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6.50 Genetics: the Amish

7.15 Maths: Finding One's Bearings

7.40 Conformation in Proteins

8.05 The Plough and the Hoe: 1

8.30 The Physics of White Dwarf Stars

8.55 Images: Albert Crewe's Atom

9.20 Victorian Farming

9.45 Social Science: Competing Theories?

10.10 Instruments under Wraps

10.35 Maths: Modelling Pollution

11.00 Open Forum: Preparing for the Exams

11.25 Science: Particle Physics

11.50 Maths Methods

12.15 Biology: Form and Function

12.40 Colliding Continents

1.05 Structural Power

Introduced by Steve Rider

Timetable
1.30 Water Ski-ing and Motor Sport
2.30 Motor Racing
5.00 Motor Racing and Water Ski-ing
6.00 Golf
Timings are subject to alteration

Motor Racing
Portuguese Grand Prix
Estoril - the 12th round of the world championship, and piquet's rapidly disappearing from sight. Start at 2.30; finish in part 2 at 5.00. Commentators Murray Walker, James Hunt

Water Ski-Ing
1987 KP World Water Ski-ing Championships
Mike Hazelwood won the world title ten years ago and is still the world-record holder in the jump discipline. However, stiff opposition awaits him in the shape of American Sammy Duvall.
Commentators Nigel Starmer-Smith, Peter Bryant

Motor Sport
The best of the rest from yesterday's British motorcycle championship meeting, and Steve Rider reports on the Manx Rally.

Golf
Ryder Cup Preview
Can Britain and Europe retain their trophy?

Football
Brief action and the result from today's clash between Mirandhina and Beardsley.

(Sunday Grandstand continues at 5.00pm)

Contributors

Introduced by:
Steve Rider
Commentator:
Murray Walker
Commentator:
Mike Hazelwood
Commentator:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Peter Bryant
Television:
presentation (Motor Racing RTP, Portugal
Water Ski-ing):
Alastair Scott
Television presentation (Motorcycling):
Martin Webster
Studio producer:
Campbell Ferguson
Assistant editor:
Brian Barwick
Producer:
Martin Hopkins
Editor:
Jon Philips

I continues a season of films starring the celebrated comic actor. Today with Terry-Thomas
When the Foreign
Office decides that the tenuous relationship between Britain and Gaillardia needs strengthening, they dispatch Carlton-Browne.
The result is disastrous as the incompetent Carlton-Browne comes face to face with the unscrupulous Amphibulos.
Produced by JOHN BOULTING Written and directed by JEFFREY DELL and ROY BOULTING
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Contributors

Produced By:
John Boulting
Directed By:
Jeffrey Dell
Directed By:
Roy Boulting
Amphibulos:
Peter Sellers
Ilyena:
Luciana Paoluzzi
Bellingham:
Thorley Walters
Young king:
Ian Bannen
British resident:
Miles Malleson

The Unipart British
Professional Championship from Redcar
ERIC BRISTOW (2) finds himself relegated to the lower half of the draw after losing his No 1 ranking to BOB ANDERSON. He starts his attempt to win the title again this afternoon against OLLY VARNEY. Also playing are DAVE WHITCOMBE (7) against RAY BATTYE ,
ALAN EVANS against SCOTT COLEMAN and WAYNE JONES against DENIS OVENS.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
Television presentation
MIKE ADLEY and PETER HAYWARD
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Anderson.
Unknown:
Olly Varney.
Unknown:
Dave Whitcombe
Unknown:
Ray Battye
Unknown:
Alan Evans
Unknown:
Scott Coleman
Unknown:
Wayne Jones
Unknown:
Denis Ovens.
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Introduced By:
Sid Waddell
Unknown:
Tony Green
Unknown:
Mike Adley
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

Last programme in the series starring Garry Shandling Dinner with Garry
Is Ruth Shandling wise to submit to her son's attempts at matchmaking?
Written by E. J. PURDUM Directed by ALAN RAFKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Garry Shandling
Unknown:
Ruth Shandling
Written By:
E. J. Purdum
Directed By:
Alan Rafkin
Nancy:
Molly Cheek
Pete:
Michael Tucci
Grant:
Scott Nemes
Jackie:
Bernadette Birkett
Ruth:
Barbara Cason
DrDerwin:
Dennis Patrick

Pattie Coldwell, Harry Greene and Rick Ball return brimming with ideas and practical advice to help you make the most of your home. Pattie gets straight down to business and takes a DIY course to learn how to get plastered, while Harry goes to Northampton to help a Troubleshoot viewer who is trying to remove the textured finishes bequeathed by the previous occupant.
Rick Ball gets into some tight corners to show how the experts put up coving, and guest designer Maggie Colvin is invited to transform the sitting room in the programme house at Pebble Mill.
Director JULIA D. SIMKIN
Producer ANDREW MEIKLE
Series producer STEPHANIE SILK BBC Pebble Mill
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Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Greene
Unknown:
Rick Ball
Unknown:
Rick Ball
Designer:
Maggie Colvin
Director:
Julia D. Simkin

A history of western philosophy in 15 parts 3: Medieval Philosophy with Anthony Kenny ,
Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
For a thousand years, between the fall of the Roman empire and the Reformation, philosophy was kept alive in the west by the Roman Catholic Church.
The great philosophers of the period were such figures as St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. The Confessions of St Augustine is universally recognised as one of the great books of the world.
Devised and presented by Bryan Magee
Producer JILL DAWSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Kenny
Unknown:
Thomas Aquinas.
Presented By:
Bryan Magee
Producer:
Jill Dawson

Spirits of the Forest
Narrated by Andrew Sachs Madagascar is a treasure house of weird and wonderful wildlife. In the forests live more than 20 kinds of lemur, unique primates that range in stature from the world's smallest - the tiny mouse-lemur, weighing no more than a hen's egg - to the child-sized indri with its ghostly morning songs. In the arid south, ring-tailed lemurs scent their tails for ritual stink-fights, and handsome sifakas leap through the air from one viciously-spined branch to another, somehow without gashing their hands.
Having been isolated from the African mainland for 200 million years, almost all the animals and plants have become unique to this extraordinary island. Photographed and directed by OWEN NEWMAN
Film editor COLIN CRADOCK Written and produced by MIKE SALISBURY
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Editor:
Colin Cradock
Produced By:
Mike Salisbury

Paul Daniels is taken aback as Debbie McGee tries to take over the show, and pays tribute to master magician Robert Harbin with Experiment 13. He also introduces his remarkable guests: from America, juggling comedian
Michael Davis and from Great Britain, card manipulator Kevin Reay. Special guest appearance Danny La Rue
Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Director MICHAEL LEGGO Produced by JOHN FISHER
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Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Unknown:
Robert Harbin
Unknown:
Michael Davis
Unknown:
Kevin Reay.
Unknown:
Danny La Rue
Unknown:
Gil Leaney
Director:
Michael Leggo
Produced By:
John Fisher

The 1987 Formula One World Championship
Portuguese Grand Prix
Can Britain's NIGEL MANSELL upset the Brazilian one-two at the top of the drivers' championship?
The battle between PIQUET and SENNA continued in Italy two weeks ago and it seems only Mansell can interrupt it here. The Williams driver from the Isle of Man won this race a year ago and desperately needs a repeat performance if he's to catch the leaders.
Commentators
MURRAY WALKER , JAMES HUNT Television presentation RTP, Portugal
Producer CHARLES BALCHIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Unknown:
Murray Walker
Producer:
Charles Balchin

concludes a major season of films from
New Zealand.
Tonight starring Penelope Stewart Frank Whitten
In a remote valley in the North Island of New Zealand a family struggles for a living from the unyielding soil. One day the father is killed and into the family's life comes a mysterious stranger. He starts a relationship with the mother and helps the grandfather build a strange machine. But for Toss he is a predator and the young sexually maturing girl must get rid of him. This visually striking film was the first Kiwi movie to be shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where it was received with great acclaim.
Unquestionably the work of an extremely talented director GUARDIAN Strange and haunting TIME OUT It reminds us of cinema's great power to excite. surprise and conjure up unique imagined worlds TIMES Screenplay by VINCENT WARD and GRAEME TETLEY Produced by JOHN MAYNARD Directed by VINCENT WARD
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Unknown:
New Zealand.
Unknown:
Penelope Stewart
Unknown:
Frank Whitten
Unknown:
Vincent Ward
Unknown:
Graeme Tetley
Produced By:
John Maynard
Directed By:
Vincent Ward
Toss:
Fiona Kay
Elizabeth:
Penelope Stewart
Ethan Ruir:
Frank Whitten
Birdie:
Bill Kerr
Justin Peers:
Gordon Shields

The Unipart British
Professional Championship from Redcar
The 1984 British professional champion MIKE GREGORY (3) will be hoping to clear the first hurdle on the road to the final this evening against STEVE JONES of Evesham. The other matches in this session will feature CLIFF
LAZARENKO (6) against BRIAN CAIRNS (Glamorgan),
DENIS HICKLING (Doncaster) against ROD BOOKER (Haywards Heath) and RANDY BACHE (Stourbridge) against STEVE GITTIS (Telford). Introduced by TONY GUBBA

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Gregory
Unknown:
Steve Jones
Unknown:
Brian Cairns
Unknown:
Denis Hickling
Unknown:
Randy Bache
Unknown:
Steve Gittis
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba

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