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9.30 Casebook Scotland: Election 87: Representing the People
The candidates and the people of the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency.
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9.52 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 5: The Old Coach House
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10.15 Around Scotland: Media Studies: 2: Behind the Screen
The story of the people involved in making a television studio programme from its planning stage to the final live transmission.
BBC Scotland
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10.38 Geography Casebook: Britain: The Changing Coastline
Bernard Clark investigates efforts to defend the coastline of Dorset and Hampshire.
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11.00 Storytime: Stone Soup
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11.18 Wondermaths: 5
On board the spaceship Investigator, Stella is puzzling over a skittle problem when the ship is hit by lightning.
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11.35 Let's See: Bread and Cheese: Our Daily Bread
Presented by Gilly Gilchrist
White/brown, sweet/sour leavened/unleavened - all different kinds of bread, but all having their origins in the soil.
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12.00 English File: Red Hook Not Sicily
"This is the slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge ...now we are quite civilised, quite American."
The lawyer Alfier's prologue from A View from the Bridge.
Arthur Miller, in an exclusive interview for English File, talks to Christopher Bigsby about the background to his play, A View from the Bridge, how he came to write it in 1955 and his view 'from the bridge' today.
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(A View from the Bridge in three parts begins next Friday in English File)

12.35pm Scene: Girls' Gang
Scene followed a group of five friends through a week of their lives. How does each of them fit into the group, and what do they get out of it? How long will their friendships last?
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1.05 Encounter: Austria: The School Year Begins
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Contributors

Producer (Casebook Scotland):
Laurie Stanley
Presenter (Around Scotland):
Tiger Tim Stevens
Producer (Around Scotland):
Ishbel MacLean
Presenter (Geography Casebook:
Britain): Bernard Clark
Producer (Geography Casebook:
Britain): Len Brown
Presenter (Let's See):
Gilly Gilchrist
Producer (Let's See):
Catherine McFarLane
Series editor (Let's See):
James Boyle
Interviewee (English File):
Arthur Miller
Interviewer (English File):
Christopher Bigsby
Producer (English File):
Geoff Wilson
Series Producer (Scene):
Roger Tonge
Producer (Scene):
Sue Aron

Michael Rosen and the team are reading "Losers Weepers" by Jan Needle. The sword is not treasure trove and that means that Tony and Carol can keep it. Or does it?
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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Rosen
Author (Losers Weepers):
Jan Needle
Producer:
Morton Surguy
Dad:
Jack Carr
Tony:
Michael Shuttleworth
Mum:
Helen Barnaby
Carol:
Jenny Luckraft

Introduced by David Icke and featuring
World Cup Cricket
Highlights of England's final Pool game against Sri Lanka in Poona - a match that could be a crucial one to secure Mike Gatting 's men's
Passage into the semi-finals. Commentators
TONY LEWIS , RAY ILLINGWORTH JACK BANNISTER
World Team Squash London plays host to this year's 24-team tournament which has now reached the semi-final stages. If the form book is correct Pakistan,
England, New Zealand and Australia should be battling it out at the Albert Hall today for a place in tomorrow's final. Commentator STUART STOREY
Boxing
The pick of the action from the midweek Barrett/Duff promotion at Wembley Commentator
HARRY CARPENTER
Plus, with four Britons expected to be on the grid for
Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix a celebration of the diamond jubilee of the British Racing Drivers Club. Television presentation. Cricket PTV Pakistan
Squash MARTIN WEBSTER Boxing BOB DUNCAN
Studio director VIVIEN KENT Producer GRAHAM FRY including at

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke
Unknown:
Mike Gatting
Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Ray Hxingworth
Unknown:
Jack Bannister
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Harry Carpenter

The last of four visits to London Zoo.
Gorilla, jaguar, bongo, giraffe, vicuna - just a tew of the baby animals born in the zoo this year.
Mike Jordan , Jeremy Cherfas and Nick Davies look at the latest breeding successes - vital to the zoo's future now that few animals are taken from the wild.
Assistant producers
BERNARD WALTON. STEVE POOLE Producer ROBIN HELLIER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Jordan
Unknown:
Jeremy Cherfas
Unknown:
Nick Davies
Unknown:
Bernard Walton.
Unknown:
Steve Poole
Producer:
Robin Hellier

The last of four programmes A Yen for the Kilt
Glynn Christian travels round the south of South Island. Settled by Scottish Presbyterians, Glynn discovers, as he tours the deer farms in the Highlands and the Lake District, that he might well be in Scotland.
At the southernmost tip the famous oyster dredgers thrive off Bluff, and the chilled catch can be distributed throughout New Zealand within hours. At the fish-and-chip shop, which boasts oysters for El a dozen, Glynn tries a local speciality - the Mutton Bird.
After a steam-boat trip across Lake Wakatipu , he takes a hair-raising jet-boat ride with Japanese tourists along the Shotover Rover before flying over the snowcapped Alps of the southwest.

Contributors

Unknown:
Glynn Christian
Unknown:
Mutton Bird.
Unknown:
Lake Wakatipu

continues a season of films featuring
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 'S jungle hero.
Today starring
Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Sheffield
When a series of savage killings takes place in the jungle, Tarzan tracks down the murderous tribe of Leopard Men responsible.
Leading the cult is its deadly high priestess, Lea, the Leopard Woman.
Story and screenplay by CARROL YOUNG
Produced by SOL LESSER
Directed by KURT NEUMANN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Unknown:
Johnny Weissmuller
Unknown:
Johnny Sheffield
Play By:
Carrol Young
Produced By:
Sol Lesser
Directed By:
Kurt Neumann
Tarzan:
Johnny Weissmuller
Jane:
Brenda Joyce
Boy:
Johnny Sheffield
Lea:
Acquanetta
Lazar:
Edgar Barrier
Kimba:
Tommy Cook
Commissioner:
Dennis Hoey
MongO:
Anthony Caruso
Corporal:
George J Lewis

A weekly report on the world of education with Linda Alexander
'The Government's proposed education reforms will be unworkable and socially divisive' - the motion for this week's Oxford Union debate. Tonight's specially-extended programme samples the speeches and reports on the vote. Scheduled speakers include Frances Morrell , Professor Roger Scruton ,
Liberal education spokesman Paddy Ashdown and, defending his forthcoming education bill, the Education Secretary Kenneth Baker. Producer SALLY KIRKWOOD Editor PETER RIDING (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Alexander
Unknown:
Frances Morrell
Unknown:
Professor Roger Scruton
Unknown:
Paddy Ashdown
Unknown:
Kenneth Baker.
Producer:
Sally Kirkwood

A series of programmes for the south east from the south east.
This week Sarah Spiller reports on the dramatic increase in deaths from light aircraft accidents and finds out what can be done to improve air safety in the south east.
Producer TONY CHAPMAN EditorCOLIN STANBRIDGE
(Regional programme - for variations see below)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Spiller
Producer:
Tony Chapman
Editor:
Colin Stanbridge

David Jessel and Sue Cook with film reporter Ed Boyle , examine the sparks which fly when people clash with the law.
This week: When justice miscarries, a person wrongly convicted can go to the Court of Criminal Appeal. But is that Court doing its job properly? Recent rulings suggest that it has been restricting itself to narrow legal technicalities and defying plain common sense. As a result, men and women who may be innocent remain in prison.
Studio director PIETER MORPURGO Producer ALAN BOOKBINDER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Reporter:
Ed Boyle
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Alan Bookbinder

The second of seven programmes filmed over two years inside the secretive world of Customs and Excise. The Couriers
With one courier 'bagged', the Romeos mount intensive surveillance on the gang. The programme joins clandestine day-and-night observation of the south London pub where the Mr Big is recruiting new couriers.
Surveillance switches to
Earls Court as the organiser and couriers are monitored purchasing their tickets for a run to Australia via South America to pick up the cocaine.
The Romeos shadow the couriers, secretly filming their departure from
Heathrow. As the couriers fly into Australia, an undercover team of customs and police is waiting. In south London, 60 officers prepare for a series of dawn raids. Meanwhile, the man the Romeos have targeted as their main suspect flies unknowingly into their arms at Heathrow. At full stretch across 12,000 miles the Romeos are confident they have a good result, but ... (Episode 3 next Friday)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Big

The last word on world events with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with international reports by David Sells and Charles Wheeler

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
David Sells
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler

starring Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart
Mike Callahan is a professional adventurer, based in Singapore. Through his friendship with Julian March and his love for March's wife, he becomes dangerously involved in an audacious plot to kidnap nuclear scientist Sean O'Conner. The victim to be sold to either a Western or Eastern power. The ransom - five million dollars in gold.
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Contributors

Screenplay by:
Lindsay Hardy
Produced by:
Robert Aldrich
Produced by:
Bernard Tabakin
Directed by:
Robert Aldrich
Mike Callahan:
Dan Duryea
Alexis Pederas:
Gene Lockhart
Julian March:
Patric Knowles
Major Bone:
Reginald Carr
Gov Coutts:
Nigel Bruce
Frennessey March:
Marian Carr
Sean O'Conner:
Arthur Shields
Insp McCollum:
Douglas Dumbrille
Dancer:
Carmen D'Antonio

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