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9.25 Treffpunkt: Osterreich: Auf dem Bauernhof
What is it like to ski in high summer, to live up in the mountains and help out on a farm?
(R) (e)

9.42 Textile Studies: Spinning a Yarn
(e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Stability: 'A'
(e)

10.38 Investigating Science: Classification: Sort It Out
(e)

11.00 Thinkabout: Keeping Warm
(For details see Monday at 10.40am) (e)

11.15 Near and Far: Now and Then: Life in the 17th Century: Plague!
London 1665 - during the long, hot summer tens of thousands died of a dreadful disease. The Barnwell family are one of many to suffer.
(e)

11.35 Scene: School Trip to the Trenches
(R)

12.05pm Science Topics: Senses
We use our senses as part of a complex system for survival.
(R) (e)

12.25 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

12.50 Micro File 'A': Look to the Future
Fred Harris and Lesley Judd with another chance to see some of the best items from the 1985/6 series of Micro Live.
(R) (e)
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Contributors

Producer (Treffpunkt:
Osterreich): Susan Paton
Series Producer (Science Topics):
Peter Bratt
Presenter (Issues):
Rob Curling
Producer (Issues):
Jill Sheppard
Presenter (Micro File):
Fred Harris
Presenter (Micro File):
Lesley Judd

A See-Saw programme
by Eric Charles
(R)

1.38 Music Time: The Regular Beat
Listen to music and sounds that have a regular beat, and a heart machine helps the children to see and hear their own regular beat. Sing another song from the Christmas story.
With Terry Drummond (guitar), David Rose (bass) and Paul Abbedrley (drums)
(R) (e)

Contributors

Writer (Bertha):
Eric Charles
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Guitarist (Music Time):
Terry Drummond
Bassist (Music Time):
David Rose
Drummer (Music Time):
Paul Abbdrley
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett

James and Louise make musical sounds by blowing across pipes. They tell an Indian story about three travelling musicians who cast a spell on a mean rajah. With the help of four young musicians, hear the bird, cat, duck and grandfather tunes from Peter and the Wolf, which will be shown in three weeks' time.
With Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair
(R) (e)

Contributors

Presenter (Watch):
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter (Watch):
James Earl Adair
Series Producer (Watch):
David Taft

The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena This tournament has a reputation for producing excellent matches and with this year's entry as good as ever expectations are high. Today's matches decide the line-up for tomorrow's quarter-finals.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT GERALD WILLIAMS
MARK COX
Producers JOHNNIE WATHERSTON ALAST AIR SCOTT including at
3.00 News and Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Producers:
Johnnie Watherston

Floyd on Fish
After tasting the first scallops of the season in Bridport, Keith Floyd was inspired to suggest that this
Dorset market town should form a festival in celebration of this delicious seafood. Further in his relentless campaign to persuade people to be more adventurous in their eating habits, he cooks the humble but tasty sprat as well as the noble sea-bass. Film editor DAVID SHARP
Producer DAVID PRITCHARD (R) BBC South West
Book, 'Floyd on Fish , £7.50
(hardback) and £3.95 (paperback) available now from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Floyd

Keep in style and out of trouble. Arthur Smith and Wenna Banks supply the answers in the Full Frontal way Groove to the debut band of the week. Get hitched by the hi-tech video dating agency. Discover the true story of sole man
Doc Marten. Confront spexism with bespectacled John Hegley. Follow the video paparazzi to a star-studded party. Get to where you want to be and learn how to avoid the trap of easy high street credit. Haircuts, looks and lots lots more.
Designer JOHN ANDERSON
Studio director PHIL CHILVERS
Producers OLIVIA LICHTENSTEIN PETER GRIMSDALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Doc Marten.
Unknown:
John Hegley.
Designer:
John Anderson
Director:
Phil Chilvers
Producers:
Olivia Lichtenstein
Producers:
Peter Grimsdale

On the book review programme this week
Tariq Ali recalls the protest movements of the 60s, described in his autobiography Street
Fighting Years. Joining Jill Neville to discuss the book are Sally Belfrage ,
Maeve Binchy and David Widgery , who'll also be looking at RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA 'S new novel Three Continents and MAVIS GALLANT'S stories of Paris, Overhead in a Balloon.
Researcher CHRIS WILSON
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS Producer ROLAND KEATING

Contributors

Unknown:
Tariq Ali
Unknown:
Jill Neville
Unknown:
Sally Belfrage
Unknown:
David Widgery
Unknown:
Prawer Jhabvala
Unknown:
Chris Wilson
Producer:
Nigel Williams
Producer:
Roland Keating

Haves and Have Nots
'If a free society cannot help the many who are rich, it cannot save the few who are poor.' (JOHN F. KENNEDY ) This week
Michael Ignatieff and his guests:
Ralf Dahrendorf , social scientist
Stuart Hall , sociologist
Lord Harris of Brent Cross, economist and Ray Pahl , sociologist analyse - the underclass: the unacceptable face of affluence?
Research EMMA CRICHTON MILLER Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John F. Kennedy
Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Ralf Dahrendorf
Unknown:
Stuart Hall
Unknown:
Ray Pahl
Unknown:
Emma Crichton Miller
Director:
Mark Harrison

A duel of words and wit between
Arthur Marshall Gillian Lynne
Robert Kilroy-Silk and Frank Muir
Barbara Dickson Timothy West
Referee Robert Robinson Call My Bluff devised by MARK GOODSON
Directed by BRUCE MILLAR Producer PAUL CIANI

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Gillian Lynne
Unknown:
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Barbara Dickson
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Goodson
Directed By:
Bruce Millar
Producer:
Paul Ciani

William Woollard tests the new right-hand-drive version of the Honda Civic hatchback. Sue Baker returns to Birmingham's 'Wheels' project to see how the scheme to give people real experience of driving before they go on the road is working. The 70s saw the birth of the 'hot hatchback'. Tiff Needell drives the nominated 'Car of the Decade', the Alfasud. In ten days' time, the Lombard RAC Rally gets under way in Chester. Tony Mason visits a rally school to see aspiring drivers improve their technique.
Producer KEN POLLOCK
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill
0 COMPETITION: page 94

Contributors

Unknown:
William Woouard
Producer:
Ken Pollock
Producer:
Tom Ross

starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Debbi Blythe
Kim Clifford , Janice Cramer Alexander Dane Robin Driscoll
Nigel Harman
Roger Lloyd Pack Linda Lusardi
Peter McCarthy Hugh Paddick
Written by CLIVE ANDERSON ROBIN DRISCOLL , JOCKEYS OF
NORFOLK, RORY MCGRATH , ROGER PLANER , GRIFF RHYS JONES, JAMIE RIX , TONY SARCHET , MEL SMITH NICK WILTON
Original music by PETER BREWIS
Studio lighting GRAHAM RIMMINGTON Designers CHRIS RUGG/TIM GLEESON Production JOHN KILBY/JAMIE RIX
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Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Smith
Unknown:
Griff Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Debbi Blythe
Unknown:
Kim Clifford
Unknown:
Janice Cramer
Unknown:
Alexander Dane
Unknown:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Nigel Harman
Unknown:
Roger Lloyd Pack
Unknown:
Linda Lusardi
Unknown:
Peter McCarthy
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Written By:
Clive Anderson
Written By:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Rory McGrath
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Griff Rhys
Unknown:
Jamie Rix
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Unknown:
Mel Smith
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Music By:
Peter Brewis
Unknown:
Graham Rimmington
Unknown:
Designers Chris

Our lives - now. Girls Apart
Sisca and Sylvia are both 16, schoolgirls living only a few miles from each other, but they have never met. Each comes from a family which is thought politically moderate and reasonably well-off. They are South Africans. Sisca is white, Sylvia is black. Each girl introduces the South
Africa she knows - her home, family, and way of life. Sisca, in Johannesburg, says apartheid no longer exists. Sylvia, in Soweto, has been arrested and tortured by the police. Violence is never far away. Sisca is confident that the authorities will go on making the right decisions. Sylvia, at the emotional funeral of a school-friend killed by vigilantes, sees a more disturbing future.
Directed by CHRISTOPHER SHEPPARD CLAUDE SAUVAGEOT
Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
0 FEATURE: page 13 and WODDIS ON: page 97
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Contributors

Directed By:
Christopher Sheppard
Directed By:
Claude Sauvageot
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

The hour may be later, but one of America's brightest young comedians is back in the sitcom with a difference...
Starring Garry Shandling
It sounds like a great idea for your mother's birthday: get your friends together, hide them behind the furniture, darken the room and when the lady of the moment arrives... hit those lights and shout 'Surprise!'
But this is Garry Shandling, for whom things have a habit of going wrong...

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Zweibel
Writer:
Garry Shandling
Director:
Alan Rafkin
Himself:
Garry Shandling
Nancy:
Molly Cheek
Pete:
Michael Tucci
Jackie:
Bernadette Birkett
Grant:
Scott Nemes
Lewis:
Geoffrey Blake
Ruth:
Barbara Cason
Fr Guido Sarducci:
Don Novello

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