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9.15 Job Bank: Fashion and Clothing
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(For details see Wednesday at 12.05pm)
9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work: How Other People See Us
by Colin Davis
When others have the wrong impression of us and nobody understands, whose fault is it?
With Elaine Lordan, Julia Sawalha, Mel Warren, Monique Wright, Mark Monero, Leslie Glazer, Kenneth Shanley, Josie Kidd, Denise Hirst and Michael Vivian
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Are Dibs and Cosmo exaggerating when they say a doll has come to life? Henry the Kangaroo and Ellie look for 'litter signs'. Jane helps with the lambing on her family's farm in Wales.
Song: Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
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10.15 Music Time: Long Sounds, Short Sounds
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(For details see Thursday 1.38 pm)
10.40 Thinkabout: Many Hands
Hands can tell stories, make shapes and noises; and an extra pair can also help Sally out of trouble when she tries to decorate a flat all by herself.
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11.00 Zig Zag: A Viking Town
(For details see Wednesday 1.38pm) (e)
11.20 Walrus: Work it Out: Where Are We?
Four young people and Michael Rosen start to read a book.
They work out what it seems to be about and think about what comes next.
Dramatised excerpts written by Jan Needle
Taking part: Jenny Luckraft, Michael Shuttleworth, Jack Carr, Helen Barnaby
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11.45 Bible Lands: 2: The Childhood of Christ
A series of five programmes on the archaeological background to the Gospels.
What sort of child was Jesus? Where did he live? What games did he play? Peter Connolly looks for evidence.
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12.08pm History File: Twentieth-Century History: Boom and Bust
The 1920s were years of fast-growing prosperity for the USA - until the Wall Street crash.
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12.30 A Balancing Act: 2: On the Air
For the 1987 election campaign, the BBC set up a special newsroom and sent many of their reporters out to follow the politicians. The second part of this two-part programme shows how all the various elements of the news programme come together and how the editors maintain a balance, politically and otherwise.
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1.00 Science in Action: Colour
Find out how colour television works, have a go at vegetable dyeing, and see how four theatre design students use coloured lights, costumes and set for a mime show. With Kjartan Poskitt, Terry Marsh
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Paul Coia visits a Viking settlement named Jorvik - now called York. He visits the Coppergate excavations & the Jorvick Centre. David March narrates 'Thor's visit to the Giants'. Show more
Archive footage illustrates this focus on the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United States until the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
A See-Saw programme
with Chloe Ashcroft and Don Spencer
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1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Streetscape: Above and Below
Making use of the limited space in our town and city centres has meant building up and digging down. Office blocks tower above the street while essential services are buried underground.
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Schools are invited to submit details of a five-minute film they would like to make about their local environment. This is for inclusion in the final programme for the summer term. For further information, see current teachers' notes or write to: Near and Far: Now and Then, [address removed]
'A lolly on a stick is a very nice thing to lick,' sing Charlie and the children and everyone can join in a signs and signals bingo game.
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Live coverage of the afternoon session of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
Commentators Sir Robin Day and David Dimbleby with Vivian White including at
3.00* News and Weather and at
3.50* News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
continues a season featuring the famous sleuth.
Tonight starring George Sanders Wendy Barrie
Simon Templar , alias the Saint, doing what he's best at - chasing glamorous young ladies and helping old friends out of trouble.
In need of help this time is Inspector Fernack , who has been framed by a group of racetrack gambers who planted 50,000 dollars in his safe. Three or four killings and some derring-do from the suave 'tec and all ends happily - except that the young lady is not as angelic as at first appears.
Screenplay by LYNN ROOT and FRP NK FENTON Produced by HOWARD BENEDICT Directed by JACK HIVELY
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A series for those who love the sea and sailing ships. The Great Mail Race
For one day each year the Baltic harbours of Grisslehamn and Storby are transformed. They're taken back to the days when the mail was transported by small open boats across those hostile seas.
This annual event is known as 'The Postrodden'. Dressing in the style of the period and sailing in replica boats of the past, today's generation relives the times when their forebears kept the post routes open.
Narrator Tom Salmon Photography TIM JOHNSON Sound MURRAY CLARKE
Film editor PETER SIMPSON Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol
Far from the Madding Crowd with John Lenahan
Deep in Thomas Hardy 's Dorset a tiny hamlet celebrates a new lease of life with a Harvest supper.
Gladys the bulldog tucks into the kebabs, while
John Lenahan finds out why it was so important to save this particular little farming community from the yuppies, and brings a little of his own special magic to the occasion. Assistant producer RAY HOUGH Director PETER LEE WRIGHT Producer GAVIN DUTTON
Community Programme Unit
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Shakespeare's akespeare's famous line-up newly explored, expanded and amended for the 1980s. A series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ron Eyre
3: A Girl Called Dick
'And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, ...'
Fifteen to 25; the age of first love, first vote, first job, first dole - of catching your breath in the big, cold world. Research DEBORAH HILL FOX Photography MIKE FOX
Sound recordist BRUCE WILLS Film editor DOROTHEA GAZIDIS Directed by MICHAEL CROUCHER BBC Bristol
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continuing a season of films new to television. Tonight starring Bruce Dern
Helen Shaver
Gordon Lightfoot
By 1899 Butch Cassidy ,
Kid curry, the Wild Bunch and the rest of the West's legendary outlaws were dead and long gone. All, that is, except Harry Tracy.
Harry is one of the best - a master of escape, a great outlaw, he has the uncanny ability to embarrass every lawman that comes after him. But when he escapes this time, and takes up robbing banks again, he is unprepared for what will follow - the greatest manhunt in North American history.
Harry Tracy .........BRUCE DERN Catherine Tuttle
HELEN SHAVER
Dave Merrill
MICHAEL D. GWYNNE
Marshal Morrie Nathan
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Indian tracker
JACQUES HUBERT
Mrs Tuttle ..DAPHNE GOLDRICK Judy Tuttle ...... LYNNE KOLBER Reporter.............ALEC WILLOWS Eddie Hoyt ...FRANK C. TURNER Gov Millhouse .......FRED DIEHL Screenplay by DAVID LEE HENRY Produced by RONALD 1. COHEN
Directed by WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
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Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With political and economic reports from Will Hutton and Nick Clarke and 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
The Melbury Road Set examines the group of artists who built themselves fashionable and expensive studio houses in the well-to-do suburb of Holland Park in west London.
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