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6.50 Education: Literacy in Jamaica

7.15 Biology: Form and Function

7.40 Man of Mode by George Etherege

8.30 Territory without a State

8.55 Volunteering the Unemployed

9.20 Meanings of Madness

9.45 Maths: Group Theory

10.10 Arts: Romanticism

10.35 Science: Snowdon to the Sea

11.0 The Public Inquiry

11.25 Managing Work: England

11.50 King Lear Workshop II

12.15 Viewing with Electrons

12.40 Birds: An Experimental Approach

1.5 Genes: Goals and Supergoals

1.30 Geology: From Swamps to Coal

Introduced by Desmond Lynam
Motor Racing
Austrian Grand Prix
A little red light went on in MANSELL'S Williams last year suggesting lack of oil pressure, confirmed on the 26th lap when it stopped.
Nigel still drives a Williams and so far they've kept going. Commentators
MURRAY WALKER , JAMES HUNT
Golf Benson and Hedges International
SANDY LYLE won this and the Open in 85 so he's on a pair. Commentators
PETER ALLISS , TONY JACKLIN
BRUCE CRITCHLEY , CLIVE CLARK
Swimming
World Championships
There's ladies' springboard diving and synchronised swimming finals from Madrid. Commentators ALAN WEEKS and HAMILTON BLAND
Horse Trials from Gatcombe Park
Croft Original Championships The word is that Mark Phillips has built an appallingly difficult course and replies are coming in very slowly to his kind invitation. Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
MIKE TUCKER , HUGH THOMAS Television presentation:
Motor Racing ORF, Austria Golf HAROLD ANDERSON Swimming TVE, Spain
Horse Trials JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
Studio producer CAMPBELL FERGUSON Assistant editor BRIAN BARWICK Producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor JOHN PHILIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Murray Walker
Unknown:
James Hunt
Unknown:
Golf Benson
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Tony Jacklin
Unknown:
Bruce Critchley
Unknown:
Clive Clark
Unknown:
Mark Phillips
Unknown:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
Unknown:
Mike Tucker
Unknown:
Harold Anderson
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston
Producer:
Campbell Ferguson
Editor:
Brian Barwick

starring
Nobody's Perfect
Alex's search for perfection in her job exacts a price when she fails a stress test and is prescribed a month of light caseloads. That's bad enough for the workaholic, but the prospect of opening up in a stress management class does nothing to ease her mind ... Written by DIANE ENGLISH Directed by PETER BALDWIN

Contributors

Written By:
Diane English
Directed By:
Peter Baldwin
Alex:
Margaret Colin
Jesse:
Hector Elizondo
Peter:
Michael Lembeck
Molly:
Cathy Silvers
Carter:
Sanford Jensen
Denise:
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Angel:
Israel Juarbe

Three programmes written and narrated by Barry Paine
2: The Rich, High Desert Early European settlers called the heartland of North America a desert. They were wrong. Trees were scarce but the prairie soil was rich.
Where millions of bison once roamed, millions of acres of wheat now sway in the wind. It grows where ancient seas once flooded the continent; where mountain ranges were ground to dust and carried by wind and rivers. Great ice sheets then compressed and ploughed parts of the land into new shapes. The legacy - landmarks such as the Devil's Tower and the White Sands of New Mexico, the Carlsbad Caverns and Niagara Falls. But it was the legacy of soil that made this 'desert' the breadbasket of the world - and the dustbowl of the 1930s. Film editor DAVID BARRETT Directed by LAN CALVERT Producer NED KELLY
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Paine
Editor:
David Barrett
Directed By:
Lan Calvert

John Evans is the oldest man in Britain. One of seven brothers and three sisters, he was born on 19 August 1877 at Llwitha Common, Fforestfach near Swansea.
He has lived there all his life.
At the age of 12 he started work in a nearby coalmine for five shillings a week, and later took part in the bitter strikes before the mine workers' union was formed.
He despairs of modern times: 'We're better educated but not more civilised - we invented the aeroplane and use it to drop bombs.' But he remembers his early school days, the death of Gordon, cyclists riding to the Boer War, even the royal gossip! Days were quiet except for a nearby chapel bell and the steady 'tip-tap' of a distant horse, and entertainment was made at home.
A Happy 109th Birthday! Producer PAUL PIERROT
Community Programme Unit
0 FEATURE: page 10

The 1986 Formula One World Championship
Austrian Grand Prix
There's no let up for the Formula One cars as they cross the border into Austria just one week after the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Today's race marks the three-quarter stage of the year's championship and MANSELL. PROST, SENNA and PIQUET are still in contention for the coveted world drivers' crown. Commentators
MURRAY WALKER , JAMES HUNT Television presentation ORF, Austria Producer ROGER MOODY
Lap-by-lap coverage on Ceefax
(Italian Grand Prix, 7 September)

Contributors

Unknown:
Murray Walker

Paul Daniels travels to
Longleat to become the first magician in recorded history to present outdoors the full authentic version of the Indian rope trick, and from the studio introduces the unusual ballistic skills of the American comedy magic star Ricky Jay and, from
Czechoslovakia, the hilarious acrobatics of the Sinekos. Featuring Debbie McGee and Jatinder Rahi
Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Directed by DAVID TAYLOR Produced by JOHN FISHER (First shown on BBC

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Ricky Jay
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Unknown:
Gil Leaney
Directed By:
David Taylor
Produced By:
John Fisher

starring
Sterling Hayden Louis Calhem
SamJaffe Marilyn Monroe
A brilliant criminal, Doc Reidenschneider has devised the perfect robbery while in jail. On release, he gathers together a team dedicated to stealing a million dollars' worth of jewels - but someone is not on the level....
Screenplay by BEN MADDOW and JOHN HUSTON
Based on a novel by w R. BURNETT Produced by ARTHUR HORNBLOW JR Directed by JOHN HUSTON
● FILMS: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Sterling Hayden
Unknown:
Louis Calhem
Unknown:
Samjaffe Marilyn Monroe
Unknown:
Doc Reidenschneider
Unknown:
Ben Maddow
Unknown:
John Huston
Unknown:
R. Burnett
Produced By:
Arthur Hornblow
Directed By:
John Huston
Dix Handley:
Sterling Hayden
Alonzo D Emmerich:
Louis Calhern
Doll Conovan:
Jean Hagen
Gus Minissi:
James Whitmore
Reidenschneider:
Sam Jaffe
Police Commissioner Hardy:
John McIntire
Cobby:
Marc Lawrence
Lt Ditrich:
Barry Kelley
Louis Ciavelli:
Anthony Caruso
Maria Ciavelli:
Teresa Celli
Angela Phinlay:
Marilyn Monroe

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