Maths: Scalings and Powers
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
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)
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)
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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A series of six programmes about the creative possibilities of still photography presented by Bryn Campbell .
1: Movement
Producer PETER RIDING (R)
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)
Regional News and Weather
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 ...
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)
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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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
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
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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
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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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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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)
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