That's the challenge tackled by John Wilcock as he nervously awaits the arrival of Anton Mosimann, Chef of the Year and star of London's Dorchester Hotel.

This documentary arises out of the last series of Food and Drink, when Mosimann was challenged to cook Sunday lunch for the whole Wilcock family, all for less than ten pounds. Fifty thousand viewers wrote in for the recipes.

This film shows in more detail how the shopping and cooking were tackled. But it also turns the tables on John Wilcock - he has to cook Mosimann's celebrated bread-and-butter pudding for the Master. Is his protege up to the mark? The proof of the pudding....

(Food and Drink returns tomorrow at 8.30pm)
Feature: page 15

Contributors

Narrator:
Chris Kelly
Subject:
John Wilcock
Guest:
Anton Mosimann
Photography:
David Feig
Sound:
Don Lee
Film Editor:
Stefan Ronowicz
Producer:
David Pearson

A view of world history in 13 parts by JOHN ROBERTS 8: An Age of Light
The age of the Enlightenment brought about a revolution in thought in the 18th century. As Europeans faced the future, Western civilisation seemed to nail its colours to the mast of 'progress' and the use of reason in human affairs. And yet the age of Newton, Voltaire, Rousseau and Jefferson coexisted with slavery, superstition and cruelty. 'Progressive' ideas were to be given a new and fearful force by the French Revolution. They would go round the world bringing new tyrannies and disillusionment.
Sound recordist JOHN HOOPER
Film camerman COLIN WALDECK Film editor KEITH RAVEN Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Director DEREK TOWERS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Roberts
Unknown:
John Hooper
Editor:
Keith Raven
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Director:
Derek Towers

by PETER SPENCE Producer
GARETH GWENLAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Spence
Unknown:
Gareth Gwenlan
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton:
Penelope Keith
Richard:
Peter Bowles
Marjory Frobisher:
Angela Thorne
Lumsden:
John Barron
Gayforth:
Peter Penry-Jones
Brigadier:
Anthony Sharp
Mrs Polouvicka:
Daphne Heard
Hartley:
Ballard Berkeley
Brabinger:
John Rudling
Ned:
Michael Bilton

by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Final episode of a screenplay in six parts by DENNIS POTTER starring Peter Strauss Mary Steenburgen Sean Young
1929. Dick's heavy drinking became an embarrassment at the clinic in Switzerland and Franz was relieved when the partnership was dissolved.
The Divers have returned to a changed Riviera.
(For cast see Thursday at 10.10 pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Dennis Potter
Unknown:
Peter Strauss
Unknown:
Mary Steenburgen
Unknown:
Sean Young

The CIS Insurance UK Indoor Singles Championship
Terry Sullivan makes his first appearance and David Bryant also plays his first-round match. Ireland's Peter McGarrity and Bill Montgomery could not have more difficult matches.

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Sullivan
Unknown:
David Bryant
Unknown:
Peter McGarrity
Unknown:
Bill Montgomery

A series of 26 programmes
See the news as others see it and brush up your French at the same time. Tonight's bulletin comes from Antenne Deux and there's also a round-up of today's main stories around Europe. Presented by Chantal Cuer
(to 0.15)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chantal Cuer
Director:
Philip Dolling
Producer:
Bernard Adams
Series Producer:
Terry Doyle

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