9.15 Casebook Scotland: Opening Up the Highlands
The development of the A9 has made the Highlands more accessible for tourists and industrialists, but it has also led to conflicts of interest locally. Muriel Gray investigates on the A9 roadshow.
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9.35 Pages from Ceefax

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
When Sheila speaks Hindi to her friend, Cosmo and Dibs are worried that they don't understand her. Priya helps celebrate the 11th day after the birth of her baby cousin. Song: 'Day oh'
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10.15 Science Workshop: Sliding (B)
Skating, ski-ing and carnivorous plants rely on slippery conditions but motor cars that skid are dangerous.
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10.38 Investigating Science: Sort it Out
How many ways are there to sort out the beans we buy in the supermarket? How do scientists classify colour?
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11.0 Words and Pictures: Noisy Neville

11.17 Let's See: Scottish Childhoods: 1: At Work
Presented by Tricia Scott

11.40 The Bible Lands: The Childhood of Christ
What sort of child was Jesus? Where did he live? What games did he play? Peter Connolly looks for evidence.
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12.2 pm Maths Topics: Geometry: 2: Exterior Angles: Congruency
Resource GCSE material in the form of animated sequences for classroom use.
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12.25 Job Bank: The Leisure Business

12.48 Des le debut: Ordering Things
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1.10 Talking Business: 2: What the Customer Wants
A guide to basic business jargon and practice, aimed particularly at those who speak English as a second language.
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1.38 Around Scotland: Energy: 2: Black Diamonds and Liquid Gold
Our fossil fuels, coal and oil, are as precious as diamonds or gold. See some of the reasons why we go underground and under the sea to find them.
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2.0 News and Weather

2.2 Thinkabout: Under Our Feet
The children have trouble finding 'the thingy with holes in it' and there's other trouble in store for Frank. Some children explore underground to see where a stream goes.
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2.15 Zig Zag: At Home on the Ice

A marketplace of ideas
Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all money. Director NICK KENNERLEY
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (e)

Ray Reardon v Joe Johnson
DAVID icke introduces further live coverage from the Wembley Conference Centre.

Regional News and Weather

News, views, gossip and song with Pamela and her guests. BBC Pebble Mill

Ray Reardon v Joe Johnson Further coverage and the result of this first-round match from the Wembley Conference Centre.
Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JOHN VIRGO , JIM MEADOWCROFT Television presentation
ALAN GRIFFITHS , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH MACKENZIE

Jill Neville and her guests review the pick of the latest paperbacks and hardbacks, including Mr Majestyk by ELMORE LEONARD , and The Jaguar Smile, SALMAN RUSHDIE’S account of his journey last summer to Nicaragua.
Researcher CHRIS WILSON Producer ROLAND KEATING

Ray Reardon v Joe Johnson DAVID ICKE introduces highlights of this afternoon's best-of-nine-frames match from the Wembley Conference Centre.

from Crans-Montana featuring
The Women Combined Downhill
The quest for the best all-round skier in the women's championship begins today with the downhill discipline of their combined event. Two years ago, Combined World Champion ERIKA HESS was only placed 16th in the downhill section, so the slalom specialists appear to be favoured overall.
DAVID GOLDSTROM describes the women's action while
DAVID VINE reports on the first training session on the men's downhill course.
TV presentation SSR, Switzerland Producer JIM RESIDE

'Do-it-yourself science presented by Carol Mather and Professor Ian Fells.
In this first programme, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , MP, demonstrates her favourite kitchen chemistry experiments and explains why she gave up science for politics.
There's the launch of an exciting competition to design an exhibit for the Evoluon, a new sort of science museum in Holland; and how to print T-shirts, using nothing but household chemicals and photocopies.... Assistant producers
GEORGE AUCKLAND , DEBORAH COHEN Producer PATRICK TrrLEY
0 FEATURE: page 40 and INFO: page 77

Andy Kershaw travels that 'hillbilly highway' to Nashville to meet the new country sensation Steve (on the Springsteen side of Yoakam) Earl.
Mark Ellen watches the reconstituted Bad Company and wonders why so many venerable bands are being revived.
Hindsight recalls Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers in 1974. Plus a live studio session from cult band The Cult.

Whether you think it's an ass or an asset, the law affects us all. Justice may be blind and its path may be strewn with law-makers and law-breakers, but David Jessel and Sue Cook are in the studio to help light its way. And Ed Boyle investigates controversial cases and legal loopholes. Director JEREMY MILLS
Producer ALAN BOOKBINDER

Mail Call
Letters are strange and wonderful things. For
Trapper they mean thoughts of desertion; for Klinger they bring news of his father's imminent death - again; and, for Frank, it's a case of curiousity and a killing on the stock market.... Written by LARRY GELBART and LAURENCE MARKS Directed by ALAN ALDA (R)

Written by BEN ELTON starring
Filthy Ralph (agent) and Eddie Catflap (minder) wait expectantly for Richie Rich (comic) to emerge from a creative session at the typewriter.
Additional material RIK MAYALL Music PETER BREWIS
Lighting director TOMMY MOTTRAM Sound supervisor
TONY WORTHINGTON Film director ED BYE Designer MEL BIBBY
Produced and directed by PAUL JACKSON

Two partisan views of a controversial issue.
Sex Education in Schools Laurie Taylor returns to present two films on this contentious subject, made from deeply opposed positions.
In a film produced under the editorial control of Family and Youth Concern, it is argued that 'sex education in schools causes more problems than it solves'.
Taking the opposite view is the Family Planning
Association, which claims in its film that attempts to reduce school sex education are 'a lobby for ignorance'. Both films have been made with the help of the BBC
Community Programme Unit. Film directors
LIZ JENSEN , UDAYAN PRASAD Studio director SUE DAVIDSON Series producer GILES OAKLEY
0 FEATURE: page 3 and INFO: page 77

Producers
MARK THOMPSON. DIANA MORTON
JOHN BRIDCUT. EAMONN MATTHEWS Directors CHRIS FOX
JOHN WILKINSON , JAMES GOULD Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , ADRIAN MILNE
Deputy editor PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor TIM ORCHARD

; The Complete Piano Sonatas i Daniel Barenboim plays
Sonata No 6 Op 10 No 2
Directed by JEAN-PIERRE PONNELLE
Produced by METROPOLITAN, Munich