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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.
(R) (E)

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo doesn't think one grape is a fair swap for one apple. Some children of Bengali parentage dance in a north London school.
Book: "Meal One" by Ivor Cutler. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
(R) (E)

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.
Presented by Jonathan Cohen, Helen Speirs
(R) (E)

10.38 Let's See: Scottish Waters: 1: On Tap
Presented by Blythe Brockett
How does water reach household taps and why is it fit to drink?
(R) (E)

11.0 Zig Zag: Mordicus: 1
Sheelagh Gilbey introduces a wildlife drama about a young buzzard called Mordicus.
(R) (E)

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.
(R) (E)

11.45 The Bible Lands: Masada
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
(R) (E)

12.8 pm Media Studies - Inside Television: Making News
News is as much a process of selecting, editing and packaging as any other television programme.
(R) (E)

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 propagandists down the ages, who have felt that music is a powerful tool of persuasion? The programme includes performances by Billie Holiday and Red Wedge member Billy Bragg.
(R) (E)

1.5 Micro File: 5: Power
With Lesley Judd, Fred Harris
(R) (E)

1.38 Job Bank: Management Trainee
(R) (E)

2.0 Words and Pictures: Lift Off
Vicky, Charley and the children do the countdown and launch their rocket into space.
(R) (E)

2.15 Near and Far: Timber
Every year, the demand for timber increases. Some of this comes from the many forested areas of Britain, the rest is imported. How are forests managed and how does the provision of all this timber affect the landscape?
(R) (E)

Contributors

Producer (Going to Work):
Peter Walton
Series Producer (Going to Work):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Story Animation (You and Me):
Leo Beltoft
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter (Let's See):
Blythe Brockett
Director (Let's See):
John Adams
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer (Zig Zag):
John King
Series Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Producer (Past 13):
Nicholas Whines
Director (Media Studies):
Cas Lester
Producer (Media Studies):
Bruce Jamson
Narrator (General Studies):
Mel Smith
Producer (General Studies):
Edward Hayward
Presenter (Micro File):
Lesley Judd
Presenter (Micro File):
Fred Harris
Producer (Job Bank):
Roger Fry
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Animation (Words and Pictures):
Gil Potter
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn

Julian Pettifer introduces highlights of last night's satellite celebration of wildlife around the world and takes a look behind the scenes at how the programme reached your screens.

Tony Soper (reporter) and Peter Crawford (producer) discuss the impact of the most ambitious outside broadcast ever undertaken by the BBC's Natural History Unit.

BBC Bristol

3.55 Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Pettifer
Unknown:
Tony Soper
Unknown:
Peter Crawford
Director:
Andy Batten-Foster
Director:
Derek Nelson
Director:
Steve Poole
Producer:
Colin Godman

In Roy Plomley 's last television series, Beryl Reid talked to him in her charming riverside cottage, where she cooked him a meal, showed him her paintings, and introduced him to her ten favourite animals. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Unknown:
Beryl Reid

Building for Eternity
Leviathans stranded on the last broad acres of the post-industrial age, English country houses can still dispense a heady froth of art, wit and idiosyncratic life, as this short series demonstrates. With
Lady Victoria Leatham at Burghley, the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton, and the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Presented by John Julius Norwich
Simply a great treat, especially for the eyes, but also for that part of the pleasure centre that was touched and coddled by.... 'Brideshead Revisited' and 'The Jewel in the Crown
(WASHINGTON POST)
Directed by PETER NEWINGTON Produced by MICHAEL GILL A MALONE GILL production
0 FEATURE: page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Victoria Leatham
Presented By:
John Julius Norwich
Directed By:
Peter Newington
Produced By:
Michael Gill

The first in a series of mystery films starring Sidney Toler as the philosophical detective. Tonight also starring Phyllis Brooks
Victor Sen Yung
While awaiting news of the birth of his first grandchild, Chan learns that a ship has docked in Honolulu harbour with a murdered man on board - and three million dollars missing....
Written by CHARLES BELDEN
Based on the character created by EARL DERR BIGGERS
Produced by JOHN STONE
Directed by H. BRUCE HUMBERSTONE
0 FILMS: page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Sidney Toler
Unknown:
Phyllis Brooks
Unknown:
Victor Sen Yung
Written By:
Charles Belden
Unknown:
Derr Biggers
Produced By:
John Stone
Directed By:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Charlie Chan:
Sidney Toler
Judy Hayes:
Phyllis Brooks
James Chan:
Victor Sen Yung
Al Hogan:
Eddie Collins
Randolph:
John King
Carol Wayne:
Claire Dodd
Dr Cardigan:
George Zucco

Tonight the programme goes international, with former Vice-President Walter Mondale appearing by satellite from Washington. Is Mrs Thatcher President Reagan's puppet?
Is Britain now merely an American aircraft carrier?
And how has Walter Mondale reacted to the humiliation of being defeated by Ronald Reagan in 49 of America's 50 states?
John Nicolson chairs the young people in Open to Question. Research MARK HAGEN irector uz SCOTT Producers
DAVID MARTIN , CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Mondale
Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Unknown:
Walter Mondale
Unknown:
Ronald Reagan
Unknown:
John Nicolson
Unknown:
Mark Hagen
Unknown:
Uz Scott
Producers:
David Martin

Presented by Robert MacNeil Three hundred years ago the slave trade brought the English language to West Africa and started the process that created
Black English - words like 'nitty-gritty', 'groovy' and perhaps even 'okay .
Black on White tells the story of the influence of American blacks on world English, tracing Black English from West Africa to the northern United States.
Written by ROBERT MCCRUM Producer WILLIAM CRAN * CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert MacNeil
Written By:
Robert McCrum
Producer:
William Cran

Written by Jack Rosenthal.
TV50: BBC Television 1936-1986
Starring Shaughan Seymour as Cecil Madden, Nicholas Farrell as David, Caroline Embling as Florence, Nicola King as Wendy
August 1936, and the BBC prepares for the world's first high-definition television service. However, behind the scenes at Alexandra Palace complications arise in more ways than one.
Feature: p95

Contributors

Writer:
Jack Rosnethal
Music:
Denis King
Costume:
Irene Whilton
Make-up:
Denise Baron
Designer:
Colin Shaw
Producer:
Peter Wolfes
Director:
David Giles
Cecil Madden:
Shaughan Seymour
David:
Nicholas Farrell
Florence:
Caroline Embling
Wendy:
Nicola King
Miss Stanley:
Jill Balcon
Mr Thomas:
Mike Lewin
Commissionaire:
Roger Booth
Ellen Townsend:
Leila Hoffman
Mr Kingsley:
Graham Cull
Leslie Mitchell:
Anthony Calf
Mr Bliss:
Dave Hill
Stage manager:
Ron Meadows
Dallas Bower:
Ian Barritt
Jasmine Bligh:
Maev Alexander
Toni:
Nadio Fortune
Gerald Cock:
John Flint
Isaac Shoenberg:
Leon Lissek
John Logie Baird:
Robert McIntosh
George More O'Ferrall:
Edmund Pegge
Page boy:
Harry Iggulden
Helen McKay:
Tracy Miller
Warehouseman:
Max Hafler
Warehouseman:
John Rapley
Warehouseman:
Anthony Douse
Horsebox driver:
George Malpas
Sales executive:
Paddy Ward
Mr Piggot-Smythe:
Jonathan Newth
Canteen manageress:
Josie Kidd
Sir John Reith:
Wilfred Harrison
BBC Chairman:
Clifford Parrish
Post-Master General:
Hugh Dickson
Lord Selsdon:
Kenneth Midwood
Adèle Dixon:
Pat Whitmore
Miss Lutie:
Lorraine Porter
Pogo the Wonderhorse:
Simon Barrett
Pogo the Wonderhorse:
Rodney James
Buck and Bubbles:
William Vanderpuye
Buck and Bubbles:
Johnny Worthy

with 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

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Nick Worrall.
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Gill Nevill
Unknown:
Chris Lowe

with Chantal Cuer

Catch up with tonight's news from TF1 in Paris. Chantal helps with the words and French background, while Peter Fiddick looks at what's happening in the European media.
(E) (Shown again tomorrow at 1.5 pm)
(to 0.10)

Contributors

Presenter:
Chantal Cuer
Presenter:
Peter Fiddick
Videotape Editor:
Peter Dunkley
Director:
Nick Davies
Series Producer:
Bernard Adams

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