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Shaheen Nawab chairs a discussion about Your Health in Old Age. Taking part are
Dr Hasan Shakeel , consultant physician, geriatric medicine, Asha Srivastava, a care assistant in an old peoples' home and pensioner Aasha Bawa.
Music is by Gurdial Singh , who sings a ghazal.
An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBC Pebble Mill
9.35 Encounter: Austria: On the Farm; Ski-ing on the Dachstein
Learning to ski in Austria is as common as swimming lessons here, so - what is it like?
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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Living Images
Yorkshire children use a model for a portrait of a character from fiction.
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: Stripey the Badger
Debbie has befriended Stripey the badger. But can a badger be a pet? And shouldn't the children tell Mrs Rudge about him?
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10.38 Science in Action: Sporting Chance
Having a go yourself is the theme of this new 'Hands-on-Science' series. This week: explore the physics of pedal power, find out how to make a bike go faster and marvel at human-powered vehicles.
Presented by Kjartan Poskitt and Terry Marsh
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11.0 Watch: Visual Arts: Making and Modelling
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11.17 Near and Far: Concrete
The look of many towns and cities owes much to the use of concrete. However, the extraction of its raw materials - limestone, clay, sand and gravel has had an even more dramatic effect on rural areas.
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 2
The spaceship Investigator strays into a powercloud. To find their way out, Stella and Zak must recognise and model marker-buoys made of cubes.
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
3: Arithmetic Progressions
How to make a number sequence add up without really trying.
4: Shuffles
From riffling cards to ringing the changes - what patterns emerge?
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12.18 pm Maths Counts: 2: Round About
by John Tully
Seven dollars and 99 cents. Call it eight dollars. Steve and Wendy learn how to round numbers up - and down?
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12.40 Honourable Members: 2: The Art of the Possible
Five programmes examining the role of MPs.
Life at Westminster; ancient ritual, legislation, the Whip and the guillotine, Question Time, select committees. MPs and former MPs taking part include John Biffen, Edward Du Cann, Julian Critchley, Michael Cocks and George Cunningham.
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1.5 Pages from Ceefax
1.33 English Time: Buddy: 1: Raining in My Heart
by Nigel Hinton
A drama serial in five parts based on the novel by the same author. Featuring Roger Daltrey as Terry.
Buddy steals things from shops. He wants to stop - especially as it seems as if his Teddy Boy dad, Terry, might be getting back into his old criminal ways. But Buddy badly needs money for the school trip...
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2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo has a violent tantrum, Dibs and Indira try to calm her. Maths on the farm: 'Matching eggs to the birds that laid them'. Book: Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr
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Further live coverage.
with subtitles; Weather
The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excepts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. Harold wins a live turkey while shopping and faces the problem of getting it home in Hot Water. Then, dodging a persistent landlady in Bumping into Broadway, he is hilariously chased by cops raiding a gambling joint. (R)
No Limits - Isle of Man. Well, not quite true. The Isle of Man has limits. It may have Manx cats, kippers and Vikings - it may be rich in history, like Tynwald, the Laxey Wheel and electric tramways - and the Programme may have brilliant videos, film releases and the brand new charts - but if you want to go into the casino, you need to be 21; which Jenny and Tony aren't.
BBC Manchester
by Nigel Hinton
A drama serial in five parts
Starring Roger Daltrey as Terry
His mum has made contact and Buddy hopes desperately that she will come home.
But there are still problems - his dad's job, a nasty accident, and a crook called King.
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A series for those who love sail and the sea.
The Tall Ship 'Royalist'
This week set sail with the sea cadets in the beautiful square rigger Royalist, as she battles wind and tide in the tall ships race from Margate to Zeebrugge in Belgium. Narrator Tom Salmon
Film cameraman TIM JOHNSON
Sound recordist MURRAY CLARKE Film editor PETER SIMPSON Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol
Six programmes about the current state of English law. Devised and presented by Michael Molyneux 2: The Professionals
Solicitors and barristers and their day-to-day routines. Citizens' perceptions of lawyers: are they really pompous and aloof? Is the divided profession really necessary? International comparisons with Lord Hailsham Lord Denning
Sir David Napley
John Mortimer , QC
Film editor TERRY WILUAMS Director NICK ALLMARK
Producer TONY ROBERTS (E) Book £4.25 from booksellers
In tonight's elegant and tasteful programme, intrepid gastronaut Keith Floyd cooks for six hungry French trawlermen, stranded by heavy seas in Newlyn harbour. He also finds time to sing the praises of his all-time culinary hero, Auguste Escoffier , and discovers the subtleties of smoked fish. Camerman RICHARD ELLIOT Videotape editor MIKE FOREN Director ANDY SNELGROVE Producer DAVID PRITCHARD
(First shoum on BBC South West)
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Live from Geneva: A World-wide Concert for Refugees
Many of the world's finest classical musicians perform tonight to show their support for the work of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Among the celebrities introducing tonight's Classic Aid concert will be Catherine Deneuve, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Ustinov and tonight's principal conductor Lorin Maazel
Part 1
The performers, in order of appearance, include
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Yo Yo Ma (cello)
Jessye Norman (soprano) accompanied by Georg Solti (by satellite from Chicago)
Miguel Angel Estrella (piano) Carolyn Carlson (solo dancer) from Paris
Itzhak Perlman (violin) in New York
June Anderson (soprano) Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Sarah Brightman (soprano) Krystian Zimerman (piano) Frank-Peter Zimmermann (violin) and, from Tokyo, the New Japan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa in Takemitsu's "November Steps". Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic and in Geneva the Monte Carlo Orchestra will also be conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Muhai Tang
The programme includes arias from Verdi's "La Traviata" and Charpentier's "Louise" as well as popular pieces by Dvorak, Chopin, Elgar, Mozart and Paganini.
Car manufacturers will be launching their latest models at the Birmingham Motor Show in two weeks time.
But tonight, Chris Goffey previews one of the latest offerings from Germany, the BMW 7 Series.
William Woollard casts an eye over a selection of cars at the budget end of the market. Still with economy in mind, Sue Baker questions the increasing popularity of buying second-hand tyres.
Rallying attracts people from all walks of life. The reggae band UB40 is not only sponsoring a car but is training for a more active long-term participation in the sport.
Producer BRIAN STRACHAN
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill
Introduced from Blackpool by Donald MacCormick Coverage, comment and reaction from today's sessions at the annual conference of the Labour
Party, including the speech by party leader Neil Kinnock. Nick Clarke in London with analysis and reports on the rest of the day's news. Producers
JANA BENNETT. TIM GARDAM
MARK THOMPSON , DIANA MORTON Directors
JAMES
GOULD JOHN WILKINSON , CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , ADRIAN MILNE Deputy editor TIM ORCHARD Editor RICHARD TATT
The political significance and contemporary understanding for works such as Michelangelo's David and Cellini's Perseus.
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