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9.15 Maths at Work: 1
Young people use maths: a factory supervisor, supermarket assistant, receptionist, printer and cabinet-maker.
(R) (e)

9.38 Lifeschool: Economics: A Question of Choice: Free to Choose?
What choices are open to people in different economic circumstances? The first programme in this economic literacy series takes a look at family life in Ghana and the UK, exploring the good and bad things which arise out of two economies.
(R) (e)

10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo and Dibs are helping Gary Wilmot clean the market stall.
(R) (e)

10.15 Music Time: Call and Response
(R) (e)

10.40 Thinkabout: Cold as Ice
(R) (e)

11.00 Zig Zag: The English Channel
(R) (e)

11.20 Walrus: Work It Out: What Does It Mean?
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?
(R) (e)

11.45 Why? Because...: All Creatures Great and Small...?
People's attitudes to animals reflect their beliefs.
(R) (e)

12.08pm History File: Twentieth-Century History: Why Appeasement?
(R) (e)

12.30 Issues
What's really happening?
What's behind it? A current affairs series that takes an in-depth look into a major issue of the week.
Presented by Rob Curling
(R)

1.00 Science in Action: Spaceship Earth
(R) (e)

Contributors

Narrator (Maths at Work):
Kieran Prendiville
Consultant (Maths at Work):
Kate Livingston
Producer (Maths at Work/Lifeschool):
Roger Fry
Series producer (Lifeschool):
David Roseveare
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Presenter (Walrus):
Michael Rosen
Author (Walrus:
Losers Weepers): Jan Needle
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy
Dad:
Jack Carr
Tony:
Michael Shuttleworth
Mum:
Helen Barnaby
Carol:
Jenny Luckraft
Narrator (Why? Because...):
Michael Heath
Series producer (Why? Because...):
Sue Weeks
Producer (Why? Because...):
Julia Drum
Producer (History File):
John Chapple
Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (Issues):
Rob Curling
Producer (Issues):
David Taft
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Assistant producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Series producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

A See-Saw programme
The Pieman and Piewife have a hard job describing lavender to the ever inquisitive Piepilot! Is it a flower, a bud or a song?
(R)

1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Life in the 17th Century: Prisoner in the Tower
After the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes was imprisoned in the Tower of London. What sort of place was the Tower in 1605 and what happened to the people who were imprisoned there? Guy Fawkes himself was tortured until he confessed his part in the plot. Can the use of torture ever be justified?
(R) (e)

Contributors

Devised by (Pie in the Sky):
Chloe Ashcroft
Devised by (Pie in the Sky):
Peter Gosling
Music (Near and Far):
David Chilton
Film editor (Near and Far):
Susan Imrie
Producer (Near and Far):
Nicholas Whines

Live coverage from Glasgow of the address by the Secretary of State for
Scotland, Malcolm Rifkind , MP, and debates including topical motions voted for by delegates to Conference. Commentators
NICK CLARKE , JAMES LONG Producers VIRGINIA ASHCOMBE and JANINE THOMASON Engineering manager MALCOLM HUNTER
Conference co-ordinator MARIE RICOT Editor PHILIP CAMPBELL including at
3.00 News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Rifkind
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Janine Thomason
Unknown:
Malcolm Hunter
Editor:
Philip Campbell

Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all, money.
This week Eamonn Holmes , Bazaar's prize student, gets to grips with microwave cooking; lesson two of our make-up masterclass with Barbara Daly deals with blusher and powder; and Tony van den Bergh instructs his fellow pensioners on how to demand action. Plus advice on condensation and tips on how to revamp your wardrobe for pennies. Director DAVE THOMAS
Series producer ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE For free leaflet, send large sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Judi Spiers
Unknown:
Eamonn Holmes
Unknown:
Barbara Daly
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Director:
Dave Thomas
Producer:
Erica Griffiths

A romantic serial in 16 parts set in Cornwall of the 1780s based on the novels by WINSTON GRAHAM
Part 2 by JACK PULMAN
With Elizabeth and Francis now married, Ross has lost all interest in Nampara and in himself....
Producer MORRIS BARRY
Director CHRISTOPHER BARRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Pulman
Unknown:
With Elizabeth
Producer:
Morris Barry
Director:
Christopher Barry
Margaret:
Diana Berriman
Ross Poldark:
Robin Ellis
Card player:
Raymond Farrell
Talbot:
Raymond Young
Francis Poldark:
Cltve Francis
Card dealer:
John Dallimore
Francis's friend:
Oliver Gilbert
Prudie:
Mary Wimbush
Verity:
Norma Streader
Jim Carter:
Stuart Doughty
Jud:
Paul Curran
Mrs Martin:
Maryann Turner
Zacky Martin:
Forbes Collins
Jinny Martin:
Gillian Bailey
Ox owner:
Ken Plested
Stallholder:
David Shaw
Demelza:
Angharad Rees
Mrs Teaque:
Jane Hilary
Capt Blarney:
Jonathan Newth
Charles Poldark:
Frank Middlemass
Elizabeth:
Jill Townsend
Tom Came:
Don Henderson
Carne's brother:
Dan Gillan
Fiddler:
Billy Miller

Opens a season of science-fiction films. Today starring Michael Rennie Patricia Neal
'From a distant planet came a giant robot to bnng the world face to face with its most terrifying threat!' proclaimed the film posters in 1951. But out of space comes the world's most civilised alien to warn mankind of the perils of war. Can the visitor overcome the suspicions of the world's leaders?
Screenplay by EDMUND H. NORTH Based on a story by HARRY BATES Produced by JULIAN BLAUSTEIN Directed by ROBERT WISE
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Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rennie
Unknown:
Patricia Neal
Unknown:
Edmund H. North
Story By:
Harry Bates
Produced By:
Julian Blaustein
Directed By:
Robert Wise
KlaatU:
Michael Rennie
Helen Benson:
Patricia Neal
Tom Stevens:
Hugh Marlowe
Dr Barnhardt:
Sam Jaffe
Bobby Benson:
Billy Gray
Mrs Barley:
Frances Bavier
Gort:
Lock Martin
Drew Pearson:
Himself
Harley:
Frank Conroy
Colonel:
Carleton Young
Major General:
Fay Roope
Mrs Crockett:
Edith Evanson
Major White:
Robert Osterloh

Widows of War
For thousands of families in Britain, Remembrance
Sunday is not enough. This film features four women who lost their husbands during very different conflicts but they share the same feelings of futility and isolation at the loss of their loved ones. Left to fend for themselves on meagre pensions, many war widows have been fighting their own very personal battles to this day. Suggested by a letter from a war widow, this moving film is a tribute to their courage.
Series producer PETER LEE-WRIGHT Producer SUE
DAVIDSON Director ROSEMARY PADVAISKAS
Open Space is the series where the public make programmes under their own editorial control helped by the Community Programme Unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Davidson Director Rosemary

A five-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery Nerves of Steel
Imagine the scene. 1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged by gangrene. The surgeon enters. Without anaesthetics, without blood transfusion and with no knowledge of infection, he will amputate the leg in 30 seconds.
Today surgeons can operate safely on the brain and the heart, on the elderly and on babies only a few hours old. The story of this remarkable transformation begins with a historic operation on a boy, Gilbert Abbott. What made his operation special was that, unlike all patients before him, he felt no pain.
Narrated by Alexander John Film editor JAMIE HAY
Written and produced by FIONA HOLMES
Series producer JON PALFREMAN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert Abbott.
Unknown:
Alexander John
Produced By:
Fiona Holmes
Producer:
Jon Palfreman

by ROSE TREMAIN
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.
Producer BRENDA REID
Director CHRIS GODDARD

Contributors

Producer:
Brenda Reid
Director:
Chris Goddard
Bea:
Joan Hickson
Esther:
Vivian Pickles
Helen:
Lynn Farleigh
Edward:
Michael N Harbour
Willy:
Denys Hawthorne
Insp Herrick:
Matthew Long
Janice Lawrence:
Gay Baynes
Ted Lawrence:
Ed Devereaux
Bank manager:
Robert Lang
Asst manager:
Tony Meyer
Jessica:
Annie Gurney
Colin:
Alexander Goodman
CID inspector:
David McEwan
Police constable:
David Telfer

The last two matches of the first round are played this evening. DAVID CORKHILL of Ireland is in one game and DAVID BRYANT , master bowler, makes his eagerly awaited appearance in the other. With DAVID ICKE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Corkhill
Unknown:
David Bryant
Unknown:
David Icke

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with reports from around Britain by Ian Smith
Chris Lowe and Peter Taylor

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Snow
Presented By:
Donald MacCormick
Presented By:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Peter Taylor

with Chantal Cuer
Brush up your French as you catch up with the week in France - as covered by TF1 news and the French press, and watch out for Brigitte Bardot - the one star capable of stealing the show from animals.
(Shown again next Sunday on BBC1)
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Contributors

Presenter:
Chantal Cuer
Director:
Mark Lucas
Assistant Producer:
Daniella Dangoor
Series Producer:
Bernard Adams

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