Programme Index

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9.38 Science Workshop: Tracks (B)
(R)

10.0 You and Me
Cosmo and Dibs try to mend the hole in their bucket with help from Indira Joshi. A look at children doing mime.
Book: "Buzz, Buzz, Buzz"
(R)

10.15 Maths Counts: How to Find Venus
Second left under the motorway - just where is Venus going?
(R)

10.38 Maths at Work: 1
Young people use CSE maths at work.
(R)

11.0 Words and Pictures: Oink and Pearl

11.17 Let's See: Getting Around: 4: Finding the Way

11.40 Scene: Funny People

12.10 pm You Can't See the Wood...: 5: The Foresters
David Bellamy examines the natures and uses of trees.
(R)

12.35 Rockschool: 6: Funk Disco
A series of nine programmes giving hints and tips on playing to budding rock musicians.
(R)

1.0 Maths Help (II): 6: Functions and Inequalities
For adults studying maths to O-level, this series offers help with common difficulties.
(R)

1.15 Higher Education: Polys and Colleges: Diploma Level Studies
Non-degree courses are designed to provide vocational training leading to a good job; but they can also open up further chances of getting a degree.
(R)

1.38 Home Ground: Environment: 3: Rivers
An investigative journey to the source of Britain's biggest river, the Severn. Following it from its first muddy beginnings to its vast slimy meeting with the sea is naturalist Lionel Kelleway.
BBC Wales

2.0 Watch: Then and Now: Home
What was it like to live in a house with no bathroom and to cook on a kitchen range? Watch visits Elvaston Castle Museum, Derbyshire to find out, in the first of five programmes about life when great-grandma and great-grandad were children. Presented by Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair
(R)

2.18 Walrus: What's it Gonna Be?: Dip, Dip, Dip
by Gerry Huxham
(R)

2.40 Zig Zag: Spaceship Earth: The Rocks
With 4,000 million passengers on board, the earth is a spaceship made of rock.

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Animation (You and Me):
Gil Potter
Director (You and Me):
Rosemary Shepherd
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Producer (Maths Counts):
David Roseveare
Producer (Maths at Work):
Roger Fry
Presenter (You Can't See the Wood...):
David Bellamy
Producer (Higher Education):
John Chapple
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
Writer (Walrus):
Gerry Huxham

Introduced by Jeremy James Learn all the basics and improve your play as Jeremy Flint guides novices and regulars of the Bristol Bridge Club towards a better understanding of the game. Director LINDA MCCARTHY
Producer MARK PATTERSON (R)

Contributors

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

starring
Raymond Massey Ralph Richardson To end the Korda season, one of the most extraordinary movies ever made, a spectacular glimpse into the future of mankind based on the prophecies - made in the 1930s - of H.G. Wells.
Everytown, Christmas 1940. Ignoring the threats of war, the people are unprepared for battles that continue for 30 years. A grim pestilence follows until Wings over the World bring peace.Their next quest is the moon.
Screenplay by H. G. WELLS , based on his book The Shape of Things to Come
Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA Directed by WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES
0 FILMS: page 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Massey
Unknown:
Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Produced By:
Alexander Korda
Directed By:
William Cameron Menzies
John Cabal/Oswald Cabal:
Raymond Massey
The Boss:
Ralph Richardson
Pippa Passworthy/ Raymond Passworthy:
Edward Chapman
Dr Harding:
Maurice Braddell
Airman:
John Clements
Theotocopulos:
Cedric Hardwicke
Mary Gordon:
Ann Todd
Richard Gordon:
Derrick de Marney

TV's law and justice magazine. In the studio,
David Jessel and Sue Cook This week:
WHAM! spent six months away from the recording studio in the High Court in order to overturn a contract that paid them barely a living wage despite a string of hits.
Ed Boyle talks to the lawyers and the managers who make and break the deals and follows a new band as it negotiates the legal minefield of a record contract and embarks on the road to fame and, hopefully, fortune. Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Talks:
Ed Boyle
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

An 11-part television history of Britain at work in the 20th century.
5: Planemakers
Aircraft factories are full of enthusiasts, like
Paul Murphy , a supervisor at British Aerospace, Manchester:
'People who work in the aircraft industry consider themselves an elite. There're some magnificent tradesmen. There's also a real mystique about aircraft.'
With archive film dating back to the First World War, aircraft workers tell a technical success story. They pioneered the pure jet, the turbo prop, the jet airliner, the supersonic airliner, and the jump jet.
But the cost of developing new planes was rising all the time.
Narrator
John Woodvine
Producer JONATHAN LEWIS Executive producer
PETER PAGNAMENTA (R)
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Murphy
Narrator:
John Woodvine
Producer:
Jonathan Lewis
Unknown:
Peter Pagnamenta

starring
The Moose
Nothing much shocks
Hawkeye and Trapper but when Sergeant Baker arrives with a young Korean girl slave in tow, the surgeons are stunned. Appeals to finer feelings and offers to buy her freedom fall on cynical ears - but who knows what lies in the cards?
Written by LAURENCE MARKS Directed by HY AVERBACK (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Laurence Marks
Directed By:
Hy Averback
Hawkeye:
Alan Aida
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher
Sgt Baker:
Paul Jenkins
Ho'Jon:
Patrick Adiarto
Leslie Scorch:
Linda Meiklejohn
Spearchucker:
Timothy Brown
Young Hi:
Virginia Lee

Three films set in a Paris studio during a century of scandal and revolution. 1: The Passing Show with James Laurenson as Jacques-Louis David
From the last decadent days of the old monarchy through the Revolution and the rise and fall of Napoleon, the arts in France are dominated by one man - the mysterious figure of David. He is the greatest painter of his day, an ardent revolutionary - and a leading figure in Robespierre's secret police. and Costume designer USA BENJAMIN Designer RICHARD MORRIS
Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER Film editor ARDAN FISHER Written and directed by LESLIE MAGAHEY
* FEATURE: page 98

Contributors

Unknown:
James Laurenson
Unknown:
Jacques-Louis David
Designer:
Richard Morris
Unknown:
John Hooper
Editor:
Ardan Fisher
Directed By:
Leslie Magahey
Casanova:
Nicholas Amer
Louison:
Charlie Dean
Delécluze:
Martin Weedon
DuciS:
Benjamin White
Lavoisier:
Harry Parkinson
Leading actor:
Terence Bayler
Charlotte Corday:
Linda Milner
Hersilia:
Angela Graham-Jones
Sabine daughter:
Rosemary Hirst
Chabot:
Ronald Chenery
with the voices of:
Martin Jarvis
with the voices of:
Andrew Sachs
with the voices of:
John Moffatt

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