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9.35 Des le debut: 4: Saying you're sorry; Likes and dislikes; Preference
Face-to-face French
(R)

9.52 Look and Read: The Boy from Space: 4: In Danger!

10.15 Mathscore One: Mirror Image
Elaine Donelly and Roger Sloman come face to face with themselves.
(R)

10.38 History 11-13: The Tudors: The Great House
Do you know how and why changes in building design reflect changes in life styles between the medieval and the Tudor periods? Find out at Haddon Hall.
(R)

11.0 Around Scotland: Behind the Scenes: 2: Department Store

11.22 Update USA: 2: Sun Belt City
Phoenix, Arizona, spreads ever outwards into the surrounding desert as industry cashes in on the 'pro business climate' of the sun belt, and people move in from recession-hit northern USA.
(R)

11.44 Going to Work: A Woman's Work?

12.5 pm Making the Most of the Micro: 4: Introducing Graphics
Ian McNaught-Davis shows what micros can do.
(R)

12.35-1.0 The Learning Machine: 3: The Gender Gap
A personal view by Tim O'Shea of computers in education.
(R)

1.10 Science Topics: Periodic Table

1 33 General Studies: The Scout Who Smuggled Heroin: 1
Panorama interviewed, in a Dutch jail, one of the world's most successful heroin smugglers. They traced his trail back to Pakistan, where the team found his organisation had become one of the biggest drugs rings in the country.

2.0 Scene: Ungentlemanly Conduct?
For more than 100 years rugby union was for men only - until women, like those from the South Wales village of Magor, started their own teams.

2.30 English File: Power of Language: Power of the Group
Class, job, age, background: each has its own group language. Group languages identify us by accent, dialect and technical vocabulary.

Contributors

Presenter (Mathscore One):
Elaine Donelly
Presenter (Mathscore One):
Roger Sloman
Presenter (History 11-13):
Richard Burrows
Producer (History 11-13):
Jill Sheppard
Presenter (Making the Most of the Micro):
Ian McNaught-Davis
Presenter (The Learning Machine):
Tim O'Shea
Reporter (General Studies):
Peter Taylor
Producer (General Studies):
David Wickham
Series Producer (Scene):
Roger Tonge
Producer (English File):
Edward Hayward

starring
Leslie Howard Merle Oberon
Raymond Massey
1792: the height of the French Revolution. As aristocrats and others are led to the guillotine, a mysterious stranger and his followers carry on a rescue operation - whisking them to England and safety. But who is the man, known only as the 'Scarlet Pimpernel', and how long can he continue? This version of BARONESS ORCZY'S novel is regarded as a classic British movie.
Screenplay by ROBERT E. SHERWOOD SAM BERMAN , ARTHUR WIMPERIS and LAJOS BIRO
Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA Directed by HAROLD YOUNG
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Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Howard
Unknown:
Merle OBEron
Unknown:
Raymond Massey
Unknown:
Robert E. Sherwood
Unknown:
Sam Berman
Unknown:
Arthur Wimperis
Produced By:
Alexander Korda
Directed By:
Harold Young
Sir Percy Blakeney:
Leslie Howard
Lady Blakeney:
Merle OBEron
Chauvelin:
Raymond Massey
Prince of Wales:
Nigel Bruce
Sir Andrew Ffoulkes:
Anthony Bushell
Suzanne de Toumay:
Joan Gardner
Priest:
Bramwell Fletcher
Armand St Just:
Walter Rilla
Countess de Tournay:
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Count de Tournay:
0. B. Clarence
Robespierre:
Ernest Milton

A weekly look at the world of computers and information technology with Ian McNaught-Davis and Fred Harris
From America, Fred reports from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Carnegie Mellon University is engaged in a massive computer project. The buildings in the university are being linked by fibre optic cable. Individual students will be required to have a computer and even to have access to the computer network from their rooms.Â

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Contributors

Presenter:
Ian McNaught-Davis
Presenter:
Fred Harris
Studio Director:
Trevor Taylor
Series Editor:
David Allen

Juliet Alexander presents the weekly magazine programme for Britain's black communities.
Each week Ebony reports on the news and the issues which matter most, talks to the people behind the news stories, and presents the best of what's happening in the world of arts and entertainment.
Studio director ANNIE MORRIS Producer JULIAN HENRIQUES
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Alexander
Director:
Annie Morris
Producer:
Julian Henriques
Producer:
John Wilcox

Six films of early exploration Introduced by the pioneer polar explorer Duncan Carse 2: Wings Over Africa (1925) 'Congratulations Cobham! Magnificent show: now sit down and tell me all about it.' The words of King George V to the pioneer aviator
Sir Alan Cobham , on his return from his great trail-blazing flight from Croydon to Cape Town and back.
Altogether his primitive single-engine bi-plane flew some 8,000 miles, taking the first aerial pictures of the pyramids, crossing vast tracts of unexplored jungle, and nearly crashing into the Victoria Falls.
The second film in this superb series
(THE SUNDAY TIMES)
A whiff of adventure (TIME OUT) Original photographer BASIL EMMOTT Film editor PADDY WILSON
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alan Cobham
Editor:
Paddy Wilson
Producer:
Richard Robinson

from the Hillier Arboretum with Roy Lancaster and Geoff Hamilton
Started in 1953 by the late Sir Harold Hillier , and presented to Hampshire County Council in 1977, the arboretum is acknowledged to have a more complete collection of shrubs and trees than any other in this country. Each season brings a new range of floral and foliage effects.
The cameras visited the arboretum last October when the colour was spectacular. Executive producer JOHN KENYON
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Harold Hillier
Producer:
John Kenyon
Unknown:
Jean Laughton
Producer:
Denis W. Gartside

who casts his eye over some of the funnier customs prevalent today. Cherry Gillespie, Chris Emmett and Mike Berry join him to have a laugh at some of the more peculiar aspects of culture. Roy Hudd drops into Tom's dressing room, and both Roy and members of the public on Britain's streets, entertain Tom with their witticisms. He is accompanied by Graham Preskett in a musical look at the way the common cold can immobilise the average man.
Sound DAVID THOMPSON
Lighting BERT POSTLETHWAITE
Designers MICHAEL YOUNG, RICHARD MCMANANSMITH Producer RICK GARDNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Emmett
Unknown:
Mike Berry
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Accompanied By:
Graham Preskett
Lighting:
Bert Postlethwaite
Designer:
Michael Young
Designer:
Richard McManansmith
Producer:
Rick Gardner

Ludovic Kennedy makes his choice of the week's television and, with his studio guests, discusses in detail:
Saturday Review (BBC2),
Spitting Image (Central) and From the Horse's Mouth (Channel 4)
Studio director NICHOLAS BARKER Producer CHARLES MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Director:
Nicholas Barker
Producer:
Charles Miller

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Ian Smith and Jenni Murray
Producers JANA BENNETT
TIM GARDAM. MARK THOMPSON and DIANA MORTON
Directors JOHN WILKINSON. CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , COLIN STANBRIDGE Deputy editor TIM ORCHARD Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Producers:
Jana Bennett
Unknown:
Tim Gardam.
Unknown:
Mark Thompson
Unknown:
Diana Morton
Directors:
John Wilkinson.
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie

featuring
The Men's 's Free Programme Tonight's competition could be the closest of the week in Copenhagen. Last year's champion from
Czechoslovakia,
JOSEF SABOVCIK could find himself on thin ice in his predicted head-to-head battle with the World Champion from the Soviet Union,
ALEXANDR FADEEV. Both men include quadruple jumps in their repertoire so a successful attempt tonight could clinch the gold medal.
Britain's STEPHEN PICKAVANCE hopes for an improvement on ; his 15th place of 12 months ago and watching at rinkside is ALAN WEEKS.
Television presentation DR. DENMARK Producer jm RESIDE

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Sabovcik
Unknown:
Alexandr Fadeev.
Unknown:
Stephen Pickavance

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