Rekha has been one of the Bombay film industry's top heroines for over a decade and her movies continue to entrance and entertain millions. In today's programme she talks openly to Krishan Gould about her professional and private life. An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBC Pebble Mill
9.35 Treffpunkt Osterreich: 1: Eine Bergrettung
'Wir brauchen ganzdringend Hilfe!' A dramatic air rescue is mounted when three young climbers get into difficulties.
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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: My Place
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: The Secret Passage
Written by Andrew Davies
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10.38 Science in Action: Keep it Clean
Bacteria take a starring role in this programme. An expert in domestic microbiology tracks down bacteria in the kitchen and an environmental health officer shows how important hygiene is in food handling. Find out how to do a sweat test.
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11.0 Watch: Clothes: Getting Ready for Winter
What material should be chosen to keep people warm in winter? How does the wool on the sheep become something to wear? And who wins the competition between the sun and the north wind? Louise and Tony make a winter collage. Presented by Louise Hall-Taylor and Tony Neilson
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11.17 Near and Far: Timber
Every year the demand for timber increases. Some of this comes from Britain, the rest is imported. How are forests managed and how does the provision of all this timber affect the landscape?
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 6
A maze in space gives food for thought.
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
11: In Proportion
A potting mixture has grit, loam and peat in the proportions 7:2:1. What fraction of it is loam?
12: Scale Up
Why is an elephant a different shape from a mouse?
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12.18 pm Maths Counts: Bear the Percentage
with Roy Kinnear, Sarah James, Nick Orchard, Leo Wringer, Rita Davies and Cyril Cross
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12.40 Politics of Pressure:Ã 1: The Professionals
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1.5 Pages from Ceefax
1.33 English Time: Buddy: 3: Blue Suede Shoes
by Nigel Hinton
A drama serial in five parts based on the novel by the same author, featuring Roger Daltrey as Terry
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A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Book: "Charlie Strong" by Frances Knowles and Brian Thompson
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A series featuring some of the finest model makers and collectors. Automata
Meet David Secret , who has revived the art of making automata.
Presenter Eric Thompson Director NEIL DAVIES
Producer PAUL SMITH (R)
Haverfordwest
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The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship The second round commences this afternoon and there is the prospect of the holder of the title, jm BAKER, playing a leading crown green competitor, TONY POOLE , in the first match, providing they both overcome the first round hurdle. The players fancied for the second match tussle are Scotland's young hopeful RICHARD CORSIE. semi-finalist last year, and ROY CUTTS , present English Indoor
Singles Champion. It's now the best of five sets, seven shots up for the set, with prize money totalling £28,600. Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Guild Hall, Preston. including at
3.55 Regional News and Weather
Introduced by Ray Moore from St Pauls and All
Hallows Junior School,
Tottenham, London. This second of four programmes features groups from London: St Pauls and All Hallows
Youth Steel Band
The Bishop Thomas Grant Percussion Ensemble from Streatham
The Latymer Chamber
Orchestra with guest soloists Karen Jones and Jane Spiers (flutes)
The Cromwell Junior Quintet and The Ogonovsky Ensemble Producer KEN GRIFFIN
(The Schools Prom is organised by Music for Youth in association with The Rank Organisation and Commercial Union Assurance)
by N.J. Crisp
Starring Jack Warner
Written by John Warren and John Singer
Featuring Pat Coombs, Gordon Clyde as the Interviewer, Graham Armitage, Allan Cuthbertson, Reg Lye, John Quayle, John Wentworth, June Whitfield
(Shown in June 1973)
This remarkable film was a milestone in natural history broadcasting. It revealed, in astonishing detail, the language of the lesser black-backed gull, and the nature of its society, and was eventually awarded the coveted Italia Prize in the documentary category.
Introduced and photographed by Niko Tinbergen FRS. Narrated and directed by Hugh Falkus.
BBC Bristol
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The Vanishing World: The Banana of T'ai
Twenty years ago, the remote Brazilian island of Santa Meej boasted one of the largest banana stocks in the entire Boraxi Archipelago. Today only one is left. Cameraman/director Pierre Trugle returned to his native T'ai after an absence of two days to record this pathetic portrait of the threatened fruit.
A man has a strange reaction on finding a telephone booth that hasn't been vandalised. There's a meeting of Workaholics Anonymous, and the team sing 'I Like Trucking'.
Based on the book by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson, dramatised by William Humble and Anthony Simons
with Judi Dench as Hazel Wiles, Bryan Pringle as Len Wiles and Terry Wiles as himself
Based on a true life story - the struggle of a thalidomide boy and the couple who adopt him to achieve some sort of life together - On Giant's
Shoulders is one of the most moving dramas ever produced on television. This extraordinary play won an International Emmy Award.
(Shown in March 1979)
Analysis and comment on the day's major events presented by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Nick Worrall with Ian Smith , Nick Clarke Gill Nevill and Chris Lowe
Every night from 1964-1972 this celebrated, controversial series presented a daily review of television and the contemporary arts. Now, 14 years on, it returns, for this week only, with four of the original presenters Joan Bakewell, Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow. Each evening they and guests celebrate BBC television's golden anniversary and give a critical view of life on and off 'the box' in 1986.
