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12.30 Volcanic Iceland
This programme takes us on a fascinating journey across Iceland, one of the most volcanically active regions on earth. Iceland emerged from the sea 16 million years ago.
12.55 Darwin and Diversity
Tropical pests, oceanic islands and vast continents threw up puzzles for Charles Darwin on his historic round-the-world voyage. This programme looks at his ideas on evolution prompted by this journey of discovery.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Darwin

A See-Saw programme Pigeon Post
Bob's pigeons are 'ever so clever'. He's trained them to fly back to him however far they go. Clara, the long-distance lorry driver, finds that they are the only way of sending a very important message. With the voices of George Layton and John Telfer
Music by BENNI LEES
Written by MICHAEL COLE Designer ALAN ROGERS
Animated by PETER LANG
Produced by DAVID YATES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Layton
Unknown:
John Telfer
Written By:
Michael Cole
Designer:
Alan Rogers
Unknown:
Peter Lang
Produced By:
David Yates

Weather followed by Energy for Life?
Marie Macdonald has a new electricity meter. She ought to be very pleased with it - it works on a card instead of 50p pieces, so it won't get broken in to as her old one was - twice. But Marie is in debt to the Electricity Board. The meter knows this, so it won't give her any power for cooking, heating or lighting until she's repaid her week's debt - at a rate she says she cannot afford.
Michael Robinson investigates the power behind the new debt-collecting technology, and the struggle to keep the meter fed.
Producer CLAIRE LEWIS BBC North West

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie MacDonald
Unknown:
Michael Robinson

A portrait of Italy today seen through the lives of ten different Italians
8: The Man from
Alfa Mauro Fiamenghi inhabits two worlds. From Monday to Friday he's involved in angry meetings at the Alfa Romeo car factory near Milan. He's a quality controller on the production line. Mauro is a Communist and in the thick of his union's fight to resist lay-offs. There are lightning strikes and demonstrations. He is a moderate, and has been threatened because of his views. Mauro's other world is a two-hour train journey away, high up in the Alps.
He goes there every weekend to escape with his wife and young children to their mountain home and to tend his vines.
But there's always Monday morning....
Producer RICHARD UGHTBODY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfa Mauro Fiamenghi
Producer:
Richard Ughtbody

Weather followed by James Cameron :
Once upon a Time A five-part series 4: A Love Affair I got tangled up professionally and indeed personally in India in the days when India was striving for its independence. I've fallen in love with it, and indeed out of love with it, dozens of times.
This week James Cameron 's
Indian wife, Moni, joins him and questions some of the observations he has made in his films on India over the past 15 years. (R)
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Contributors

Unknown:
James Cameron
Unknown:
James Cameron

with guest stars
3: The Tent Dwellers
Criticised for his attempt to help a friend, Joe finds an unexpected defender. (R) (Final part next Wednesday)

Contributors

Joe Quinlan:
Fred Astaire
Sister Benjamin:
Laura Devon
Healy:
Harry Morgan

Last programme in the series Slow Train to Olympia
Written and narrated by Michael Wood
Travelling the little lines of the Peloponnese, local passengers rub shoulders with the rucksacks of young tourists.
Producer DEREK TOWERS BBC North West (R)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Wood

Last programme in the series Fiona Richmond , sex symbol of the 70s, married James Montgomery , a television presenter, seven years ago. They talk to Dilys Morgan. Producer JEANNE LA CHARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Richmond
Unknown:
James Montgomery
Unknown:
Dilys Morgan.
Producer:
Jeanne La Chard

Why don't you stop and shop at the Co-op shop? - Gracie
Fields's question of the 1930s. But the Co-op shop has undergone a post-war revolution. It is now the caring, sharing Co-op of the supermarkets. In the process has it lost the Co-operative
Movement's original idealism - an indispensible part of every working-class home? Producer IAN BREACH BBC Newcastle

The Party
The Impossible Missions Force is in a race against time to unlock valuable secrets locked in the memory of an enemy agent. Written by HAROLD LIVINGSTON Directed by MURRAY GOLDEN (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Harold Livingston
Directed By:
Murray Golden
Jim Phelps:
Peter Graves
Paris:
Leonard Nimoy
Dana:
Lesley Warren
Barney:
Greg Morris
Willy:
Peter Lupus
Doug:
Sam Elliott

Depeche Mode
Despite an eight-year history littered with hit singles and hit albums,
Depeche Mode still struggle for credibility in Britain. Not so in Europe and America where they enjoy success on a huge scale and their haircuts are of no significance. The boys from Basildon, Essex, reveal all. Videotape editor collo caulton Researcher RORY SHEEHAN Produced and directed by DAVID G. CROFT

Contributors

Unknown:
Rory Sheehan
Directed By:
David G. Croft

Autumn on Lough Erne
Lough Erne Yacht Club in Northern Ireland is a place where tradition is strong. But though the club has a fleet of one of the oldest 'one-designs' - the 'Fairies' - it also keeps up to date with a flotilla of modern fin-keeled racing cruisers, the 'J24s'.
At a recent autumn regatta, both classes took part in races on Lough Erne, the largest inland waterway in Europe. This film portrays one of Ireland's oldest yacht clubs.
Narrator Tom Salmon
Photography BRIAN MCDAIRMANT MARTIN SINGLETON
Sound by BRUCE WILLS PETER HICKS
Film editor JANET ROYLE Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian McDairmant
Unknown:
Martin Singleton
Unknown:
Bruce Wills
Unknown:
Peter Hicks
Editor:
Janet Royle
Producer:
Brian Hawkins

As a tribute to the cartoonist and journalist Mark Boxer , who died recently,
Clive James introduces Half Way Mark, first shown in 1972. A self-confessed left-wing dandy and games freak, Mark Boxer was one of the jeunesse doree of Cambridge in the ' early 1950s. Sent down for blasphemy, he soon became something of a Fleet Street celebrity: he launched the Sunday Times Magazine and. as 'Marc', drew the popular and satirical cartoons for many national newspapers. In this autobiographical review of his life and career up to the age of 41. Mark Boxer talked to Francis Hope. Producer MALCOLM BROWN Director JULIAN COOPER (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Boxer
Introduces:
Clive James
Unknown:
Mark Boxer
Unknown:
Mark Boxer
Unknown:
Francis Hope.
Producer:
Malcolm Brown
Director:
Julian Cooper

Hepatitis
Written and directed by ALAN ALDA (R)

Contributors

Directed By:
Alan Alda
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
BJ:
Mike Farrell
Col Potter:
Harry Morgan
Hot Lips:
Loretta Swit
Major Burns:
Larry Linville
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Klinger:
Jamie Farr

by NICK MCCARTY
'What about us? We have rights too. This is not just any residential home for kids in care. This is Home. You. tell them - they try and close us down, we're gonna fight....'
Music DAVE BROWN
Designer ROCHELLE SELWYN Editor FRANCES PARKKR Photography COLIN MUNN Producer GRAHAM MASSEY Director PENNY CHERNS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Nick McCarty
Music:
Dave Brown
Designer:
Rochelle Selwyn
Editor:
Frances Parkkr
Producer:
Graham Massey
Brendan:
Stephen McGann
Alan:
Jason Cunliffe
Dekko WILBERT:
J Johnson
Philip:
Simon Vaughan
Mary:
Jan Ruppe
Toni:
Cathy Sandford
Dave:
Nick Stringer
Kate:
Patty Hannock
Chris:
Michael Bray
Alison:
Tina Marian
Charlie:
Tom Hutchinson
Paul:
Geff Francis
Mrs Gladman:
Ursula Jones
Parkes:
Nicholas Day
Boyer:
Stafford Gordon
Janet:
Kate O'Connell
Ken Hannam:
Tim Brown
Barrister:
Maurice Kaufmann
Mrs Exon:
Frankie Cosgrave
Teacher:
Tim Gatti

11.30 Energy from Waste
It is estimated that 95 per cent of Britain's municipal waste is buried. Dusseldorf has a massive recycling scheme, converting waste into electricity and district heating. Producer PATTI LANGTON
11.55 The Origin of the Solar System The latest ideas on this subject are discussed by the famous cosmologist. Professor A. G. W. Cameron. of Harvard University. Producer DAVID JACKSON

Contributors

Producer:
Patti Langton
Unknown:
Professor A. G. W. Cameron.
Producer:
David Jackson

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