Programme Index

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9.43 Descubra Espana: Unos ratos libres
Una cita: Reportaje deportivo; Pasatiempos y fiestas.
(R) (e)

10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Harry Towb helps Cosmo and Dibs organise a rota for working on the stall. Martin goes to stay overnight with his grandparents.
Song Join in the Game.
(R) (e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Highlights: 2
Glittering fabrics, sparkling decorations, a shining coach and London's Christmas lights.
(R) (e)

10.38 Let's See: Lights in the Dark: Let There Be Light!
Presented by Rhoda MacLeod and Gilly Gilchrist
From candles to light bulbs - an 'illuminated' history!
(R) (e)

11.00 Words and Pictures: Come to the Show
(e)

11.18 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
Patterns
followed by Time Graph
(Details yesterday at 11.35am) (e)

11.40 Science in Action: Good Vibrations
Find out what multi-tracking is; turn your BBC micros into a sophisticated music synthesiser and discover why a flute sounds different from a trombone!
(R) (e)

12.05pm Maths at Work: Programme 5
(e)

12.28 Lifeschool: Economics: A Question of Choice: The Right Price
(e)

12.50 The Wild Side of Town: Green Guerillas
The last in a series of programmes which explore the effect of modern day development on the 'green' areas and wildlife in Britain's cities
Presented by Chris Baines
(R) (e)
Book 'The Wild Side of Town', £10.95 hardback, paperback £6.95 from booksellers
(Ceefax subtitles)

1.20 Heads and Tails: Dip and Clip
A See-Saw programme
Animals wear no clothes - no, no clothes they wear, but look what different coats are there.
(R)

1.38 Zig-Zag: Rush, the Fallow Deer: 2
Rush survives the perils of poachers and forest fires and challenges his fellow-bucks for supremacy in the New Forest.
(Revised repeat) (e)

2.00 News, Weather
followed by Storytime: The Story of Chen Ping
'Is this your axe?' asks the old man of Chen Ping who has lost his axe in the river. A gold, then a silver axe, are offered, but Chen Ping is an honest boy and refuses them both. His greedy master reprimands him for his foolishness but finds out to his cost that honesty is the best policy.
(e)

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Harry Towb
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Film Director (You and Me):
Sue Aron
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Producer (Science Workshop):
Michael Coyle
Presenter (Let's See):
Rhoda MacLeod
Presenter (Let's See):
Gilly Gilchrist
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
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
Presenter (The Wild Side of Town):
Chris Baines
Producer (The Wild Side of Town):
Ron Bloomfield
Voices and music (Heads and Tails):
Derek Griffiths
Research (Heads and Tails):
Anne Denehy
Producer (Heads and Tails):
Michael Cole
Presenter (Zig-Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer (Zig-Zag):
John King
Series Producer (Zig-Zag):
Tom Stanier
Presenter (Storytime):
Pik-Sen Lim
Puppets (Storytime):
Alan Platt
Animation (Storytime):
Bura and Hardwick
Producer (Storytime):
Moyra Gambleton

A World of Difference
Marian Foster reports from two contrasting countries which experts believe are already facing ecological disaster, Bangladesh and Nepal. Their crisis is aggravated by a population explosion.
Film cameraman DAVID SMITH Series written and produced by MARIAN FOSTER
A MARIAN FOSTER production for BBCtv (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Foster
Unknown:
David Smith
Produced By:
Marian Foster
Produced By:
A Marian Foster

Weather followed by Sir Mortimer Wheeler
The Viceroy Sent for Me One's whole life is devoted to re-creating the past and making it live.
Sir Mortimer's battlecry until the day he died in 1976. The second of two Chronicle films on the life of the great archaeologist takes him from a Roman trading station on the Bay of Bengal to Mohenjo Daro - the great city of the Indus civilisation. In 1950 he returned to Britain to begin a new career - in television, where he enchanted millions with his deep desire to pass his knowledge on to others. Produced by DAVID COLLISON
Executive producer PAUL JOHNSTONE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Unknown:
Mohenjo Daro
Produced By:
David Collison
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

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
Brendan Foster whose choice includes MARTIN LUTHER KING , Z Cars and LES DAWSON.

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Brendan Foster
Unknown:
Martin Luther King
Unknown:
Les Dawson.

The second of two programmes
An Invitation to Return
The children of the Oldham Theatre Workshop are rehearsing the musical Bugsy Malone for performance in the Tameside Theatre, Ashton-under-Lyne. The cast is 300 strong.
'When we go into the theatre, I don't want a bill for damage to dressing rooms,' says director David Johnson. 'What I do want is an invitation to return.' The problems of production come thick and fast. People in the design department have to build a yellow Rolls-Royce with working lights. Props are having trouble making the 'splurge guns' fire foam over everyone. The revolving stage has yet to work properly and the stage manager has to work out how to cope with hundreds waiting in the wings.

Contributors

Musical:
Bugsy Malone
Director:
David Johnson.

The popular game of musical knowledge with Frank Muir and John Amis challenging Denis Norden and Ian Wallace over questions set by Steve Race (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

What every woman should know about pensions
'I'm a retired woman; can I claim for a dependant husband?'
'Why am I getting only 25p a week graduated pension?' 'How much can I earn before my husband's pension is affected?'
Pensions are no longer a man's preserve. More and more women are claiming pensions in their own right. But it's a complex matter to ensure that you are getting the right amount.
Margo MacDonald examines state, occupational and personal pension plans as they affect women.
Produced by BRYN BROOKS
Series producer TONY MATTHEWS (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margo MacDonald
Produced By:
Bryn Brooks
Producer:
Tony Matthews

continuing a season of Carry On films. Today starring Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Connor
Bill Owen
Charles Hawtrey , Liz Fraser Joan Sims , Terence Longdon Six footloose refugees from the labour exchange manage to find work at the Helping Hands Ltd employment agency. When they set about restoring a country house that's the cue for the Carry On team to mismanage one unusual job after another.
Screenplay by NORMAN HUDIS Produced by PETER ROGERS Directed by GERALD THOMAS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sidney James
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Kenneth Connor
Unknown:
Bill Owen
Unknown:
Charles Hawtrey
Unknown:
Liz Fraser
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Terence Longdon
Unknown:
Norman Hudis
Produced By:
Peter Rogers
Directed By:
Gerald Thomas
Bert Handy:
Sidney James
Sam Twist:
Kenneth Connor
Gabriel Dimple:
Charles Hawtrey
Lilly Duveen:
Joan Sims
Francis Courtenay:
Kenneth Williams
Mike Weston:
Bill Owen
Delia King:
Liz Fraser
Montgomery Infield-Hopping:
Terence Longdon
Sister:
Hattie Jacques

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 12: November
Whenever the family was in its London residence, it still received fresh vegetables from its country garden.
Harry shows how he used to pack a hamper to be put on a train and delivered to cook in London the same morning. Today that hamper is destined for the kitchen of Restaurateur Stephen Bull , who gives a modern interpretation to cooking the old varieties.
Music by PAUL READE
Photography PAUL MORRIS Film editor chris ORRELL Associate producer JENNIFER DAVIES
Producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Thoday
Unknown:
Harry Dodson
Unknown:
Stephen Bull
Music By:
Paul Reade
Music By:
Photography Paul Morris
Producer:
Jennifer Davies
Producer:
Keith Sheather

A monthly anthology of travel, exploration and adventure - worldwide
Into Africa
Narrated by Anthony Hopkins
Every year, like birds migrating south, a few hundred men take to the air and fly to Africa - in the spirit of the first aviators - for the pleasure of living dangerously. Their job? To seed thunderclouds, spray locusts, dust crops and fly emergency missions from the roughest of strips.
'It must be the last frontier of true flying,' they say, 'real seat-of-the-pants stuff - low, fast, dangerous.'
To men like Abercromby-
Dick, Max Lacey and Paddy McKay it's the only way to live.
Kenya and the Sudan form a breathtaking backdrop to their exploits.
Photography NIGEL MEAKIN
Film editor CHRISTINE CHARNER Producer NADIA HAGGAR Series editor TIM SLESSOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Hopkins
Unknown:
Max Lacey
Unknown:
Paddy McKay
Editor:
Tim Slessor

Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler? When a wounded soldier arrives at the 4077th claiming to be Jesus Christ, it's time for Col Flagg, specialist in pinkos and fellow travellers, to investigate.
Written by BURT PRELUTSKY
Directed by LARRY GELBART (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Burt Prelutsky
Directed By:
Larry Gelbart
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
BJ:
Mike Farrell
Col Potter:
Harry Morgan
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville
Radar:
Gary Burghoff

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