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9.36 Maths Counts: 4: A Table in Time
by John Tully
Sex on British rail? Not quite! But SX enables Wendy to get Stephen out of trouble.
(R)

9.58 Thinkabout: Keeping Warm

10.15 Science Workshop: Stability: 1

10.38 Exploring Science: Designing Structures

11.0 Near and Far: Bags of Sugar
Producing the world's sugar involves farmers all over the world - from East Anglia to East Africa.
(R)

11.22 The Bible Lands: 4: The Passion of Christ
Crowds gathered to greet Jesus as he rode towards Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. He had travelled this way on many occasions, but this was to be the last time...

11.45 Advanced Level Studies: Statistics: 2: Distributions
Counting defective TV sets in a manufacturer's sample and counting marram grass tillers in sand dunes both involve statistical distributions.
(R)

12.5 pm Buongiorno Italia!: 7: Cosa ce da Vedere?
A course for beginners in Italian
(R)

12.30 Hold Down a Chord
The seventh programme of a beginner's course in folk guitar with John Pearse
(R)

12.45 Wheels of Fire: 7: We are so Poor, But we are so Many
Ten films about development issues in India.
The self-employed Women's Association.
(R)

1.20 Dicho y hecho
Basic skills in Spanish
Asking permission; asking the way; tickets and travel
(R)

1.38 Around Scotland: Burgh life in 1623: 2: Breaking the Law
A three-part unit on a merchant's family in 17th-century Scotland.
Written by Derek Walker
(R)

2.0 You and Me: 'M' is for Monster
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Duncan is scared by a monster but Sam tells him a story about a mouse.
(R)

2.15 Music Time: 7: The Regular Beat

2.40 History File: Britain Alone
(Shown on Monday at 10.38 am)

Contributors

Writer (Maths Counts):
John Tully
Producer (Maths Counts):
David Roseveare
Presenter (The Bible Lands):
Peter Conolly
Producer (The Bible Lands):
R. Dilwyn Jones
Presenter/Guitarist (Hold Down a Chord):
John Pearse
Writer (Around Scotland):
Derek Walker
Presenter (Around Scotland):
Alex Norton
Designer (Around Scotland):
Campbell Gordon
Producer (Around Scotland):
Tom Cotter
Nicholas:
Robert Trotter
Sarah Duthie:
Mary Riggans
Peter Duthie:
Paul Herley
Dan:
Alec Heggie
Burgh officer:
William Armour
Annie:
Jeni Giffen

A series of ten programmes featuring playwright
Peter Terson and reporter travel by gypsy wagon along the old pilgrims' route from Winchester to Canterbury.
In the third programme of the series Peter and Dennis, with their horse Marcus and Toby the donkey, leave Alresford. Dennis decides to take a trip on the old steam railway, leaving Peter to plod on alone. They meet up at Four Marks, visit Jane Austen 's village of Chawton and finish this stage of the journey at Binsted.
Film editor BEV AMBROSE Producer JOHN COLEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Terson
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Editor:
Bev Ambrose
Producer:
John Coleman
Actor:
Dennis Skillicom

Starring William Shatner as Captain James T Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr McCoy

'Vengeance is mine,' sayeth the captain of the Enterprise, but his thinking has been clouded by a malevolent force on Argus X - a thing from his past which arouses a guilty conscience. With the crew just hours from death, will Kirk's fanatical pursuit of revenge outweigh the responsibilities of command? (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Art Wallace
Director:
Ralph Senknsky
Captain James T Kirk:
William Shatner
Mr Spock:
Leonard Nimoy
Dr McCoy:
Deforest Kelley
Scott:
James Doohan
Uhura:
Nichelle Nichols
Chekov:
Walter Koenig
Garovick:
Stephen Brooks

Most of the fish landed in the south west is exported to discerning customers in France and Spain. Sadly, the British ignore the fishy treats that surround their shores.
But coming to the rescue is intrepid cook Keith Floyd , who feels passionately about the many overlooked varieties of seafood.
In tonight's programme, the first in a series of seven, he explores the culinary delights of hake, squid and monkfish. Photography MALCOLM BALDWIN Film editor PHIL WILKINSON Producer DAVID PRITCHARD
0 INFO: page 93

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Floyd
Editor:
Phil Wilkinson
Producer:
David Pritchard

Car crashes, motorbike collisions, horse falls, jumping from high buildings - just part of the working life of Yorkshireman Roy Alon, one of the world's top film stuntmen.

Contributors

Subject:
Roy Alon
Writer:
Ken Cooper
Narrator:
Ken Cooper
Video Editor:
Andrew Dobson
Producer:
Douglas B Smith

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Australia and the USA
The enthusiastic reception in two continents in the same week has again proved the worldwide popularity of the Princess of Wales.
First the Prince and Princess ended their visit to Australia - taking in a day at the races for the Melbourne Cup. Then to the United States and a variety of engagements ranging from dinner with the Reagans at the White House to polo at Palm Springs. And everwhere the limelight fell on the Princess.
Reporters
Michael Cole in the USA
Brian Hanrahan in Australia
Chief picture editors
RUSS CROMBIE. JOHN HINKLY Produced by GORDON CARR A BBCtv News special

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Cole
Unknown:
Brian Hanrahan
Unknown:
Russ Crombie.
Produced By:
Gordon Carr

The monthly literary magazine presented by Ian Hamilton
V.S.P.
'I didn't set out to be a man of letters. I set out to be a traveller, a novelist, a short story writer ...'
V. S. Pritchett , reluctant man of letters, and master of the short story, will be 85 next month. As he revisits childhood haunts in suburban Dulwich and Sedbergh in the Cumbrian fells, Sir Victor talks to Ian Hamilton about his wandering life, his impossible parents, and the art of the short story.
Extracts from his work are read by Ronald Pickup .
Also in tonight's programme, a Bookmark profile of Mrs Dora Saint , the author behind the phenomenally successful 'Miss Read' books who for more than 30 years has chronicled the concerns of English village life from shortbread to church kneelers. Directors
ROLAND KEATING , PATCHY WHEATLEY Producer ROGER THOMPSON Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian Hamilton
Unknown:
S. Pritchett
Talks:
Sir Victor
Unknown:
Ian Hamilton
Read By:
Ronald Pickup
Unknown:
Mrs Dora Saint
Unknown:
Roland Keating
Producer:
Roger Thompson
Producer:
Nigel Williams

Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones bring you the third programme of this 425-part epic science series. This week they ask the question which has baffled millions: 'How does James Burke get away with it?' with Robin Driscoll Peter McCarthy Janine Duvitsky Prunella Gee
Sarah Jones-Parry Annette Lynton
Geoffrey McGivern and Rebecca Stevens Written by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
TERRY KYAN , RORY MCGRATH
ROGER PLANER. LAURIE ROWLEY PAUL SMITH and others Music PETER BREWIS
Designers MALCOLM THORNTON and MARK SEVANT Produced by JOHN KILBY and JIMMY MULVILLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Smith
Unknown:
Griff Rhys
Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Peter McCarthy
Unknown:
Janine Duvitsky
Unknown:
Prunella Gee
Unknown:
Sarah Jones-Parry
Unknown:
Annette Lynton
Unknown:
Geoffrey McGivern
Unknown:
Rebecca Stevens
Written By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Written By:
Terry Kyan
Written By:
Rory McGrath
Unknown:
Roger Planer.
Unknown:
Laurie Rowley
Unknown:
Paul Smith
Music:
Peter Brewis
Unknown:
Designers Malcolm Thornton
Produced By:
John Kilby
Produced By:
Jimmy Mulville

A series of films about the way we live now.
Searching for a Miracle
Patrick Dawson believes in miracles: 'You don't have to be a religious maniac to believe they still can happen.' Patrick and his young wife Rosemary, from Antrim in Northern Ireland, set out on a pilgrimage to Lourdes with daughter [text removed], 3, and son [text removed], aged 2. [text removed] suffers from Hurler's
Syndrome, a genetic disorder from which doctors say he will not recover.
Their parish priest tells the Dawsons that they will find 'sin and salvation' in the famous small town in the French Pyrenees. Tonight's film follows the family from dignified religious ceremonies to shopping trips in a town dedicated to jazzy commercialism. They join up with other families and find that after a week in Lourdes, there is a change ...
Photography RICHARD ADAM Sound recordist ROBIN swain Film editor ALAN LYCO
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
0 INFO: page 93

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Dawson
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

by Shane Connaughton
A series in eight parts devised by Mustapha Matura and Rudy Narayan
Starring Rudolph Walker and Kika Markham

Paddy Brady has lived in London for 20 years. One Saturday night he, his English wife, his small children and his mother-in-law, are bundled into prison by the police and held incommunicado...

Contributors

Writer:
Shane Connaughton
Devised by:
Mustapha Matura
Devised by:
Rudy Narayan
West Indian music played by:
The Half and Half Steelband
Script Editor:
Estelle Daniel
Designer:
Raymond Cusick
Producer:
Ruth Boswell
Director:
Jan Sargent
Larry Scott:
Rudolph Walker
Julie Smythe:
Kika Markham
Marjorie Scott:
Mona Hammond
Paddy Brady:
John Murphy
Rose Brady:
Carole Harrison
Alice:
Doreen Keogh
Mickey:
Maurice Blake
Pedro Ojo:
Allister Bain
Josie Patten:
Annie Bruce
Jasmine Scott:
Suzette Llewellyn
Det Insp Sampson:
Michael Byrne
Det Sgt Hogg:
Karl Howman
Det Insp Denby:
Peter Jonfield
Det Sgt Sumner:
Michael Gunn
Superintendant Nye:
Roger Brierley
Mr Justice Stokes:
David Stoll
Peter Brady:
Edward Rennie
Donna Brady:
Kelly Dalligan
Barman:
Jerry Judge

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present reports, interviews and analysis.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith

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