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
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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.
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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
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10.15 Music Time: Higher and Lower
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(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.
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11.00 Zig Zag: Viking Sailors
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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.
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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Paul Coia tells of the Viking sailors who roamed the world, looks at the characteristics of Viking boats and re-tells the saga of the discovery of Vinland (America). Show more
A See-Saw programme
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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.
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The very hungry caterpillar eats its way through the story and Jessica and Tamsin tell you about the moon-moths they have reared.
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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
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
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
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)
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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Sea Dream (R)
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
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
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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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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The last word on world events
In this revision programme, Professor Arthur Marwick discusses some of the principal issues of the Arts Foundation Course.
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