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9.38 Economics: A Question of Choice: 5: The Right Price?
Is there such a thing as a right price for anything? How important are the workings of the market-place to a manufacturer launching a new computer and a farmer selling his grain?

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs get lost at the funfair. Maths at the seaside: shallow and deep. Story: Meeting Grandad by Mary Dickinson and Yasmin Sheikh
(R)

10.15 Music Time: Shadow Puppets
The children make shadow puppets for a story set in Java. A look at the traditional Javanese shadow puppets.
With children from Henry Fawcett Junior School

10.38 History File: British Social History: Nine Days in May
by Michael Tavistock
'The Government's out to smash us all... it's gonna be tough but it's what we've got to do.'
'I can see what you can't. It's a strike against Parliament and the constitution. It's revolution you're aiming at.' The 1926 General Strike.
With Lloyd McGuire, Caroline John, Denis Holmes, Chris Sullivan, Roger Hume, John Rowe and Colin Jeavons
(R)

11.0 Zig Zag: The Greeks - the Persian Wars
History was invented by the Greeks and the first history book was about the Persian Wars. Sheelagh Gilbey visits the sites of Marathon and Thermopylae and Russell Enoch as Herodotus tells the story of the Greek resistance.

11.22 Thinkabout: Water
You can drink it, freeze it, wash in it, float or sink in it and on a hot day everybody needs it for something. So what happens when the water supply is cut off?

11.40 A-level Studies: History: Birmingham and Manchester
The Industrial Revolution permanently altered the face of Britain, and the way of life of many of its inhabitants. How did contemporary observers view the changes that were happening? How far can we generalise about the effects of industrialisation on particular towns? Do the similarities of the experience outweigh the differences?
Presented by Clive Behagg
(R)

12.2 pm Mindstretchers: Tight Living: Solutions
Feroza Syal explains her bed-sitter design to Anthony Daniels. Is it comfortable? Does it work?
(R)

12.7 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: Strange Bumps
Owl is scared by bumps under the bedclothes. Charlie is scared by an owl, and the children make shadow-shapes.
(R)

2.18 One World: Made in Britain
Among Britain's exports to Jamaica is agricultural machinery. But unless farmers can afford to buy, jobs in Britain are at risk.
(R)

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Transport Planner
All aboard! How can a computer help solve the problems of conveying by sea the million or so people between the Greek mainland and the islands in the best possible way?
(R)

Contributors

Producer (Economics:
A Question of Choice): John Watkins
Series Producer (Economics:
A Question of Choice): Roger Fry
Presenter (You and Me):
Harry Towb
Illustrations (You and Me):
Charlotte Firmin
Film Editor (You and Me):
David Painter
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Spiers
Puppets (Music Time):
Madame Souhami and Co
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Writer (History File):
Michael Tavistock
Director (History File):
Tony Virgo
Producer (History File):
Ronald Smedley
[Actor]:
Lloyd McGuire
[Actress]:
Caroline John
[Actor]:
Denis Holmes
[Actor]:
Chris Sullivan
[Actor]:
Roger Hume
[Actor]:
John Rowe
[Actor]:
Colin Jeavons
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Herodotus:
Russell Enoch
Producer (Thinkabout):
Moyra Gambleton
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Ros Wilson:
Pam St Clement
Presenter (A-level Studies:
History): Clive Behagg
Writer (A-level Studies:
History): Asa Briggs
Producer (A-level Studies:
History): Jill Sheppard
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Feroza Syal
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Anthony Daniels
Designer (Mindstretchers):
Pia Graham
Series Producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (One World):
Robin Gwyn
Producer (One World):
Robin Gwyn

Jenni Murray talks to Anne Nightingale, Radio 1's first woman disc jockey, about her career in journalism and the music industry, and moments which have shaped her life.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Jenni Murray
Interviewee:
Anne Nightingale
Research:
Steve Jane Evans
Director:
Jeremy Cross
Producer:
David Seymour

with Michele Carey Rudy Vallee
The last of this season of Elvis films, a rarely seen romantic comedy. On the beach, photographer Greg Nolan encounters a mysterious woman who gives him a tranquiliser that puts him to sleep for three days. When he wakes up, he finds she has completely taken over his life.
Screenplay by MICHAEL A. HOEY and DAN GREENBURG
Based on the novel Kiss My Firm but Pliant Lips by DAN GREENBURG
Produced by DOUGLAS LAURENCE Directed by NORMAN TAUROG
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Michele Carey
Unknown:
Rudy Vallee
Unknown:
Greg Nolan
Unknown:
Michael A. Hoey
Unknown:
Dan Greenburg
Unknown:
Dan Greenburg
Produced By:
Douglas Laurence
Directed By:
Norman Taurog
Greg Nolan:
Elvis Presley
Bernice:
Michele Carey
Penlow:
Rudy Vallee
Lansdown:
Don Porter
Harry:
Dick Sergant
Milkman:
Sterling Holloway
Delivery boy:
Eddie Hodges
Ellen:
Celeste Yarnall

After exploring the most easterly of the Lakes' summits in the mid-50s,
Wainwright declared: 'What joys have been mine that others should share!'
He shows Eric Robson some of the delights still to be discovered above
Haweswater - they enter the valley on the 'Old Corpse
Road' from Shap and survey its full extent at the summit of High Street. Wainwright recalls his first visit there more than 50 years ago to see Mardale before it was flooded and where now 'there's nothing left but ghosts'.
Film cameraman JOHN WARWICK
Associate producer LAN SUTHERLAND Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK
Producer RICHARD ELSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Unknown:
John Warwick
Producer:
John Mapplebeck

A Handful of Sugar with a Pinch of Salt
The medical advance of the century.... more important than the discovery of penicillin and the eradication of smallpox. Bold, but justifiable, claims for what turns out to be just a drink of sugar and salt.
The world's biggest killer of children is diarrhoea. Now, instead of going to hospital, mothers can treat it themselves and so save their child's life at home, at virtually no cost.
From a beach in Bangladesh, to a Nicaraguan war-zone, a Honduran hospital and a classroom in Alexandria, a story unfolds of how a cheap therapy, discovered by accident, may not only save the lives of half a million children a year, but also, surprisingly, halt the rise of the world's birth rates. Narrator Paul Vaughan
Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Written and produced by SIMON CAMPBELL JONES
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Christopher Woolley
Produced By:
Simon Campbell
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

Watching Instructions
1: connect receiver to socket
(preferably electrical)
2: turn/press on/off dial/button on 3: tune to BBC2
4: feel guilty about not watching Panorama
5: watch the second in a series of six fast-moving sketch shows.
Featuring Ron Bain
Gregor Fisher. Andy Gray Helen Lederer , Tony Roper Elaine C. Smith
John Sparkes and Jonathan Watson Music DAVID MCNIVEN
Script editor PHILIP DIFFER Designer lain MCDONALD Director BRIAN JOBSON Producer COLIN GILBERT BBC Scotland
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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
Director:
Brian Jobson
Producer:
Colin Gilbert

with John Pitman
The blue whale is undergoing cosmetic treatment; the dinosaur is getting a spring-clean and the elephants and rhinoceros are on the move. All this before 7,500 visitors arrive for the day.
Away from the public gaze, the scientists are beavering away. One tries to record the love calls of the cricket; another dissects sprats.
And the spider man, Paul Hillyard, feeds his beloved tarantulas. 'Nobody has ever been eaten by one,' he says, 'It's just that they have a very bad press.'
"This series adds a bit of joy to life" (DAILY MAIL)
"A charming documentary" (THE TIMES)
"Another treat in this fine series" (DAILY MIRROR)
Series producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF
Director JOHN-PAUL DAVIDSON
(R) CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
John Pitman
Unknown:
Paul Hillyard
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff
Director:
John-Paul Davidson

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.

Contributors

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

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