9.30am Treffpunkt: Osterreich Die Bodybuildingweltmeisterschaft in Graz
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9.45am Politics in Action 3: Please SIR
The campaign to save Irvine Royal Academy from closure. Narrator ALEC HEGGIE
Producer ROBERT CLARK (R) (e)
10.05am Look and Read Badger Girl
Finding the Ponies
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10.25am Around Scotland A Jacobite Adventure
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10.45am Storytime
The Story of Chen Ping
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11.03am Into Music Celebration
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11.25am Wondermaths Programme 8
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11.40am Let's See
Heads, Bodies and Legs 3: Legs (and Arms)
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12.00 Past Thirteen
Choices in the Third Year What to Choose
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12.20pm English File First of three parts
A View from the Bridge by ARTHUR MILLER
'This one's name is Eddie Carbone , a longshoreman working the docks from Brooklyn Bridge to the breakwater where the open sea begins.'
Designer ROCHELLE SELWYN
Producer GEOFF WILSON (R) (e)
12.55pm Scene Young Vietnam
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam war, Vietnam today is not an easy place to grow up in. More bombs were dropped than in the whole of the Second World War, and the aftermath is still apparent.
Yet many teenagers are keen to play their part in rebuilding their shattered country - and don't want to leave for the West. But they regret that the West keeps them isolated and want more contact - and more Western goods in the shops! Narrator DAVID YIP
Series producer ROGER TONGE Produced and directed by J. EDWARD MILNER
An ACACIA production for BBCtv (e)
1.25pm
Pie in the Sky
A See-Saw programme (R)
1.40pm
English Time The Spinechillers
Nobody enjoys being frightened - or do they? Why are horror stories popular, and how do they get their effects?
Storyteller David Sheppard Producer PAUL ASHTON (R) (e)
2.00pm News
Weather followed by You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Harry thinks the music is too loud, Liz does not. Transport song: Wheels on Tracks and a visit to the Ffestiniog railway Book: Hena Finds a Friend
Presenters
Liz Smith , Harry Towb
Studio director NICCI CROWTHER Film director JUDITH MILES (R) (e)
Hartlepool, Cleveland John Grundy takes a trip to Hartlepool by the sea, in search of a bag of chips and the town's beautiful buildings. Producer PAUL PAXTON BBC Newcastle (R)
Introduced by David Icke and featuring: Swimming
National Short Course Championships
The best of the action from this afternoon's five finals at the Central Park Pool in Plymouth, including the men's 100m breaststroke, and the women's 200m individual medley. Racing from Ascot
2.40 Racecall Ascot Hurdle (2im)
3.10 Hurst Park Novices' Steeplechase (2m)
3.40 Lion Gate Handicap
'Hurdle (3m)
Rallying
More from this year's World Championship, and ARI
VATANEN is in the studio to look ahead to the Lombard RAC Rally which starts on Sunday. Plus a preview of the rest of the weekend sport which includes rugby union - Scotland against Australia, the first round of the FA Cup, and the First Test between Australia and the West Indies.
Television presentation:
Swimming MARTIN WEBSTER Racing WENDY SHEPPARD Rallying BHP LTD
Edited by MARK SCHOFIELD including at
3.00pm News and Weather
Wordsmiths from all over Britain challenge each other, and face Paul Coia and Bryan the computer with his sets of letters.
Desmond Lynam with guest Moira Stuart. (R)
First of ten programmes The television crafts magazine, presented by Sue Robinson. This first programme features the stunning work of potter Angus Suttie , for whom function is just a point of departure, enabling familiar objects to evolve into fantastic and exotic forms. There's a visit to Grizedale Forest in Cumbria where the woods hold plenty of surprises: witty outdoor sculptures built from the forest itself by sculptors, including David Kemp and Jim Partridge. And in the Handmade studio workshop, projects in canvas embroidery and machine knitting get under way. Designer COLIN GREEN
Studio director KRISTIN MASON Producer MARY SPRENT
Series producer DICK FOSTER (e)
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Concluding a season of their classic comedies. When work at the horn-testing factory gets too much for Ollie, Stan calls for Dr Finlayson. His diagnosis is 'hornophobia', and the cure is peace and quiet, goat's milk and an ocean voyage.
(Black and white)
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Thrills and spills with stars of the silent screen. An RKO film
[Starring] Phil Silvers as Sgt Bilko
It has been decreed that today is Ernie Bilko's 'perfect day'. Everything he wants will be given to him. (R)
Fifth of six programmes Pattie Coldwell invites
Melanie Paine to use some fabric magic on the window-dressing at No. 1 Pebble Mill. Harry Greene gets the picture and installs a TV aerial amplifier system, and Rick Ball finds out if today's retirement housing meets tomorrow's needs.
Producer ANDREW MEIKLE
Series producer STEPHANIE SILK BBC Pebble Mill
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Picnic at Gannet Rock
Miles Kington drops in on an unlikely sporting clash. Amid a hectic tour of Britain, the Australian Aborigine cricket team flew to the Channel
Islands to answer a challenge from Alderney Cricket Club. It was a major event for the people of Alderney and for one of their distinguished residents, John Arlott Producer CHRIS DENHAM
Introduced by Geoff Hamilton and Gay Search
Nearly everybody wants a beautiful lawn, but how do you prepare the ground? Do you use seed or prepared turf, and what type of grass do you use for a hard-wearing and practical lawn? And once the ground has been prepared, it's time to look for suitable bedding plants. Springfields Horticultural
Society trials new varieties of bedding plants, so Geoff and Gay select their favourites.
Production assistant JAYNE SAVAGE Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
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Introduced by Jonathan King Milwaukee is famous for it's beer. The city is the home of the breweries with exotic sounding names. A few have moved on, but enough remain. It is an incredibly German town; some parts look more like Munich. JK goes to a sausage factory, samples the local brew at a German beer festival, meets heavy metal stars Europe and classy soul singer Anita Baker. Film cameraman MIKE RADFORD Film sound SIMON WILSON Film editor NINA TIMPERI
Videotape editor ROGER MARTIN Produced and directed by GORDON ELSBURY
Garry Trudeau , Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist and creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, gives his own end-of-term report on President Reagan in Rap Master Ronnie - A Report Card
In an unlikely musical routine, Ronnie raps his way through the major issues of his term, including the moral majority, the inner cities, yuppies and the war against drugs.
Written by GARRY TRUDEAU with additional lyrics and music by LIZ SWADOS
Producer TIMOTHY MARX Director JAY DUBIN
Tomorrow night BBC2 begins a celebration of British music of this century, with the highly acclaimed ENO production of Benjamin Britten 's Billy Budd.
Michael Berkeley introduces three important British operas and a major new series of commissions from some of Britain's brightest young composers.
A series of discussion programmes in which two or three well-known people gather around a table to dispense wit, wisdom and ideas.
Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer ELAINE BEDELL
Film critic
Judith Williamson introduces a tale of passion and murder. Tonight starring Glenn Ford
Gloria Grahame
Broderick Crawford
In Fritz Lang 's dark and pessimistic version of a Zola novel, former railroader
Carl Buckley is thrown into a terrible jealousy on discovering his wife Vicki has been more than friendly with a senior official.
Screenplay by ALFRED HAYES , based on the novel La Bete Humaine by EMILE ZOLA
Produced by LEWIS J. RACHMIL Directed by fritz LANG (Blackandwhite)
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