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9.38 Science Workshop: Stretch, Weigh and Bounce (B)
(R)

10.0 You and Me
Cosmo isn't convinced that Dibs can write down his story. Song: 'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands'

10.15 Maths Counts: Bear the Percentage
by John Tully
Bert buys bears but the percentage bites Bert.
(R)

10.38 Maths Topics: 2: Exterior Angles: Congruency
Resource CSE/O-level material in the form of animated sequences for classroom use.
(R)

11.0 Words and Pictures: Quiet as a Mouse
(Shown on Monday at 2.0 pm)

11.17 Let's See: Lights in the Dark: 2: The Sun and the Stars
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)

11.40 Scene: The Gang - Where are They Now?
(R) (For details see Friday at 2.0 pm)

12.10 pm You Can't See the Wood...: 1: The Wildwood
David Bellamy examines the natures and uses of trees.
(R)

12.35 Rockschool: 2: Strings and Tuning
(R)
Info: page 77

1.0 Maths Help: 2: Volumes II
For adults studying maths to O-level, this series offers help with common difficulties.
(R)

1.15 Job Bank: Catering
(Shown on Monday at 9.15 am)

1.38 Home Ground: Environment: 1: Mountains and Moorlands
Naturalist Lionel Kelleway shows what oranges, sponge cakes and mountain chains have in common. He gets stranded in a mountain lake, discovers a kestrel cafe, and looks at a living history book.
BBC Wales

2.0 Watch: Night Time
Louise and James investigate the world after sunset. They meet some of the nocturnal animals found in this country and discover what can be seen in the night sky.
(Shown yesterday at 11.0 am)

2.18 Walrus: What's it Gonna Be?: The Sack?
(R)

2.40 Zig Zag: On the Moon
(Shown on Monday at 11.0 am)

Contributors

Producer (Science Workshop):
Michael Coyle
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Writer (Maths Counts):
John Tully
Producer (Maths Topics):
David Roseveare
Presenter (You Can't See the Wood...):
David Bellamy
Presenter (Home Ground):
Lionel Kelleway
Producer (Home Ground):
Jack King
Presenter (Watch):
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter (Watch):
James Earl Adair
Producer (Watch):
Julie Callanan
Series Producer (Watch):
David Taft
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy

Introduced by Jeremy James Learn all the basics and improve your game week by week as Jeremy Flint guides novices and regulars of the Bristol Bridge Club towards a better understanding of this enjoyable and challenging game.
Director LINDA MCCARTHY
Producer MARK PATTERSON (R) For information about the BBC Bridge Companion write to: BBC Bridge Club, BBCtv, London W12 8QT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Jeremy Flint
Director:
Linda McCarthy
Producer:
Mark Patterson

Starring Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat

In this exotic recreation of revolutionary Russia, a young English journalist expelled for writing an anti-Tsarist article returns on the advice of a British secret agent. Supporting the Red Army, he is entrusted with escorting the daughter of a Tsarist minister for interrogation. But on the hazardous journey they fall in love...
Films: page 17

Contributors

Screenplay:
Frances Marion
Screenplay:
Lajos Biro
Based on the novel "Without Armour" by:
James Hilton
Producer:
Alexander Korda
Director:
Jacques Feyder
Alexandra Vladinoff:
Marlene Dietrich
Ainsley Fothergill:
Robert Donat
Poushkoff:
John Clements
Duchess of Zorin:
Irene Vanbrugh
Gen Gregor Vladinoff:
Herbert Lomas
Colonel Adraxine:
Austin Trevor
Axelstein:
Basil Gill
Stationmaster:
Hay Petrie
Drunken soldier:
Miles Malleson
Maronin:
David Tree
Stanfield:
Frederick Culley

1: The Shipbuilders
With the candid memories of shopfloor workers and managers, and rare archive film, this 11-part series tells the controversial story of the British people at work since 1914.
Narrator JOHN WOODVINE
Fascinating and thought provoking history (DAILY MIRROR) ... a wonderful series which has immense historical scope - tremendous depth of human interest and - thanks largely to the even-handed manner in which it represents owners and workers, management and unions - important messages for British industry (FINANCIAL TIMES) Music by CARL DAVIS Played by THE GRIMETHORPE COLUERY BAND Producer ANGELA HOLDSWORTH Executive producer
PETER PAGNAMENTA (R)

Contributors

Narrator:
John Woodvine
Music By:
Carl Davis
Producer:
Angela Holdsworth
Unknown:
Peter Pagnamenta

Another chance to see - from the very first episode - the highly acclaimed comedy of life in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. starring
Korea. 1950. A hundred years ago. After 12 hours of meatball surgery Hawkeye and Trapper John remain dedicated - to rest and recreation. Their scheme to raffle a nurse and help a Korean boy make it to medical school sounds like fun - but not when Hotlips and Frank are on the prowl and taking the war so seriously....
Written by LARRY GELBART
Directed by GENE REYNOLDS (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Larry Gelbart
Directed By:
Gene Reynolds
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville

A thriller in four parts by HOWARD BRENTON with 1: Why Me?
Eddie Cass , small-time crook, admirer of royalty, Mr Nobody, gets this little job - take some package up West - it's not drugs - 100 quid down, 400 on delivery. So he collects this fancy hatbox.
And then, well, he opens the box, doesn't he.
Music by RICHARD HARTLEY
Make-up designer VIVIEN OLDHAM
Costume designer KATHRYN AYERST Designer GAVIN DAVIES
Producer ROBIN MIDGLEY Director ROB WALKER BBC Pebble Mill
0 FEATURE: page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Unknown:
Eddie Cass
Music By:
Richard Hartley
Designer:
Vivien Oldham
Designer:
Kathryn Ayerst
Designer:
Gavin Davies
Producer:
Robin Midgley
Director:
Rob Walker
Eddie Cass:
Denis Lawson
Eldridge:
George Baker
Dana Cass:
Lindsay Duncan
Hugo Silver:
Simon Callow
Caractacus:
Norman Beaton
Jill:
Susannah Bunyan
Det Insp Malcolm:
Don Henderson
Stoker:
Larrington Walker
Clyde:
Winston Crooke
Benny:
Forbes Collins
Det Sgt Cross:
Peter Attard
Det Insp Agnew:
Barrie Houghton
Young woman:
Edita Brychta
Taxi driver:
Neil Munro
Newspaper seller:
Eric Francis

starring Phil Cool
There's another chance to see the acclaimed comedy impressionist Phil Cool , who takes the lid off life as he looks at the world through the eyes of a host of famous personalities. In tonight's programme there's a historic meeting between the Pope and Rolf Harris, Roy Hattersley wins a speech impediment contest, and Phil receives a call from a Jehovah's Witness, who looks not unlike Rowan Atkinson.

Written by PHIL COOL
Associate producer JASPER CARROTT Director DAVID WEIR
Producer STEVE WEDDLE (R) BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Phil Cool
Producer:
Jasper Carrott
Director:
David Weir
Producer:
Steve Weddle

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

Contributors

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

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