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11.0 Watch: The Romans: 4: Roman Soldiers
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11.17 Walrus: Work it Out: What Next?
Michael Rosen and the team are reading Losers Weepers by Jan Needle, but they start today by looking at another story - a true one.
11.39 A-level Studies: Biology: 4: Mechanisms of Change: 2
In this programme author Francis Hitching looks forward from the current theories of evolution to examine the implications of new research in genetics and the laws of form.
12.2 pm Mindstretchers: The Spy Who Came in from the Code: The Problem
A spy makes her escape with an important message in cipher.
Where was it hidden, and what did it say? With Vicky Licorish and Tony Aitken.
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12.7 Pages from Ceefax
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
When Gary smashes Jeni's new china by mistake, Cosmo and Dibs have to help choose some more. Henry and Ellie look out for 'No dogs' signs. A group of blind children visits a special exhibition at the Natural History Museum, where they can touch the animals on display. Song: 'I-tiddly-i-tie'
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2.13 Pages from Ceefax
2.40 Subtitle Slot: Zig Zag: Planets
A series of programmes from the year's school television output repeated in subtitled form for hearing-impaired children
A grand tour of the solar system on board the space ship Zig Zag.
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The Comhill Insurance
Test Series
England v India from Lord's Fifth day
Introduced by PETER WEST
Richard Skinner visits
Genesis at their recording studio in the depths of the Surrey countryside as they complete their new album.
In the studio Mark Ellen and Andy Kershaw introduce
Sandie Shaw and Hipsway, while Ro Newton joins the audience at the Town and Country Club as it welcomes Australian band The Models at the start of their British tour.
Plus today's new singles chart and the Video Vote on [number removed]Producers JOHN BURROWES and TREVOR DANN
Director MAY MILLER
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON
The first of two programmes The Second World War as witnessed by amateur cameramen in Britain and Germany.
The activities of Aspley
Guise, a Bedfordshire village, were chronicled by the local builder, the late DICK SINFIELD. who showed his newsreels in the parish hall.
These films, many in colour, were rediscovered recently. Now, accompanied by the recollections of those who featured in them, they provide a unique record of one community's experiences in wartime.
VT editor KENNETH CONNELL
Producer FRANCESCA KIRBY-GREEN (R)
All Africa Within Us
On the banks of the Limpopo river in Southern Africa, the author Sir Laurens van der Post
tells the story of early man's relationship to the animals around him.
From Bushman legends he shows how the whole of nature was like a mirror in which man discovered hidden aspects of himself.
Narrator Barry Paine
Producer JONATHAN STEDALL Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol (R) Revised
Supermarket shopping in Britain takes on a new look this week when you'll be able to add saloon cars to your shopping list.
William Woollard goes to London's Isle of Dogs to see an experiment started yesterday by one major supermarket chain to sell cars to its customers. Sue Baker road tests a convertible from
Eastern Europe, the Skoda Rapide, and Frank Page reports on the concerned mum whose interest has led to a baby-seats-for-hire scheme which encourages young mothers to belt up their new babies from the moment they leave hospital. Producer BRIAN STRACHAN
Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS BBC Pebble Mill
continues a major season of films from
Australia.
Tonight starring
Edward Woodward and Jack Thompson
At the height of the Boer War three members of the Bushveldt Carbineers are court-martialled on charges of murdering Boer prisoners and a German missionary. The action - designed to make them an 'example' - is politically motivated and the proceedings strongly in favour of the prosecution ... This gripping story of injustice proved one of the most powerful and successful of all recent Australian movies.
Lt Harry Harbord 'Breaker'
Morant ...EDWARD WOODWARD
Screenplay by JONATHAN HARDY
DAVID STEVENS. BRUCE BERESFORD Based on the play by KENNETH ROSS Produced by MATTHEW CARROLL Directed by BRUCE BERESFORD
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John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Ian Smith and Jenni Murray
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v India from Lord's Fifth day
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the final day's play.
Executive producer NICK HUNTER
Provocative and controversial, this is a specially-written play by Farrukh Dhondy about life in a multi-racial inner-city school, set very much in contemporary Britain.
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