9.38 Going to Work: Helping the Unemployed
When young people leave school there's a chance that they may be unemployed.
But they shouldn't give up - there are a lot of people and organisations that offer help, advice, friendship and training.
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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs fear they can't do what Gary asks of them. Henry the kangaroo eats baked beans with Ellie. Mitual Patel celebrates his third birthday.
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10.15 Music Time: 5: Bells
A town crier ringing his bell introduces the song 'Past three o'clock.' Some handbell ringers play, and Helen visits a belfry to hear the church bells. The children play bell-like sounds. Presented by Jonathan Cohen, Helen Spiers
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10.38 Let's See: Hallowe'en: 1: Hallowe'en
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11.0 Zig Zag: Mordicus: 1
Sheelagh Gilbey introduces a wildlife drama about a young buzzard called Mordicus. Mordicus faces a desperate struggle as a young chick but survives against all the odds.
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11.22 Past 13: Choices in the Third Year: What to Choose
Two fifth-formers look back to the time when they made their third-year option choices. They describe how they went about making their decisions, what advice they received from friends, teachers and parents, and how their choices have turned out in practice.
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11.45 The Bible Lands: Masada
The palace fortress of Masada must be one of the most impregnable fortresses in the world. In AD 66 the Jews rose in revolt against the Romans. The Roman legions recovered the country, and in AD 70 destroyed Jerusalem. Masada, occupied by the Zealots, was the last place to hold out...
BBC Wales
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12.8 pm Media Studies - Inside Television: Making the News
News is as much a process of selecting, editing and packaging as any other television programme. A look behind the scenes of the BBCtv Newsroom asking journalists their criteria for selecting and presenting news stories.
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12.40 General Studies: Art and Upheaval: Songs of Protest
Why is most popular music today in the form of love songs? How does this square with the views of those who have felt that music was a powerful tool of persuasion? The programme includes performances by Billie Holiday and Red Wedge member Billy Bragg.
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1.5 Micro File: 5: Power
Lesley Judd and Fred Harris introduce a compilation of items from the recent series of Micro Live.
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1.38 Job Bank: Management Trainee
How managers are made.
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2.0 Words and Pictures: Lift Off
Come in a spaceship to Jupiter, Venus and Mars.
Vicky, Charley and the children do the countdown and launch their rocket into space.
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2.15 Near and Far: Timber
How are forests managed, and how does the provision of all this timber affect the landscape?
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The Rothmans Grand Prix
Willie Thorne v Warren King Les Dodd v Mike Hallett Willie Thorne is one of snooker's most attractive players, though he often finds it difficult to win matches in the early stages of major tournaments.
Warren King is more than capable of upsetting the World's seventh-ranked player in this first-round match.
Les Dodd, ranked 69, has already defeated Kirk Stevens to qualify at the Hexagon, and a close encounter with the experienced Mike Hallett is likely.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JIM MEADOWCROFT. JOHN VIRGO Television presentation
KEITH PHILLIPS. MIKE ADLEY PETER HAYWARD
Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER

A season of classic murder mysteries Warner Oland philosophical
'Theory, like mist on eyeglasses, obscure facts.' Nevertheless, Chan gropes his way firmly through this latest vintage stew of missing Egyptian artefacts, tombs, long-dead high priests and a plethora of strange supporting characters, occidental and oriental, adding their clouds of fog to the plot....
Screenplay by ROBERT ELLIS HELEN LOGAN Produced by EDWARD T. LOWE Directed by louis KING
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Jimmy White v
Jack McLaughlin
The 'Whirlwind' breezes into the Hexagon, and Ireland's Jack McLaughlin has the unenviable task of facing this greatly talented player over nine frames.
David VINE introduces the first of these first-round frames from Reading.

Ian Botham is probably the best-known cricketer in the world, controversial for his exploits both on and off the field.
He has been attacked for his forthright views and was banned from cricket for nine weeks for using cannabis and for making public pronouncements without the clearance of his county.
Tonight, facing the questions of young people from all over Britain, he says 'At times I am probably too honest for my own good'... and goes on to prove it.
Presented by John Nicolson Research MARK HAGEN Director uz SCOTT Producers
DAVID MARTIN. CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland

Pioneers! 0 Pioneers!
Presented by Robert MacNeil After the American
Revolution of 1776 the pioneers of the new United States - fur trappers, riverboat traders, gold prospectors, cowboys and railroad workers - flooded American English with a vital new slang: 'work like a beaver', 'sell down the river', 'stake a claim', 'strike it rich', 'bite the dust' and 'let off steam'. American English was also transformed by the great 19th-century emigrations from Europe: Irish, German, Italian and Jewish. Pioneers! 0 Pioneers! describes the making of American English from lexicographer NOAH WEBSTER to logophile H. L. MENCKEN and shows how it gradually influenced its British parent. Written by ROBERT MCCRUM
Sound recordist ANTHONY WORNUM Film cameraman DAVID SOUTH Film editor SUSAN NEW Assistant producers
VIVIAN DUCAT. HOWARD REID Producer WILLIAM CRAN
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The last episode is a tribute to those who went on holiday this year, in spite of the threat of terrorist violence, and proved that cheap drink conquers all fear.
Featuring Ron Bain
Gregor Fisher , Andy Gray Helen Lederer , Tony Roper Elaine C. Smith John Sparkes and Jonathan Watson Director BRIAN JOBSON Producer COLIN GILBERT BBC Scotland (R)
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The Rothmans Grand Prix Jimmy White v
Jack McLaughlin
Neal Foulds v Cliff Wilson
Two of snooker's best young players are on view tonight. Jimmy White aged 24 and ranked 5th, and Neal Foulds aged 23 and ranked 13th. Both should have no problems in winning their nine-frame first-round matches - on paper. However, Cliff Wilson can out-pot anyone on his day, as Tony Knowles has already discovered this season, and Jack McLaughlin has won three tough matches in order to be on stage tonight.
Introduced by DAVID VINE

11.35 Weatherview

with Chantal Cuer

Catch up with tonight's news in French from RTL in Luxembourg. Chantal helps with the words and the background, while Peter Fiddick looks at what's happening in the European media.
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