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9.35 Encounter: Austria: 5: The School Year Begins...
The School Year Begins... for some with a fashion show, for others with English lessons, a fencing class and a visit to the Landeszeughaus, Graz.
9.52 Textile Studies 5: Clothes Talk
Roy, Joanne, Kirsty, Nakinder and Jason choose a design-brief, an outfit for a party, and follow through their ideas. They model the outfits before a panel of fashion-buyers, journalists, pop artists and an audience of textile students.
Presented by Keith Chegwin
10.15 Sex Education: Life Begins
A baby grows inside its mother's womb for nine months, but what makes it start to grow? The final programme in this series for 8- to 10-year-olds explains why both a man and a woman are necessary for a baby to be conceived.
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10.38 Brazil: 5: Progress: But Who is it for?
How have the fruits of Brazil's economic development been shared by the population as a whole?
(R)
11.0 Watch: The Romans: Roman Streets
Pompeii is unique. This programme explores one of its fascinating old Roman streets and tells the famous story of the eruption of Vesuvius.
(R)
11.17 Walrus: Work it Out: What Does it Mean?
Michael Rosen and the team are reading Losers Weepers by Jan Needle. The sword is not treasure trove and that means that Tony and Carol can keep it. Or does it?
11.39 A-level Studies: Biology: 2: Genetics
The problems and agonies suffered by some couples in the genetic game of chance; and some hopes for the future.
12.2 pm Mindstretchers: Mystery of the Five White Powders: The Problem
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds to work on, with suggested solutions. How can
Anthony Daniels identify the five powders with simple chemical tests? (R)
12.7 Pages from Ceefax
12.30-12.55 Micros in School: Controlling the Computer
The third of four programmes looks at the teacher who wants to use the computer in the classroom.
A BBC/Open University production
with Paul Coia , Marian Foster and Bob Langley
Watch the bizarre antics of the Grand Theatre of Lemmings, starring a number of cute furry creatures with a death wish who are guaranteed to overwhelm all who watch with a feeling of joie de vivre. And explore the extraordinary lifestyle of artist, inventor and entertainer Graham Clarke whose latest venture takes him back in time to rewrite history and portray it as it should have happened.
A See-Saw programme (R)
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs both want to have the first turn. Henry the kangaroo and Ellie go to the library. Carolyn goes lobster fishing with her father. Song: 'Do you know the muffin man?'
(R)
2.15 Unter Uns: Was wir mogen; schmeckt das?; krank sein
(R)
2.26 Pages from Ceefax
2.40 Subtitle Slot: Zig Zag - Into Space
For hearing-impaired children.
Space exploration, weightlessness, rocket propulsion and other marvels.
(R)
Peter West introduces further coverage of play in this 50-overs-a-side challenge.
With Mark Ellen and Andy Kershaw. In the studio this week: Public Image Limited. plus a rare live performance from the reclusive Smiths.
Richard Skinner joins Peter Gabriel in his west-country recording studio and Big Country entertain an ecstatic audience at
The Hexagon, Reading. Plus today's new singles chart and the video vote on [number removed]. Producers
JOHN BURROWES. TREVOR DANN Director MAY MILLER
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON
Invaders of Truk Lagoon Truk Lagoon in the western
Pacific is a peaceful tropical atoll. In 1944 its tranquillity was shattered when the US Navy surprised and sank a fleet of 60 Japanese ships. Within 40 years a dazzling array of corals and colourful fish have transformed this sunken arsenal into the world's largest artificial reef. Narrator Barry Paine
Photographed and produced by WOLFGANG BAYER
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol (R) Revised
How fast can your car accelerate from 0-60 mph?
Well, whether it's fewer than seven seconds, or slightly more than 30, it's the one magic figure which manufacturers sell and motorists believe is the true test of a car's potency.
But is it all that important? How do the testers achieve such dazzling figures; do the results accurately reflect what average motorists can expect from their cars?
Chris Goffey reports.
One hundred years on, Top Gear looks at the pioneering achievements of Karl Benz and how to give accident victims a safer ride in Britain's ambulances.
Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS BBC Pebble Mill
continues a major season of films from Australia.
This week starring Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson
This enchanting love story, by the author of The Thorn Birds, traces the relationship between 24-year-old Tim and Mary, an American business-woman nearly 20 years his senior.
Tim, mentally retarded and closely guarded by his family, is drawn to the sympathetic older woman. His love helps her acquire new values and she leads him to a fuller life....
Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL PATE , based on the novel by COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH
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11.30 Weatherview
Highlights introduced by PETER WEST from Edgbaston. Executive producer NICK HUNTER
Events in the William Tyndale Junior School in Islington, London, became the subject of controversial disciplinary proceedings, an independent inquiry, and heated long-running national press interest. The different sides in the dispute explain both this involvement and the issues they felt were at stake.
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