9.38 Going to Work: I'm in Charge Here
by Michael Robartes
A new drama in the form of a situation comedy, intended to help young people become aware of the part authority plays in their lives.
With Janet Amsden, Bill Thomas, Eddie Nestor, Richard Tate, Barbara Wilshere
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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs try hanging upside down. A visit to a school to hear a story from India, with counting in Punjabi. With Maggie Ollerenshaw
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10.15 Music Time: Keeping Together
Visual signals. The children play their percussion music following pictures on the signal box. Jonathan conducts the band which sometimes deliberately ignores his signals. The English concertina is introduced.
With John Nixon (English concertina), Rodney Stewart (double bass), Kevin Hathway (percussion)
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10.38 Let's See: Scottish Waters: 3: Portrait of a River
Presented by Rhoda MacLeod
A journey down the River Findhorn, from source to mouth.
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11.0 Zig Zag: The Making of Mordicus
Simon King, one of the country's top wildlife cameramen, describes his work and tells Sheelagh Gilbey how he filmed the story of Mordicus the buzzard.
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11.22 Past 13: Choices in the Third Year: Can Girls Choose Like Boys?
'Boys are brighter than girls.' 'Men's jobs pay more than women's.'
These and other concepts are explored in today's programme by means of drama and documentary. The importance of science subjects for boys and girls is stressed, and an example is given of the most exciting option of all - to challenge stereotyping.
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11.45 Religious Studies: Why? Because...: 'How far is it to...'
Places play an important part in people's religious experience. The programme looks at three very different holy places: Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument; the Ganges, a river; Jerusalem, a city.
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12.8 pm Equal People: Join the Club
The second in a series of five programmes about women and society, this film looks at clubs and groups, especially single sex groups, and the reasons for their existence.
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12.40 General Studies: The Bugs Business
Biotechnology is being hailed as a new growth industry, but have its claims been exaggerated? A look at some of the research and development work being undertaken by British companies - trying to assess their chances of turning scientific ideas into successful commercial products.
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1.5 Micro File: 7: Look to the Future
Lesley Judd and Fred Harris introduce a compilation of items from the recent series of Micro Live, gathering together similar stories that could usefully be studied in context in schools and colleges.
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1.38 Job Bank: Technical Photography
Photography that covers road safety trials, historical buildings, satellite images and human bodies.
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2.0 Words and Pictures: Mog in the Dark
'Who else is here in the dark?' is a question Mog asks herself. She conjures up the thought of big birds with teeth and dogs that climb, and it is not till she gets back into her own basket that her fears subside.
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2.15 Near and Far: Moorlands
Traditionally home to the hill farmer, the desolate open landscapes of the moors are now a place for mining, water catchment, forestry and recreation.
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Further live coverage from Bournemouth, including
'balloted motion', the subjects members most want to debate themselves.
3.55 Regional News and Weather
At last a programme at
4 o'clock for people over ten! Every weekday, live, Pamela Armstrong entertains you with 30 minutes of conversation, music and a look at the unexpected side of life.
Series producers
DENNIS ADAMS. JULIET MAY BBC Pebble Mill
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Live from Slimbridge with Tony Soper and Nick Davies
With the largest collection in the world, the Wildfowl Trust is of international importance for endangered ducks and geese. The Hawaiian goose laid 99 eggs before a golden gosling hatched, and the latest challenge is the freckled duck from Australia.
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A series of mystery films starring
Sidney Toler as the philosophical detective. Tonight also starring Ricardo Cortez Phyllis Brooks
When an old friend's wife, on the eve of their divorce, is accused of stabbing her rival to death, Chan flies by China Clipper to solve the case. But the scene of the crime is full of suspects....
Screenplay by FRANCES HYLAND ALBERT RAY. ROBERT E. KENT
Based on a novel by PHILIP WYLIE and the character created by EARL DERRBIGGERS
Produced by JOHN STONE
Directed by NORMAN FOSTER
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How Death Came to Earth
Narrated by Chris Kelly
Amateur cook John Wilcock is challenged to work for a day as a sous chef for the celebrated Anton Mosimann at The Dorchester. John, a Sheffield Council driver by day, prepares symphonie de fruits de mer, poached fillet of beef and orange terrine.
The film also charts how, back at home, John turns out cordon bleu meals for his family, all on a basic wage. This is the latest episode of culinary collaboration between Wilcock and Mosimann, developed over two series of Food and Drink. Photography REX MAIDMENT SoundDON LEE
Film editor STEFAN RONOWICZ Producer and director DAVID PEARSON
(A new series of Food and Drink starts tomorrow at 8.30 pm)
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Cockney has been the speech of London since Chaucer's day. The Muvver Tongue shows how Cockneys pick the linguistic pockets of the world, giving us words like 'buckshee', 'gazump', 'nosh' and 'shemozzle'. These and, of course, the famous rhyming slang, are still having a powerful influence on English today.
The Muvver Tongue also explores the making of Australian English, from the 'flash talk' of the first Cockney convicts to present-day 'strine'.
Ceefax subtitles
by John Cleese and Connie Booth
Starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth.
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The first of six documentaries The Team on B6
'If the doctors had to clean up the vomit they might think twice about some of their treatments', says
Vivien Hancock , who heads the team on ward B6 in Whipps Cross Hospital in London's East End.
Nurses spend their working lives among sick, and sometimes dying, people. While doctors make the major decisions about treatment, it is nurses who deal with suffering on a day-to-day basis.
Making friends with those they care for can be rewarding. It can also be an emotional burden. But the team on B6 believes that if nurses become hardened to their situation they become less good at their job.
The film follows events on the ward from the nurses' point of view.
Research CHERRUX HICKS Sound DIANA RUSTON
Film camera ERIKA STEVENSON Film editor DOROTHEA GAZIDIS
Producer MELISSA LLEWELYN-DAVIES BBC Bristol
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* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with Chantal Cuer
Tonight's news comes from Antenne Deux - the French channel which isn't being sold off. Chantal helps with the words and the news background while Peter Fiddick looks at what's going on in the European media.
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