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9.15 Job Bank: Open Spaces
A look at some of the jobs that young people are doing to preserve the countryside and improve its facilities
(R) (e)

9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work: Temporary Work
'Temping' does not just mean girls working in offices, but involves people in an increasingly wide range of jobs.
(e)

10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Dibs is anxious that there will be enough to eat when Cosmo and Gary want some of his cake. Henry and Ellie buy some fish and chips. Zavia and Sinclair pick their own strawberries.
Song: Five Currant Buns
(R) (e)

10.15 Music Time: Higher and Lower
(R) (e)
(For details see Thursday 1.38pm)

10.40 Thinkabout: See How They Grow
Frank and Sally are sorting out clothes for the jumble sale, when the children decide to lend a hand.
(R) (e)

11.00 Zig Zag: Viking Sailors
(For details see Wednesday 1.38pm) (e)

11.20 Buddy: 2: Crying, Waiting, Hoping
by Nigel Hinton
Starring Roger Daltrey as Terry
It's four months since Mum walked out, and things are running down at home. Buddy worries about his Dad's night work, and his suspicions deepen when Terry produces lots of money for a spending spree.
(R) (e)

11.45 Bible Lands: 3: The Ministry of Christ
Jesus spent much of His childhood and ministry in the countryside, drawing on His experience to illustrate many of His teachings.
Presented by Peter Connolly
(R) (e)

12.08pm History File: Twentieth Century History: Hitler's Germany 1933-1936
How did Hitler gain dictatorial power in Germany during these years? What did he do with his power?
(R) (e)

12.30 General Studies: Art and Society
What use is art? Should artists concern themselves with the social issues of their times? And how effective is art as a means of moulding opinion?
(R) (e)

1.00 Science in Action: Keep It Clean
An expert in domestic microbiology tracks down bacteria in the kitchen and an environmental health officer shows how important hygiene is in food handling.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Producer (Job Bank):
Jill Glindon Reed
Series Producer (Lifeschool):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Film Director (You and Me):
Clare Elstow
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Producer (Thinkabout):
Pat Farrington
Series Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Writer (Buddy):
Nigel Hinton
Producer/Director (Buddy):
Roger Tonge
Terry:
Roger Daltrey
Buddy:
Wayne Goddard
Mr Normington:
Norman Bird
Mrs Solomon:
Anne Dyson
Mrs Rybeero:
Ena Cabayo
Charmian:
Lorraine Plummer
Julius:
Dennis Victory
Presenter (Bible Lands):
Peter Connolly
Producer (Bible Lands):
R. Dilwyn Jones
Commentary (History File):
John Tidmarsh
Writer (History File):
Tony Howarth
Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (History File):
John Chapple
Narrator (General Studies):
Joe Connolly
Producer (General Studies):
Edward Hayward
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjarten Poskitt
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Production Assistant (Science in Action):
Caryn Langrick
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Streetscape: Yesterday's Street Today
Scenes of demolition introduce the idea of change in an urban area. Evidence of recent changes and the reasons are explored, together with the costs and benefits incurred.
(e)

Contributors

Series Producer (Near and Far):
Nicholas Whines
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn

The second of four programmes featuring the 1987 party conferences
Liberal Party Conference 1987 Harrogate was the venue for this year's Liberal Party
Conference and Sign Extra brings you highlights with sign language and subtitles. Presenter Clive Mason Interpreter JOHN LEE

Contributors

Presenter:
Clive Mason
Presenter:
Interpreter John Lee

Butterflies
Butterfly collecting is a healthy outdoor pursuit.
George Thomson has been collecting butterflies since childhood, and his enthusiasm is undiminished. Series producer KEITH ALEXANDER Director MIKE BARNES (R)
3.00 News and Weather followed by American Basketball
Introduced by Sally Jones
Highlights of key games from the National Basketball Association's play-offs.
The top eight teams joined in a play-off that produced the two finalists in the world championship in June.
Television presentation WTBS/CBS Producer DEREK BRANDON Produced for BBCtv by CHEERLEADER productions

Contributors

Unknown:
George Thomson
Producer:
Keith Alexander
Director:
Mike Barnes
Introduced By:
Sally Jones
Producer:
Derek Brandon

For 300 years Yemen was a forbidden medieval kingdom almost totally closed to all outsiders. Then revolution, and in 1969 the establishment of a new republic. Early in 1985 a World about Us team was allowed in. This film shows the once-secret Arabia through the eyes of Ali Sabry , champion of the new Arabia, a newsreader for Yemen TV, and Selma Al Radi, archaeologist and guardian of the old Arabia. Producer RICHARD ROBINSON Series editor ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Unknown:
Ali Sabry
Producer:
Richard Robinson
Editor:
Anthony Isaacs

Victor Grayson , socialist MP for Colne Valley from 1907 to 1910, was a political phenomenon and many saw him as a future Prime
Minister. On 17 September 1920, accompanied by two men, he walked out of his fashionable London flat.
Friends and family never saw him again. A recent biography of Grayson by David Clark , MP reveals new evidence about his mysterious disappearance. With Michael Carter as Victor Grayson
Narrator David Jones Producer DAVID JONES
Director MORRIS BAKER (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Grayson
Unknown:
David Clark
Unknown:
Michael Carter
Narrator:
Victor Grayson
Director:
Morris Baker

continues a season featuring the famous sleuth. Today starring George Sanders Helene Whitney Bela Lugosi
George Sanders returns as the smooth 'tec and his look-alike, the murderous 'Boss', in a spiral of vintage mayhem in the diamond smuggling racket.
Screenplay by BEN HOLMES , based on a story by LESLIE CHARTERIS Produced by CLIFF REID Directed by JACK HIVELY
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Contributors

Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Helene Whitney
Unknown:
Bela Lugosi
Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Ben Holmes
Story By:
Leslie Charteris
Produced By:
Cliff Reid
Directed By:
Jack Hively
Simon Templar/Boss:
George Sanders
Anne:
Helene Whitney
Fernack:
Jonathan Hale
Partner:
Bela Lugosi
Behlen:
Donald MacBride
Limpy:
John F Hamilton
Professor Bitts:
Thomas W. Ross
Monk:
Elliott Sullivan

Galway Hookers
The black-hulled Galway hookers with their tanned sails were once essential to the economy of the people of the west coast of Ireland.
The hookers carried fuel to the outlying islands and returned to the mainland with crops and cattle.
Now people race in vessels their parents used to work. Narrator Tom Salmon Photography TIM JOHNSON Sound ROGER LONG
Film editor SUSANNE OUTLAW Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Producer:
Brian Hawkins

with John Lenahan On the Waterfront
Hythe's Royal Military Canal is the setting for Britain's only Venetian fete. Local people muck in to make this floating spectacle of themselves dressed as garden gnomes and supermen, fairies and queens. John Lenahan visits this
Kentish seaside town to see the show.
Research MIKE DICK
Director PETER LEEWRIGHT Producer GAVIN DUTTON
Community Programme Unit

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lenahan
Unknown:
Mike Dick
Director:
Peter Leewright
Producer:
Gavin Dutton

A series of seven documentary films written and presented by Ron Eyre 4: Bossy Wee Things 'Seeking the bubble reputation....'
Twenty-five to 40 -just in time to catch the next wave. The age of big chances and big risks. Move too soon and you fall on your face. Move too late and you've missed it. All the hazards of making your mark.
Research DEBORAH HILL FOX Photography MIKE FOX
Sound recordist FRASER BARBER Film editor DOROTHEA GAZIDIS Directed by MICHAEL CROUCHER BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Presented By:
Ron Eyre
Editor:
Dorothea Gazidis
Directed By:
Michael Croucher

continuing a season of films new to television. Tonight starring Steve Martin
Bernadette Peters Navin Johnson , the white sheep in a poor black family of Mississippi sharecroppers, leaves home to seek his fortune in the big city. Navin's struggle for fame, his invention of the miraculous opti-grab device and the earth-shattering discovery of his 'special purpose' are just a small part of the Johnson legend.
Cult comedian Steve Martin stars in this satire on the great American dream.
Navin Johnson .STEVE MARTIN
Screenplay by STEVE MARTIN. CARL GOTTLIEB and MICHAEL ELIAS Produced by DAVID v. PICKER Directed by CARL REINER
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Martin
Unknown:
Bernadette Peters
Unknown:
Navin Johnson
Unknown:
Steve Martin
Unknown:
Navin Johnson
Unknown:
Steve Martin.
Unknown:
Carl Gottlieb
Directed By:
Carl Reiner
Marie KimbalL:
Bernadette Peters
Patty Bernstein:
Catlin Adams
Mother:
Mabel King
Father:
Richard Ward
Taj DICK:
Anthony Williams
Stan Fox:
Bill MacY
Madman:
M Emmet Walsh
Frosty:
Dick O'Neill
Hobart:
Maurice Evans
Hester:
Helena Carroll
Elvira:
Ren Wood
First punk:
Pepe Serna
Blues singers:
Sonny Terry
Blues singers:
Brownie McGhee
Harry Hartounian:
Jackie Mason

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