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9.15 Politics in Action (Scotland): 2: Please SIR
The campaign to save the Irvine Royal Academy from closure.
(R) (e)

9.35 Pages from Ceefax

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo gloats that she has been to the fair. Dibs gets his own back. Transport song: 'Travelling through the air'. Book: "Alex's Outing" by Mary Dickinson and Charlotte Firmin
(R) (e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Water 'A'
How dry does a spin-dryer get your clothes?
How do you test hair-dryers?
(R) (e)

10.38 Science in Action: Waste Not, Want Not
This week's programme is about recycling - take a look at the contents of a family's dustbin, and the growing problem of plastic waste. Plus a DIY air recirculator for recycling warm air.
(e)

11.0 Words and Pictures: Miss Jump the Jockey
(Shown on Monday at 2.2 pm) (e)

11.17 Let's See: Living Stories: 2: Story of a Garden
(Shown on Monday at 10.38 am) (e)

11.40 Maths at Work: Programme 2
Young people use maths: a clerk, sales assistant, process worker and sample cutter.
(R) (e)

12.2 pm Technology and Design: Sorting
The second of three television programmes in a new multimedia package featuring problem-solving in the real world of technology and design. This programme looks at the problem of sorting things, using a case-study from the scrap metal industry and an open-ended school-based problem involving nuts and bolts.
(e)

12.25 Dicho y hecho
Basic skills in Spanish
Asking permission; asking the way; tickets and travel.
(R) (e)

12.50 France - Francais: 2: Bertrand
Family and friends make Bertrand Chevalier's 15th birthday a special - and very French - occasion. Join them chez Bertrand, en Provence.
(e)

1.5 The Money Makers: Japan's Super Salesman
Top business tycoons discuss their own individual successes and offer perspectives on success generally in the business world today.
(R) (e)
For notes send large 24p sae to: [address removed]

1.38 Around Scotland: The Great Glen: 2: The Heart of the Highlands
John Carmichael visits Inverness, Fort William and the battlefield of Culloden.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Narrator (Politics in Action (Scotland)):
Alec Heggie
Producer (Politics in Action (Scotland)):
Robert Clark
Presenter (You and Me):
Liz Smith
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Writer (Science Workshop):
Eurfron Gwynne Jones
Series Producer (Science Workshop):
Michael Coyle
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge
Narrator (Maths at Work):
Keiran Prendiville
Producer (Maths at Work):
Roger Fry
Series Producer (Maths at Work):
David Roseveare
Producer (Technology and Design):
Robin Gwyn
Producer (France Francais):
Susan Paton
Presenter (Around Scotland):
John Carmichael
Director (Around Scotland):
Peter Legge
Producer (Around Scotland):
Robert Clark

Go west, young man! Paul Coia catches the train at Toronto and in a three-day journey to Vancouver passes through the Great Lakes, the Prairies and the Rockies. A dramatic landscape - as dramatic as the story of how that first railway line was built.
(e) (Shown on Monday at 11.0 am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Coia
Producer:
Tom Stanier

Introduced by David Icke Further top class sporting action from home and abroad. It's a busy week for domestic football whilst in Cincinnati the World Figure Skating Championships are well underway.
Producers GRAHAM FRY and CAMPBELL FERGUSON including at

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke
Introduced By:
Campbell Ferguson

Portrait of a Decade 7: Aeroplanes and the Rising Sun
As aeroplanes grow bigger and the world shrinks, Japan opens out to the West. Caught between Western ways and Eastern tradition she takes refuge in aggression - led by the god-Emperor Hirohito. Commentary spoken by David Swift
English language production by HENRY FOSTER
Written and produced by DIETER FRANCK

Contributors

Spoken By:
David Swift
Production By:
Henry Foster
Produced By:
Dieter Franck

The popular game of musical knowledge with Frank Muir and John Amis challenging Denis Norden and Ian Wallace over questions set by Steve Race (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

A new novel from former
Booker Prize winner Bernice Rubens and a major biography of 'Rab' Butler are among the books discussed this week by Nicholas Shakespeare and his panel. Researcher CHRISTINE WILSON Director PETER MANIURA
Producer ROLAND KEATING

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernice Rubens
Unknown:
Nicholas Shakespeare
Unknown:
Christine Wilson
Director:
Peter Maniura
Producer:
Roland Keating

The first of three films featuring the famous fiend starring with of Scotland Yard
Fu Manchu, the notorious Oriental master criminal, embarks on a plan for world domination by means of a deadly poison distilled from the seeds of Tibetan poppies.
Screenplay by PETER WELBECK
Produced by HARRY ALAN TOWERS Directed by DON SHARP
* FILMS: page 19

Contributors

Play By:
Peter Welbeck
Produced By:
Harry Alan
Directed By:
Don Sharp
Fu Manchu:
Christopher Lee
Nay land Smith:
Nigel Green
Carl Jansen:
Joachim Fuchsberger
Maria Muller:
Karin Dor
Sir Charles:
James Robertson Justice
Dr Petrie:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Lin Tang:
Tsai Chin
Professor Muller:
Walter Rilla
Gaskell:
Harry Brogan
Lotus:
Poulet Tu

Presented by Carol Mather and Professor Ian Fells
Suffering from 'Brain Fag'? You need a jolt of static electricity - a fate Ian narrowly avoids when he meets the Royal Institution Senior Experimental Officer Bill Coates.
Turn a Des O'Connor record into a Wimshurst Machine and shock your friends.
Rosalind Armson from the Open University explains why perpetual motion is impossible, and shows how to create drawings you can only see clearly when reflected in an aluminium can. Assistant producers
GEORGE AUCKLAND. DEBORAH COHEN Producer PATRICK TITLEY
For information pack send 30p A4 sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Carol Mather
Presented By:
Professor Ian Fells
Unknown:
Bill Coates.
Unknown:
Des O'Connor
Unknown:
Rosalind Armson
Unknown:
George Auckland.
Unknown:
Deborah Cohen
Producer:
Patrick Titley

Mark Ellen introduces live music from the Belfast studios. Andy Kershaw meets Bob Geldof in rehearsal for his world tour. Hindsight features Focus from 1972. Producers
JOHN BURROWES. TREVOR DANN Director TOM CORCORAN
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

Contributors

Introduces:
Mark Ellen
Unknown:
Andy Kershaw
Unknown:
Bob Geldof
Unknown:
John Burrowes.
Unknown:
Trevor Dann
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Editor:
Michael Appleton

Justice 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 PIETER MORPURGO Producer ALAN BOOKBINDER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Alan Bookbinder

with Payday
A filthy war is lightened only by filthy lucre, as payday brings Hawkeye a windfall, an opportunity for Trapper to continue his losing streak at poker, and a chance for Frank to be a swine over pearls.
Written by REGIER and MARKOWITZ Directed by HY AVERBACK (R)

Contributors

Directed By:
Hy Averback
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Frank:
Larry Linville
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher
Klinger:
Jamie Farr
Quoc:
Jack Soo

A comedy in four parts by Fay Weldon
with Susan Penhaligon as Natalie Harris, Jacqueline Tong as Sonia, Derek Waring as Arthur Wandle and David Buck as Angus Patrick

Natalie has moved in with Sonia who immediately begins to educate her in the ways of the dispossessed. Natalie tries to find a job - any job. Harry in Spain and Angus in Wells both have proposals to make.

BBC Pebble Mill
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Fay Weldon
Music composed and conducted by:
Guy Woolfenden
Music composed and conducted by:
Stephen Hancock
Make-up Designer:
Lesley Perry
Lighting Cameraman:
John Williams
Film Editor:
Greg Miller
Designer:
Mary Spencer
Producer:
Roger Gregory
Director:
Brian Farnham
Natalie Harris:
Susan Penhaligon
Sonia:
Jacqueline Tong
Arthur Wandle:
Derek Waring
Angus Patrick:
David Buck
Alice Harris:
Sophie Cook
Ben Harris:
Christian Bale
Flora:
Rosalind Bennett
Bernard:
Stevan Rimkus
Jane Wandle:
Ann Firbank
Jean Patrick:
Janet Key
Peter:
Matthew Scurfield
Ros:
Elizabeth Edmonds
Sally Rains:
Mary Miller
Winnie:
Amanda Garwood
Quarry manager:
Ken Campbell
Young farmer:
David Neville
Lorry driver:
Roger McKern

11.30 Maths: Complex Analysis
What's the square root of minus one? That's a question which has puzzled mathematicians down the ages. Find out the answer.
(R)

11.55 Raising Sons and Daughters
'Pink for a girl, blue for a boy.' Two families discuss attempts to reduce sex-stereotyping.
(R)

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Contributors

Producer (Maths:
Complex Analysis): David Saunders
Producer (Raising Sons and Daughters):
Ann Pointon

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