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9.38 Politics and You: Who Benefits?
One of the main points of contact between the individual and the state is over taxes and benefits - the unemployed, single parents and the disabled have strong views on this.
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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Dibs just can't get to sleep at night; Liz tries to help.
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10.15 Music Time: Hary Janos: Part 1
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10.38 Let's See: Minibeasts: 1: The Plant Eaters
Presented by Michael Scott
This week features snails, slugs, worms and the incredible life-cycles of moths and butterflies.
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11.0 Zig Zag: Canada: Part 2
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11.22 Walrus: What Should I Do?: Larry and the Big Hello
by Tony Parker
Larry could easily get out of the trouble he's in, but there's a question of loyalty.
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11.45 Tutorial Topics
Appearances
Four pupils discuss their feelings about each other when they first met and how they see each other now.
Fame
Bradley Sheppard, one of the stars of BBCtv's Grange Hill, talks about what it's like to be famous.
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12.8 pm Gli Italiani: L'uomo di Alfa
An Italian version of the programme shown last Monday.
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12.40 General Studies: Relationships: Abortion
Every day 350 abortions are performed in Britain, 100 of them on teenagers.
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1.5 Micro live
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1.38 Economics: A Question of Choice: Workers or Machines?
Why introduce new technology? An investigation of its impact on a provincial newspaper and other workplaces.
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Told by Vicky Ireland
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Albert Brown and his grand-daughter Rachel go to Blackpool for the day.
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A personal view in 13 parts by J. Bronowski
11: Knowledge or Certainty? 'There is no absolute knowledge, and those who claim it, whether they're scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.'
Senior producer DICK GILUNG Editor ADRIAN MALONE (R)

Regional News and Weather

The Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Pamela is joined by John Humphrys to host the awards where Fleet Street's TV critics choose the best programmes and performances from the last 12 months. In the studio are the top British actors, actresses and programme-makers who are being honoured today. Director DIANE REID
Producer JANE MARRIOTT

Simon Brett Crime Writer Crime and radio comedy writer Simon Brett is seen at work on his 12th Charles Paris novel, What Bloody Man is That?
Filmed at home in Sussex, on location in Devon and at
Broadcasting House, where his radio series After Henry is recorded, Simon Brett talks about the way he combines laughter and crime. Film editor ROY FRY
Producer DAVID HEYCOCK

Presented by Ludovic Kennedy

starring with Senta Berger Janice Rule
The third of four thrillers featuring the American super agent. When a new type of spacecraft goes missing in the Mexican jungle, its pilot
Sheila Sommers is afterwards found in a state of amnesiac shock. Helm joins forces with her to discover who is responsible for hijacking the craft.
Screenplay by HERBERT BAKER based on the novel by DONALD HAMILTON
Produced by IRVING ALLEN Directed by HENRY LEVIN
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All People Great and Small
'When the alarm goes you go, go, go - you fight, fight, fight to get them to hospital - and then 24 hours later, you hear that they are brain dead - you feel cheated and sad.'
Dr John's practice covers 250 square miles of the North Yorkshire dales, and his patients are as likely to be a farmhand with a pitchfork in his foot as a baby with a cold. But he isn't just a GP. He and his wife Helen, a qualified nurse, race all over the dales in a specially equipped Range
Rover attending accidents and saving lives.
The money for the unit was raised by the local community at whose request this programme was made. Film cameraman DAVID GURNEY Sound recordist DAVE JEwrrr Film editor DENISE PERRIN Producer PAUL PIERROT
Open Space is the programme where the public can make programmes under their own editorial control with help from the Community Programme Unit.
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Disaster strikes when a hotel skywalk collapses on to a crowded dance-floor, killing 114 people. An engine falls off a jumbo jet and it crashes in a ball of fire, killing 273.

Engineer Henry Petroski is shocked but not surprised by such disasters. To him engineering is only part exact-science. So it is failures of imagination rather than miscalculations which more often lead to disaster. From pyramids to space shuttles, and from the knives in his own kitchen to the chiming mechanism of Big Ben, Petroski explains how engineers learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes.

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starring with Yours, Very Deadly
Maddie and David ponder the rules of romance when postal passion spells trouble for a married woman, as the writer's adulation turns to possessiveness - and then to threats of mayhem.
Meanwhile Ms Dipesto decides that she will be anonymous Agnes no more....
Written by ROGER DIRECTOR
Directed by CHRISTIAN NYBY II

Live comedy from Studio 3. If you leave out everyone's first name, it makes an ordinary billing sound very tough. Starring Lederer, Mantle,
Wilton, Brown and Triangle Cartoon Bell (Steve) Written by BELL.
BRINT BROWN. DA VIES. DOCHERTY DRISCOLL. GRANT. HARDY
HUNTER. IRWIN. KYAN. MARTIN MATTHEWS , PLANER. PULLIN RIVRON. RIX. SMITH. WILTON Designer BRISTOW
Executive producer KILBY Director CARR Producer RIX

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

with Enrico Verdecchia
The international and regional news broadcast from Rome on RAI 3, Italy's regional network.
Peter Fiddick looks at how small private TV stations struggle to survive in the shadow of the networks.

Can poems about words and places be political? They must be, argue Tom Paulin and Terry Eagleton, in a discussion on two Irish poems.
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