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9.58 Thinkabout: At the Seaside
Sally and the children find all sorts of things down at the seaside - including a monster?

10.13 Pages from Ceefax

11.0 Near and Far: Drought
In 1976 the rains failed both in Britain and in Africa. Here it led to one of the most serious droughts on record; for Africa it was just the beginning of the most devastating drought of our time.

11.20 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 pm You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Dibs and Cosmo find out about rhymes when they get a shopping-list wrong.
Film: Having an eye-test and choosing glasses.
Song: 'Work calypso'
(R)

2.15 Music Time: Java Food
Two songs about Javanese food from the musical Panji and the Buffalo

2.40 History File: British Social History: 20th-century Woman: Changing Roles

Contributors

Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright

A Gamble Close to the Edge
Peter Phillips wanted to build Britain's biggest racing catamaran. But his course was far from easy. A mast broke, money ran short. In a year of spectacular racing scenes, he was fighting to keep his project alive. Now, with the 1986 sailing season under way, he's back in action, determined to make his gamble pay off. Picture editors
PETER SNOW, GREG WADE Producer TONY BYERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Phillips
Unknown:
Greg Wade
Producer:
Tony Byers

Last of six programmes written by CLIVE DOIG Film and Photography
A murder and a mysterious disappearance figure in the true stories of the invention of cinema photography. The camera obscura, the forerunner of the photographic camera, means 'a darkened room'. What happened to Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci in a darkened room? Look out for nothing appearing on your screen.
All other inventors and characters played by the company.
Videotape editor SAM SEAL
Visual effects MALCOLM JAMES
Assistant producer PETER LESLIE Designer JOHN ASBRIDGE Produced and directed by CLIVE DOIG

Contributors

Written By:
Clive Doig
Unknown:
Mona Lisa
Unknown:
Leonardo Da Vinci
Unknown:
Malcolm James
Producer:
Peter Leslie
Designer:
John Asbridge
Directed By:
Clive Doig
Mrs Fford:
Jacqueune Clarke
Mr Halfpenny:
Phillp Fox
Professor Archie Medes:
Bernard Holley
Miss Cartridge:
Madeline Smith
Miss Ogley:
Julia Binsted
Mr Dunn:
Mike Savage
Major Squaddie:
Sylvester McCoy

with Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley

The lively story of a tough Colorado backwoods girl who pursues fame, fortune - and love - with non-stop energy, and finds that entering high society requires more than just wealth.

Films: page 27

Contributors

Screenplay:
Helen Deutsch
Based on the musical play by:
Meredith Willson
Based on the musical play by:
Richard Morris
Producer:
Lawrence Weingarten
Director:
Charles Walters
Molly:
Debbie Reynolds
Johnny:
Harve Presnell
Shamus Tobin:
Ed Begley
Morgan:
Jack Kruschen
Mrs Grogan:
Hermione Baddeley
Louis:
Vassili Lambrinos
Karl Ludwig:
Fred Essler

by ROY CLARKE starring Roy Kinnear and Sandra Dickinson with Hugh Lloyd Shaun Curry Carmel Cryan Glynis Brooks
Just when all seems lost in her unreturned love for
Arnold's partner Vernie,
Dawn unexpectedly receives a letter from him which dramatically reverses the situation. Arnold's gift as a clairvoyant provides the necessary assurance that the traditional happy ending is at hand. Burma's experiences fighting the Japanese make him not so sure.
Studio lighting ALAN HORNE
Studio sound DAVE THOMPSON Studio cameraman
ALEC WHEAL
Designer SUZY LAWRANCE Produced and directed by ALAN J. W. BELL
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Clarke
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Sandra Dickinson
Unknown:
Hugh Lloyd
Unknown:
Shaun Curry
Unknown:
Carmel Cryan
Unknown:
Glynis Brooks
Unknown:
Alan Horne
Unknown:
Dave Thompson
Unknown:
Alec Wheal
Designer:
Suzy Lawrance
Directed By:
Alan J. W. Bell
Burma:
Hugh Lloyd
Motorist:
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Lily:
Sandra Dickinson
Arnold:
Roy Kinnear
Carmen:
Carmel Cryan
Newton:
Shaun Curry
Dawn:
Glynis Brooks

'Blue Moon Detective Agency. We'll solve your problems ... once we've solved ours.'
Starring with The Next Murder You Hear DJ Paul McCain. the voice of the 'Heartbreak Hotline', is murdered on air and this, reasons Addison, is the big case. It has everything: sex, violence, hit tunes. Maddie thinks it's too unseemly. But things are never quite what they seem - and anything is better than David's obsession with things that go 'boink' in the night....
Written by PETER SILVERMAN Directed by PETER WERNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul McCain.
Written By:
Peter Silverman
Directed By:
Peter Werner
Maddie Hayes:
Cybill Shepherd
David Addison:
Bruce Willis
Ms Dipesto:
Allyce Beasley
Sonny Brezner:
James Sloyan
Laura Boyd:
Barbara Stock
Paul McCain:
Gregg Henry

First of two programmes about fate and divine intervention
Steering Clear
Are our lives really subject to supernatural influence? Many of us behave as if we thought so: as if at least some of the things that happen to us have been predetermined by forces outside ourselves - forces which we can perhaps discover and dodge. Ancient Greeks consulted the oracle at Delphi; modern men and women study horoscopes and have their palms read.
Susan Crosland addresses these old mysteries.
Talking to an astrologer, a clairvoyant, a magician, the actor Derek Jacobi and the barrister and author
John Mortimer , she asks how seriously we take the idea of outside influence, and how seriously we ought to take it. Film editors
TONY HEAVEN. PAT O'GRADY Film cameraman IAN STONE Research DAVID WILLCOCK Producer OLGA EDRIDGE
0 FEATURE: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Crosland
Unknown:
Derek Jacobi
Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
David Willcock
Producer:
Olga Edridge

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith Producers
JANA BENNETT. TIM GARDAM
MARK THOMPSON. DIANA MORTON Directors
JOHN WILKINSON. CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE. ADRIAN MILNE Deputy editor TIM ORCHARD Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Producers:
Jana Bennett.
Producers:
Tim Gardam
Unknown:
Mark Thompson.
Unknown:
Diana Morton
Directors:
John Wilkinson.
Editors:
Nick Guthrie.
Editors:
Adrian Milne
Editor:
Richard Tait

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