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9.15 Job Bank: Short-Term Service
A short-term service commission in any branch of HM Forces offers you a chance to be a leader in challenging and interesting environments.
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9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs try to put a model back together. Sherbett the robot grows taller to fetch down a kite. Jaspal's mother makes him a new suit. Song: Kookaburra
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10.15 Music Time: Rhythm and the Beat
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10.40 Thinkabout: Rubbish Dump
Sally and the children sort out some rubbish to be thrown out, but Frank has other ideas.
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11.00 Zig Zag: The Norman Invasion
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11.20 English Time: Storytelling: Spells, Charms and Curses
Three different types of traditional tales: Willy and the Piece of Wood, told by professional storyteller Hugh Lupton; The Paper Bag Princess, an unconventional folk tale; The Lambton Worm, a well-known legend from the north east of England.
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11.45 Tutorial Topics: The Bully and the Victim: Parts 1 and 2
by John Challen
A look at a bullying incident from two viewpoints.
With Wayne Goddard, Demitri Jagger, Richard Chadwick, Simon Gilby, Gareth Armstrong, James Marcus, Maureen Morris, Barry Ewart and Judy Gridley
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12.08pm History File: Cold War - Confrontation
The Berlin blockade of 1948-9 and the Korean War of 1950-3: the issues which nearly brought the Soviet Union and the USA into full-scale war.
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12.30 General Studies: Music: Reggae, Madness and the Wild Things
With examples from reggae, the pop group Madness and Oliver Knussen's opera Where the Wild Things Are the programme asks the creators of this music what they are trying to communicate.
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1.00 Science in Action: In the Picture
Take 'hands on' science centres in Bristol, Liverpool, London and New York, add some film stories from the UK and USA, mix in some TV studios and you've got the second series of Science in Action. Find out why writing appears backwards in a mirror. Follow in the 150-year-old footsteps of William Henry Fox-Talbot and make your own photographic paper. Finally try out some live optical illusions.
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Contributors

Producer (Job Bank):
John Chapple
Presenter (You and Me):
Bharti Patel
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Animation (You and Me):
Mike Hibbert
Director (You and Me):
Julie Callanan
Producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Storyteller (English Time):
Hugh Lupton
Storyteller (English Time):
Janet Palmer
Storyteller (English Time):
Brendan Healy
Producer (English Time):
David Meldrum
Writer (Tutorial Topics):
John Challen
Film Cameraman (Tutorial Topics):
Paul Morris
Producer (Tutorial Topics):
Len Brown
[Actor]:
Wayne Goddard
[Actor]:
Demitri Jagger
[Actor]:
Richard Chadwick
[Actor]:
Simon Gilby
[Actor]:
Gareth Armstrong
[Actor]:
James Marcus
[Actress]:
Maureen Morris
[Actor]:
Barry Ewart
[Actress]:
Judy Gridley
Commentary (History File):
John Tidmarsh
Writer (History File):
John Tusa
Producer (History File):
John Chaple
Series Producer (History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (General Studies):
Bruce Jamson
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kjartan Poskitt
Assistant Producer (Science in Action):
Lambros Atteshlis
Series Producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge

A See-Saw programme
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1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Working the Land
The first of two programmes on farming takes a close look at a north Essex arable farm. The programme is also the first in a unit of six on the topic of food.
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Contributors

Presenter (Near and Far):
Simon Groom
Producer (Near and Far):
Clare Elstow

Dr Alan Maryon Davis with another showing of the series that explains the basics of first aid and the ABC of resuscitation. Parents describe lives that have been saved as a result of the Save a Life campaign, and the SHEFFIELD UNITED football team take part in a Save a Life class.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Alan Maryon Davis

Holiday Help
'We just have an ordinary pension, we don't get any extras, but we're here for four months,' says 68-year-old ALICE YEOMANS as she sits beside the swimming pool on the Costa del Sol in mid-December.
Margo MacDonald takes a look at some options open for people who want a holiday but don't want it to 'Costa Packet'! Directed by MARION ALLINSON
Series producer TONY MATTHEWS

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Yeomans
Unknown:
Margo MacDonald
Directed By:
Marion Allinson
Producer:
Tony Matthews

A romantic serial in 16 parts based on the novels by WINSTON GRAHAM
Part 9 by PETER DRAPER Producer
MORRIS BARRY
Directed by KENNETH IVES

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Draper
Unknown:
Morris Barry
Directed By:
Kenneth Ives
Tankart:
Tim Barlow
Blencowe:
John White
Garth:
Howard Bell
Jud:
Paul Curran
Demelza:
Angharad Rees
Ross Poldark:
Robin Ellis
George:
Ralph Bates
Nicholas:
Nicholas Selby
Sir John:
Clifford Parish
Unwin:
Peter Clay
Pearce:
John Baskcomb
Pascoe:
Ralph Nossek
Capt McNeil:
Donald Douglas
Francis:
Clive Francis
Elizabeth:
Jill Townsend
Geoffrey:
Stefan Gates
Clymer:
Wensley Pithey
Dr Enys:
Richard Morant
Verity:
Norma Streader
Landlord:
Ian Cunningham
Footman:
Edmund Dring
Caroline:
Judy Geeson
Justice Lister:
Michael Gwynn
Constance Bodrugan:
Cynthia Grenville
Sir Hugh Bodrugan:
Christopher Benjamin
Coldrennick:
Vernon Joyner
Clerk of the court:
Charles Kinross
Hotel maid:
Jo Garrity

also starring John Garfield
John McKittrich , supporter of the International Brigade, returns to America
- after escaping from a brutal fascist prison in Spain. Although badly tortured, he still guards the secret that his captors failed to discover and which has already cost the life of a close friend. But the Nazis don't give up the chase that easily....
In this rarely-seen thriller, Maureen O'Hara becomes a pawn in a ruthless and dangerous game.
Screenplay by WARREN DUFF. based on the novel by DOROTHY B. HUGHES Produced by ROBERT FELLOWS Directed by RICHARD WALLACE
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Garfield
Unknown:
John McKittrich
Unknown:
Maureen O'Hara
Unknown:
Warren Duff.
Novel By:
Dorothy B. Hughes
Produced By:
Robert Fellows
Directed By:
Richard Wallace
John 'Kit' McKittrick:
John Garfield
Toni Donne:
Maureen O'Hara
Dr Skaas:
Walter Slezak
Barby:
Patricia Morison
Whitney:
Martha O'Driscoll
A B Parker:
Bruce Edwards
Anton:
John Banner

The World Professional Championship from the Lakeside Country Club The final matches of the first round are played this evening.
Ex-World Champion JOCKY WILSON (6) is first on the oche tonight. He has a difficult match against Welshman
MALCOLM DAVIES who, if he is on form, could cause an Upset. Also DANNY MCINNES , newcomer from Canada,
Plays ALAN EVANS from Wales. Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentator
SID WADDELL. TONY GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jocky Wilson
Unknown:
Malcolm Davies
Unknown:
Danny McInnes
Unknown:
Alan Evans
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Commentator:
Sid Waddell.

Deep in a Japanese cave, a star's last moments are detected by signals from Particles which have travelled through 170,000 light years of space, and then through the earth itself.

It was the most important event in any living astronomer's lifetime, because dying stars are central to the life of our universe. So when the supernova appeared in the southern sky last February, the world's astronomers turned every available instrument on to it. This unique international collaboration has given fascinating insights into one of the universe's most violent events.

The programme follows the supernova's story, from its first sighting in Chile to Australia, America and Japan.

(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Written and produced for WGBH Boston by:
Robin Bates
Adapted for BBC tv by:
Deborah Cadbury
Horizon Editor:
Robin Brightwell

starring with Come Back Little Shiksa
Chicago, Chicago, that's her hometown and Addison is left in Los Angeles wondering what it's all about. But although Maddie's away David must still play detective for a very disarming Prince Charming who is desperate to find his reluctant Cinderella ...
Written by RON OSBORN and JEFF RENO Directed by ALAN ARKUSH

Contributors

Written By:
Ron Osborn
Written By:
Jeff Reno
Directed By:
Alan Arkush
Cybill Shepherd:
Maddie Hayes
David Addison:
Bruce Willis
Ms Dipesto:
Allyce Beasley
Bert Viola:
Curtis Armstrong
Virginia Hayes:
Eva Marie Saint
Alex Hayes:
Robert Webber
Melissa:
Kay Lenz
Donald:
John Goodman

The World Professional Championship
The most prolific world title holder ERIC 'Crafty Cockney' BRISTOW, now down to No 3, is fighting back to try to regain his No 1 spot. His opponent in this opening championship match is no pushover - RAY FARRELL (NI), No 1 from across the Irish Sea. Introduced by TONY GUBBA

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Farrell
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba

The Embassy World
Professional Championship from the Lakeside Country Club
Another first-round match - RICHIE GARDNER (England), conquerer of Bob Anderson in the first round of the British Professional
Championship, will have a hard tussle against popular ARNIE BUNN from Coventry. Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Richie Gardner
Unknown:
Bob Anderson
Unknown:
Arnie Bunn
Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Sid Waddell
Unknown:
Tony Green
Producer:
Ian Edwards
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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