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9.50am France Français Chloe
(e)
10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. When Dibs hears a message from Gary, he and Cosmo get the wrong end of the stick.
Louise is diabetic and has to have an insulin injection before her birthday tea. Song: Tinga Layo
Director SUE ARON
Producer NICCI CROWTHER (R) (e)
10.20am Science Workshop Paper (A)
What is paper? How is it made? BRUCE ANGRAVE makes paper sculptures.
Producer MICHAEL COYLE (R) (e)
10.40am Around Scotland Aberdeen
1: 1 Live in Aberdeen
Presented by FRIEDA MORRISON Children and their families from different parts of Aberdeen give their view of life in the city.
Producer PETER LEGGE
Series editor MARIANNE BAIRD (R) (e)
11.00am Words and Pictures The King's Birthday
(e)
11.15am English Time Storytelling
The Way It Is
Social realism is the genre looked at this week. There are dramatisations from the books Break in the Sun, Buddy, and Delroy Is Here. Children's author BERNARD ASHEY talks about how he achieves realism in his stories.
Presented by SUE ELLIOT Producer
DAVID MELDRUM (R) (e)
11.35am MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations Pascal's Triangle III Mazes
(e)
11.55am Words into Action 3: Love
(e)
12.15pm Science in Action Keep It Clean
(e)
12.35pm Lifeschool Going to Work Two-Year YTS
(e)
1.00pm A Life of Our Own The third in a series of ten programmes for people with learning difficulties.
Presented by GARY BOURLET and PETER BURGIS with SIR BRIAN RIX
There are guests sewing, carving, dancing and playing the guitar in this hobbies jamboree. Gary paints. Peter tries pottery, computer games and knitting. Brian finds himself in a collection of the stars. Let the guests inspire you!
Studio director MARTYN SUKER Producer JOHN BROOKE (R) (e)
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1.25pm
Pigeon Street
A See-Saw programme Springtime for
Hugo Hugo has to lose weight.
Dr Glossop advises him to go jogging with him. But jogging isn't the right sort of exercise for Hugo.
What is? Clara comes up with the answer.
With the voices of George Layton and John Telfer Music by BENNI LEES
Written by MICHAEL COLE Designed by ALAN ROGERS Animated by PETER LANG
Produced by DAVID YATES (R)
1.40pm Zig Zag Planets
(e)
2.00pm News Weather followed by Storytime
The Hungry Giant
'I'll hit you with my bommyknocker!' shouts the giant. So the people fetch him bread, butter and honey. The honey is still in the beehive. It is the giant's turn to run.
Presenter David Brierly
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Angrave
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Presented By:
Frieda Morrison
Producer:
Peter Legge
Editor:
Marianne Baird
Talks:
Bernard Ashey
Presented By:
Sue Elliot
Unknown:
David Meldrum
Presented By:
Gary Bourlet
Presented By:
Peter Burgis
Unknown:
Sir Brian Rix
Director:
Martyn Suker
Producer:
John Brooke
Unknown:
Hugo Hugo
Unknown:
George Layton
Unknown:
John Telfer
Music By:
Benni Lees
Written By:
Michael Cole
Designed By:
Alan Rogers
Unknown:
Peter Lang
Produced By:
David Yates
Presenter:
David Brierly
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Delroy:
Gary Bramble
Mrs Lasky:
Diane Adderly

Hugh Casson visits north Oxfordshire where
Flora Thompson grew up in the 1880s. He talks about her account of childhood there and the book she wrote, Lark Rise to Candleford.
Executive producer DAVID HEYCOCK Director ANNE JAMES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Casson
Unknown:
Flora Thompson
Producer:
David Heycock
Director:
Anne James

Another look at animation from around :he world.
The Cat Came Back by CORDELL BARKER
A cat may have nine lives, but the people who take them in may need more! and One of Those Days by BILL PLYMPTON
A man's day starts badly but it's going to get better.... isn't it?

Contributors

Unknown:
Cordell Barker
Unknown:
Bill Plympton

Krishnan Guru-Murthy presents another edition of the programme where guests are Open to Question, facing interrogation by young people from all over Britain. Research PAUL GALLAGHER
Directors LIZ SCOTT. MAY MILLER Producer DAVID MARTIN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Unknown:
Paul Gallagher
Directors:
Liz Scott.
Producer:
David Martin
Jim Phelps:
Peter Graves
Barney:
Greg Morris
Casey:
Lynda Day George
Willy:
Peter Lupus

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 controversies.
Editor JAMES HOGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Robin Day
Unknown:
Vivian White
Editor:
James Hogan

A Woman's Story
' One hundred years after the matchgiris strike, this dramatised documentary looks at the life of Annie Besant , strike leader, pioneering 19th-century social reformer and campaigner for the use of contraception who towards the end of her life turned towards theosophy.
Frances Barber plays Annie Besant and is also seen as a modern woman following in the character's footsteps.
Narrator Andrew Sachs Photography JOHN MCGLASHAN Film editor PAUL ASHTON
Production assistant CLAIRE SHARP Designer MALCOLM THORNTON Series editor ROY DAVIES Written and directed by AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA
0 WODDIS ON: page 97

Contributors

Unknown:
Annie Besant
Unknown:
Frances Barber
Unknown:
Annie Besant
Editor:
Paul Ashton
Unknown:
Claire Sharp
Designer:
Malcolm Thornton
Annie Besant:
Frances Barber
Solicitor General:
John Rowe
Judge:
Harold Innocent

- starring Sean Connery
Richard Harris
Samantha Eggar
Frank Finlay Pennsylvania in the L870s: The
Molly Maguires , a secret society, are fighting a violent battle against the ruthless exploitation of labour in the mining industry. Their leader Jack Kehoe , is suspected by the police, who bring in James McParlan , a cunning and ambitious detective, to infiltrate and smash the Molly for good.
Screenplay by WALTER BERNSTEIN Produced by MARTIN RrTT and WALTER BERNSTEIN Directed by MARTIN RITT
(Sean Connery in 'Cuba' at 11.50pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Richard Harris
Unknown:
Samantha Eggar
Unknown:
Frank Finlay Pennsylvania
Unknown:
Molly Maguires
Leader:
Jack Kehoe
Unknown:
James McParlan
Unknown:
Walter Bernstein
Produced By:
Martin Rrtt
Produced By:
Walter Bernstein
Directed By:
Martin Ritt
James McParlan:
Richard Harris
Jack Kehoe:
Sean Connery
Mary Raines:
Samantha Eggar
Captain Davies:
Frank Finlay
Dougherty:
Anthony Zerbe
Mrs Kehoe:
Bethel Leslie
Frazier:
Art Lund
Frank McAndrew:
Anthony Costello
Fr O'Connor:
Philip Bourneuf
Mr Raines:
Brendan Dillon
Mrs Frazier:
Frances Heflin
Jenkins:
John Alderson

The second of two films starring Sean Connery. With Brooke Adams
The place is Cuba: the time - Christmas 1959. It's the last weeks of the ailing Batista regime. Sean Connery plays Robert Dapes, a soldier of fortune, who arrives in Havana to advise the poorly-trained army in the methods of counter insurgency.
Screenplay by CHARLES WOOD Produced by ARLENE SELLERS and ALEX WINITSKI Directed by RICHARD LESTER
0 FILMS: page 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery.
Unknown:
Vith Brooke Adams
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Robert Dapes
Play By:
Charles Wood
Produced By:
Arlene Sellers
Unknown:
Alex Winitski
Directed By:
Richard Lester
Robert Dapes:
Sean Connery
Alexandra Pulido:
Brooke Adams
Gutman:
Jack Weston
Ramirez:
Hector Elizondo
Skinner:
Denholm Elliott
General Bello:
Martin Balsam
Juan Pulido:
Chris Sarandon
Faustino:
Alejandro Rey
Therese:
Lonette McKee
Julio:
Danny de la Paz
Miss Wonderly:
Louisa Moritz

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