9.25 Treffpunkt: Osterreich: Die Lehrlingszeit
Two apprentices at work and at home. Gabi's a waitress. Claus works in a factory - but his main passion in life is football!
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9.42 Textile Studies: A Riot of Colour
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10.15 Science Workshop: Highlights: Part 1
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10.38 Investigating Science: Prediction: If Happened Once...
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11.00 Thinkabout: Cover Up
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11.15 Near and Far: Now and Then: The Toy Business
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11.35 Scene: Salt on a Snake's Tail
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12.05pm Science Topics: Biotechnology
Traditional uses of microbes are in making cheese, beer or wine. Today the techniques are undergoing a revolution.
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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': Artificial Intelligence
Another chance to see some of the best items from the 1985/6 series of Micro Live.
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A See-Saw programme
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1.38 Music Time: Grouping Beats
Songs with two and three beats in a bar; a game in which the children group beats in different numbers.
With John Leach (cimbalom), Duke Dobing (flute) and children from Bevington Junior School
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Louise and James explore rhythm, drums and drumming. James plays a rock drum kit, and African drumming and dancing is introduced by Isaac T'agoe and Junior Jazira Dancers. Andrew Smith shows how the kettledrums work and plays the gun's theme from Peter and the Wolf
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The Tennents United Kingdom Championship
Just two semi-final places remain to be decided. The season has already produced its shocks - so who would bid for one of today's matches being played between DENNIS TAYLOR and CLIFF THORBURN ? Commentators
TED LOWE , JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON
Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JOHN VIRGO. EDDIE CHARLTON Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer LAN EDWARDS BBC North West including at

Regional News and Weather

Desmond Lynam takes pleasure in inviting his guests to unlock the film and video vaults with their personal memories of past television moments.
Today's guest is Fay Weldon whose choice includes
Fawlty Towers and Tonight.

The Tennents United Kingdom Championship
Further coverage from the Guild Hall, Preston, of the remaining quarter-finals.

Floyd on Fish
Posing to perfection, the incorrigible Keith Floyd takes to the Somerset Levels in search of lunch and discovers the freshwater delights of pike and salmon. Film editor PETER SNOW
Producer DAVID PRITCHARD BBC South West (R)

A two-part adventure 1: War of the Gods

Starbuck and Apollo search for a missing Viper squadron. Suspecting a crash landing on a nearby planet, they come across the wreckage of an unknown spacecraft.
Instead of the missing pilots they find the mysterious
Count Iblis who tells them of the 'Powers'.

The book review programme. This week three very different books on the pains of marriage and parenthood. Jill Neville is joined by Margaret Forster and Andrew Neil to discuss
A Good Enough Parent by BRUNO BETTELHEIM ,
SAUL BELLOW 'S novel More Die of Heartbreak and The Child in Time by this week's guest author Ian McEwan. Researcher CHRIS WILSON
Production assistant SUE CHAPMAN Producer ROLAND KEATING
(Book details on Ceefaxpage 289)

'The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.'
LORD HAILSHAM
This week Michael Ignatieff and his guests
Fred Halliday , historian
Ali Mazrui , political scientist Edward Mortimer , writer and journalist
Malise Ruthven , writer and critic, discuss: The Unholy
Trinity: religion, nationalism and politics
Research: EMMA CRICHTON·MILLER Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol

A duel of words and wit between Arthur Marshall Marion Montgomery Tim Brooke-Taylor and Frank Muir Sheila Gish
Denis Lawson
Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Produced and directed by PAUL CLAM

For the past four days, most of the 165 cars entered for this year's
Lombard RAC Rally have covered an estimated
1,800 miles through the forests of Britain.
This year the event has acquired even more importance as the last round in the World Championships. Lancia has already won the manufacturers' crown and is certain of the drivers' as well, but which of the big names will it be - KANKUNNEN, BIASION or ALEN?
In a special Top Gear,
WILLIAM WOOLLARD brings you highlights of this gruelling event with commentary from
BARRIE GILL and reports from around the country by SUE BAKER and TONY MASON.
Producer TONY RAYNER
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones
Last chance to get your complaints in before the series finishes with Janice Cramer Robin Driscoll Nigel Harman
Peter McCarthy Garfield Morgan Written by CUVE ANDERSON , MARTIN BOOTH ROBIN DRISCOLL , ROB GRANT JOHN 1RWIN , TERRY KYAN
RORY MCGRATH , DOUG NAYLOR , GRIFF RHYS JONES,
JAMIE RIX , MEL SMITH ,
PAUL SMITH , NICK WILTON
Original music by PETER BREWIS
Studio lighting GRAHAM RIMMINGTON Design CHRIS RUGG. TIM GLEESON Production JOHN KILBY. JAMIE RIX
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Our lives - now
Poor Man's Eton
Sam [text removed] is 11 and he's not quite sure where he lives. His mother is in Nigeria, and he thinks his father is too.
The only thing he knows for certain is that he goes to Woolverstone Hall - a stately mansion in Suffolk which is now a boarding school. It's not a traditional public school, but a comprehensive - and it's run, improbably, by the Inner
London Education Authority. For boys like Sam [text removed] , Woolverstone is security.
Many of the pupils here come from deprived homes and backgrounds. But it costs the authority £2 million a year to keep this unique school going.
There are only 220 pupils. It's more expensive, per child, than Eton. Now the ILEA, facing its own financial crisis, wants to close Woolverstone down.
But Headmaster Richard
Woollett is not prepared to give up without a fight.... Photography
IAN STONE. NIGEL MEAKIN
Film editor ALICE FORWARD Assistant producer ROHAN SEECOOMAR
Producer RICHARD DENTON Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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The Tennents United Kingdom Championship
Tonight the last two sessions of the remaining quarter-finals will decide who joins those two who have already claimed their semi-final places.
A packed Guild Hall is expected to have already witnessed some of the seeds tumbling this week, and with some of the results in tournament play this season, to predict the winners tonight would be a bookmaker's nightmare.

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With international reports by David Sells ,
Charles Wheeler , Gavin Esler and Julian O'Halloran