Programme Index

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9.20 Maths Inset
A series for teachers of pupils aged 11 to 16
3: When and How?
During the course of a term, a week, or even within a single lesson, a teacher may use several different modes of teaching.
Consultant AFZAL AHMED Film editor BOB RYMER
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE (e)

9.52 Making History:Â Church and Community
Presenter RICHARD BURROWS
(R) (e)

10.15 Who, Me? Secrets
When a friend's safety is at stake, Jo has to decide whether or not to tell a secret.
Producer Nicci CROWTHER (e)

10.38 Brazil: City of Newcomers
A look at one of the families that have moved from the countryside into the slums of Belo Horizonte , Brazil's third-largest city.
Producer LEN BROWN (R) (e)

11.00 Watch Conservation
Our Countryside (e)

11.18 La Maree et ses secrets
A five-part adventure serial in French by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL and JANE COTTAVE
3: Une ombre du passe (R) (e)

11.35 Microelectronics in Action: Controlling
It's expected that microelectronics are used to control robots, but what about concert lighting systems, or motor cars?
Series producer PETER BRATT
(R) (e)

12.00 Mindstretchers: Lies and Statistics: Problems
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds to work on, with suggested solutions. The director of a chocolate company presents the annual report. With FEROZA SYAL and ANTHONY DANIELS
(R) (e)

12.05pm Pages from Ceefax

12.20 A-level Studies: English: Jane Austen
Letters to Alice, on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
Through letters to her niece, Fay Weldon illuminates the life and work of one of the best-known women novelists of the past.
With ANNA CROPPER, CASSIE STUART, SARAH FINCH, VICKY IRELAND, MICHAEL LUMSDEN NANCY ADAMS and PETER WHITAKER
Producer SUE WEEKS (R) (e)

12.50 Espana Viva
Spanish for beginners
(R) (e)

1.20pm Postman Pat: Pat's Tractor Express
A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 Big Top Science A visit to the Discovery Dome at Sheffield.
Presenters Terry Marsh and Kjartan Poskitt find out what's in the water you drink and show how to build an aquarium.
Also music from the Big Toppers and special guests.
Production robin MUDGE, GEORGE AUCKLAND. BRENDA BARRIE
Musical director PETER MOSS
Production assistant WENDY HARDIE

2.00 News, Weather

followed by You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs is allergic to cats, Cosmo and Bill Owen try to comfort him.
Song: Jack and Jill.
Film animation MIKE HlBBERT
Director NICCI CROWTHER
(R) (e)

Contributors

Editor:
Bob Rymer
Presenter:
Richard Burrows
Unknown:
Belo Horizonte
Producer:
Len Brown
Unknown:
Christopher Russell
Unknown:
Jane Cottave
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Producer:
Anthony Daniels
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Unknown:
Cassie Stuart
Unknown:
Sarah Finch
Unknown:
Vicky Ireland
Unknown:
Michael Lumsden
Unknown:
Nancy Adams
Unknown:
Peter Whitaker
Presenters:
Terry Marsh
Presenters:
Kjartan Poskitt
Unknown:
Brenda Barrie
Director:
Peter Moss
Unknown:
Wendy Hardie
Unknown:
Bill Owen

Douamenez 86
This international festival of traditional sailing boats was held in Douarnenez in Brittany. The film follows the fortunes of Dave Wharton from Whitby and his coble Gratitude.
Narrated by Tom Salmon Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Wharton
Unknown:
Tom Salmon
Producer:
Amanda Theunissen

Weather followed by One in Four
Isobel Ward. Simon Barnes and Chris Davies present this magazine programme about disability. Included this month, an interview with Transport Minister Peter Bottomley. access to the countryside, and useful ideas for easier gardening, with Anne Davies.
With subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Producer CHRISTOPHER HUTCHINS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Barnes
Unknown:
Chris Davies
Unknown:
Peter Bottomley.
Unknown:
Anne Davies.
Producer:
Christopher Hutchins

Dylan Thomas Lived Here The poet Dannie Abse considers the way in which Dylan Thomas felt he had come near to recovering a portion of paradise at
Laugharne near Swansea.
Here he wrote his last great poems and the comic play Under Milk Wood.
Director MARGARET MCCALL Producer DAVID HEYCOCK (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
Dannie Abse
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Director:
Margaret McCall
Producer:
David Heycock

A further batch of Tales from the Green Room, unravelling the mysteries of auditions, fluffs, dries and corpses.
With Jane Asher, Eleanor Bron, Judy Cornwell, Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Sheila Hancock, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Ron Moody, Leslie Phillips, Denis Quilley, Anton Rodgers, Jack Shepherd, Victor Spinetti, Robert Stephens, Max Wall
Producer TONY STAVEACRE
BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Asher
Unknown:
Eleanor Bron
Unknown:
Judy Cornwell
Unknown:
Michael Gambon
Unknown:
Michael Gough
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Freddie Jones
Unknown:
Ron Moody
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Denis Quilley
Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Unknown:
Jack Shepherd
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti
Unknown:
Robert Stephens

What can you expect when the irresistible charm meets the immovable force?
The urbane and ubiquitous Terry Wogan enjoys his partnership with Lee Trevino , while the ex-England rugby captain Bill Beaumont joins forces with the strong man of golf Sandy Lyle , for the Whyte and Mackay Scotch Trophy. Peter Alliss watches a keen contest in the very popular Scramble format over nine selected holes of the Ailsa Course at the Turnberry Hotel.
Assistant producers DEREK MARTIN and MURRAY NEEDHAM Television presentation
ALASTAIR SCOTT and FRED VINER Executive producer JOHN SHREWSBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Lee Trevino
Unknown:
Captain Bill Beaumont
Unknown:
Sandy Lyle
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Producers:
Derek Martin
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Unknown:
Fred Viner

Ten films about contemporary architecture
9: Berlin: A City for the People It took eight years to create Berlin's mammoth
International Building Exhibition of 1987. Its focus was on social housing within the modern inner city. The venue for the exhibition was the city itself, real houses and building complexes, already inhabited, and designed to demonstrate how the city can once again become a place fit for people. Narrator Andrew Sachs
Associate producer ROGER LAST Written and produced by PETER ADAM (R)

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Adam

As a curtain-raiser to DEF
IPs new series of Animation Now tomorrow night, BBC2 is showing the winner of the 1988 Academy Award for best animated film. The story of Elzear Bouffier , a peasant of few words and no education who single-handedly transforms a barren landscape. Narrated by Christopher Plummer From a story by JEAN GIONO Adapted and directed by FREDERIC BACK
('Animation Now' tomorrow 6.45pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elzear Bouffier
Unknown:
Christopher Plummer
Story By:
Jean Giono
Directed By:
Frederic Back

Do you know your Wedgwood from your Staffordshire?
Bamber Gascoigne asks the questions in his new quiz on paintings, sculpture, architecture and all the decorative arts.
In the second heat, competing for the title of Connoisseur of 1988, are: Monica Bohm-Duchen from London
Timothy Noad from Middlesex John Pinkerton from Edinburgh Peter Wilcockson from Buckinghamshire
Series devised and questions set by BAMBER GASCOIGNE
Director ROY CHAPMAN
Producer JONATHAN WRIGHT MILLER A HAWKSHEAD production for BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Director:
Roy Chapman
Producer:
Jonathan Wright Miller

"Football has done all it can possibly, humanly do" - Bert Millichip, Football Association Chairman

Three years ago, after the Heysel disaster, English clubs were banned from European competition. The message was clear: until English football solved its hooligan problem, Europe's doors would remain firmly closed.
Claiming to have purged the game of its violent minority, the football authorities are now seeking an end to England's isolation. As Europe's governing body prepares for talks with the British Government, David Taylor examines what has been done to cure the so-called 'English Disease'.

BBC North West

Contributors

Unknown:
Bert Millichip
Unknown:
David Taylor
Researcher:
James Cohen
Producer:
Steve Hewlett
Editor:
Colin Cameron

More from the last series repackaged for your pleasure including a musical tribute to the calorie, at last a job for Selina Scott and why Nesbit is considering BUPA. Featuring Ron Bain
Gregor Fisher Andy Gray
Helen Lederer Tony Roper
Elaine C. Smith
Jonathan Watson and John Sparkes Music DAVID MCNIVEN
Script editor PHILIP DIFFER Designer JIM LONGMUIR Director ALEX YOUNG
Producer COLIN GILBERT BBC Scotland
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Contributors

Unknown:
Selina Scott
Unknown:
Ron Bain
Unknown:
Gregor Fisher
Unknown:
Andy Gray
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Tony Roper
Unknown:
Elaine C. Smith
Unknown:
Jonathan Watson
Unknown:
John Sparkes
Music:
David McNiven
Designer:
Jim Longmuir
Director:
Alex Young
Producer:
Colin Gilbert

A portrait of an island continent in six episodes narrated by Robyn Williams 4: The Sunburnt Country
Imagine a land where rain might only fall once in 25 years. Over three-quarters of Australia is like that, baked by the sun, scorched by the winds and red as brick. But in the deserts, artesian water is tapped by some plants to sustain life at a low ebb, year in and year out.
But every now and again these arid lands receive a welcome drenching. Ancient river courses flow with water, fish appear that thrive in the desert, frogs emerge, and the ephemeral desert plants transform the landscape into a vivid technicolour. Lake Eyre , normally the largest expanse of salt in the world, fills up and hosts colonies of nesting birds, eager to capitalise on the flush of food before the drought returns once more with its iron grip - as return it will.
Photographed and produced by DAVID PARER
Film editor PETER VILE
Executive producer for the BBC JOHN SPARKS
Series producer JOHN VANDENBELD BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Unknown:
Robyn Williams
Unknown:
Lake Eyre
Produced By:
David Parer

Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with the day's top stories and the background on events making the news at home and abroad. Reporters
NICK CLARKE. LINDA CHRISTMAS
CHRIS LOWE. DAVID
COSS GAVIN ESLER. OLENKA FRENKTEL
MARGARET GILMORE
JAMES HOGG. WILL
HUTTON WESLEY KERR. PETER MARSHALL
JULIAN O'HALLORAN
DAVID SELLS, DAVID TTNDALL
CHARLES WHEELER

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Nick Clarke.
Unknown:
Chris Lowe.
Unknown:
Coss Gavin Esler.
Unknown:
Olenka Frenktel
Unknown:
Margaret Gilmore
Unknown:
James Hogg.
Unknown:
Hutton Wesley Kerr.
Unknown:
Peter Marshall
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Unknown:
David Ttndall
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler

The O'Jays in Concert
Last night Behind the Beat brought you a wild mix of fresh and funky black music, but earlier this year they caught the O'Jays in the act at London's Hammersmith
Odeon, demonstrating the art of soul survival.
After a 15-year absence from Britain, they prove they can still perform at a level that leaves younger competitors gasping for air. The O'Jays have now been together for over 30 years and are enjoying a new surge in popularity.
Production assistant MARIA NEEDLE Researcher MARTIN SHAW Produced and directed by TERRY JERVIS

Contributors

Directed By:
Terry Jervis

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