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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Pattern in Place
A walk in the forest - a visit to the seashore. A Banbury class looks closely at natural textures and patterns.
(R) (e)

10.15 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 4: The Clue in the Book Room
by Andrew Davies
A reading series for 7- to 9-year-olds based on a ghost story in ten episodes.
(R) (e)

10.38 Investigating Science: Observation
A Closer Look
From a hand lens to the electron microscope - how the Problem of seeing a virus at 100,000 times magnification has been solved.
(R)
followed by Teeth for Life?
How can we use the process of observation to find ways of preventing tooth decay? A problem to solve.
(R) (e)

11.00 Watch: Entertainment: 1

11.18 Wondermaths: 4
Zak and Stella find that there is more than one way to arrange the contents of Investigator's storage cupboard.
(R) (e)

11.35 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
Geometric Progressions
Creating a GP is easy enough, but how can you 'add it up.'
(R)
followed by Numbers as Codes
If you arrange to meet an American on 9.7.87 beware!
(R) (e)

12.00 Maths Topics: Trigonometry: 4
Sine, cosine tangent of obtuse angles and ot general positive angles.
(R) (e)

12.20pm Media Studies: Presenting Images
Television presents an image of what different groups of people are like. But whose image is being presented, and who has created it? The programme looks at the ways youth and age are represented on television and canvasses views from young and old people.
(R) (e)

12.50 Micro File 2: Files of Facts
A compilation of items from the recent information technology series Micro Live
(R) (e)
For programme notes send A4 sae enclosing PO or cheque for 75p to [address removed]

Contributors

Producer (Look, Look and Look Again):
Geoff Wilson
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Producer (Look and Read):
Sue Weeks
Narrator (Investigating Science:
A Closer Look): Mac Andrews
Director (Investigating Science:
A Closer Look): Charlotte Black
Presenter (Investigating Science:
Teeth for Life?): Fred Harris
Producer (Investigating Science):
Caroline Godley
Series Producer (Investigating Science):
Robin Gwyn
Writer (Wondermaths):
Colin Davis
Radiophonic Music (Wondermaths):
Roger Limb
Producer (Wondermaths):
John Chapple
Zak:
Christopher Lillicrap
Stella:
Sita Ramamurthy
Hudson's voice:
Jonathan Izard
Presenter (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): Hilary Clough
Animation (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): Stewart Hardy Films
Film Editor (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): John Billingham
Producer (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations/Maths Topics): David Roseveare
Director (Media Studies):
Cas Lester
Producer (Media Studies):
Bruce Jamson

A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 Homeground: Communications: 2: Write On!
Cave paintings and picture-writing form the basis for our alphabet. The programme traces, in outline form, the development of writing and suggests ways in which the alphabet can be used imaginatively and colourfully. Presented by Vera Ding
(R) (e)

Contributors

Presenter (Homeground):
Vera Ding
Producer (Homeground):
Christine Truran

Dibs claims Jeni's attention when he feels ill, much to Cosmo's annoyance. Maths at the seaside: collecting shells and stones. Book: "Peter's Chair" by Ezra Jack Keats.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeni Barnett
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Author (Peter's Chair):
Ezra Jack Keats
Producer:
Nicci Crowther

Five-year-old Joe Horsley was probably blind, certainly unable to walk or talk. Then his parents took him to a remarkable institute in Hungary. The film cameras went, too, and the campaign for Conductive Education was born.
This was a truly important film
DAILY MIRROR
Film editor TONY HEAVEN Producer ANN PAUL (R)
(The sequel. To Hungary with Love, is shown tomorrow on BBC at
9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Horsley

The Small Freedoms
This week, as thoughts turn to World Food Day, India is facing its worst drought this century. In the first of three programmes about the world's continuing silent emergency, Marian Foster reports from Anantapur where more than 100,000 people have survived a five-year drought with the help of British families, a remarkable Spaniard they call 'the man of the wells', and Action Aid.
In The Small Freedoms
Marian finds out what has happened to the poorest of all, the children of the bonded labourers she first filmed in 1979. Film cameraman DAVID SMITH Sound HUGH KITSON
Series written and produced by MARIAN FOSTER
A MARIAN FOSTER production for BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Foster
Unknown:
David Smith
Unknown:
Hugh Kitson
Produced By:
Marian Foster
Produced By:
A Marian Foster

The Old Wives' Tale
In the quiet of a Cotswold cottage, an 'old wife' tells some of her tales. Born in the last century, VERA BANDEIRA chats by the fireside to
Professor Noel Dilly. He tries to bring a little 20th-century understanding to household remedies of old, from cinder tea to cow-pats for boils. Film editor JIM LATHAM Producer JOHN LYNCH
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Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Noel Dilly.
Editor:
Jim Latham
Producer:
John Lynch

with Jimmie Macgregor
Today Jimmy makes his way from Inversnaid to the northern end of Loch Lomond. Then it's through Glen Falloch , Crainlarich and Tyndrum to the wild slopes of Ben Doran , and finally over the hill from
Bridge of Orchy to Inveroran. On the way, he visits an old drovers' inn, watches a sheep gathering and ponders on the poetry of Duncan Ban Macintyre.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmie MacGregor
Unknown:
Loch Lomond.
Unknown:
Glen Falloch
Unknown:
Ben Doran
Unknown:
Duncan Ban

Tonight the world's fastest rock show comes from Liverpool. Regular hosts Tony Baker and Jenny Powell go scousehunting with North West presenters Susan Williams and Paul Jordan, a local lad, scousetrained from birth, and determined to show there's more to Merseyside than unemployment and Beatles' memorabilia.

They visit Brookside, Britain's best-known scousing estate; meet scousehold names from football, including Beardsley and Barnes, Radcliffe and Steven; test Stanley the counting horse from the scousehold cavalry; and roam the Albert Dock , stunningly redeveloped and justification for Liverpudlians to feel scouseproud, with its museums and exhibitions.

BBC North West

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Baker
Unknown:
Jenny Powell
Presenters:
Susan Williams
Presenters:
Paul Jordan
Associate Producer:
Jonathan King
Production:
Peter Hamilton

Violence on and off the football field; the sectarian rivalries of Glasgow Rangers and Celtic and between
Scotland and England; the snakes and ladders of soccer fame and fortune.
No one is better equipped to tackle these subjects than Rangers FC and England defender Terry Butcher.
Tonight he faces questions from an audience of teenagers from around Britain.
Presented by John Nicolson Researcher MARK HAGEN
Director DENNIS COSGROVE Producer STEWART LAMONT BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Butcher.
Presented By:
John Nicolson
Presented By:
Researcher Mark Hagen
Director:
Dennis Cosgrove
Producer:
Stewart Lamont

Hosted by Raymond Baxter with Pamela Armstrong Lesley Judd
Michael Rodd
Live from the Colston Hall , Bristol, tonight's awards ceremony is the climax of Sci-Tech 87, the first film and television festival devoted to science, medicine and technology.
Executive producer DAVID FILKIN Director STUART MCDONALD Producer MARTIN MORTIMORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Unknown:
Pamela Armstrong
Unknown:
Lesley Judd
Unknown:
Michael Rodd
Unknown:
Colston Hall
Producer:
David Filkin
Director:
Stuart McDonald
Producer:
Martin Mortimore

Dog Dogma
The British say they're devoted to dogs. The facts show otherwise. Every day 1,000 healthy dogs are destroyed because no-one wants them. Half a million strays roam the streets, scavenging in packs, fouling public places, causing accidents and creating fear.
The RSPCA believes it's time for tighter controls. The
Government is preparing to abolish the dog licence - the only existing restraint on a growing menace.
Join John Harrison in the Brass Tacks studio with the politicians, the professionals, and the viewers who rang in after last week's film, to ask: is there a price on a dog's life?
Producer MALCOLM BETNEY Editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West

Contributors

Unknown:
John Harrison
Producer:
Malcolm Betney

starring
Ronnie Corbett with his special guests Rory Bremner Keith Barron
Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern
The English football team beating Brazil 10-0,
Joan Collins entering a convent, a telephone box that works, and an SDP policy on anything. These are just some of the items you won't find on this week's show. However, you will find sketches, monologues, established stars and emerging stars in 30 minutes of comedy and variety that would be worth at least an hour anywhere else.
Written by BARRY CRYER.
SPIKE MULUNS. NEIL SHAND. PETER VINCENT Script associate NELL SHAND Music by SIMON BRINT
Costume designer MARY HUSBAND Lighting director TERRY BRETT Designer DONAL WOODS
Produced and directed by MARCUS MORTIMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Rory Bremner
Unknown:
Keith Barron
Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Peter Skellern
Unknown:
Joan Collins
Written By:
Barry Cryer.
Written By:
Spike Muluns.
Written By:
Neil Shand.
Unknown:
Peter Vincent
Music By:
Simon Brint
Director:
Terry Brett
Designer:
Donal Woods
Directed By:
Marcus Mortimer

The fifth in an anthology of documentaries for the nation's bicentennial. From Woy Woy to Wagga Wagga with humorist and honorary citizen Spike Milligan
'Australia is so big that I can only show you some of it - my some of it.'
Spike starts in Woy Woy , a small piece of suburbia-in-the-bush near Sydney. It's where his parents emigrated from London in 1953. 'I thought they were mad.
Then I came. And I went mad. I fell in love with the place.'
With his old friend, actor Bill Kerr , he heads for the bush - via Gumly Gumly and Grong Grong - to discover dunnies, yabbies, kelpies, tinnies, pokies and billies, to say nothing of smokoes, strides and dampers. All in all, a thoroughly Spikeish Oz odyssey. Sound IAN SANSAM
Film cameraman IAN STONE Film editor TONY HEAVEN
Producer ANDREW STEVENSON Series producer TIM SLESSOR
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Contributors

Unknown:
Woy Woy
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Woy Woy
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Grong Grong
Producer:
Tim Slessor

from the Silk Cut Festival Join the audience who flocked to the Wembley
Arena to enjoy a broad mix of country music styles, including this week Pinkerton's Colours
Little Jimmy Dickens Peter Rowan and Tanya Tucker
Introduced by David Allan Festival organiser MERVYN CONN
Sound PAUL CUNLIFFE. BARRIE HAWES Lighting JOHN WIGGINS
Designer ANDREW HOWE-DAVIES Producer DAVE PERROTTET

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Rowan
Unknown:
Tanya Tucker
Introduced By:
David Allan
Unknown:
Paul Cunliffe.
Unknown:
Barrie Hawes
Unknown:
John Wiggins
Designer:
Andrew Howe-Davies
Producer:
Dave Perrottet

with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with political and economic reports from Will Hutton and Nick Clarke

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Will Hutton
Unknown:
Nick Clarke

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