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9.38 Science Workshop: Cleaning (B)
(R)

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Against the advice of both Dibs and Jeni Barnett, Cosmo sets up her own whistle stall. They also sing a song about faces and make a Nigerian mask.
Book: "Maisie Middleton"
(R)

10.15 Maths Counts: According to Plan
Twice as big, 50 times as big - it's a question of scale.
(R)

10.38 Maths at Work
(R)

11.0 Words and Pictures: Trog and His Axe
(Shown on Monday at 2.0 pm)

11.17 Let's See: The Sea
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)

11.40 Scene: A Visitor from Outer Space
(For details see Friday at 2.0 pm)

12.10 pm You Can't See the Wood...: 7: Trees in Towns
David Bellamy examines the natures, diversity and uses of trees.
(R)

12.35 Rockschool: 8: Crossover Styles
A series of nine programmes giving hints and tips on playing to budding rock musicians.
(R)

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

1.15 Higher Education: What Sort of Place?
A student's-eye view of undergraduate life; what is it like to master new study skills and to branch out into new subjects?
(R)

1.38 Home Ground: Environment: 4: Seashores
A look at some of the animals and seaweeds that live in and along the seashore. Naturalist Lionel Kelleway delves into rock pools, and digs beneath the sandy shoreline to discover the creatures there.
BBC Wales

2.0 Watch: Then and Now: Work
James and Louise continue their exploration of life at the beginning of the century. James watches a farrier at work and Louise visits a farm to see a horse-drawn plough. They use archive film to show what mining and mill work was like at the time.
Presented by Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair
(Shown yesterday at 11.0 am)

2.18 Walrus: What's it Gonna Be?: All for a Friend
(R)

2.40 Zig Zag: Patterns Hold the Key
(Shown on Monday at 11.0 am)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Producer (Maths Counts):
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
Series Producer (Watch):
David Taft

Introduced by Jeremy James Learn all the basics and improve your game week by week with Jeremy Flint. Director UNDA MCCARTHY
Producer MARK PATTERSON (R)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Jeremy Flint.
Producer:
Mark Patterson

also starring Ava Gardner
Barbara Beaurevel is a New Orleans beauty of a proud but penniless family. In love with Mark, a doctor who marries another woman, she becomes bold on inheriting a fortune, and plots with her unscrupulous cousin to break up the marriage.
Screenplay 6y MARION PARSONNET Produced by ROBERT SPARKS. POLAN BANKS Directed by ROBERT STEVENSON
● FILMS: page 22

Contributors

Unknown:
Ava Gardner
Unknown:
Barbara Beaurevel
Unknown:
Marion Parsonnet
Produced By:
Robert Sparks.
Produced By:
Polan Banks
Directed By:
Robert Stevenson
Mark:
Robert Mitchum
Barbara:
Ava Gardner
Paul:
Melvyn Douglas
Aunt Eula:
Lucile Watson
Corinne:
Jams Carter
Clay Duchesne:
Gordon Oliver
Dean Cazzley:
Basil Ruysdael
Pompey:
Clarence Muse
Coroner:
Walter Kingsford
Cousin Phillipe:
Jack Briggs
Lester Toplady:
Will Wright

The Billion Dollar Time Bomb - Countdown to Court The fastest selling IUD contraceptive of the 70s has misfired on the makers. The Dalkon Shield ... made in America, sold in Britain and blamed by thousands of women worldwide for distress, disease and even death. The company has always denied liability - but the burden of litigation has forced L. H. Robins (US) to face all creditors in one court. Now the manufacturers have been ordered to launch an unprecedented campaign to contact millions of potential claimants. Since Out of Court's first report last summer, hundreds of British women have come forward, some still wearing the device. Can they claim? David Jessel , Sue Cook and reporter
Ed Boyle unravel the latest developments as time ticks away to the April deadline. Studio director PIETER MORPURGO Producer JEREMY EVANS
Series producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
L. H. Robins
Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Jeremy Evans
Producer:
Hugh Purcell

An 11-part television history of Britain at work in the 20th century.
8: Scientific Change
The risk of poison gas, acid spills and explosions was always present. But pay was high in the chemical industry and there were few disputes. Chemical workers tell a human success story, as well as a technical and commercial one. The outdated
Victorian heavy chemical industry managed to modernise itself after 1914. Strong new companies were formed. What was their secret?
Music by CARL DAVIS
Producer ANGELA HOLDSWORTH Executive producer
PETER PAGNAMENTA (R)
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Music By:
Carl Davis
Producer:
Angela Holdsworth
Unknown:
Peter Pagnamenta

starring
Requiem for a Lightweight
Hotlips dislikes Nurse Cutler and wants her out; Hawkeye and Trapper want her to stay; Henry can help, but only if someone volunteers to box General Barker's champion. Trapper valiantly agrees and then discovers his opponent's record - 97 wins, no losses and three arrests. Fr Mulcahy advises prayer.... Written by BOB KLANE
Directed by HY AVERBACK (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Mulcahy
Written By:
Bob Klane
Directed By:
Hy Averback
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher

starring
Donald Sutherland Brooke Adams
Once it took a gun, a mask and a fast getaway car to rob a bank. But in today's age of computers and electronic surveillance, the modern criminal has to find new methods.
Donald Sutherland is Reese, a civil engineer bored with his life and determined to make good. And Brooke Adams is the girl who is the hitch in the plan that had appeared so simple ...
Screenplay by RAYNOLD GIDEON
BRUCE A. EVANS. STUART MARGOUN Produced by PETER SAMUELSON and JOHN B. BENNETT
Directed by NOEL BLACK
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Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Sutherland
Unknown:
Brooke Adams
Unknown:
Donald Sutherland
Unknown:
Brooke Adams
Unknown:
Raynold Gideon
Unknown:
Bruce A. Evans.
Produced By:
Peter Samuelson
Produced By:
John B. Bennett
Directed By:
Noel Black
Reese Balperin:
Donald Sutherland
Stacy Bishop:
Brooke Adams
Norman Barrie:
Paul Mazursky
Peter:
Allan Magicovsky
Marie:
Leigh Hamilton
Gino:
Nick Rice
Jerry:
Peter Eruch
Steve:
Paul Rothery
Laura:
Elizabeth Barclay
Second girl:
Leanne Young
Models:
Tibbi Landers
Models:
Sharon Spurrell
Models:
Annette Marie Dupuis

John Tusa , Peter Snow , Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary present the stories and interviews behind the main stories of the day.
Ian Smith and Jenni Murray with a round-up of the news.

Contributors

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

11.50 Primary Sources: Stratford-upon-Avon
A look at the sources for a history of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's time.
(R)

12.15 Bath: 18th Century
A view of the rapid growth of the city of Bath as a tourist resort.
(R)

(to 0.45)

Contributors

Producer (Primary Sources):
Nancy Thomas
Producer (Primary Sources):
Roger Thompson
Producer (Bath:
18th Century): Tony Coe

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