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9.15 Job Bank: Butcher, Baker
A day in the life of three young people working in butcher's and baker's shops.
(R)

9.38 Going to Work: How Other People See Us
by Colin Davis
When others have the wrong impression of us and nobody understands, whose fault is it?
with Elaine Lordan, Julia Sawalha, Mel Warren, Monique Wright, Mark Monero, Leslie Glazer, Kenneth Shanley, Josie Kidd, Denise Hirst and Michael Vivian

10.0 You and Me: Incey Wincey Spider
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Leslie Wiltshire and his children look for spiders and worms and watch some bees making honey.
(R)

10.15 Music Time: Grouping Beats
Songs with shaking bones and seabirds help the children to hear how many beats there are in a bar. (R)

10.38 History File: The Road to Berlin
1943-1945: the final years of the war lead to the defeat of Germany and the problems of post-war Europe.
(R)

11.0 Zig Zag: DIY Photography
The instant of a flash of lightning or the detail of a head louse's claw - photography shows us things we'd never otherwise see. Sheelagh Gilbey and Paul Coia find out the best way to do-it-yourself with cameras, with the help of Sun Hill Junior School.

11.22 Thinkabout: Cover Up
Frank and the children cover up themselves and everything else in sight before they start stripping the walls. Then the telephone rings and they can't find it!

11.40 General Studies: The Black Man's Burden
The second of a two-part special report talks to black South Africans about what life is like in their country and assesses their hopes and fears for the future

12.10 pm Pages from Ceefax

12.40 Technical Studies: 9: Pressworking
Ten programmes showing how basic concepts in manufacturing technology are used in modern industry.
(R)

1.5-1.30 Primary Science: 2
Judith Hann continues her look at the challenge of teaching science in primary schools - a school in Cambridge uses paper aeroplanes and a new exhibition is launched by the Science Museum.
A BBC/Open University production

1.38 Casebook Scotland: 9: Who Do You Think You Are?
A play by Alan Spence about the teenage search for identity.

2.0 Words and Pictures: The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll
Living in a freezer is a chilling experience for a doll, until a little girl comes to the rescue.
(R)

2.18 English 11-13: 5: Start Here
(R)

2.40 Childcare and Parenthood: 4: The Child and the Family
The emergence of a toddler into a child can be a tricky time.
Five-year-old twins help their younger sister, but it's not so easy if your elder brother is mentally handicapped.
(R)

Contributors

Series Producer (Job Bank):
Paul Mitchell
Writer (Going to Work):
Colin Davis
Producer (Going to Work):
Judith Miles
Series Producer (Going to Work):
Paul Mitchell
[Actress]:
Elaine Lordan
[Actress]:
Julia Sawalha
[Actress]:
Mel Warren
[Actress]:
Monique Wright
[Actor]:
Mark Monero
[Actor]:
Leslie Glazer
[Actor]:
Kenneth Shanley
[Actress]:
Josie Kidd
[Actress]:
Denise Hirst
[Actor]:
Michael Vivian
Presenter (You and Me):
Leslie Wiltshire
Director (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Series Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Paul Coia
Producer (Zig Zag):
Chris Ellis
Producer (Thinkabout):
Pat Farrington
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Presenter (Primary Science):
Judith Hann
Producer (Primary Science):
Anne Diack
Writer (Casebook Scotland):
Alan Spence
Director (Casebook Scotland):
Ishbel MacLean
Series Producer (English 11-13):
Judith Miles
Producer (Childcare and Parenthood):
Diane Morgan

Big Blue andthe40Dwarves IBM, known as Big Blue, is the largest computer company in the world - ten times the size of its nearest rival. Its first personal computer was so successful that it set a technical standard.
Forty other manufacturers now use IBM standards in designing their machines. Ian McNaught-Davis finds out if, now they are embracing Big Blue's standards, the 40 dwarves can get out of its clutches. Director ALAN GRIFFITHS Series editor DAVID ALLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McNaught-Davis
Director:
Alan Griffiths
Editor:
David Allen

continuing a season of films featuring
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 'S famous detective, starring
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and
Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson become entangled in a sinister web of deceit and murder, woven by a mysterious woman who drives her hapless victims into an excruciating suicidal frenzy.
Screenplay by BERTRAM MILLHAUSER
Directed by ROY WILLIAM NEILL
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Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Basil Rathbone
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Nigel Bruce
Unknown:
Dr Watson Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Doctor Watson
Unknown:
Bertram Mhxhauser
Directed By:
Roy William Neill
Adrea Spedding:
Gale Sondergaard
Lestrade:
Dennis Hoey
Norman Locke:
Vernon Downing
Radlik:
Alec Craig
Mrs Hudson:
Mary Gordon
Gilflower:
Arthur Hohl
Larry:
Teddy Infuhr

On a Saturday afternoon in December 1960 David Coleman introduced
Grandstand. The programme included indoor athletics, amateur boxing, sporting chance and ice skating: 'So now we join commentator Alan Weeks in Nottingham for the Grandstand Trophy'. Series producer JEFF GODDARD

Contributors

Unknown:
David Coleman
Commentator:
Alan Weeks
Producer:
Jeff Goddard

This week, on its way in towards the Sun, Halley's Comet is closer to Earth than it has been for 75 years. Even so, you'll need binoculars to see it or, far better, "Horizon". This celestial guide tells you what comets are made of, where they come from, how they are predicted and how dangerous they are. Past comets may have destroyed almost all life on Earth - yet without them mankind might never have evolved.

Plus: the winner of the space race to reach a comet first and the odd story of how Halley's Comet was rediscovered with the help of two razor blades.

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Film editor:
Keith Raven
"Horzon" Editor:
Robin Brightwell
Written and Produced by:
Alec Nisbett

A view of world history in 13 parts by JOHN ROBERTS 12: The Decline of the West In the first half of this century a stable world of optimism, sanity and progress seemed to go mad. Men lost faith in the civilisation of the West. Its old heartland, Europe, was wracked by wars (1914-18, 1939-45) and leadership passed to America. Russia became separated from it and hostile. Economic failure, the rolling up of colonial empires, fragmentation in the arts and new discoveries - both in science and in the new science of the mind, psychology - all added to the unease. And in the East,
Japan, first militarily, then economically, became a superpower. The title of OSWALD SPENGLER 'S book
The Decline of the West seemed to catch the mood of the times and it sold in millions. But is the day of the West really done?
Sound recordist DOUG MAWSON Film cameramen
JOHN ELSE and COLIN WALDECK Film editor STEPHEN EVANS Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Roberts
Unknown:
Oswald Spengler
Unknown:
Doug Mawson
Editor:
Stephen Evans
Producer:
Christopher Martin

by David Nobbs
Starring Leonard Rossiter and Pauline Yates
with John Barron

Elizabeth is away, and Reggie asks his secretary home for a business meeting. But this is no ordinary meeting - and it turns out to be no ordinary Sunday.
(R)

Contributors

Writer:
David Nobbs
Designer:
Barbara Gosnold
Producer:
Gareth Gwenlan
Reginald Perrin:
Leonard Rossiter
Elizabeth Perrin:
Pauline Yates
Joan Greengrass:
Sue Nicholls
Tom:
Tim Preece
Mark:
David Warwick
Jimmy:
Geoffrey Palmer

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Two England

While Elizabeth is away, Reggie asks Joan to come over for a business meeting, but he actually intends to start an affair with her. A stream of visitors causes his plan to go awry. Show more

An original screenplay in six parts by Troy Kennedy Martin
Starring Bob Peck as Ronald Craven, Joe Don Baker as Darius Jedburgh
with Jack Watson as James Godbolt, Zoe Wanamaker as Clemmy, Charles Kay as Pendleton, Ian McNeice as Harcourt

'What are you going to do about it?' 'I'm going in.' A question from beyond the grave to the man with nothing left to lose.
The confrontation with Emma's killer proves decisive to the destiny of Ronald Craven. Strangely renewed by the symptoms of breakdown, he re-enters the world in the grip of an obsession - to get into Northmoor at any cost.

(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Troy Kennedy Martin
Music:
Eric Clapton
Music ('with'):
Michael Kamen
Film Editor:
Dan Rae
Dubbing Mixer:
Rob James
Make-up Designer:
Daphne Croker
Photography:
Andrew Dunn
Producer:
Michael Wearing
Director:
Martin Campbell
Ronald Craven:
Bob Peck
Darius Jedburgh:
Joe Don Baker
James Godbolt:
Jack Watson
Clemmy:
Zoe Wanamaker
Pendleton:
Charles Kay
Harcourt:
Ian McNeice
McCroon:
Sean Caffrey
Emma Craven:
Joanne Whalley
Oakley:
Patrick Godfrey
Ross:
John Woodvine
Bennett:
Hugh Fraser
Chilwell:
Allan Cuthbertson
Menzies:
Matthew Guinness
Childs:
Trevor Bowen
Toby Berwick:
Tony Mathews
Miriam Berwick:
Jo Ross
Schumaker:
Manning Redwood
Wagner:
Jerry Harte
John:
Mike Fitzgerald
Police Sgt:
Jim Dunk
Young Emma:
Imogen Staley

Edge of Darkness

Series 1

Episode 4: Breakthrough

Duration: 53 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Thriller series. Craven confronts Emma's killer, but he is stopped from revealing why they committed the murder. Craven becomes determined to enter Northmoor and hack into MI5's computer. Show more

John Tusa , Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith

Contributors

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

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 Radio-Television Beige, and there's also a round-up of today's main stories around Europe.
Presented by Chantal Cuer

Contributors

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

Day two of the Lombard RAC Rally starts with drivers emerging from the night-time charge around the forests of South Wales and into the special stages of North Wales and the Midlands. William Woollard introduces the news and action from this punishing first leg, live from Rally
Headquarters. Brian Jones provides the commentary and Sue Baker reports from s the stages.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Jones
Unknown:
Sue Baker

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