Thalassaemia is an inherited blood disease, which mainly affects people from the Mediterranean and the Indo sub-continent. Sufferers have a blood defiency that necessitates a transfusion every month and rarely lets them live beyond their 20s. Parveen Mirza talks to
Mahesh Kotecha , President of the UK Thalassaemia Society, and Sonoo Malkani , mother of a sufferer.
There is also a talk with disabled photographer Samina Khanour. Music is by Mohammed Abdul Jabbar An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBCPebbleMill

9.35 Encounter: Austria: The School Year Begins
For some with a fashion show, for others with English lessons, a fencing class and a visit to the Landeszeughaus, Graz.
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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Working Drawings
Children and an adult artist find interest and subjects for drawing in old machinery.
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: Lost on the Moor
'More Ponies Stolen', reads the newspaper headline. But who are the crooks - Barker and Deal... or the Badgerman?
with Margo Gunn, John Hollis, Ashiek Madhvani, June Marlow, James Marston, Julia Millbank, Nick Orchard, Kieron O'Shea, William Squire, Charles Collingwood, Katie Hebb, Gary Watson
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10.38 Investigating Science - Solving Problems by Observation
A Closer Look
From a hand lens to the electron microscope - how the problem of seeing a virus at 100,000-times magnification has been solved.
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Teeth for Life
How can the process of observation be used to find ways of preventing tooth decay? A problem to solve.
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11.0 Watch: Trees: Life on a Tree
James and Louise look at some of the things that live on trees, including looper caterpillars and oak galls. Louise tells the story of how Charles II escaped from the Roundheads by hiding in an oak tree.
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11.17 Now and Then: The Age of Timber
Windmills made use of many different types of wood: oak for the framework and great central post, hornbeam for the cogs, fibrous elm for the brakes, and springy ash for the lifting ring, Which raised the sacks of corn. A look at how woodlands were Managed, how timber was cut down and converted, and at some of its many uses during the age of timber.
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 5
A space genie invades Investigator and takes over Hudson the robot. Zak and Stella use triangular numbers to help them outwit the enemy.
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
9: Fly on the Wall
Making and unmaking a cardboard box.
10: Projections
From three dimensions into two - exactly how?
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12.18 pm Maths Counts: Give a Third, Take a Quarter
Steve and Dave act as debt-collectors for Bert.
They settle for a one-third reduction, but are they being taken for a ride?
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12.40 Honourable Members: 5: Carry on Governing
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1.5 Telejournal
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1.38 Walrus - Guess What?: Just Imagine!
When a book gets you really interested, it seems as though you're not merely reading it - you're in it. Michael Rosen and team get carried away. Clues presented by David Freeman
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2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Jeni's guinea pig has died - how will Cosmo and Dibs cope?
Maths on the farm: 'Loading bales of hay'.
Book: The Walking Coat by Pauline Watson
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The Rothmans Grand Prix Tony Meo v John Parrott Robert Chaperon v Stephen Hendry
Stephen Hendry burst on to the professional snooker scene last season, winning the Scottish title, and only just losing to Willie Thorne in the World Championship.
Still only 17, he has defeated Eugene Hughes to reach the Hexagon stage and, with other seeds having failed to qualify, he has a great chance of reaching the semi-finals. Canadian Robert Chaperon also has a golden opportunity, having defeated Ray Reardon to qualify. DAVID VINE introduces coverage from both the afternoon's best-of-nine-frame first-round matches.

Lake District Since wandering around like clouds, lonely or not, went out of fashion - and especially as autumn's a bad time for daffs - let
No Limits transport you beneath the trees, beside the Lake District.
After all, when there's fabulous powerplay music and brilliant videos to be played, what are words worth?
Perhaps it's poetic justice. Directors
TOM DOCHERTY. JEM KIME
Production PETER HAMILTON BBC Manchester

Presented by Susan Tully Over 80,000 unmarried teenage girls get pregnant in Britain each year. Some young mothers are not even in their teens.
Susan Tully, who plays Michelle in EastEnders, looks at what it's like to be a young mother - or father - in real life.

A Lady of Leisure
The yacht Voluta could have ended her days a rotting hulk in a West Country harbour.
She didn't, thanks to a group of hard-working business people who wanted to make money in a pleasurable way. Now they've restored this vessel, which was built as a yawl in the last year of Queen Victoria's reign, and she's in the charter business, giving her 'paying guests' a taste of life afloat in a vintage vessel. Narrator Tom Salmon Film editor PETER SIMPSON Photography TIM JOHNSON
Film sound MURRAY CLARKE Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol

Six programmes about the current state of English law. Devised and presented by Michael Molyneux
5: The Bargain Basement Alternatives to going to court, allegedly 'informal, speedy and cheap'.
Tribunals, arbitrations, codes of practice under the Office of Fair Trading, small claims, the Ombudsman. With Lord Gibson-Watt Sir Gordon Borne Sir Anthony Barrowclough and Tony Conway
Film editor TERRY WILLIAMS Production assistant COLLEEN LEWIS
Producer TONY ROBERTS (E)
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Drisheen, carrigeen, crubeens, coddle, oysters and stout....
If that sounds a bit Irish, the reason is that intrepid gastronaut Keith Floyd visited his
Celtic cousins in Co Cork for this week's programme, in which tripe, pigs trotters, seaweed, oysters and champagne are on the menu.
RECIPE TIMES: page 95

Surprisingly, almost as many convertibles are sold in winter as in summer, in the United Kingdom. William Woollard takes an unseasonal look at the best-selling Cabriolets in Britain. Status symbol or necessity? We look at the latest in car phones and examine likely changes in the regulations governing their use. Producer BRIAN STRACHAN
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

Dennis Taylor v John Virgo Paddy Browne v Mark Bennett
Two very contrasting matches are played tonight as the first round is concluded. Dennis Taylor and John Virgo , two of snooker's best-known entertainers, with 25 years of experience between them, play nine frames. Paddy Browne and Mark Bennett have three years' experience between them. Browne sensationally defeated Joe Johnson to gain the best victory of his career, while Bennett, in his first season, won three matches to reach the final stages.
Introduced by DAVID VINE

Ellen Wilkinson marching through the rain at the head of the Jarrow March 50 years ago is one of the most enduring images of the 1930s. Yet, at a time when so much attention is devoted to the role of women in the Labour movement, Ellen's work is largely forgotten.
Bel Mooney , drawing on BETTY VERNON 'S recent biography, sets out to remedy this neglect and explores the politics, journalism and loves of 'Red Ellen'. Camera PAUL OTTER
Research LIZ halliday
Producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK BBC North East

Analysis and comment on the day's major events presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Nick Worrall.
And the day's news from home and abroad with Ian Smith , Nick Clarke
Gill Nevill and Chris Lowe.

DAVID VINE introduces further coverage from the Hexagon. Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM. CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JIM MEADOWCROFT. JOHN VIRGO Television presentation
MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER