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9.35 Encounter: Austria: On the Farm; Ski-ing on the Dachstein
Learning to ski in Austria is as common as swimming lessons here.
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9.52 Making History: Local Studies: A Street
The street where you live may have seen many changes. Students in rural Devon investigate a local street at three different periods.
Presented by Richard Burrows
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10.15 Equal People: Join the Club
The second of five programmes about women and society looks at clubs and groups, especially single-sex groups and the reasons for their existence.
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10.38 Brazil: Drought on the Land
Life in a rural community in north-east Brazil, which is stricken by a severe drought.
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11.0 Watch: Senses: Sounds
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11.17 Near and Far: Living in the Alps
The winter sports centre, Livigno, was once an inaccessible farming community. Why did it change?
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11.40 Mindstretchers: Package Deal: The Problem
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds, with suggested solutions.
Designing a package that is strong, simple to make and attractive. With Tony Aitken.
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11.48 Microelectronics in Action: Counting and Remembering
Counting is at the centre of numerous processes, from running supermarkets to making computer art.
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12.10 pm Pages from Ceefax
12.30 Animal Physiology: Swimming in Fish.
Current research on fish swimming, revealing the intriguing underwater world of fish.
A BBC/Open University production
12.55 A Suitable Place to Have a Baby?
Home or hospital? Three couples discuss the factors that affected their choice.
A BBC/Open University production
1.20 Pages from Ceefax
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs try hanging upside down. There's a visit to a school to hear a story from India, with counting in Punjabi. With Maggie Ollerenshaw
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with Sarah Kennedy
from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank
Regional News and Weather
First of six programmes
Do you want to live to be 100? This series can't guarantee that but Tony Lewis looks at how everyone can reduce their risks of heart disease. Sir Harry Secombe talks about how he's changed his diet and lost five stones,
Bobby Charlton about how he stopped smoking and Cliff Richard about exercise at 45! And Bonnie Tyler provides a musical interlude. Director TONY MCAVOY Producer BARRY LYNCH BBC Wales
The Best Thing is to Build a Great Wall and Keep 'em Out The Cambria is the last coasting barge in Europe still working under sail alone.
She carries anything you care to put into her hold, from coal to cattle cake.
Her skipper Bob Roberts has never served in a ship with an engine, and never intends to. He's preserved his way of working and endeavours to preserve the charm and traditions of Pin Mill, the Suffolk hamlet in which he lives.
Producer BRIDGET WINTER (R)
First of 19 programmes
Nine Dozen Heroes and One Wicked Man
A band of colourful outlaws lives by its wits and swords in the marshy land of the water margins of Liang Shan Po ...
Directed by Tosmo MASUDA English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Produced by NTV (R)
Everyone knows Erasure - don't they? So, what band was Vince Clarke in? Where's Yazoo? What's Assembly doing? And who is Andy Bell anyway?
All questions answered as Jenny Powell takes the No Limits cameras for a Bank Holiday burst of Brighton rock with Erasure live on stage at the Brighton Dome.
BBC Manchester
The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship The Final
The 60th World
Championship reached its conclusion yesterday at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Over 17 days, 32 players have competed for the prestigious title of World Champion. DAVID VINE introduces highlights of the Final, played over 35 frames.
Executive producer NICK HUNTER
Ireland is certainly on a winning streak in the coarse angling match. So far no British angler from the combined British and Irish side has qualified for the final. Amid the Sunday-afternoon strollers and weekend sailors at Viborg Lake in Denmark, two of Britain's top matchmen tackle up to try to bring the Irish winning run to an end. After all, they only have
20-year-old business studies student John Montgomery to beat! Can they do it? Today the home side faces a team from Holland, but the real challenge is between the individual members of the combined side to see whether Britain will be represented in the final.
Writer/doctor
Richard Gordon (Doctor in the House) is Derek Davis 's celebrity guest this week as they try, not very hard it must be admitted, to catch a trout. Heat 4
Britain and Ireland
IAN HEAPS (Britain) SID MEADS (Britain)
JOHN MONTGOMERY (Ireland) v Holland
COR AARTS, COR
ROEST JAN VAN SCHENDEL
Match organiser PETE THOMPSON Director PHIL FRANKLIN Producer ROY RONNIE
A BBCtv production in association with RTE
Nostalgia is the order of the day as Top Gear looks at yesterday's roadsweepers, fire engines, steam lorries and buses. William Woollard takes part in this year's
London to Brighton run of historic commerical vehicles. Frank Page tests the latest in 'hot' hatchbacks, the Peugeot 309 GT and the Vauxhall Astra 2000 GTE.
Sue Baker drives two versions of a new small car from Japan, the Daihatsu
Charade - one very fast, the other very economical.
Chris Goffey rides in the new taxi, the Metrocab, and asks taxi drivers if it will replace the familiar 'London taxi'. And Top Gear forsakes the town to examine the particular problems of road safety in the countryside. Producer JON BENTLEY
Executive producer TOM ROSS
begins a season featuring some of the most outstanding films made for television.
Tonight starring Jane Fonda
Geraldine Page
Levon Helm
Farmworker Gertie Nevels dreams of one day buying her own farm and raising her children in tranquil, rural surroundings.
Her husband Clovis has other ideas - he figures to strike it rich in Detroit in the wartime production effort of 1944. One morning he drives off to the big city and Gertie is forced to abandon her dreams and take the family to join Clovis in the urban jungle.
Jane Fonda won an Emmy as Best Actress for her performance in this stirring and dramatic story.
Screenplay by SUSAN COOPER and HUME CRONYN from the novel by HARRIETTE ARNOW
Produced by BILL FINNEGAN Directed by DANIEL PETRIE
(First showing on British television) 0 FILMS: page 19
with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphel
With reports from around Britain by Ian Smith Chris Lowe and Nick Worrall , and political and economic reports from Vincent Hanna
Will Hutton and Nick Clarke Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , ADRIAN MILNE Producers DIANA MORTON
EAMONN MATTHEWS. NIGEL CHAPMAN Deputy editor PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor TIM ORCHARD
What is it like to be a widow? How do you learn to cope with the loss? This programme explores the experience of widowhood, and shows how one woman attempted to find a new focus for her life.
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