Programme Index

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9.38 Science Workshop: Animals of the Soil (A)
(R)

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs can't wait for his radish seeds to grow. Cosmo and Jeni Barnett try to explain patiently. A song about hair is followed by a film about Lorraine having her hair done in braids. Book: Meg's Veg by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski
(R)

10.15 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
19: Patterns
Repeat it, slide it, give it a half-drop, even multiply it with mirrors.
20: Time Graph
How do you show movement on a still picture? A bouncing ball and a car journey provide the raw material; music notation provides a clue.

10.38 Maths at Work: 4
Young people use CSE maths at work.
(R)

11.0 Words and Pictures: Trog Makes a Trap
(Shown on Monday at 2.0 pm)

11.17 Let's See: The Sea: 3: A Day at the Seaside
(Shown yesterday at 1.38 pm)

11.40 Scene: Too Young to Have a Baby?
(For details see Friday at 2.0 pm)

12.10 pm You Can't See the Wood...: 8: Forest with a Future
David Bellamy examines the diversity and uses of trees.
(R)

12.35 Rockschool: 9: Questions from Young Musicians
A series of nine programmes giving hints on playing. (R)

1.0 Maths Help (II): 9: Trigonometric Ratios
For adults studying maths to O-level.
(R)

1.15 Higher Education: 4: Universities: UCCA and After
If you're applying to a university, what should you offer apart from the right
A-levels? How do universities help the first-year to survive?
(R)

1.38 Outlook: Alternative Technology: 5: What Future?
BBC Wales

2.0 Watch: Then and Now: Travel
James and Louise investigate how people travelled in the early part of this century when transport was undergoing a revolution. Cars and airplanes were beginning to make their impact, electric trams were in use in most cities and horse-drawn vehicles were beginning to decline.

2.18 Look, Look and Look Again: Working Drawings
Children and an adult artist find interest and subjects for drawing in old machinery
(R)

2.40 Zig Zag: The Detectives
(Shown on Monday at 11.0 am)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Presenter (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): Hilary Clough
Producer (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): David Roseveare
Producer (Maths at Work):
Roger Fry
Presenter (You Can't See the Wood...):
David Bellamy
Producer (Higher Education):
John Chapple
Presenter (Outlook):
David Parry-Jones
Producer (Outlook):
Ifor Rees
Presenter (Watch):
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter (Watch):
James Earl Adair
Series Producer (Watch):
David Taft

Coverage of the fourth race from today's card at the National Hunt Festival introduced by JULIAN WILSON
4.5 The Sun Alliance Steeplechase (3m)
Bolands Cross will be an English 'banker' against a powerful Irish invasion force. Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Reporter JONATHAN POWELL Producer FRED VINER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Richard Pitman
Reporter:
Jonathan Powell
Producer:
Fred Viner

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. Director UNDA MCCARTHY
Producer MARK PATTERSON (R)

Contributors

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

also starring Jane Russell
William Bendix
On a boat headed for Macao are three
Americans - a detective on the trail of a known racketeer, a fugitive from justice, and a sultry nightclub singer. In a city famous for its gambling houses, they become embroiled in a murderous intrigue ...
Screenplay by BERNARD C. SCHOENFELD and STANLEY RUBIN
From a story by BOB Williams Produced by ALEX GOTTLIEB
Directed by JOSEPH VON STERNBERG and NICHOLAS RAY (The Night of the Hunter. Friday, BBC2, 11.45pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Russell
Unknown:
William Bendix
Unknown:
Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Unknown:
Stanley Rubin
Story By:
Bob Williams
Produced By:
Alex Gottlieb
Directed By:
Joseph von Sternberg
Directed By:
Nicholas Ray
Nick Cochran:
Robert Mitchum
Julie Benson:
Jane Russell
Lawrence Trumble:
William Bendix
Lt Sebastian:
Thomas Gomez
Margie:
Gloria Grahame
Halloran:
Brad Dexter
Martin Stewart:
Edward Ashley
Kwan Sum Tang:
Vladimir Sokoloff

In the studio
David Jessel and Sue Cook This week:
Singing for their supper: as the Bar Counsel sues the Lord Chancellor over pay, Ed Boyle meets a band of musical barristers whose work and songs reflect the deep divisions within the legal profession over pay and prospects.
Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

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

An 11-part television history of Britain at work in the 20th century.
9: The Inheritance
Making steel depended on the trained eye of the men who ran the furnaces. For melters like Don Owen there was a special satisfaction.
'It was your achievement. You made the steel up to a specification, and when it was running out it was money in your pocket.'
But the old craft skills were not enough to keep Britain's steelmaking lead. Music by CARL DAVIS Producer GLYN JONES Executive producer
PETER PAGNAMENTA (R)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Don Owen
Music By:
Carl Davis
Producer:
Glyn Jones
Unknown:
Peter Pagnamenta

starring
Cowboy
Perhaps it's something only his best friends would tell him, but everyone wants a lot of space around Henry Blake. Things keep happening to him - like runaway jeeps and exploding latrines. Well, it is a crazy war.
Written by BOB KLANE
Directed by DON WEIS (R)

Contributors

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

by KINGSLEY AMIS adapted in four parts by EWART ALEXANDER
1: Married assistant librarian John Lewis 's mainstay is fantasy, until Mrs Gruffydd -Williams enters his life with interests and offers decidedly non-literary.
Denis Lawson as John Lewis
Brenda Blethyn as Jean Lewis and starring Sheila Gish as Elizabeth Gruffydd-Williams with Music composed and conducted by BRUCE COLE
Costume designer CEUA PYE
Make-up designer MARIANNE GRIGG Designer PAULINE HARRISON Producer PETER EDWARDS Director ROBERT CHETWYN BBC Wales
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Contributors

Unknown:
Ewart Alexander
Unknown:
John Lewis
Unknown:
Mrs Gruffydd
Unknown:
Denis Lawson
Unknown:
Brenda Blethyn
Unknown:
Sheila Gish
Conducted By:
Bruce Cole
Designer:
Marianne Grigg
Designer:
Pauline Harrison
Producer:
Peter Edwards
Director:
Robert Chetwyn
Vernon Grufydd-Williams:
David Calder
leuan Jenkins:
Hugh Thomas
Mrs Davies:
Ann Beach
Mr Davies:
Richard Davies
Ken Davies:
Gareth Potter
Gareth Probert:
Neil McCaul
Bill Evans:
Philip Bowen
Mervyn the dentist:
Davyd Harries
Dentist's mistress:
Sharon Morgan
Paul Whetstone:
Miles Anderson
Theo James:
Albert Welling
Stan John:
Gary Meredith
Margot John:
Arbel Jones
Dilys:
Lowriann Richards
Mrs Edwards:
Patricia Kane
Eira Lewis:
Alison Mathews

Many people have seen dolphins in aquariums, but off the north Cornwall coast, near the fishing village of Portreath, a lone dolphin could be seen playing.
Award-winning cameraman Laurie Emberson gained the dolphin's trust and has captured on film his wild and beautiful environment and his special relationship with man.
Written and narrated by David Bean
Film editor CHRIS WARING
Directed and photographed by LAURIE EMBERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Emberson
Unknown:
David Bean
Editor:
Chris Waring
Unknown:
Laurie Emberson

11.35 Edinburgh Observed
How different specialists can contribute to a historian's understanding of Edinburgh in the 18th century.
(R)

12.0 Ethology, Newts to Newborns
The observation by an ethologist of a species in its natural habitat.
(R)

(to 0.30)

Contributors

Producer (Edinburgh Observed):
Nick Levinson
Producer (Ethology, Newts to Newborns):
Jennie Hughes

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