Programme Index

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9.40am Lifeschool: Going to Work: Two-Year YTS (R) (e)

10.05am You and Me
A series for 4-and-5-year-olds. Dibs and Cosmo look for a suitable box for Gary's dog, Tiny. Song: 'I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly'. (R) (e)

10.18am Music Time: Sound Signals (R) (e)

10.40am Thinkabout: See How They Grow (R) (e)

10.58am Zig Zag: Planets
Starship Zig Zag penetrates deeper into the universe and explores the planets in the solar system. Some aliens put in a brief appearance. (R) (e)

11.20am Into Music: Syncopation
with the Kent Youth Percussion Ensemble, Children from Elmgrove Middle School, Park House School. (e)

11.40am MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
5: Pascal's Triangle II
followed by 6: Mazes (R) (e)

12.00 France Francais: Chloe
It's la fete de la musique and anyone who plays an instrument is welcome. Chloe brings her drums. (R) (e)

12.15pm History File: British Social History: Home from Home
An examination of the motives of some foreign groups who have moved here and their way of life.
Presented by David Kossoff. (R) (e)

12.35pm General Studies: The Investigators
The drugs traffic between Pakistan and London was revealed in Panorama's The Scout Who Smuggled Heroin. (R) (e)

1.00pm Science in Action: Keep It Clean
Bacteria take a starring role in this programme - an expert in domestic microbiology tracks down bacteria in the kitchen, find out how to do a sweat test, and an Environmental Health officer shows how important hygiene is in food handling. (R) (e)

1.25pm Pinny's House: Pinny by the Sea
by Peter Firmin.
Read by Matilda Thorpe. (R)

1.30pm Bric-a-Brac
A See-Saw programme (R)

1.40pm Landmarks: The Age of Brick
In the 1860s, tens of thousands of children worked long and hard in brick fields of England. One man alone was concerned about their plight. In September 1870, George Smith addressed a conference in Newcastle. (R) (e)

2.00pm News; Weather
followed by
Words and Pictures: The King's Birthday
A farmer makes a fine, big cheese to present to the king, and a mouse, a cat, a dog and a bear beg for a bite. (R) (e)

Contributors

Narrator (Lifeschool):
Lucy Foxell Producer (Lifeschool): John Chapple
Presenter (You and Me):
Gary Wilmot
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Horn (Music Time):
Barry Tuckwell
Producer (Music Time)/Directed and produced by (Into Music):
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer (Thinkabout):
Pat Farrington
Series producer (Thinkabout):
Derek Longhurst
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Producer (Zig Zag):
David Meldrum
Presenter (Into Music):
Rob Curling
Presenter (Into Music):
Shelaagh Ferrell
Musicians (Into Music):
The Kent Youth Percussion Ensemble
Director (Into Music):
Sean Hopper
Presenter (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): Hilary Clough
Guest (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): David Woodfield
Animation (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): Stewart Hardy Films
Film editor (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): John Billingham
Producer (MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations): David Roseveare
Producer (France Francais):
Susan Paton
Presenter (History File):
David Kossoff
Producer (History File):
Edward Hayward
Panorama team (General Studies):
Peter Taylor
Panorama team (General Studies):
David Wickham
Producer (General Studies):
Bruce Jamson
Presenter (Science in Action):
Kartan Poskitt
Presenter (Science in Action):
Terry Marsh
Production assistant (Science in Action):
Caryn Langrick
Series producer (Science in Action):
Robin Mudge
Producer (Science in Action):
Clare Elstow
Writer (Pinny's House):
Peter Firmin
Narrator (Pinny's House):
Matilda Thorpe
Music (Pinny's House):
Ar Log
Directed and animated by (Pinny's House):
Oliver Postgate
Producer (Landmarks):
Nicholas Whines
George Smith:
Gary Taylor
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Puppets (Words and Pictures):
Alan Platt
Animation (Words and Pictures):
Bura and Hardwick
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton

California by Camper Clint Eastwood once travelled across California with an orang-utan.
John Pitman makes the same journey on a camper holiday and searches for the superstar mayor.
Director ANNE MORRISON
Producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clint Eastwood
Unknown:
John Pitman
Director:
Anne Morrison

Fourth of five programmes.
Featuring Eric B. and Rakim wun some word science, while Melba Moore of Hush
Productions reveals the secret of her success. The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra demonstrates a rather unique dub sound under the guidance of Michael Riley. Just Ice goes way back with some Justicisms.
Bright new talent Family
Man Andy Roachford brings a taste of his debut album. Plus the 'Walrus of Love,' Barry White.
Producer TERRY JERVIS
Series producer SHARON AL1 BBC Pebble Mill (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric B.
Unknown:
Melba Moore
Unknown:
Michael Riley.
Unknown:
Andy Roachford
Unknown:
Barry White.
Producer:
Terry Jervis

In the Labour Conference Day studio in Blackpool Sir Robin Day interviews the politicians who have been at the centre of today's events. Vivian White reviews the day's controversies, and today's big debates are followed by the major interview.
Producer VANESSA DOWELL Editor JAMES HOGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivian White
Producer:
Vanessa Dowell
Editor:
James Hogan

The last of five programmes Time Waits for No Person What sort of old age do younger people expect? The truth is, of course, that few people give it a second thought until it's too late. Michael O'Donnell hosts a weekend during which five people in their 20s and early 30s look forward to the year 2030 when they will be among the 14 million people over 60 living in the UK. Produced by DAVID WILLIAMS and VICKI MOORE (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael O'Donnell
Produced By:
David Williams
Produced By:
Vicki Moore

The fourth programme in this 12-part series
Narrated by Anthony Quayle Lighter Than Air
Paris, November 1783: an awe-struck crowd in the Bois de Boulogne watched as a balloon built by Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier rose into the sky.
Later, magnificent airships, became luxurious liners of the skies. But the disasters of the R101 and the Hindenburg brought this chapter to a fiery end.
Film editor GREG MILLER
Series producer IVAN RENDALL Executive producer JOHN GAU Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Pebble Mill
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Contributors

Unknown:
Etienne Montgolfier
Editor:
Greg Miller
Producer:
Ivan Rendall

starring Wendy Hughes Robyn Nevin
Six-year-old PS has been brought up by his Aunt Lila and Uncle
George, and is perfectly happy until his Aunt
Vanessa arrives from
England determined to give him all the social advantages that money can buy.
Nicholas Gledhill gives a touching performance as PS, the child caught in an emotional tug-of-war.
Screenplay by MICHAEL JENKINS from the novel by SUMNER LOCKE ELLIOTT Produced by JILL ROBB
Directed by 9CARL SCHULTZ
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Hughes
Unknown:
Robyn Nevin
Unknown:
Nicholas Gledhill
Unknown:
Michael Jenkins
Novel By:
Sumner Locke Elliott
Produced By:
Jill Robb
Vanessa:
Wendy Hughes
Lila:
Robyn Nevin
PS:
Nicholas Gledhill
Logan:
John Hargreaves
Vera:
Geraldine Turner
Agnes:
Isabelle Anderson
George:
Peter Whitford
Ettie:
Colleen Clifford
Diana:
Julie Nihill

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