9.35 Des le debut: 2: Ordering Things; Choosing Things; Buying a Ticket
A resource series to support the teaching of basic skills in French.
(R)
9.52 Look and Read: The Boy from Space: 2
(Shown on Tuesday at 10.15 am)
10.15 Mathscore One: A Cover Up
To measure an amount of surface, Elaine Donelly and Roger Sloman first investigate tessellations.
(R)
10.38 History 11-13: The Tudors: Ships and Seamen
What were Henry VII's reasons for backing the Cabots' 'voyages of exploration'? What can the Mary Rose tell us about the development of Henry VIII's navy? Where was the first English settlement in North America?
(R)
11.0 Around Scotland: Border Reivers: 2
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)
11.22 Update USA: Great Lakes City
Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie and one of the original capitals of industrial America, is struggling with the problems of decline as investment for new industry seeks out more profitable locations in the south and west of the USA.
(R)
11.44 Going to Work: I Want to Help
(Shown on Monday at 9.38 am)
12.5 pm Making the Most of the Micro: 2: Getting down to BASIC
Presented by Ian McNaught-Davis
(R)
12.35-1.0 The Learning Machine: 1: Promises, Promises
A personal view by Tim O'Shea, Director of the Microelectronics in Schools Project at the Open University, of computers in education.
(R)
1.10 Science Topics: Radioactivity
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.39 am)
1.33 General Studies: 2: Views from Russia
(Shown on Monday at 11.40 am)
2.0 Scene: The Gang: Where are They Now?
Six years ago, Scene's film Anatomy of a Gang gave a portrait of the life and relationships of a group of 14-year-old lads in Bennett's mob on the Southmead estate in Bristol. Six years on, what has happened to them?
(Shown on Wednesday at 11.40 am)
2.30 English File: The Power of Language - Power to Move
Words can be spoken, sung, read and written to express feelings and provoke emotional responses. Ken Dodd talks about making people laugh and Linda Thompson sings a love song.
with subtitles; Weather
starring Sabu Walter Hudd
Rudyard Kipling 's Little Toomai , the Indian boy, is the hero of this adventure story, featuring superb scenes of wildlife shot by documentary film-maker ROBERT FLAHERTY.
When Petersen, a white hunter, plans to capture a herd of elephants moving north through the jungle, young Toomai eagerly joins up with his favourite elephant, Kala Nag. But until he has 'seen the elephants dance' he cannot become a hunter....
Screenplay by JOHN COLLIER
Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA Directed by ROBERT FLAHERTY and ZOLTAN KORDA
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The first Micro Live of 1986 comes from the computer industry's most important exhibition - this week's
Which Computer? show, at the National Exhibition
Centre, near Birmingham. Ian McNaught-Davis and Fred Harris look at some of the new products and software on display, and Lesley Judd presents the Micro Live RITA awards for achievement in Information Technology.
Some of the industry's personalities, including
Sir Clive Sinclair , face up to the Micro Live version of Any Questions? Directors
TERRY MARSH. TREVOR TAYLOR Producer PATRICK TITLEY
Presented by Juliet Alexander
Looking forward to Monday's 'King Day', Ebony celebrates America's first national holiday for Martin Luther King's birthday.
Prize-winning Nigerian-born sculptress Sokari Douglas Camp is featured at work in her studio.
And there are Motown videos and albums to be won in a special Ebony competition. Studio director ANNIE MORRIS Producer JULIAN HENRIQUES
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill
The Pit
Based on a story by GWYN JONES
The 1920s: Mr Ackerman sets out on his holiday, intent only on walking and pot-holing. But the young wife at his lodgings becomes a distraction, then an enticement, and finally the harbinger of grave danger.
A TEUESYN production
from Crarae, Argyll with Roy Lancaster and Graham Rose
Two-thirds of the way up the west side of Loch Fyne is Crarae - one of the great Scottish gardens. It's the home of Sir Hay and Lady Campbell, and under their loving care the garden has become a true paradise for flowering shrubs, such as the rhododendron.
Gardeners' World visited the gardens last May when the display was at its most spectacular.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Production assistant
CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer DENIS w GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
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This week Tom takes a sideways glance at progress and technology. 'How is it man can walk on the moon, but he can't design a milk carton that he can open without soaking himself?'
Aiding and abetting Tom are Cherry Gillespie ,
Derek Griffiths and Mike Berry , while Graham Preskett accompanies Tom in a song about the microchip.
Tom's dressing-room is visited by comedian
Jeff Stevenson , and the roving camera visits the public at large for then-own brand of humour.
Sound supervisor DAVID THOMPSON Lighting director
BERT POSTLETHWAITE
Designer MICHAEL YOUNG Production RICK GARDNER
Ludovic Kennedy makes his choice of the week's television and, with his studio guests, discusses:
Hold the Back Page! (BBC1); The Wind in the Willows (Thames Television); and Assembled in Britain (Channel 4).
Studio director NICHOLAS BARKER Producer CHARLES MILLER
starring
Stanley Baker John Crawford
Don Starling , a ruthless criminal recently escaped from jail, plans to rob a wealthy bookie.
But the robbery ends in disaster when a girl carrying the money-bag is killed. Inspector Martineau, the toughest man on the Manchester police force, and an old enemy of Starling, is not averse to using strong tactics to get his man ...
Screenplay by =VAL GUEST Based on the novel by MAURICE PROCTOR
Produced by MICHAEL CARRERAS Directed by VAL GUEST
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