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9.43 Encounter: Spain: School, Work, Family
Private and state schools, a technical college, a car worker and his family
(R) (e)

10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs and Cosmo find out about rhymes when they get a shopping list wrong.
Film: Having an eye test and choosing glasses.
Song: "Work Calypso"
(R) (e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Materials, Part 2
What has science to do with the crafts of the potter, the sculptress and the silversmith?
(R) (e)

10.38 Let's See: Flowers and Fruits of the Earth: Nuts and Berries
Presented by Michael Scott
Fruits come in a wide variety of forms but one thing is constant - they always hold the seeds of the plant and are designed to help spread those seeds.
(R) (e)

11.00 Words and Pictures: Johnny-Cake
(Shown on Monday at 2.02pm)

11.18 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
Geometric Progressions followed by Numbers as Codes
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.35am)

11.40 Science in Action: Fruits of the Earth
This week: instant photosynthesis, current research into improving the pea harvest, and plenty of ideas for plant experiments.
(e) (Shown on Monday at 1.00pm)

12.05pm Job Bank: Computer-aided Design
Two young people, working respectively in engineering and carpet design, describe the part that computers play in their work.
(Shown on Monday at 9.15am)

12.25 Lifeschool: Going to Work: Local College
Leaving school with little exam success isn't the end of the world. Local colleges offer many courses for young people who have few qualifications. (e)
(Shown on Monday at 9.38am)

12.50 Video Active: A Cut Above the Rest
An introductory guide to making home videos.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Director (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Producer (Science Workshop):
Michael Coyle
Presenter (Let's See):
Michael Scott
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartten Poskitt
Producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Producer (Job Bank):
Morton Surguy
Series Producer (Job Bank):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (Going to Work):
Peter M. Evans

A See-Saw programme
The gunnard fish has legs of a sort, the little mudskipper has fins it uses like legs, but when it comes to legs, the racehorse wins.
(R)

1.38 Zig Zag: The Saga of Gunnar Goldhair: 1: Murder in Coppergate
by Ian Taylor
A Viking drama in two episodes.
[Starring] Emrys James as Grim the Greedy, Anna Cropper as Helga, Paul Copley as Olaf, Rupert Baker as Gunnar
with Brett Forrest, William Ilkley, Timothy Lyn, Rebecca Sowden and Peter Stockbridge
(e) (Shown on Monday 11.00am)

Contributors

Voices and music (Heads and Tails):
Derek Griffiths
Film Editor (Heads and Tails):
David Pygram
Researcher (Heads and Tails):
Anne Denehy
Writer/Producer (Heads and Tails):
Michael Cole
Writer (Zig Zag):
Ian Taylor
Designer (Zig Zag):
Gwen Evans
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Grim the Greedy:
Emrys James
Helga:
Anna Cropper
Olaf:
Paul Copley
Gunnar:
Rupert Baker
[Actor]:
Brett Forrest
[Actor]:
William Ilkley
[Actor]:
Timothy Lyn
[Actress]:
Rebecca Sowden
[Actor]:
Peter Stockbridge

How do you create a new glasshouse for the 21st century? How do you create a building with ten climates under one roof, from tropical swamp to arid desert?
David Attenborough tells the story of the new Princess of Wales Conservatory and also of the great Victorian Palm House, currently under restoration.
Erector TONY TYLEY
Producer SANDRA GREGORY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough
Producer:
Sandra Gregory

In the Shadow of the Falcon
The peregrine falcon is one of the world's most spectacular birds of prey. It is also one of the rarest, yet in the wild
Places of Britain it still glides ands swoops through clear, cold skies. But always in the background there is man with his guns, traps, poisons and blind, unthinking talent for destruction.
Film editor CHARLES ALDRIDGE Producer DAVID COBHAM

Contributors

Editor:
Charles Aldridge
Producer:
David Cobham

Where There's Land There's Hope
Today there are still refugees living in the feeding camps of Sudan and Somalia forgotten by the world. As the shadow of famine returns to Ethiopia, Marian Foster reports on how British charities are helping destitute families exhausted by war and famine to make a new living from the land.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Foster

Brita Leth
Ten years ago the Brita Leth was lying idle in a Danish harbour and could easily have rotted away. In her long life she's earned her living carrying cargoes under sail in the Baltic and more recently working converted as a dredger in Kiel Fjord. Now thanks to her enthusiastic Danish owner the Brita has been restored back as a sailing vessel and once again earns her living.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brita Leth
Unknown:
Brita Leth

with Jimmie Macgregor
Today Jimmie crosses the bleak Moor of Rannoch to Kingshouse. Then after a steep pull up the Devil's
Staircase he goes over the hills to Kinlochleven. And the final stretch takes him through the Lairighmor and finally to Fort William.
Deer stalking, rock climbing and an unusual view of Ben Nevis , Scotland's highest mountain, are some of the delights he comes across. Produced and directed by DENNIS DICK

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmie MacGregor
Unknown:
Ben Nevis
Directed By:
Dennis Dick

Britain's social security system is in a mess. Well over a million people don't claim the benefits they are entitled to. Those who do are often put off by the sheer complexity of the system.
In the first of ten programmes Margo MacDonald re-opens Advice Shop with advice on the benefits you can claim now and with news about the big changes that are coming in with the Social Security Act next April.
Don't miss out. Keep up to date. Watch Advice Shop and claim what's yours by right. Director MARION ALLINSON Producer TONY MATTHEWS
A summary of the key information given in today's programme is available in return for an sae (13p) from: [address removed]
(For more news and information on welfare rights, housing, jobs, etc watch Ask Margo on Friday at
3.25pm on BBC1.)
• INFO: page 89

Contributors

Unknown:
Margo MacDonald
Director:
Marion Allinson
Producer:
Tony Matthews

The first of five films featuring St Trinian's, the infamous academy for young ladies! starring Alistair Sim Joyce Grenfell
Hermione Baddeley
George Cole
With St Trinian's on the verge of bankruptcy, the arrival of a wealthy racehorse owner's daughter is just what the girls are looking for to make some sure money. However, even they have difficulty in getting their favourite first past the winning post. Miss Millicent Fritton /
Screenplay by FRANK LAUNDER
SIDNEY G1LLIAT and VAL VALENTINE Produced by FRANK LAUNDER and SIDNEY GILUAT
Directed by FRANK LAUNDER
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Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Sim
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Hermione Baddeley
Unknown:
George Cole
Unknown:
Miss Millicent Fritton
Unknown:
Frank Launder
Unknown:
Sidney G1lliat
Produced By:
Frank Launder
Produced By:
Sidney Giluat
Directed By:
Frank Launder
Clarence Fritton:
Alistair Sim
PW Sgt Ruby Gates:
Joyce Grenfell
Flash Harry:
George Cole
Miss Drownder:
Hermione Baddeley
Miss Waters:
Betty Ann Davies
Miss Brimmer:
Renée Houston
Miss Wilson:
Beryl Reid
Miss Dawn:
Joan Sims
Arabella:
Vivienne Martin

A series of 13 films in which a walled garden is restored and worked as it was
100 years ago.
Presented by Peter Thoday with Head Gardener
Harry Dodson 5: April
It was called 'the hungry gap'. While the staff were fed tired offerings from the root store, the head gardener had to play a horticultural conjuring trick to provide his master with luxury vegetables.
Harry grows marble-sized potatoes in pots under glass, cuts asparagus from the forcing house, and uncovers seakale shoots, the colour of 'carved ivory'.
Using modern equipment, Peter demonstrates the effectiveness of hot beds in advancing young plants. In the glasshouse the peaches make good progress, while at the bottom of the garden a beehive is introduced. Photography PAUL MORRIS Music by PAUL READE
Film editor DAVID BARRETT
Associate producer JENNIFER DAVIES Producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Thoday
Unknown:
Harry Dodson
Music By:
Paul Reade
Editor:
David Barrett
Producer:
Jennifer Davies
Producer:
Keith Sheather

Images of a Revolution
What really happened in Russia in October 1917? How far can we rely on the vivid films from the period to give us a true picture of the Revolution and, of incidents such as the storming of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg?
Christopher Andrew , in a critical examination of documentary evidence and the memories of Russian emigres who were eyewitnesses to the events of 1917, steers a path through the propaganda, censorship, carelessness and sheer misunderstanding that have distorted the historical record in Russia and the West for the past 70 years. Film editor PAUL ASHTON Producer MARGARET BUTT Series editor ROY DAVIES
0 FEATURE: page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Andrew
Editor:
Paul Ashton
Editor:
Roy Davies

The highly-acclaimed two-part dramatisation of one of America's most baffling and controversial criminal cases.
Part 2: With a suspect in police custody the dust settles and the courtroom battle begins. In January 1982 a jury is finally selected and defence cousel Al Binder enters the arena. Evidence is conflicting and tempers run high - is the accused man the murderer or a scapegoat caught in a nightmare trap?

Contributors

Al Binder:
Jason Robards
Chet Dettlinger:
Martin Sheen
Jake Walker:
James Earl Jones
Lewis Slaton:
Rip Tom
Ben Shelteer,:
Morgan Freeman
Wayne Williams:
Calvin Levels
Selina Cobb:
Lynne Moody
Faye Williams:
Ruby Dee
Camille Bell:
Gloria Foster
Homer Williams:
Paul Benjamin
Jack Mallard:
Andrew Robinson
Larry Peterson:
Christopher Allport
Mike Edwards:
Guy Boyd
Campbell:
Bill Paxton
Mayor Maynard Jackson:
Percy Rodrigues
Lynn Withers:
Allen Young
Gwendolyn:
Tina Andrews
Bobby Tolin:
Michael Alldredge
Gilliland:
Jim Antonio

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