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9.30 Maths at Work: Programme 2

9.52 Past 13: Choices in the Third Year: How to Choose
'Be honest and realistic about yourself,' says a teacher. But the fact that you change as you grow up makes this sensible suggestion seem difficult to carry out. This programme shows various ways in which young people can learn to make useful decisions about their futures based on clear-sighted self-assessment
(R) (e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Water 'A'
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10.38 History File: Britain Alone
The fall of Europe to Nazi Germany was swift and unexpected. From June 1940 Britain was fighting alone.
(R) (e)

11.0 Thinkabout: Looking Up/Looking Down
(Shown yesterday at 2.2pm) (e)

11.18 Tutorial Topics: Disputes: 1 and 2
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11.40 Scene: A Mixed Experience
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12.12 Scotland this Century: 7: The Pleasures of the People
Cliff Hanley traces the development of popular entertainment in Scotland.
(R) (e)

12.32 Pages from Ceefax

12.45 Science Topics: Electromagnetic Spectrum
The range of radiations beyond the visible.
(R) (e)

1.5 France actuelle
A series of documentaries about life in modern France.
(R) (e)

1.38 Outlook: The Call of the Sea: 4: Lost at Sea!
On 25 October 1859, the Royal Charter was wrecked on the Anglesey coastline, with the loss of 450 lives. Exactly 100 years later, the hurricane returned.
Presented by David Parry-Jones
(e)

Contributors

Narrator (Past 13):
Wendy Jones
Series Producer (Past 13):
Rosanna Hibbert
Producer (History File):
Alan Ereira
Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (Scotland this Century):
Cliff Hanley
Producer (Scotland this Century):
Peter Whiteford
Series Producer (Science Topics):
Peter Bratt
Presenter (Outlook):
David Parry-Jones
Producer (Outlook):
Alwyn Humphreys

Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair talk about their collection of feathers and look at some of the ways in which different birds fly, glide, take off and land.
Louise makes a model bird, while James retells the Greek legend of Daedalus and Icarus.
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.0am) (e)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter:
James Earl Adair
Producer:
Caroline Godley

Singing and playing music in two-and three-part harmony. A synthesizer is demonstrated, and the violins play Hungarian gipsy music.
With Laurie Lewis and Peter Thomas (violins) and children from Weald First School
(Shown on Monday at 10.15am) (e)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter:
Helen Speirs
Violinist:
Laurie Lewis
Violinist:
Peter Thomas
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett

Knitting Design
Kay Cosserat is now one of Britain's leading knitting designers. This film follows her at work on her next winter collection - from choosing the yams to the final show at the London
Designer Group Exhibition. Series producer JOHN READ producer JULIA MATHESON (R)
2.55 Interval

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Cosserat
Producer:
Julia Matheson

from Cincinnati, Ohio
The Pairs Free Programme featuring the defending champions, EKATARINA GORDEEVA and SERGEI GRINKOV (USSR), whose unfortunate disqualification followed the controversial decision to stop their programme in the European Championships, when
Sergei's undone boot strap was considered dangerous. The North American challenge should come from CYNTHIA COULL and MARK ROWSON (Canada), who have already beaten the Soviet pair this year.
Commentator ALAN WEEKS
3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Sergei Grinkov
Unknown:
Cynthia Coull
Unknown:
Mark Rowson

Distracted Tymes
Roundheads and Cavaliers lay siege to Lincoln Castle during a spectacular battle recreated by the English Civil War Society. With authentic costumes and real gunpowder they spend their weekends living the life of the 17th century, but for some it's more than a hobby....
Film cameraman GRAHAM SMITH Producer ROGER KEECH BBC North (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Roger Keech

This week marks a special occasion as Pro-Celebrity Golf welcomes two women celebrities in this match for the Whyte and Mackay Scotch Trophy.
Gary Player's wife Vivienne comes from a famous South African sporting family and as well as being ladies golf champion, also swam for her country as a junior.
Raising six children has inevitably limited her golfing career, but she still plays to a ten handicap and is a very able partner for Tony Jacklin. In direct contrast, Mary Parkinson is a relative novice, as is husband Michael who was seen earlier in the series. She started playing only five years ago but has applied herself to the game with typical Yorkshire grit.
With some persuasive advice from partner Gary Player,
Mary plays the round of her life. Peter Alliss describes the action over nine selected holes of the Ailsa Course at the Turnberry Hotel.
Assistant producer DEREK MARTIN Television presentation
FRED VINER , ALASTADt SCOTT Producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Jacklin.
Unknown:
Mary Parkinson
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Fred Viner
Producer:
Harold Anderson

with Frank Muir Barbara Dickson Godfrey Smith against Arthur Marshall
Sarah Badel , Derek Jacobi Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Produced and directed by PAUL ciani

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Barbara Dickson
Unknown:
Godfrey Smith
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Sarah Badel
Unknown:
Derek Jacobi
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Goodson

or How Sam Colt Changed America
The American Wild West was the America of cowboys and frontier towns, of Dodge City, Wichita and Abilene. A land celebrated in 2,000 Western movies. But were the movies fact or fantasy?
The Wild West lasted only 15 years. During that time, lawmen lived longer and citizens experienced less crime than in the cities of the eastern United States.
But Sam Colt, the huckster, showman and libertine who invented the first practical revolver, gave America a new idea of itself. America became a gun culture. This film shows how.
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Written and produced by ALAN EREIRA (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Bruce Norman
Produced By:
Alan Ereira

by BERNARD FARRELL and GRAHAM REID starring
Dan Gordon
Colum Convey
Hilary Reynolds Maeve Germaine in First Impressions
Music KEN HOWARD
Film cameraman ANDY ELLIOTT Film editor JOHN JARVIS
Lighting director RON BRISTOW Designer JIM GRANT
Produced and directed by SYDNEY LOTTERBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Farrell
Unknown:
Graham Reid
Unknown:
Dan Gordon
Unknown:
Hilary Reynolds
Unknown:
Maeve Germaine
Music:
Ken Howard
Unknown:
Andy Elliott
Editor:
John Jarvis
Director:
Ron Bristow
Designer:
Jim Grant
Directed By:
Sydney Lotterby
Tom:
Dan Gordon
Alex:
Colum Convey
Roisin:
Hilary Reynolds
Septa:
Maeve Germaine
Mrs Fogarty:
Eileen Colgan
Dermot:
Barry McGovern

A series of films about the way we live now

On the night of 28 June 1944, a Halifax bomber was shot down over Northern France.
The navigator, Sergeant John Miller, parachuted out. For nine weeks he was lost in the backwaters of rural France, passed from family to family along the chain of the Resistance. But what really happened to him?
Forty years later, following the enigmatic clues in Sergeant Miller's pocket diary, his son Graham decides to retrace his father's journey. He takes a French-speaking friend, Paul Atterbury, to help him on his quest - two Englishmen abroad, picnicking by the roadside, dropping in on a village fete, examining restaurant menus for the cheapest meal in town.
The search leads to some strange encounters.
Where does Jumel fit into the jigsaw? What has happened to Madame Bouteille, the doctor's wife? And who is Bruno, the mysterious tailor of Grandvilliers...?
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Subject:
Graham Miller
Subject:
Paul Atterbury
Photography:
John Goodyer
Assistant Producer:
Laura Gavshon
Film Editor:
Neil Thomson
Producer:
Jonathan Gili
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

[Starring] Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko

What can a generous-hearted Mess Sergeant do but help one of his former privates whose cousins have cheated him out of his inheritance? Cue yet another brilliant scheme as the chase is on for the Maltese parrot.... (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Nat Hiken
Director:
Al de Caprio
Sergeant Bilko:
Phil Silvers

with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
All the major news events with reports by Ian Smith Nick Clarke , GUI NevUl and Chris Lowe

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Chris Lowe

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