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6.50 Living with Technology: Sound in View

7.15 Probability and Statistics

7.40 The English Landscape Garden

8.5 Changing Britain: The Multinational

8.30 Physics: Energy to Go Round

8.55 Multiplying Matrices

9.20 Poetry: Language and History

9.45 Innovation and Coal

10.10 Education: Can You Hear Me?

10.35 Maths: Tutor-marked Assignments

11.0 Farming: Organic or Conventional

11.25 Science: Spreading Oceans

11.50 Maths: Differential Equations

12.15 Biology: Enzyme Structure and Function

12.40 Crust and Mantle of the Earth

1.5 The Case of Czechoslovakia

1.30 Chemistry: Poisons that Paralyse

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The McEwan's
National League
Watsonians v Selkirk
The Thorn EMI County
Championship Semi-final Middlesex v Cornwall Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights of yesterday's matches at the top of the Scottish Division 1 and the final stages of the English County Championship.
Selkirk, who finished third from bottom last season, were aiming to go third overall if they beat current third-placed side Watsonians, while
Cornwall were trying to reach the final for the first time since 1969.
Also a preview of next week's double internationals. Series producer Huw JONES

Contributors

Producer:
Huw Jones

An opera in one act by ARTHUR SULLIVAN and F.C. BURNAND starring
Russell Smythe as Cox Thomas Lawlor as Bouncer with the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Faris
Cox works by day and Box by night. They share the same landlord, a fast-talking rascal who lets the same room to both of them and so doubles his profit. When the two finally meet they discover it is not only the same lodgings that they have in common ... Directed by DAVE HEATHER Produced by JUDITH DE PAUL A BRENT WALKER production

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Sullivan
Unknown:
Russell Smythe
Unknown:
Cox Thomas Lawlor
Conducted By:
Alexander Faris
Directed By:
Dave Heather
Produced By:
Judith de Paul
Produced By:
A Brent Walker

On an April evening in 1925 two years of mayhem on the streets of Sheffield reached their murderous climax with the killing of Jock Plommer by a gang of men.
Former Sheffield newspaper reporter Mike Mckay untangles the complex web of facts surrounding those years when street gambling led to bitter gang rivalry, and troubled the conscience of that great city.
Written by PAUL ALLEN and JOHN IRWIN
Film editor STEPHEN TURNER
Producer PATRICK HARGREAVES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jock Plommer
Reporter:
Mike McKay
Written By:
Paul Allen
Written By:
John Irwin
Producer:
Patrick Hargreaves

Landmarks
'They are sometimes comic, sometimes curious, but above all they're beautiful, and you can create music of great subtlety with percussion instruments alone.'
Percussionist James Wood takes Bartok's Sonata for
Two Pianos and Percussion as his starting point, as he highlights the pioneers and performs some of the landmarks of recent music for solo percussion. Sound NORMAN CANLIN Lighting JOHN MORRANS
Series editor KEITH ALEXANDER Producer HILARY BOULDING BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
James Wood
Editor:
Keith Alexander
Producer:
Hilary Boulding

'Science offers a surer path to God than religion' (PAUL DAVIES) This week Michael Ignatieff and his guests Paul Davies , theoretical physicist;
William Newton-Smith , philosopher of science; Richard Gregory , neuropsychologist ask: Who put the bang in the Big Bang?
Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Paul Davies
Unknown:
William Newton-Smith
Unknown:
Richard Gregory
Director:
Mark Harrison

The 99th edition of BBC2's winter sports series features The Men's Downhill from Nakiska at Mount Allan. From the site of the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Canada's Rocky Mountains, David Vine introduces the last programme of the current series and the final downhill action of the 1986/87 BASF Ski World Cup.
The world's top ski racers could be competing on artificially-created snow as they discover the delights and potential disasters of the route to Olympic gold.
Ski Sunday returns with its
100th programme in a special Olympic season next winter. Television presentation CBC Canada Producer JIM RESIDE

Contributors

Introduces:
David Vine
Producer:
Jim Reside

Presenters Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton With PAUL BURDEN
JAMES HOGG , MARK ROGERSON and FRANCINE STOCK Including this week: Star in the East
William Horsley reports on the fastest-growing economy in Asia, whose workers put even the Japanese to shame. But for how long? Korea has to live with the threat of invasion from the north and violent social unrest at home. Film editor PAUL WILLEY Editor JONATHAN CRANE

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Widlake
Presenters:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
With Paul Burden
Unknown:
James Hogg
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Unknown:
William Horsley
Editor:
Paul Willey
Editor:
Jonathan Crane

'Do it yourself with Pattie Coldwell , Harry Greene , Gilly Love and Rick Ball. They tackle the ambitious project of installing patio doors in the dining room and you can see Gilly Love's design concept for a modern living room brought to fruition.
There's news and views for DIY-ers and in Troubleshoot, another problem solved when Harry deals with domestic difficulties on the home front. Director JULIA D. SIMKIN
Producer ANDREW MEIKLE
Series producer STEPHANIE SILK

Contributors

Unknown:
Pattie Coldwell
Unknown:
Harry Greene
Unknown:
Rick Ball.
Director:
Julia D. Simkin

Ludovic Kennedy presents his selection of the week's television and reviews The World of UB40: The Smiths
(BBC1); Heart of the Country (BBC2); The Last Resort
(Channel 4). Muriel Gray looks at the link between new children's programmes and the sale of toys.
Producer CHARLES MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Muriel Gray
Producer:
Charles Miller

Screenplay by Christopher Green
starring Nicholas Campbell

After the Great War, thousands of Canadian troops were sent to Kinmel Park Camp in North Wales to await their return as young heroes.

(BBC Wales)
(Feature: page 9 and Films: page 19)
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Christopher Green
Music By:
Richard Hartley
Designer:
Ray Price
Film Editor:
Tim Kruijdenberg
Photography:
Paul Reed
Executive Producer:
John Hefin
Executive Producer:
W. Paterson Ferns
Producer:
Ray Marshall
Director:
Terry Ryan
Cpl Brill:
Nicholas Campbell
Vember Carr:
Sioned Mair
L/Cpl Millen:
Albert Schultz
Pte Yashin:
Milan Cheylov
Bannerman:
Eugene Lipinski
Lt Anson:
William Hope
Cpl Hatch:
Paul Maxwell
Franklin:
Bradley Lavelle
Pte Corti:
Peter Whitman
Pte Thompson:
William Armstrong
Sgt-Maj Wagner:
Peter Banks
Cpl Bates:
Ian Morton
Sir William:
Bernard Brown
Morgan:
Meredydd Edwards
Tanner:
Michael Roberts
[Actress]:
Elizabeth Richardson
[Actor]:
Artro Morris
[Actress]:
Dilys Price
[Actor]:
Don Fellows
[Actor]:
Clyde Pollitt
[Actor]:
Rolant Elis Thomas
[Actor]:
John Serret

Wales v England
TONY GUBBA introduces highlights of the last match with results of ladies' and men's championship. Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Sid Waddell
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie.
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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