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Social Issues
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, there is a selection from Open University programmes associated with courses that tackle issues of social concern. Today:
12.30 Why Care?
The decision-making and dilemmas involved when a child is 'taken into care'.
Producer CLARE FALKNER
12.55 Working Mothers
Three practical cases of how people have combined the difficult roles of worker and mother.
Producer CLARE FALKNER

Contributors

Producer:
Clare Falkner
Producer:
Clare Falkner

by PETER FIRMIN
A House for Pinny
On a shelf, in a sitting room, are a wooden boat and a china house. Victor, the smallest sailor in the world, lives on the boat and he sets out to find a friend to live in the house.
Story and pictures by PETER FIRMIN Read by Matilda Thorpe Music by AR LOG
Directed and animated by OLIVER POSTGATE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Firmin
Unknown:
Peter Firmin
Read By:
Matilda Thorpe
Unknown:
Oliver Postgate

A See-Saw programme with Brian Cant.
Among his bric-a-brac, Brian finds some beads, a bugle and a bicycle, and in the book box A Number of Bears by Dean Walley illustrated by Francis Yameshita. (R)

Contributors

Shopkeeper:
Brian Cant
Author (A Numbers of Bears):
Dean Walley
Illustrator (A Number of Bears):
Francis Yameshita
Producer:
Michael Cole
Executive producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Weather followed by Home on Sunday
Cliff Michelmore visits the Cambridgeshire home of scientist Mary Archer.
She talks to Cliff about her career and her interests, and in particular about her lifelong love of music.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Unknown:
Mary Archer.

Weather followed by One Man and His Dog Introduced by Phil Drabble with Eric Halsall
Total mastery of the sheep. with quiet control of their movements is the aim of today's handlers, as man and dog compete over the trials course at Chatsworth in Derbyshire.
Each dog has seven sheep to control and is judged on his outrun, lift, fetch, drive, shed and penning. Heat 2: Wales
The competitors
JOHN GRIFFITH With Glen EURWYN DANIEL with Ken JACK BURKE with Hemp Producer IAN SMITH (R) (Postponed from 11 July)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Eric Halsall
Unknown:
John Griffith
Unknown:
Glen Eurwyn Daniel
Unknown:
Ken Jack Burke
Producer:
Ian Smith

The third of six parts starring with guest stars
A Sort of Falling in Love Unable to cope with the implications of her father's new found faith, Amy seeks rather more than medical advice from Kildare ...

Contributors

Dr James Kildare:
Richard Chamberlain
Dr Leonard Gillespie:
Raymond Massey
Nurse Zoe Lawton:
Lee Kurty
Justin Post:
Jack Hawkins
Amy Post:
Diane Baker
Andrew Webb:
Bradford Dillman

Up to the Giant Car Wash The first of three programmes with Bill Oddie in Papua New Guinea. In search of the fabulous birds of paradise and bower-birds Bill struggles up a mountain - drenched in tropical rain. Producer RICHARD BROCK (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Producer:
Richard Brock

A second classic murder mystery starring with Mary Brian
Keye Luke
'Perfect case like perfect doughnut - has hole'.
Charlie Chan 's investigations lead to France and an open-and-shut case of murder. But the sage sleuth believes otherwise, pursuing the real killer through the shadows of Paris and the city sewers.
Screenplay by EDWARD T. LOWE and STUART ANTHONY
Produced by JOHN STONE Directed by LEWIS SEILER
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Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Brian
Unknown:
Keye Luke
Unknown:
Charlie Chan
Unknown:
Edward T. Lowe
Unknown:
Stuart Anthony
Produced By:
John Stone
Directed By:
Lewis Seiler
the philosophical:
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan:
Warner Oland
Yvette Lamartine:
Mary Brian
Victor Descartes:
Thomas Beck
Max Corday:
Eric Rhodes
Albert Dufresne:
John Miljan
Henri Latouche:
Murray Kinnell
Renard:
Minor Watson
Concierge:
John Qualen
Lee Chan:
Keye Luke
M Lamartine:
Henry Kolker
Nardi:
Dorothy Appleby
Renee Jacquard:
Ruth Peterson
Bedell:
Perry Ivins

Michael Jackson has become one of the world's most successful and accomplished artists in the world today. He has amassed a personal fortune of more than 350 million dollars in cash and millions more in equity. Although he remains elusive, he is still the most sought-after entertainer in the world.

BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Singer:
Michael Jackson
Series Producer:
Sharon Ali
Producer:
Terry Jervis [billed as Terry Jarvis]

Magenta De Vine and Sankha Guha join the pilgrimage to
Dublin - U2's home town where half of the population is under 26.
Why everyone's in a band and how to hear them, where to leave a message for Bono, an insiders' guide to stay and how to get there. Marriage, divorce, the Pope and the pill and allegations of Dublin parents turned vigilantes.
Director JOSH haul
Series producer RACHEL PURNELL BBC North West
For booklet containing further information, please send crossed cheque/postalorderfor£1.50made payable to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Sankha Guha

BBC2 Invitation Pairs Crown Green Bowling Tournament from the M and B Sports and Social Club, Birmingham. Third Quarter-Final
The 1986 winners BRIAN DUNCAN and NORMAN FLETCHER are in action this evening. Despite their first round exit a year ago, they are still highly fancied to stop the first round 'rot' of top partnerships going out this year.
Facing them, BRIAN SHORE and ALAN DODD , a Shropshire pairing who've made a great impact at county level, but will now need to carry it through to Top Crown. Richard Duckenfield is your host.
Commentator HARRY RIGBY Director PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Duncan
Unknown:
Norman Fletcher
Unknown:
Alan Dodd
Unknown:
Richard Duckenfield
Commentator:
Harry Rigby
Director:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

A series of eight programmes featuring natural history film from around the world.
2: Deathtrap
Beautiful but deadly is a description that can be applied to certain members of the plant world. They can be masters of deception, hiding their sinister purposes behind a tender and innocent facade. This film explores in a scientific way, how and why they lure their victims to their deaths. The macro lens has captured the world of flesh-eating plants, sometimes with an awesome intimacy. An OXFORD SCIENTIFIC FILMS;
SWAN PRODUCTIONS production Presented for television by GEORGE INGER BBC Bristol
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Contributors

Television By:
George Inger

Continuing a season of films specially made for television.
Tonight starring Loni Anderson Michele Lee
- Joseph Mankiewicz 's
1949 double-Oscar winner has been updated to the 80s in this sizzling story that dissects three marriages and finds that each one is questionable. As three wives board a boat for a day-long charity cruise, they are handed a letter from a mutual friend saying that she is running off with one of their husbands. Each wife has every reason to believe that hers is the husband in question....
Screenplay by SALLY ROBINSON Produced by KAREN MOORE Directed by LARRY ELIKANN
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Loni Anderson
Unknown:
Michele Lee
Unknown:
Joseph Mankiewicz
Unknown:
Sally Robinson
Produced By:
Karen Moore
Directed By:
Larry Elikann
Lora Mae Holloway:
Loni Anderson
Rita Phipps:
Michele Lee
Debra Bishop:
Stephanie Zimbalist
Brad Bishop:
Charles Frank
George Phipps:
Michael Gross
Porter Holloway:
Ben Gazzara
Sadie:
Doris Roberts
Ma Finney:
Ann Sothern

A series in 13 parts
5: Karen Wilkins and husband Gary have written to Reading Council about their chances of being rehoused. Karen, ever hopeful, has just received the Council's reply.
Directors FRANC RODDAM PAUL WATSON (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Wilkins
Unknown:
Paul Watson

The Leathart Collection
James Leathart. a prosperous Newcastle industrialist, had a passion for collecting china and art works by the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood GILL PERRY investigates his career. Producer TONY COE

Contributors

Unknown:
James Leathart.
Unknown:
Gill Perry
Producer:
Tony Coe

BBC Two England

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