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9.15 Job Bank: Turning Pro
Dreaming of playing football for England or starring in Top of the Pops? A young singer and an apprentice footballer show how hard it is to make dreams reality.
(R) (e)

9.38 Lifeschool: Going to Work: Working Hours
'Unsocial' hours can come as quite a shock after leaving school. This film shows how youngsters in three different industries are coping.
(R) (e)

10.00 You and Me
Cosmo and Dibs learn to communicate with a deaf visitor to the market. Sherbett the robot helps rescue a toy boat Barbara and Viviana, who are twins, have their hair cut. Song: Five Little Firemen
(e)

10.15 Music Time: Contrasts
(R) (e) (For details see Thursday at 1.38pm)

10.40 Thinkabout: Getting the Message
The problem is that Sharon feels poorly and isn't on the phone. So the children rig up a do-it-yourself phone.
(R) (e)

11.00 Zig Zag: Hungry Times: Part 2
(R) (e)

11.20 English Time: Storytelling: Into the Future - Science Fiction
Science fiction encompasses a vast range of different types of stories: thrillers and fantasies; serious and lighthearted.
(R) (e)

11.45 Tutorial Topics: Disputes: Parts 1 and 2
When Sarah's Gran insults her new friend it's only the start of a chain of disputes.
With Deborah Harper, Nevena Kaley, Peter Armitage, Marion Fiddick, Joseph Marcell, Katherine Page and Corinne Skinner Carter
(R) (e)

12.08pm History File: The Arabs and Israel since 1947
Events in the Middle East from 1947 until the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
(R) (e)

12.30 General Studies: The Great British Diet
Nutrition experts and teenagers discuss the latest evidence linking diet and disease.
(R) (e)

1.00 Science in Action: Current Affairs
This week visit a New York neon light factory, make an unusual electric motor that shouldn't work but does, and find out how the battery of the future makes electricity from bacteria.
(e)

1.20 Pigeon Street: Can I Have My Ball Back?
A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 Near and Far: Now and Then: Superstore
What happens in the supermarket when the doors have closed behind the last customer?
(e)

2.00 News, Weather
followed by: Words and Pictures: Money to Spend
A hard-working farmer decides to sell his cow.
Arriving too late at market to make a sale, he exchanges his cow for a house. And so begins a series of exchanges.
(R) (e)

Contributors

Producer (Job Bank):
Judith Miles
Series producer (Lifeschool/History File):
Paul Mitchell
Producer (Lifeschool):
Jill Glindon Reed
Presenter (You and Me):
Larrington Walker
Presenter (You and Me):
Clive Mason
Film director (You and Me):
Sue Aron
Studio director (You and Me):
Julie Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Producer (Thinkabout):
Pat Farrington
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Producer (English Time):
David Meldrum
Newsreader:
John Craven
Mike:
Jake Wood
Jasmin:
Flora Page
Film cameraman (Tutorial Topics):
Peter Chapman
Producer (Tutorial Topics):
David Taft
[Actress]:
Deborah Harper
[Actress]:
Nevena Kaley
[Actor]:
Peter Armitage
[Actress]:
Marion Fiddick
[Actor]:
Joseph Marcell
[Actor]:
Katherine Page
[Actress]:
Corinne Skinner Carter
Commentary (History File):
John Tidmarsh
Writer (History File):
David Sells
Producer (General Studies):
Caroline Godley
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
Film editor (Near and Far):
John Billingham
Producer (Near and Far):
Judy Brooks
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton

A guide to emergency first aid presented by Dr Alan Maryon Davies Suppose someone's heart suddenly stopped beating - you would have just three minutes to save them. Would you know what to do? With John Arnatt
Venetia Barrett and Diana Rayworth
Drama written by LESLIE DUXBURY Produced by JENNY ROGERS and JULIAN STENHOUSE (R) (e)
Book, 'How To Save a Life; £4.95, from booksellers

Contributors

Presented By:
Dr Alan Maryon Davies
Unknown:
John Arnatt
Unknown:
Venetia Barrett
Unknown:
Diana Rayworth
Written By:
Leslie Duxbury
Produced By:
Jenny Rogers
Produced By:
Julian Stenhouse

Weather followed by The Professor of Surgery
'The customer is always right. They are customers, or clients. If we had no customers we'd have no job. I sometimes feel like writing over the walls - "No patients -no hospital".'
An informal portrait of Professor Ian McColl at work in Guy's Hospital, London and Edenbridge War
Memorial Hospital, Kent. Producer CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Ian McColl
Editor:
Graham Massey

Help When Someone Dies
Suddenly you find yourself responsible for arranging a funeral. Would you know what to do?
For example, imagine you're a distant but only relative of a man called Fred - who passed peacefully away a few days ago. He lived by himself, had no savings, and left no will. So what sort of funeral would Fred get? Should he be buried or cremated? And how would his 'estate' be sorted out?
Margo MacDonald uses the fictional example of Fred to give a step-by-step guide to what to do if someone dies. Directed by JEREMY ORLEBAR
Series producer TONY MATTHEWS (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margo MacDonald
Directed By:
Jeremy Orlebar
Producer:
Tony Matthews

A romantic serial in 16 parts set in Cornwall of the 1780s based on the novels by WINSTON GRAHAM
Part 13 by JACK RUSSELL
The birth of a son brings joy to Ross. But it is overshadowed by the threat of ruin; and the tragedy of a death in the Poldark family raises ghosts from the past to haunt Demelza.
Producer MORRIS BARRY Director PAUL ANNETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Russell
Producer:
Morris Barry
Director:
Paul Annett
Ross Poldark:
Robin Ellis
Demelza:
Angharad Rees
Prudie:
Mary Wimbush
Jud:
Paul Curran
Elizabeth:
Jill Townsend
Francis:
Clive Francis
Geoffrey Charles:
Stefan Gates
Dr Enys:
Richard Morant
Caroline Penvenen:
Judy Geeson
Lady Constance:
Cynthia Grenville
Captain McNeil:
Donald Douglas
George Warleggan:
Ralph Bates
Unwin Trevaunance:
Peter Clay
Sir Hugh:
Christopher Benjamin
Penvenen:
Patrick Holt
JackaHoblyn:
David Garfield
Rosina Hoblyn:
Peta Mason
Zacky Martin:
Forbes Collins
Paul Daniel:
Pip Miller
Charlie:
Barry Jackson
Eli:
Martin Bax
Mrs Tabb:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Pascoe:
Ralph Nossek
Travis:
Adrian Shergold

also starring
Charles Laughton William Gargan
Tony Patucci , a simple Italian grape-farmer in California's Napa Valley, conducts a courtship by correspondence with a lonely San Francisco waitress. When his mail-order fiancee arrives at the vineyard, she discovers that he has sent a photograph of his handsome foreman, Joe. Nevertheless, she agrees to go ahead with the marriage but when Tony is seriously injured in a fall she turns to Joe for comfort.
Screenplay by ROBERT ARDREY Based on the play by SIDNEY HOWARD
Produced by ERICH POMMER Directed by GARSON KANIN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Laughton
Unknown:
William Gargan
Unknown:
Tony Patucci
Unknown:
Robert Ardrey
Play By:
Sidney Howard
Produced By:
Erich Pommer
Directed By:
Garson Kanin
Tony Patucci:
Charles Laughton
Amy Peters:
Carole Lombard
Joe:
William Gargan
Doctor:
Harry Carey
Fr McKee:
Frank Fay
RFD:
Joe Bernard
Mildred:
Janet Fox
Ah Gee:
Lee Tung-Foo
Red:
Karl Malden
Photographer:
Victor Kilian
Hired hand:
Paul Lepere
Waitresses:
Marie Blake
Waitresses:
Millicent Green
Waitresses:
Patricia Oakley

Chopin's piano music covers a wide range of moods. This programme features his third Scherzo, his second Ballade, his first Nocturne and his Octave Study.
Sound BRIAN SPEERS
Production ALAN TONGUE BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Speers
Unknown:
Production Alan

The temperature is going up. Britain may become warmer, but even wetter. The grain belt of America may get too dry to produce grain. In India, the monsoons may fail. Humans around the globe would face greater challenges than ever.

By burning coal, oil and gas, carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere. It keeps more of the sun's heat in, which is making the world warm up. And, in a chain reaction, sea level, crop growth and rainfall will all change. Can the Greenhouse Effect be avoided, caused as it is by one of the most basic human activities - the generation of power? As one scientist says: '...we're hooked, we can't stop'.

(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Film Editor:
Masahiro Hirakubo
Writer/Producer:
Peter Ceresole
Horizon Editor:
Robin Brightwell

The conclusion of a two-part episode in which it's David who goes into labour! Starring with Cool Hand
Dave Maddie 's pregnant and doesn't know; Agnes and Bert are clueless and don't know; television executives are desperate and don't know. Nobody knows the trouble Addison's in, breaking rocks and singing those lonesome prison blues. With Maddie on his mind, can the boy break free before they give the part - and the paternity - to someone else?
Written by ROGER DIRECTOR and CHARLES H. EGLEE
Directed by ALLAN ARKUSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Maddie
Unknown:
Charles H. Eglee
Directed By:
Allan Arkush
Maddie Hayes:
Cybill Shepherd
David:
Bruce Willis
Ms Dipesto:
Allyce Beasley
Bert Viola:
Curtis Armstrong
Arnie:
Tracey Walter
Derrick:
Rocky Giordani Sr
Evans:
Tom O'Brien

Two spirited and topical films made by women who fundamentally disagree about the ethics of 'offensive self-defence'.

Lucy Irvine, author of Castaway which recounts her experiences living on a desert island, believes that 'in certain threatening situations a mild form of foul play is fair play... and I would like to feel the law was on my side - even if I struck first'. To prove her point her film 'dramatises' several incidents of assault and defence featuring Amanda Donahoe, who played Lucy in the film of Castaway.

The case against her is put by Irma Kurtz, a newspaper and magazine columnist who lives in inner-London. She argues that 'to live with a weapon in your pocket, even a mace spray... is not to resist the villains, it's to join them'.

Both films have been made with the BBC Community Programme Unit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucy Irvine
Unknown:
Amanda Donahoe
Unknown:
Irma Kurtz
Film Editor:
Martin Smith
Film Editor:
Paul Rapley
Film Director:
Jane Oliver
Film Director:
Michael Hutchinson
Series Producer:
Robin Gutch

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Snow
Presenter:
Donald MacCormick
Producer:
Mark Damazer
Producer:
Liz Ramsay
Producer:
Keith Bowers
Producer:
Dominic Cameron
Producer:
Eileen Fitt
Editor:
John Morrison

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