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9.35 Treffpunkt Osterreich: Eine Bergrettung
Wir brauchen ganz dringend 'Hilfe!' A dramatic air rescue is mounted when three young climbers get into difficulties.
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9.52 Mindstretchers: A to B: Solutions
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds to work on with suggested solutions.
Travel by foot, train, bus or cycle, or a combination of all: which is the quickest?
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9.57 Pages from Ceefax

10.15 Science Workshop: Twigs and Wood 'A'

10.38 History File: Cold War - Confrontation
The Berlin blockade of 1948-9 and the Korean War of 1950-3: the issues which nearly brought the Soviet Union and the USA into full-scale war.
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11.0 Thinkabout: Our Place
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11.18 A-Level Studies: Statistics: Sampling and Probability
What is the probability that a drunken driver will not fail a roadside test?
Can it be estimated?
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11.40 Scene: Scene in New York: The Guardian Angels
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12.12pm Seventeen: 1: I Can't Wait to Leave School!

12.45 Microelectronics in Action: Sensing and Deciding

1.5 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 News and Weather

2.2 Watch: Summer Festivals
This programme welcomes in the summer.
See children of Tissington, Derbyshire, preparing a well-dressing and enjoy the Knutsford Royal May Day Festival.
Presented by Jaye Griffiths
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2.15 Music Time: Anansi and the Sky God
A performance of the musical, set in Africa, in which Anansi is sacked as the village drummer, but uses a cunning trick to win back his job.
With children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School
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Shepherd in Sea Boots
From his father, Fred Jones inherited the skills of a Conway fisherman; from his mother's family, a sheep farm high in the hills.
Fishing and farming help
Fred Jones earn a living, but by trade he is a painter and decorator: his ambition was to be a professional singer and now his songs are a familiar part of the North Wales holiday scene.
Executive producer JENNIFER JEREMY Producer WYNFORD JONES BBC Wales (R)

The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship First semi-final
For the last 12 days, two tables have been in action. During the night, the Crucible Theatre has been a hive of activity, transforming the arena to its one-table setting for the semi-finals and final over the next five days. The semi-finals are played over 31 frames and the players hoping to be at the table for the start of this afternoon's first semi-final are: JOE JOHNSON (seeded 1) the current world champion,
DENNIS TAYLOR (4) winner of the recent Masters and 1985 world champion, and NEAL FOULDS (13), who has reached the finals of two major tournaments this season.
DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage of the first frames from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. including at
3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Jim and his team are faced with playing a complicated charade when they attempt to outwit a professional hitman who always seems one step ahead of the game... (R)

A duel of words and wit between Arthur Marshall Ciaran Madden lain Sutherland and Frank Muir Sue Lawley John Barron
Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Directed by BRUCE MILLAR Producer PAUL CLANI

The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship DAVID VINE introduces highlights of this afternoon's first semi-final and the start of the second semi-final.
There are four players that could be contesting this second semi-final. They are CLIFF THORBURN (seeded 3), ALEX HIGGINS (7) and STEVE DAVIS (2), who have all won the World Championships, and JIMMY WHITE (6) who has never won it, but who has, so far this season, won two major tournaments and been a finalist in a third.

What you never knew about the Oxo family....
What you've always known about EastEnders....
What you wish wasn't true about eating....
All in tonight's special weightwatchers' edition.
(Only 150 calories per sketch) Featuring Ron Bain
Gregor Fisher , Andy Gray Helen Lederer , Tony Roper Elaine C. Smith
Jonathan Watson and John Sparkes Music DAVID MCNIVEN
Script editor PHILIP DIFFER Designer JIM LONGMUIR Director ALEX YOUNG
Producer COLIN GILBERT BBC Scotland
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Last in the series

Overlooking the great harbour of Bombay is one of the largest and most exotic hotels in the world, the Taj Mahal. Day and night hundreds of travellers pass through its doors. So do film stars, politicians, and all the rich, powerful members of Bombay high society. Below stairs, 2,000 people hurry to serve them.
Shoba De, India's acid gossip columnist, introduces the super-rich at a lavish party by the hotel pool. Chef Satish Arora examines the food for today's 22 banquets. 350,000 flowers are woven together and dyed for a wedding.
Underground, Frankie Pais sits in his Aladdin's cave, mending chandeliers. And the head waiter prepares for a Caledonian ball, explaining that guests will stab a haggis to the sound of bagpipes. Outside the hotel's high walls, Bombay life goes on....
Feature: page 12
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Second semi-final coverage with DAVID VINE

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With political and economic reports from Vincent Hanna Will Hutton and Nick Clarke

Further coverage

Previewing programmes from the OU on Saturday and Sunday.
A BBC/Open University production

Critics of US nuclear policy claim that lack of funds has left their nation's defences vulnerable to a pre-emptive Soviet strike.
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