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9.38 Economics: A Question of Choice: 4: In the Public Interest?
Should some services be supported with public money? What would happen if they weren't? Who benefitted from the subsidised public transport system which gave travellers in South Yorkshire the cheapest fares in the country?

10.0 You and Me: Think of a Number
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Rabbit is quite good at counting as long as Clive keeps out of the way.
(R)

10.15 Music Time: The Animals
Songs about some of the monkeys, apes and buffaloes that live in Java; performing a piece of music following a graphic score.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from Henry Fawcett Junior School.

10.38 History File: British Social History: Education for All
Education for All - the 1870 and 1902 Acts Britain's state education system has been developing for more than 100 years. How has it changed since the Act of 1870?
(R)

11.0 Zig Zag: Greek Schools
Education as we know it began in Ancient Greece. Sheelagh Gilbey travels back in time to an Athenian classroom and explores the world of abacuses, wax tablets, styluses and water clocks. Jonathan Burn tells the story of how Jason brought back the Golden Fleece.

11.22 Thinkabout: Playgrounds
The children go off to their local adventure playground and build a box-shaped and a pyramid-shaped house. Trouble comes when they find there aren't enough planks to finish both houses.

11.40 A-level Studies: History: The Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536
The Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536 posed the biggest threat yet faced by the Tudor throne. It has usually been represented as a spontaneous and popular uprising against Henry VIII's religious reforms and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; but several modem historians have challenged this view.
Authorities on the Tudor period put forward varying interpretations about the people and causes behind the rising.
Written by John Fines
Presented by Richard Burrows
with John Fines, G.R. Elton, C. Haig and C.S.L. Davis
(R)

12.2 pm Mindstretchers: Solutions: Lies and Statistics: Solutions
The statistics in the 'Ticky Tacky' report analysed. With Feroza Syal and Anthony Daniels
(R)

12.7 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: What is it?
Vicky Ireland does some late spring cleaning and tells the story about Jacko the clown and the bumpy rug.
(R)

2.18 One World: Made in Barbados
Supplementing sugar and tourism, Barbados now exports manufacturing goods. To what cost and benefit?
(R)

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Map-maker
How can a computer help workmen digging a hole in the road?
(R)

Contributors

Film editor (Economics:
A Question of Choice): Barry Haigh
Consultant (Economics:
A Question of Choice): Steven Hodkinson
Producer (Economics:
A Question of Choice): Roger Fry
Producer (You and Me):
Roger Fry
Series Producer (You and Me):
Roy Thompson
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Storyteller (Zig Zag):
Jonathan Burn
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Producer (Thinkabout):
Pat Farrington
Sharon:
Buki Armstrong
Writer (A-level Studies:
History): John Fines
Presenter (A-level Studies:
History): Richard Burrows
Producer (A-level Studies:
History): Jill Sheppard
[Actor]:
John Fines
[Actor]:
G.R. Elton
[Actor]:
C. Haig
[Actor]:
C.S.L. Davis
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Feroza Syal
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Anthony Daniels
Series Producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (One World):
Robin Gwyn
Producer (Computer Club):
Roger Fry

Kilnsey Show
Set in the shadow of Kilnsey Crag, it's probably the most popular show in the Yorkshire Dales and is famous not only for its agricultural attractions, but also for its sporting events. Harry Gration and BBC North outside broadcast cameras visit the show to watch events that include dry stone walling, trotting and a foot race that takes competitors 1,000 feet to the top of the crag and back again. Director MARCEL GUILLOU Producer MIKE MURRAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Gration
Director:
Marcel Guillou
Producer:
Mike Murray

with Nancy Sinatra Bill Bixby
In this fast-moving musical adventure,
Elvis plays a stock-car racer who falls behind with his income tax payments. When a beautiful revenue agent is sent to investigate, his troubles really begin ...
Written by PHILLIP SHUKEN
Produced by DOUGLAS LAURENCE Directed by NORMAN TAUROG
0 FILMS: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Sinatra
Unknown:
Bill Bixby
Written By:
Phillip Shuken
Produced By:
Douglas Laurence
Directed By:
Norman Taurog
Steve Grayson:
Elvis Presley
Susan Jacks:
Nancy Sinatra
Kenny Donford:
Bill Bixby
R W Hepworth:
Gale Gordon
Abel Esterlake:
William Schallert

Painstakingly written over 13 years, Wainwright's Guides to the Lakeland Fells are revered by all who walk the hills, and made their author a legend in his own lifetime. Although total sales of 'Wainwright's' have passed the million mark and his recent books have entered the bestseller lists, their author still remains an elusive and secretive figure known simply as 'AW' to a few friends.
In 1982 he spoke publicly for the first time in a BBC North East documentary. Now, in five exclusive films, he takes Eric Robson to some of his favourite places. In tonight's programme, they climb
Penyghent in Yorkshire's limestone country, discovering that its charms are as abundant below ground as above.
Film cameraman JOHN WARWICK
Associate producer IAN SUTHERLAND Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK
Producer RICHARD ELSE
0 FEATURE: page 82
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Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Unknown:
John Warwick
Producer:
Ian Sutherland
Producer:
John Mapplebeck
Producer:
Richard Else

What Makes an Animal
Smart?
How intelligent is a bee? Or an ant? Or a bird? Or a human? Bees can map out the location of flowers, ants can do trigonometry in their heads, birds can navigate thousands of miles and cockatoos can ride bicycles. So is animals' intelligence at all like that of humans?
James Gould , a professor of biology at Princeton
University, argues that what appears to be intelligence in many species turns out to be inborn instinctive behaviour. So why should the human mind be any different? James Gould believes that if we look at many of the fascinating ways that animal minds work, we will learn more about the human one. Music composed by GEOFFREY BURGON
Film editor NICK RAYNER
Producer CHRISTOPHER LA FONTAINE Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
0 INFO: page 77

Contributors

Unknown:
James Gould
Unknown:
James Gould
Composed By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Editor:
Nick Rayner
Producer:
Christopher La Fontaine
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

Video (vi'd-a'o) (n. abbrev. video recorder) first thing that gets nicked when your house is burgled.
Video cassette (n.) thing which was inside the nicked recorder on which you'd taped the last episode of Heimat.
Video, naked (TV series) comedy, new, fast-moving, irreverent.

Featuring Ron Bain, Gregor Fisher, Andy Gray, Helen Lederer, Tony Roper, Elaine C. Smith, John Sparkes and Jonathan Watson

BBC Scotland
(Ceefax subtitles)
Feature: page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Ron Bain
Unknown:
Gregor Fisher
Unknown:
Andy Gray
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Tony Roper
Unknown:
Elaine C. Smith
Unknown:
John Sparkes
Unknown:
Jonathan Watson
Music:
David McNiven
Music:
David Anderson
Script Editor:
Philip Differ
Designer:
Iain McDonald
Director:
Brian Jobson
Producer:
Colin Gilbert

with John Pitman Moving
They say that moving house is one of the worst things that can happen to ordinary people.
Ronald Miller , 82, and his wife Isabel, 75, are leaving the house they moved into after their wedding in 1930. Artist Glyn Boyd Harte is moving into a crumbling mansion in the West End; and in Clacton, the Patels are praying that their temple won't get damaged.
For the removal men, it's just another day. But they do try. 'We have to be diplomats,' they say, 'I mean, that's people's lives stuck on the back of our lorries.'
This series adds a bit of joy to life
(DAILY MAIL)
Director NICK HANDEL
Series producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF (R)
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Pitman
Unknown:
Ronald Miller
Artist:
Glyn Boyd Harte
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
Ian Smith and Jenni Murray with a round-up of the news from home and abroad. Producers
JANA BENNETT , TIM GARDAM
MARK THOMPSON and DIANA MORTON Directors
JOHN WILKINSON and CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE and ADRIAN MILNE Deputy editor TIM ORCHARD Editor RICHARD TATT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Jana Bennett
Unknown:
Tim Gardam
Unknown:
Mark Thompson
Unknown:
Diana Morton
Unknown:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Chris Fox
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Unknown:
Adrian Milne
Editor:
Tim Orchard
Editor:
Richard Tatt

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