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9.15 Job Bank: Production - Japanese Style
Today: a Japanese car factory in Sunderland.
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9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work: TVEI
The aim of TVEI is to provide 14 to 18-year-old students with a more practically-based education. New technology is often combined with traditional subjects to develop the skills needed to meet the demands of the modern world.
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo and Dibs both want to have the first turn. Henry the Kangaroo and Ellie go to the library. Carolyn goes lobster fishing with her father. Song: Do You Know the Muffin Man?
(R) (e)

10.15 Music Time: Working with Sounds
(R) (e)
(For details see Thursday 1.38 pm)

10.40 Thinkabout: Face to Face
It's Sally's first day at work at the flats. What will Frank the caretaker be like?
(R) (e)

11.00 Zig Zag: The Vikings Are Coming!
(e) (For details see Wednesday 1.38 pm)

11.20 English Time: Buddy: 1: Raining in My Heart
by Nigel Hinton, starring Roger Daltrey as Terry
What's it like to have a dad like Terry - funny, lovable, unpredictable, who perhaps has never really grown up? Forty years old and still a teddy boy rocker? Who's named his son after his own idol Buddy Holly?
(R) (e)

11.45 Bible Lands: 1: Herod the Great
A series of five programmes on the archaeological background to the gospels.
(R) (e)

12.08pm History File: Twentieth-century History: Make Germany Pay
(R) (e)

12.30 General Studies: Art and War
Examining the function of art in war, and in particular Picasso's 'Guernica', from the time of the Spanish Civil War.
(R) (e)

1.00 Science in Action: Sporting Chance
Having a go yourself is the theme of this hands-on science series. This week: explore the physics of peddle power.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Series Producer (Job Bank):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (Lifeschool):
George Auckland
Series Producer (Lifeschool):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Series Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Writer (English Time:
Buddy): Nigel Hinton
Producer/Director (English Time:
Buddy): Roger Tonge
Terry:
Roger Daltrey
Buddy:
Wayne Goddard
Producer (Bible Lands):
R. Dilwyn Jones
Series Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (General Studies):
Edward Hayward
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

Canadian immigrants Antanas and Anastasia Tamosaitis work hard to keep the folk art and legends of their native Lithuania alive in their paintings, tapestries, sculptures and dance.
Written, produced and directed by RAMUNA MACDONALD
(Postponed from 7 September) (R)

3.00 News and Weather followed by: The World About Us: White Man in a Hole
with Rena Briand
Opal fever has attracted fortune seekers from all over the world to dig and burrow into the heart of Australia.
Producer BOB SAUNDERS (R)

3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Anastasia Tamosaitis
Directed By:
Ramuna MacDonald
Unknown:
Rena Briand
Producer:
Bob Saunders

No Place Quite Like It
This year the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London celebrates 40 years of exhibitions, talks, plays, videos and cinema. This film charts its controversial history featuring artists as different as Peter Blake , Laurie Anderson , Angela Carter , Maya Angelou
Gore Vidal , Martin Amis and Robyn Archer , the ICA is a unique and vital venue for contemporary art in Britain. Executive producer JOHN ARCHER ICA TV producer LISA APPIGNANESI BBCtv producer JOHN WHISTON Director ANDREW EATON
• INFO: page 91

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Blake
Unknown:
Laurie Anderson
Unknown:
Angela Carter
Unknown:
Maya Angelou
Unknown:
Gore Vidal
Unknown:
Martin Amis
Unknown:
Robyn Archer
Producer:
John Archer
Producer:
John Whiston
Director:
Andrew Eaton

with Eric Robson
A Foot or Two above the Rest Tan Hill Inn , the highest pub in Britain, and the centre for a remote Pennine farming community, can be a place of dreams. But it's hard to start a new life there, as one couple found in their first few months as landlords. Producer RICHARD ELSE
Editor JOHN MAPPLEBECK

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Unknown:
Tan Hill Inn
Editor:
John Mapplebeck

continues a season featuring the famous sleuth, tonight starring George Sanders Wendy Barrie
George Sanders as the 20th-century Robin Hood in this offering from the suave detective's casebook: murder in a San Francisco nightclub on New Year's Eve. The Saint swings into action to clear a young girl's name and foil the criminals who have succeeded in framing her policeman father.
Screenplay byJOHN TWIST from the novel Angels of Doom by LESLIE CHARTERIS
Produced by ROBERT SISK Directed by JOHN FARROW (Blackandwhite) • FILMS: page 26

Contributors

Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Wendy Barrie
Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Robin Hood
Unknown:
John Twist
Unknown:
Leslie Charteris
Produced By:
Robert Sisk
Directed By:
John Farrow
Simon Templar:
George Sanders
Valerie Travers:
Wendy Barrie
Henry Fernack:
Jonathan Hale
Cullis:
Jerome Cowan
Allen Breck:
Neil Hamilton
Zipper Dyson:
Barry Fitzgerald
Webster:
Robert Elliott
Harry Donnell:
Russell Hopton
Pinky Budd:
Edward Gargan
Commissioner:
Robert Strange
Martin Eastman:
Gilbert Emery
Secretary:
James Burke

A series for those who love the sea and sailing ships. The Bembridge Tradition For over a century the Bembridge Sailing Club has promoted and encouraged sport under sail in a variety of craft. Best known of these are the Redwings whose origins go back nearly 100 years.
Sailing at Bembridge is very much a family convention; grandchildren enjoy the waters of the Solent once sailed by their grandparents, who founded the Bembridge tradition.
Narrator Tom Salmon Film cameraman NICK DANCE Sound TONY YEADON
Film editor PETER SIMPSON Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol
0 INFO: page 91

Contributors

Editor:
Peter Simpson
Producer:
Brian Hawkins

The new world No 1 darts player, BOB ANDERSON , is expected to be standing on the oche this evening to start the second round of this top tournament, where the champion will pick up the British Professional Trophy and a cool £10,000. The pace gets hotter, it's now seven sets, three legs per set.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentator
SID WADDELL and TONY GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Anderson
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Commentator:
Sid Waddell

Shakespeare's famous line-up newly explored, expanded and amended for the 1980s.
A series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ron Eyre
2: Slugs and Spice
'... creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.'
The secret world of being 10: codes and camouflage, treaties and betrayals, defeats and triumphs in Bradford and the Yorkshire Dales.
Series produced by JONATHAN STEDALL and MICHAEL CROUCHER
ResearchDEBORAH HILL FOX Photography MIKE FOX
Sound recordist FRASER BARBER Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON Directed by JONATHAN STEDALL BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Presented By:
Ron Eyre
Produced By:
Jonathan Stedall
Produced By:
Michael Croucher
Unknown:
Deborah Hill Fox
Unknown:
Mike Fox
Unknown:
Fraser Barber
Editor:
Andrew Johnston
Directed By:
Jonathan Stedall

continues a season of films new to television starring Tom Conti Kelly McGUlis
Gowan McGland is a dissolute Celtic poet on the lecture circuit on the American East Coast. His talent with words is matched by his fondness for drink and success with adoring female fans. While his estranged wife plans to make money by writing about his notorious lifestyle, McGland finds hope once again when he falls in love with a beautiful woman many years his junior.
As the charming McGland, Tom Conti was nominated for an Oscar in this witty and moving film.
Screenplay by JULIUS J. EPSTEIN based on a novel by PETER DEVRIES Produced by WALTER SHENSON
Directed by ROBERT ELLIS MILLER
(First showing on British television)
40 FILMS: page 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Conti
Unknown:
Kelly McGulis
Unknown:
Gowan McGland
Unknown:
Tom Conti
Unknown:
Julius J. Epstein
Novel By:
Peter Devries
Produced By:
Walter Shenson
Directed By:
Robert Ellis Miller
Gowan McGland:
Tom Conti
Geneva Spofford:
Kelly McGillis
Frank Spofford:
Roberts Blossom
Bobby Springer:
Cynthia Harris
Lucille Haxby:
E. Katherine Kerr
Dr Haxby:
Joel Fabiani
Edith McGland:
Kara Wilson
Mare Spofford:
Lois Smith
Dr Ormsby:
Ed Grady
Tad Springer:
Damon Douglas

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with reports from around Britain by Ian Smith
Chris Lowe and Nick Worrall Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE. ADRIAN MILNE Producers
EAMONN MATTHEWS. NIGEL CHAPMAN Deputy editor PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor TIM ORCHARD

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Snow
Presented By:
Donald MacCormick
Presented By:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Nick Worrall
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie.
Unknown:
Adrian Milne
Unknown:
Eamonn Matthews.
Unknown:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
Philip Campbell

The Unipart British
Professional Championship from
Redcar TONY GUBBA introduces highlights of this evening's second-round matches direct from the Redcar Bowl. Television presentation
MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduces:
Redcar Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Mike Adley.
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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