9.30am Diez Temas 2: La familia
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9.45am Casebook Scotland Getting It Made
MARGO MACDONALD looks at companies which are surviving and thriving in the current difficult economic climate. Producer ALLAN JACK (R) (e)
10.05am Look and Read Fairground
Comings and Goings
(e) 10 25am Around Scotland
Energy Goes Round and Round (e)
10.45am Storytime ALostMitten
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11.03am Into Music Putting on a Musical Lost and Found
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11.25am Wondermaths (12)
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11.40am Let's See Up with the Lark
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12.00 Job Bank Keyboard Skills
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12.20pm English File
Poetry. Pain and Pleasure: The Seduction
The Seduction by EILEEN MCAULEY , was the winning poem among over 73,000 entries to the 1986 Young Observer
Poetry Competition. The poem is a cool, dramatic treatment of seduction and loss of innocence, and shows that poetry can deal with the realities of modern teenage life. Producer CHRIS ELLIS (R) (e)
12.55pm Scene
Grandad Gone Daft
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A See-Saw programme. (R)
Tealeaf on the Roof
A two-part transmission of the book by JEAN URE .
1: As soon as school breaks up, Alistair starts grappling with armed criminals and diving into burning buildings. Fat chance of that in Tettiscome Terrace.
Producer MORTON SURGUY
Director CHRIS ELLIS (R) (e)
Weather followed by You and Me
Cosmo and Dibs feel left out when Jeni's new friend visits the market.
Book: Wait and See by TONY BRADMAN and EILEEN BROWNE.
Presenter Jeni Barnett with Jim Bywater.
Producer NICCI CROWTHER (e)
Introduced by David Icke
Rugby Union
It's the start of the Five Nations Championship tomorrow - a look ahead to Scotland v Wales, and Ireland v France.
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Another busy year of sporting action ahead on BBCtv including the battle for the Ryder Cup, England's fight for the Ashes, and all the excitement and drama of the FA Cup. Cricket
The TCCB met yesterday to finalise plans for next week's crucial ICC meeting at Lord's, which could decide England's future in test cricket.
Plus a roundup of ice-skating and football.
Producer MARK SCHOFIELD including at
(Shown yesterday at 8. 00pm on BBC
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Gerald Harrison asked children from the Bolton and Nelson areas of Lancashire about going to the moon.
"They say it's a green cheese, but I don't think it is by its colour anyway".
(R)
starring Ronald Fraser Barbara Windsor.
What better place to hide than a monastery on an island off the Cornish coast for a gang of crooks who want to lie low when things get too hot? The gang soon change their habits as they find monastic life a good substitute for a life of crime.
Screenplay by T J. MORRISON and MIKE WATTS
Produced by GORDON L. T. SCOTT Directed by JEREMY SUMMERS
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Phil Silvers as Sgt Bilko in Bilko Double Life.
With creditors on his heels,
Bilko takes a trip to New York, just when his millionaire double arrives in Roseville! Produced by NAT HIKEN Directed by AL DE CAPRIO (R)
A series about six remarkable women born at the beginning of this century in an age when it was difficult for them to fulfil their talents. Lettice Cooper interviewed by Anne Karpf. Novelist Lettice Cooper has been writing for more than 60 years. She was highly accliimed in the 1930s but has been curiously neglected since the war. However, in celebration of her 90th birthday last year several of her novels were republished and have been selling well. Film editor LIZ TENNENT Producer JILL DAWSON
(Regional programme - for details seebelow)
A series of programmes featuring natural history films from other countries. Symphony of Magic
Orchids are the harlots of the plant world - offering sex to insects in return for the favour of pollination.
DORON HIRSHBERG , a young Israeli naturalist, captures many such intimate moments in the lives of wild orchids which bloom in profusion in the Middle Eastern countryside. This, his first film, took seven years to make on Super-8 equipment. Photographed, directed and produced by DORON HIRSHBERG Presented for BBCtv by GEORGE INGER BBC Bristol (R)
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by and with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Three hours of interrupted viewing pleasure, handily divided into six stylish, convenient, bite-sized programmes, that say much more about you than the clothes you eat. With
Sound KEITH GUNN
Lighting DUNCAN BROWN
Designer VICTOR MEREDITH Producer ROGER ORDISH
Alternative comedy series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Two spies discuss a colleague's failed mission, and a wealthy man has a disagreement with a beggar. Show more
Byrne About Byrne
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, John Byrne , playwright and painter, takes you from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and television plays, and on to his death sometime in the future. Accompanying him is
Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne to recover a missing portrait, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Series editors NIGEL FINCH and ANTHONY WALL
Written and directed by JOHN BYRNE ABBC Scotland/Arena production (R)
Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with international reports by DAVID SELLS, CHARLES WHEELER , GAVIN ESLER and JULIAN O'HALLORAN.
Two or three well-known people gather around a table to dispense wit, wisdom and ideas.
Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer ELAINE BEDELL
starring Froydis Armand, Katja Medboe, Anne-Marie Ottersen.
In 1975, Anja Breien, inspired by John Cassavetes's film Husbands, made Wives, the mischievous tale of three women who went off on a spree to Copenhagen. Ten years later, the three women meet up again and compare their lives and experiences with men. Shaking off responsibilities, they take off for a merry Christmas in Malmo. Wives - Ten Years After is a caustic comedy, taking a frank look at marriage Scandinavian-style.
Screenplay by Anja Breien and Knut Faldbakken in collaboration with the cast.
(A Norwegian film with English subtitles. First showing on British television)
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