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9.15 Job Bank: Computer-Aided Design
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9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work: Local College
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10.00 You and Me
A series and 4- and 5-year-olds.
When Gary smashes Jeni's new china by mistake, Cosmo and Dibs have to help choose some more. Song: I tiddly-i-tie
(R) (e)

10.15 Music Time: The Sounds of the Voice
(R) (e)

10.40 Thinkabout: What's Cooking?
Burnt sausages and half-cooked potatoes threaten to spoil everything when Frank and Sally give a barbecue.
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11.00 Zig Zag: The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair: 1
(For details see Wednesday 1.38pm) (e)

11.20 Walrus: Work it Out: What Happened?
Michael Rosen and the team are reading Losers Weepers by Jan Needle. Tony and Carol have found an old sword. Will it turn out to be valuable and will they be allowed to keep it?
with Howard Crossley, Richard Yeomans, Alan Wayne, Stefan Escreet, Nicholas Fry, Ted Richards
(R) (e)

11.45 Bible Lands: The Passion of Christ
The archaeological background to the Gospels.
Presented by Peter Connolly
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12.08pm History File: Twentieth-Century History: Roosevelt and the New Deal
Roosevelt's attempt to solve America's problems in the 30s.
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12.30 A Balancing Act: 2: On the Air
A two-part programme shows how news programmes come together and how the editors maintain their balance, politically and otherwise.
(R) (e)

1.00 Science in Action: Fruits of the Earth
(R) (e)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
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
Presenter (Walrus):
Michael Rosen
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy
Tony:
Michael Shuttleworth
Johnnie:
Lee Quarmby
Eric:
John Davies
Carol:
Jenny Luckraft
Mr Potter:
Brian Southwood
Dad:
Jack Carr
Mum:
Helen Barnaby
Coroner:
Bernard Atha
[Actor]:
Howard Crossley
[Actor]:
Richard Yeomans
[Actor]:
Alan Wayne
[Actor]:
Stefan Escreet
[Actor]:
Nicholas Fry
[Actor]:
Ted Richards
Presenter (Outlook):
Peter Connolly
Producer (Outlook):
R. Dilwyn Jones
Commentary (History File):
John Tidmarsh
Writer (History File):
John O'Keeffe
Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Narrator (A Balancing Act):
Rob Curling
Film Editor (A Balancing Act):
Keith Wilton
Producer (A Balancing Act):
David Taft

A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Streetscape: Local Park
Today's programme explores a park in south London. A place for recreation and a source of employment; a place with its conflicts of use and its historical stories.
(R) (e)
Schools are invited to submit details of a five-minute film they would like to make about the local environment. This is for inclusion in the final programming for the summer term. For further information see the current teachers' notes or write to: Near and Far: Now and Then, [address removed]

Contributors

Devised by (Pie in the Sky):
Chloe Ashcroft
Devised by (Pie in the Sky):
Peter Gosling
Piewife:
Chloe Ashcroft
Pieman:
David Hargreaves
Piepilot:
Ben Thomas
Series Producer (Near and Far):
Nicholas Whines
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn

Another chance to see last season's National Basketball Association's play-offs - and the race is on to dethrone the defending professional basketball world champions, the Boston Celtics.
Breakfast Time's Sally Jones introduces highlights of the Atlanta Hawks versus the Detroit Pistons, and talks to some of the millionaire athletes that make the NBA one of the greatest sporting shows on earth.
TV presentation WTBS/CBS Producer DEREK BRANDON Produced for BBCtv by CHEERLEADER PRODUCTIONS

Contributors

Introduces:
Sally Jones
Producer:
Derek Brandon

A marketplace of ideas
Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all, money.
This week: how to live out of a box; how to design a pizza for a prize and your own designer sweater for a song - and how to trim your turn. Director DAVE THOMAS
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (e)
(For free leaflet send a large sae to [address removed]
* INFO: page 89

Contributors

Unknown:
Judi Spiers
Director:
Dave Thomas
Producer:
Erica Griffiths

The Fashion Designer
It's hard to make a name in the capital of fashion, but in ten years Chantal Thomass - young, self-taught - has become one of France's leading designers.
Narrator Michael Dean Producer JOHN BIRD
Series editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chantal Thomass
Narrator:
Michael Dean
Producer:
John Bird
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

with Jimmie Macgregor Scotland's first long-distance footpath runs 95 miles from
Milngavie on the outskirts of Glasgow to Fort William at the foot of the Great Glen. On the way, it skirts Loch Lomond, struggles across
Rannoch Moor and dips beneath Britain's highest mountain. For the next three days, Jimmie follows the route from the Lowlands to the Highlands. Today
Milngavie to Inversnaid. Produced and directed by DENNIS DICK

Contributors

Directed By:
Dennis Dick

I continues a season featuring the famous sleuth. Today starring George Sanders Wendy Barrie
In his last appearance as the suave master sleuth, George Sanders is dispatched to the leisure spas of South California. His task is to foil a desperate gang of thieves and to deliver safely three invaluable foreign stamps, the inheritance of a beautiful girl.
Screenplay by JERRY CADY
Produced by HOWARD BENEDICT Directed by JACK HIVELY
0 FILMS: page 26

Contributors

Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Wendy Barrie
Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Jerry Cady
Produced By:
Howard Benedict
Directed By:
Jack Hively
Simon Templar:
George Sanders
Elna Massen:
Wendy Barrie
Pearly Gates:
Paul Guilfoyle
Fernack:
Jonathan Hale
Margaret Forbes:
Linda Hayes
Mr Evans:
Ferris Taylor
Chief Graves:
Harry Shannon
Detective Barker:
Eddie Dunn

with John Lenahan The Big Country
High in the Yorkshire Dales, a small farming community holds its annual show.
It's a chance for old friends to meet, to show off their livestock, skills and produce and to compete in events which include a spectacular crag race and trotting dash, a sort of chariot racing which is very big in the States.
John Lenahan sabotages a tug-of-war rope and gets caught lifting a bottle of apple wine, as he savours life in upper Wharfedale. Researcher JACKIE JAMILTON Director STEVE CONNELLY Producer GAVIN DUTTON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lenahan
Unknown:
Jackie Jamilton
Director:
Steve Connelly
Producer:
Gavin Dutton

Written and presented by Ron Eyre
5: A Few Pills and a Good Brisk Walk
'And then the justice, In fair round belly....' The rough ride from 40 to 55. The doubt behind the certainty. The wobble on the tightrope. Painful days on the hook of the question mark. What's called 'the mid-life crisis'.
Researcher DEBORAH 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
Editor:
Andrew Johnston
Directed By:
Jonathan Stedall

The highly-acclaimed two-part dramatisation of one of America's most baffling and controversial criminal cases. Starring
Atlanta, 1979. The city's police force is in a state of civil war, with crime figures rising and accusations of racial prejudice rife.
To this climate of anger and bitterness a new factor is added - a series of murders - all young black children. The police seem unable to solve these vicious crimes and, before long, the people decide to take matters into their own hands. Then comes a startling breakthrough ... Screenplay by ABBY MANN
Produced by SHELDON PINCHUK and BILL FINNEGAN
Directed by JOHN ERMAN
(For cast see page 67. Part 2 on Wednesday 9.00pm)

Contributors

Play By:
Abby Mann
Produced By:
Sheldon Pinchuk
Produced By:
Bill Finnegan
Directed By:
John Erman
Al Binder:
Jason Robards
Chet Dettlinger:
Martin Sheen
Jake Walker:
James Earl Jones
Lewis Slaton:
Rip Tom
Ben Shelter:
Morgan Freeman
Wayne Williams:
Calvin Levels

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