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9.38 Economics: A Question of Choice: 1: Free to Choose?
What choices are open to people in different economic circumstances? This programme takes a look at family life in Ghana and the UK. It explores the good and bad things which arise out of two economies, and what is meant by quality of life.

10.0 You and Me: Are There Enough?
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Clive runs a shop of conjuring tricks and party goods. Rabbit helps, and between them they get the maths right.
(R)

10.15 Music Time: Panji and the Buffalo
A musical based on a traditional story from Java.
Panji is tricked into selling his buffalo cheaply, but gets his own back with the help of a 'magic' bell.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from Henry Fawcett Junior School.

10.38 History File: British Social History: The Brambles of Poverty
The story of Seebohm Rowntree's investigations into the living conditions of the poor of York in 1899.
Written by Edwin Pearce
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11.0 Zig Zag: The Greeks - Athene's City
Greek buildings and Greek legends. Both have left their mark on today.
Sheelagh Gilbey explores the Parthenon and tells how Perseus slew the gorgon, Medusa.

11.22 Thinkabout: Our Place
The difference between town and country - a new family are moving to the estate. Frank and the gang try to make them feel at home. They do up a doll's house and take photographs of the local area.

11.40 A-level Studies: English: Geoffrey Chaucer The Dreaming Poet
by Ian Taylor
When the Boughton-under-Blee Festival Players tackle Chaucer, poetry and dreams become intertwined with reality.
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A short play about the origins of the Welfare State, showing how Rowntree's study, "Poverty", made an important contribution to the thinking behind the Liberals' welfare legislation.

Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
Terry Griffiths (8) won the world title in 1979 at his first attempt, but since then has not done better than a quarter-final place. Griffiths will know his first-round fate this morning as he concludes his match with Danny Fowler. So will Tony Meo (10) who had a tough draw with John Parrott who did so well last year when he reached the quarter-finals. Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Crucible, Sheffield. Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers
JIM MEADOWCROFT
JOHN VIRGO , JOHN SPENCER Television presentation
KEITH PHILLIPS , MIKE ADLEY
ALAN GRIFFITHS. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER

2.0 pm Words and Pictures: The Old Brown Hat
Everyone can join in with Charlie's song, 'I-tiddly-i-ti, eat brown bread' and listen to the story about the farmer's old brown hat.
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2.18 One World: Trading the Sun
Tourism is one way of helping a country to develop. But there are costs as well as benefits.
(R)

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Gymnast
How can a computer help up-and-coming gymnasts?
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Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
The Crucible's temperature is bound to rise as the audience welcomes three of its World Champions this afternoon.
Alex Higgins (9) won here in 1982, and he plays his match to a conclusion against his old friend John Spencer who won his 1977 title here.
Ray Reardon (6) won his sixth championship at the Crucible in 1978 and he has begun his first-round match against Australia's John Campbell.
DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage.

The Piano Final
Humphrey Burton introduces the five top pianists in this year's competition from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Only one of them can go forward to Sunday's Concerto Final - so competition for the first prize will be intense.
Awarding the prizes tonight are Alun Hoddinott , Bernard Keeffe , Jeremy Menuhin , Phyllis Sellick and Craig Sheppard. Producer HELEN MORTON
Executive producer ROY TIPPING Director KENNETH CORDEN

with Shelley Fabares Diane McBain
Singer Mike McCoy believes in just three things - his band, fast cars and the carefree life of a bachelor.
But triple trouble is just round the corner with spoilt heiress Cynthia Foxhugh, author Diana St Clair and Les, the band's girl drummer. All of them look at Mike with a twinkle in their eyes and marriage on their minds!
Screenplay by THEODORE J. FLICKER , GEORGE KIRGO Produced by JOE PASTERNAK Directed by NORMAN TAUROG
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The Men who Bottled a Cow Around Dr Glyn Vale's Research Station in the African Bush stands an array of bizarre-looking structures of wire, black cloth, netting and string. To the tsetse fly they look and smell like cows. These decoys kill tsetse and they are now being tried out across Africa, for the flies carry a disease fatal to all farm animals. Working in isolation for two decades in what was Rhodesia, Glyn and his colleagues found that most of what the outside world 'knew' about the tsetse was, in fact, wrong.
In the middle of a guerilla war they concentrated on the task of putting the smell of a cow into a bottle. With 43 sheep, 37 cows, 22 goats and a donkey in an underground cave, they set about it ... Narrator Paul Vaughan Written and produced by EDWARD GOLDWYN
Film editor RODERICK LONGHURST Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL

Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship Jimmy White (7) has a potentially difficult match against John Virgo and they play the final ten frames. Kirk Stevens (5) will also need to be careful, as Dean Reynolds is a dangerous and seasoned player, they begin their first-round match.
Introduced by DAVID VINE

An 11-part series starring Marita Breuer Riidiger Weigang Karin Rasenack
3: The Best Christmas Ever
Lucie has pushed
Eduard into the Nazi party and he has become Mayor of Rhaunen. They have built a villa with 52 windows, but Lucie is discontented: her house is like a harbour waiting for the big ships. Wilfried Wiegand returns from Berlin bringing news that electrifies Lucie.
(A German series with English subtitles. Part 4 tomorrow at 9.30pm)

DAVID VINE introduces further coverage from Sheffield.

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 and CHRIS FOX
Assignment editors NICK GUTHRIE and COLIN STANBRIDGE
Deputy editor TIM ORCHARD Editor RICHARD TAIT

The Manpower Services Commission now works with schools through its TVEI scheme. What are the policy issues involved?

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