9.35 Appuntamento in Italia: Citta e campagna
Una giomata a Siena; un altro mondo; la grande citta.
(R)

9.52 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 6: The Tall Knight's Folly
by Andrew Davies
(Shown on Tuesday at 10.15)

10.15 Mathscore One: 2: A Good Turn
Football, tennis, wallpapering, and an elderly couple all throw light on angles.
(R)

10.38 History 11-13: The Middle Ages: The Church
The role of the Church seen through the eyes of contemporary pilgrims and the presenter Richard Burrows.
(R)

11.0 Around Scotland: Burgh Life, 1623: 1: Merchant of Dunrossie
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)

11.22 Brazil: City of Newcomers
A look at one of the families that have moved from the countryside into the slums of Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city.
(R)

11.44 Going to Work: Union Matters
(Shown on Monday at 9.38 am)

12.5 pm The Computer Programme: 6: Sound and Moving Pictures
An introduction for beginners to the use of computers, with the emphasis on small machines. The language used is BBC BASIC.
Non-textual input/output
(R)

12.35-1.0 Computers in Control: 1: Introducing the Robot
An introduction to the principles behind the use of microcomputers in monitoring and controlling the physical world.
(R)

1.10 Science Topics: Waves
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.39 am)

1.33 General Studies: Alternative Ways of Healing (1)
(Shown on Monday at 11.40 am)

2.0 Scene: The Fort George Volunteers
When youngsters face little else but the miseries of unemployment and the tensions of the inner city, then it's time for the Army to offer them two weeks of intensive, adventurous training in survival in the toughest part of Scotland.
So thinks Colonel John 'Blashers' Blashford-Snell. This film reports on the experiences and thoughts of some of the teenagers who survived the course.
(Shown on Wednesday at 11.40 am)

2.30 English File: Why Shakespeare?
Introduced by Steve Blacknell
Four actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company tackle two famous scenes from two famous plays - the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and the 'cross-garters' scene from Twelfth Night. Well-known the scenes may be, but to make the familiar words 'come off the page' and work on stage calls for skill, enthusiasm, much talk and hard work.
With Anton Lesser and Niamh Cusack as Romeo and Juliet; Estelle Kohler and Emrys James as Olivia and Malvolio.

3.55 The Philip Cornes Novices' Hurdle Race
(Qualifier. 3m If)

with subtitles; Weather

Give and Take
In Hung Sung's realm, there is a reward of ten gold pieces for the capture of vampires. When Pigsy learns the charming Yu Lien needs an expensive operation to recover her sight, he turns bounty-hunter.
English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL for World Wide Sound London. Produced by ntv and KOKUSAI hoei (H)

continues a season of films featuring EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 'S legendary jungle hero starring
Lex Barker
Joyce Mackenzie
Tarzan faces his most deadly, as well as his most beautiful, foe - Lyra, the Ivory Queen, leader of a band of thieving hunters.
Screenplay by KARL KAMB and CARROLL YOUNG Produced by SOL LESSER
Directed by KURT NEUMANN
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Every primary and secondary school in Britain has a computer. No other country in the world can make that boast. In March the Government is axing the Microelectronics Education
Programme (MEP), its replacement, Microcomputer Support Unit, will have half the budget.
This week's programme comes direct from a secondary school in Berkshire and examines the role of computers in schools. Lesley Judd asks why the Government is cutting back school software.
Ian McNaught-Davis discovers how chalk and talk is giving way to bits and bytes. Fred Harris goes for a ride on a computer bus.
Director TERRY MARSH
Series editor DAVID ALLEN
Programme notes, updated monthly, are available on Ceefax page 700; on the Micro Live Bulletin Board, [number removed], ; or send sae and a cheque or postal order for 50p to: [address removed]

Eight programmes with Jeremy Cherfas on the changing face of zoos and wildlife parks.
2: The New Menageries Cages with bars are fast giving way to spacious and leafy enclosures which are good for animals and attractive to visitors. But some zoos are devising ever more unusual ways of tempting people to part with their money - pop concerts, ski trails, tame tarantulas, and amazing performing whales.
Producer GEORGE INGER BBC Bristol

Susan Hampshire and Geoff Hamilton with a guide to the care of houseplants.
This week: feeding, repotting and cutting back flowering plants. How to buy a good plant, get it home, and where to put it, in light or shade, a cool place or warm. Roger McGaughey , Carol Broster and Ted Meredith show some first-class plants, and some not so good.
Production assistants
JANE DON. CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

Introduced by Jonathan King
This week from Tampa Bay in West Florida. They are always worried by the weather here - not surprising when the odd hurricane passes through. JK meets the biggest UK group in America this year, Tears For Fears; visits a cigar factory; sees an alligator being wrestled; and meets someone for whom, despite the sun and palm trees, it's Christmas all year long.
Programme associate Colin Marchant
Film editor Adrienne Walsh
Videotape editor Roger Martin
Executive producer Michael Hurll Produced and directed by Gordon Elsbury

A series of films about Britain from 1945 to 1951. Schooldays
There were 50 of us in one big room - all ages up to 14 - with just the one teacher
(BILL DAVIS, miner)
In 1945 the only chance of free schooling is at the local elementary. With the war over there are plans to give more children more opportunities: free secondary schooling, smaller classes, new buildings and better teachers.
Many families are proud to see their children given a chance to get on. But not all teachers are happy with the new secondary schools. Film editor ROBERT BROWN Producer MAGGIE BROOKES Executive producer
ANGELA HOLDSWORTH
(An exhibition based on the series can be seen at the Museum of London in the Barbican until January.) Book, £10.95 from booksellers

Ludovic Kennedy makes his choice of the week's television, and discusses in detail:
Dynasty (BBC1)
40 Minutes: Forget-Me-Not (BBC2)
Hannibal's Footsteps (Channel 4) with his studio guests. Assistant producers
YABA BADOE, NICHOLAS BARKER JILL PARKER
Director PHILIP CHILVERS Producer CHARLES MILLER

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
Including a report from Joan Bakewell in Rochdale on the work of painter
Terry Atkinson , shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize for services to British art.

starring
Jack Palance
Eddie Albert
Lee Marvin
Belgium, 1944. Captain Cooney's failure of nerve has already cost the lives of a number of men but his corrupt, cynical
Colonel will not replace him. When Cooney's company is ordered back into battle,
Lieutenant Costa vows to kill him if Cooney needlessly endangers the life of one more man ...
Screenplay by JAMES POE based on the play The Fragile Fox by NORMAN BROOKS
Produced and directed by ROBERT ALDRICH
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