Programme Index

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9.20 Let's Go - Series 1: Let's Go and Find a Hobby
Ten programmes for moderately handicapped young adults presented by Brian Rix
(R)

9.35 Rendez-vous: France: Chemin faisant
En avion; par Ie train; a bord; sur la route.
(R)

9.52 Mathscore Two: Fine Adjustment
Laurel and Hardy cut a shelf to length - how accurate must they be?
(R)

10.15 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 8: Beware of the Bird
by Andrew Davies
A reading series for 7- to 9-year-olds based around a humorous ghost story in ten episodes.
(R)

10.38 Geography Casebook: Britain: Textiles and After
How one industry came to dominate Blackburn, and what's happening today.
(R)

11.0 Watch: Horns

11.17 Geography 11-14: The Iron and Steel Industry
Bernard Clark looks at how the industry moved its location, and investigates current problems.
(R)

11.39 Science Topics: Newton and the Space Shuttle
The Solar Maximum Repair Mission was an unusual demonstration of Newton's Laws of Motion.
(R)

12.0 Une annee chez les Francais: 4: L'industriel aristocrate
Featuring Baron De Dietrich - head of one of France's richest families.
(R)

12.30 Deutsch direkt!: 8
A series of 20 programmes for beginners in German
Finding employment in Wurzburg; and the Tiepolo frescoes in the Residenz, that miraculously survived the bombing during the war.
Presented by Hanni Vanhaiden
(Complementary radio programme on Sunday Radio 4 VHF at 5.30pm, repeated next Saturday at 4.30pm) Book £5.95, three cassettes £3.75 each, and Notes for Teachers £3.25, from booksellers or BBC Publications

12.55 Switch On to English (1): 8: Talking About Yourself
Key aspects of spoken and written English.
Presented by Floella Benjamin
(R)

1.20 Descubra Espana
Las comunicaciones. En camino; en el pan; talleres y fabricas.
(R)

1.38 Let's See: Up in the Mountains: 2: Highland Fairy Myths and Legends
Many stories are told about Highland fairies and their powers, both good and evil. with Sharon Erskine, Anne Scott Jones, Joyce Deans, Eric Cullen and Gordon Taylor

2.0 You and Me: Longer or Shorter
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Clive and Rabbit are busy measuring in the party-tricks shop today.
(R)

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

2.40 Exploring Science: Cells
Every living thing is made up of cells. The cells divide and specialise to produce the vast range of living material.
(R)

Contributors

Presenter (Let's Go):
Brian Rix
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Presenter (Geography 11-14):
Bernard Clark
Series producer (Science Topics):
Peter Bratt
Producer, French adaptation (Une annee chez les Francais):
Caroline Godley
Presenter (Deutsch direkt!):
Hanni Vanhaiden
Director (Deutsch direkt!):
Gill Barnes
Producer (Deutsch direkt!):
Maddalena Fagandini
Presenter (Switch On to English):
Floella Benjamin
Presenter (Let's See):
Rhoda MacLeod
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
[Actress]:
Sharon Erskine
[Actress]:
Anne Scott Jones
[Actress]:
Joyce Deans
[Actor]:
Eric Cullen
[Actor]:
Gordon Taylor

Six films about turning points in science, presented by Professor Heinz Wolff
3: At the End of the Rainbow When a young man made a purple dye by accident in 1856, he little knew that this would lead to the conquest of bacterial infections. Film editor KEITH WILTON
Produced by RON BLOOMFIELD

Contributors

Presented By:
Professor Heinz Wolff
Editor:
Keith Wilton
Produced By:
Ron Bloomfield

A series in nine parts
Episode 5 by JIM HAWKINS
A job, a girl, all seems to be going well for Tucker ...
Vision mixer SUE THORNE Produced and directed by DARROL BLAKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Hawkins
Directed By:
Darrol Blake
Tucker Jenkins:
Todd Carty
Mrs Jenkins:
Hilary Crane
Alan Humphries:
George Armstrong
Natalia Gordon:
Amanda Waring
Rhona Jenkins:
Joanne Palmer
Barry Jenkins:
Neil Carrick
Matthew Clarke:
Stephen Persaud
Mr Choudhury:
Marc Zuber
Mr Wilson:
Desmond McNamara
Sunil:
Kulvinder Ghir
Gill:
Sophie Brew
Carwash customer:
Victoria Horton

Is the Cold War a delicately-maintained peace, or a prelude to global war? Does
Russia wish for peace, or is it her intent to spread
Communist rule into Western democracies?
As the Geneva summit talks begin. Vladimir Posner , the leading commentator of Soviet radio and television, is flying in to take part in Open to Question. Young people from all over Britain, concerned about the arms race and the confrontation between the super-powers, question Mr Posner about Russia - the way of life in that vast country, and its intentions towards those living outside it.
Presented by John Nicholson Research POLLY PHILLIPS Director JUSTIN c. ADAMS Producers DAVID MARTIN
CHARLES NAIRN. BBC Scotland
(Soviet Television: Fact and Fiction. Thursday 8.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Posner
Unknown:
Mr Posner
Presented By:
John Nicholson
Presented By:
Research Polly Phillips
Director:
Justin C. Adams

This week David Hepworth joins The Cure live at the Camden Palace.
Andy Kershaw introduces live studio sessions from
Feargal Sharkey and The Waterboys. On film Lloyd Cole chats to Ro Newton during a recording session for his new album. Mark Ellen visits 'larger than life' Kiss on location for their new video. Hindsight features The
Teardrop Explodes from 1979; Richard Skinner reviews today's charts; and the Video Vote number to call is
[number removed].
Producers JOHN BURROWES and TREVOR DANN
Director DAVID G. CROFT
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hepworth
Unknown:
Camden Palace.
Introduces:
Andy Kershaw
Unknown:
Feargal Sharkey
Unknown:
Ro Newton
Unknown:
Mark Ellen
Unknown:
Richard Skinner
Producers:
John Burrowes
Producers:
Trevor Dann
Director:
David G. Croft
Editor:
Michael Appleton

A duel of words and wit between Arthur Marshall Julia McKenzie Chris Serle and Frank Muir Fern Britton Robin Bailey
Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Produced and directed by PAUL CIAN 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Julia McKenzie
Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Fern Britton
Unknown:
Robin Bailey
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Goodson
Directed By:
Paul Cian

with Chris Kelly Michael Barry and Jill Goolden
Everyone is being urged to. adopt a better diet - but how can you tell healthy from unhealthy food? Food and Drink, with the Coronary
Prevention Group, launches a competition to help: the challenge is to design the best at-a-glance system of nutritional food labelling.
What goes into the definitive Irish stew? A special report from Ireland reveals a culinary controversy - are carrots legitimate or not?
And to go with the stew - the craftiest recipe for homemade bread (Irish style). It takes just 15 minutes.
Director JILL DAWSON
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Kelly
Unknown:
Michael Barry
Unknown:
Jill Goolden
Director:
Jill Dawson
Producer:
Peter Bazalgette

A series by GRAHAM REID
Going Home
While serving in Northern
Ireland, young Paul Rodgers married Colette, a Catholic girl from West Belfast.
Disowned by her family, she lives in married quarters in England with their two young children. Now her father is dying and she determines to visit him. But her homecoming is complicated by more than the fact of her marriage outside the family's faith.
In another part of the city a Protestant girl, Carol Brown , is blindly in love with a Catholic soldier from
Bradford - and quite determined that love can conquer all.
Designer JOHN ARMSTRONG Sound JIM SHERIDAN
Lighting ALAN HENDERSON
Executive producer KEITH WILLIAMS Producer TIM IRONSIDE WOOD Director JAMES ORMEROD

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Rodgers
Unknown:
Carol Brown
Designer:
John Armstrong
Designer:
Sound Jim Sheridan
Unknown:
Alan Henderson
Producer:
Keith Williams
Producer:
Tim Ironside
Director:
James Ormerod
Families officer:
Anthony Dutton
Colette Rodgers:
Anne Hasson
Gerard Donnelly:
Killian McKenna
Mr Donnelly:
Louis Rolston
Mrs Donnelly:
Doreen Hepburn
Carol Brown:
Eileen Fletcher
Mrs Brown:
Trudy Kelly
Mary Donnelly:
Paula Hamilton
Brian Brown:
David Coyle
Louise Brown:
Libby Smyth
Mr Brown:
Joe McPartland
Jim:
Anthony Fraites
Corporal Rodgers:
Tony London
Policeman:
Dermot Graham
Mary's boyfriend:
John Hewitt
Priest:
George Shane
Soldier:
David Calvert

The Accordion Strikes Back What do Charles Dickens , Count Leo Tolstoy , Barry Manilow and James Anderton , Chief Constable of Manchester, have in common? A love of the accordion.
Tonight Arena investigates the appeal of a much-maligned instrument from its roots in Imperial China, and appraises its bellowings from Cajun to the classics, from
Stockhausen to Jimmy Shand. Other sounds from around the world include the heart-throbs of the Indian cinema, Tex-Mex superstar
Flaco Jiminez , Soweto's Mahotella Queens, and the Accordion World Cup in Folkestone. Photography JOHN HOOPER
Film editor DON FAIRSERVICE Producers ANTHONY WALL and NIGEL FINCH
Director RICHARD SPENCE

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Count Leo Tolstoy
Unknown:
Barry Manilow
Unknown:
James Anderton
Unknown:
Jimmy Shand.
Unknown:
Flaco Jiminez
Unknown:
John Hooper
Unknown:
Nigel Finch
Director:
Richard Spence

John Tusa
Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith
Tonight Peter Snow reports from Geneva on the progress of the Summit between the United States and the USSR and assesses, with the help of experts, the mood on both sides.

Contributors

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

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