Programme Index

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9.40am Lifeschool
Going to Work. Settling In
Kay and Steve move in to their new flat.
With SANDY RATCLIFF, BILLY HAMON, ANN MORRISH, RIO FANNING, NICK CONWAY, NICK REDDING, CASSIE MCFARLANE, PIPPA LAY, TONY MCPHERSON, GORDEN KAYE, RICHARD WALKER.
Producer PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)
10.05am You and Me
Dibs and Cosmo are angry when they have to suffer for Bharti's mistakes.
Sherbett goes on a see-saw.
Songs: If You 're Happy and You Know It and If You Clap Presenters BHARTI PATEL and GARY WILMOT
Producer NICCI CROWTHER (e)
10.18am Music Time. Melody
Presenters JONATHAN COHEN, HELEN SPEIRS
With JOHN HARLE (alto saxophone) DAVID PURSER (trombone) KEVIN MORGAN (tuba) KEVIN HATHAWAY (percussion) children from BEVINGTON JUNIOR SCHOOL
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (R) (e)
10.40am Thinkabout. Bridges
Producer DEREK LONGHURST (R) (e)
10.58am Zig Zag
Zig Zag 's Wildlife Safari. Homes Some animals are homeless wanderers and others such as the trapdoor spider are master architects. PAUL COIA looks at animal homes with the help of NICK DAVIES. NIGEL FRANKS shows how to make ants feel at home in the classroom. Producer TOM STANIER (e)
11.20am Into Music
Beginnings and Endings. Tabla The children play Indian musical instruments - tabla and harmonium - and listen to contrasting pieces in traditional and contemporary styles.
Presenters SHELAAGH FERRELL MATTHEW JAMES
Musicians NAUSHAD SHEIKH
DHIREN RAICHURA Children from GLEBE FIRST and MIDDLE SCHOOL
PINNER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL Directed and produced by SHEILA FRASER
Series producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (e)
11.40 am Information World Running the System
Five programmes about information technology in everyday life.
A computer takes over some of the routine tasks in a supermarket, an arts centre box office, an army kitchen, and a farm milking parlour. Producer ROGER FRY (R) (e)
12.00 Quinze Minutes A l'école
(e)
12.15 pm History File
Twentieth-Century History Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
On 7 December 1941, Japanese planes bombed the United
States fleet at Pearl Harbor. What caused Japan to make this dastardly attack? Producers JOHN CHAPPLE and PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)
12.35 pm Seventeen. Dean
Producer PETER M. EVANS (R) (e)
1.00pm Science in Action Bumper to Bumper
This week the science of the motor car.
See how big the bang is inside the engine, find out what four-wheel drive means and investigate the Ackerman Angle.
Presenters TERRY MARSH and KJARTAN POSKITT
Assistant producer LAMBROS ATTESHLIS
Series producer ROBIN MUDGE (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandy Ratcliff.
Unknown:
Billy Hamon.
Unknown:
Ann Morrish
Unknown:
Rio Fanning
Unknown:
Nick Conway
Unknown:
Nick Redding
Unknown:
Cassie McFarlane.
Unknown:
Pippa Lay
Unknown:
Tony McPherson.
Unknown:
Gorden Kaye
Unknown:
Richard Walker.
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Presenters:
Bharti Patel
Presenters:
Gary Wilmot
Producer:
Nicci Crowther
Presenters:
Jonathan Cohen
Unknown:
Helen Speirs
Unknown:
John Harle
Unknown:
David Purser
Unknown:
Kevin Morgan
Unknown:
Kevin Hathaway
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Derek Longhurst
Unknown:
Zig Zag
Unknown:
Zig Zag
Unknown:
Paul Coia
Unknown:
Nick Davies.
Unknown:
Nigel Franks
Producer:
Tom Stanier
Presenters:
Shelaagh Ferrell
Presenters:
Matthew James
Unknown:
Musicians Naushad Sheikh
Unknown:
Dhiren Raichura
Unknown:
Glebe First
Unknown:
Middle School
Unknown:
Pinner Park
Unknown:
Middle School
Produced By:
Sheila Fraser
Producer:
Euzabeth Bennett
Producer:
Roger Fry
Producers:
John Chapple
Producers:
Paul Mitchell
Producer:
Peter M. Evans
Unknown:
Ackerman Angle.
Presenters:
Terry Marsh
Presenters:
Kjartan Poskitt
Producer:
Lambros Atteshlis
Producer:
Robin Mudge
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright
Frank:
Jim Dunk
Sally:
Vicky Licorish

A See-Saw programme.

Pat thought his birthday a well-kept secret, but as he goes on his round, Alf Thompson, the Reverend Timms, Granny Dryden, Miss Hubbard, everybody he meets, knows about it and buys him presents. How did they all find out?
Written by John Cunliffe. (R)

Contributors

Narration and vocals:
Ken Barrie
Writer:
John Cunliffe
Music:
Bryan Daly
Designed and directed by:
Ivor Wood

On the Road
Many old roads have disappeared but some have been improved and are still in use today.
Children from a school in the Cotswolds investigate roads in their area.
Producer DIANE MORGAN (R) (e)

Contributors

Producer:
Diane Morgan

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
The Glerp
'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly ...' but did you ever meet the amazing Glerp who swallowed an elephant? A dancing dog falls into a puddle and becomes a very dirty dog, and Charlie and the children dance about in a game of musical bumps. Presenter Vicky Ireland Animation MIKE HIBBERT PETER LANG. ALAN ROGERS
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Hibbert
Unknown:
Peter Lang.
Unknown:
Alan Rogers
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton

Weather followed by International Snooker Benson and Hedges Masters Terry Griffiths v Silvino Francisco
This afternoon's best-of-nine-frames match is between
Terry Griffiths, ranked No 5, winner of the 1980 Masters and runner-up three times, and Silvino Francisco, ranked 12th.
David Icke introduces coverage from Wembley.

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Griffiths
Unknown:
Silvino Francisco
Introduces:
David Icke

The programme which gives Morgan Cross the chance to meet interesting people and share the memories from their personal photographic albums.
Today: Royal photographer, Lord Patrick Lichfield Director DAVID NELSON
Producer MIKE DERBY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Patrick Lichfield
Director:
David Nelson

Rastafari Brinsley Forde from Aswad explains why he has become a Rastafarian. In a deserted warehouse in Belfast, six young people passionately debate the relevance of Rastafari with young believer Ras Mweya Masimba. Producer BILL HILARY Executive producer
JANET STREET PORTER BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Brinsley Forde
Unknown:
Ras Mweya Masimba
Producer:
Bill Hilary
Executive Producer:
Janet Street Porter

Bringing you the best from the independent music scene. This week featuring the Pixies shot live in Boston, Massachusetts, the Lunachicks from Brooklyn, the Shamen plus lots more.
Director PETER FOWLER Producer BRENDA KELLY
DEFII editor JANET STREET-PORTER

Contributors

Director:
Peter Fowler
Producer:
Brenda Kelly
Editor:
Janet Street-Porter

Stubbs (1724-1806)
The Grosvenor Hunt from the Grosvenor Estate.
An early 1762 masterpiece in which Stubbs almost makes the spectator hear the sound of the huntsman's horn.
Written and presented by John Jacob
Director CHARLES CHABOT (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
John Jacob
Director:
Charles Chabot

New Lamps for Old
We live in an age of mass media communication. The type of stories we listen to is more likely to be twice-weekly television soap opera than epic tales told by the fireside.
This edition looks at the newest and oldest forms of story-telling. In a film from Northern Ireland, pupils using their school TV studio prove themselves to be anything but passive consumers of the media.
And with the recent revival in the oral tradition of story-telling, Martin Young asks whether princesses and dragons are still relevant to children in the sophisticated 1980s.
Senes producer SALLY KIRKWOOD Producers JACQUELINE OSE1 TUTU , TONY STEYGER (e)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Young
Producer:
Sally Kirkwood
Producers:
Jacqueline Ose1 Tutu
Producers:
Tony Steyger

Perils of the Deep
It takes a tragedy on the scale of Piper Alpha to remind us of the human price to be paid for oil and gas. But some North Sea workers are taking daily risks that never hit the headlines. Divers in the alien underwater world are like astronauts, undergoing physical changes, simply to get to work. New research is revealing unsuspected damage to their nervous systems. Doctors believe commercial pressures may partly be to blame. Despite fears of losing their jobs, divers and their wives are now speaking out.
Narrator Paul Vaughan Film editor MICHAEL FLYNN Written and produced by VIVIENNE KING
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL 0 FURTHER INFORMATION:
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Contributors

Unknown:
Piper Alpha
Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Michael Flynn
Produced By:
Vivienne King
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

starring Jo Kennedy Ross O'Donovan
Jackie Mullens , an effervescent punk singer, is destined for stardom; but the breaks are hard to achieve. Her 14-year-old manager has plenty of ideas but no one takes him seriously ... until he persuades Jackie to perform a 'nude' death-defying high wire stunt.
Gillian Armstrong 's flamboyant punk musical features a winning performance from Jo Kennedy.
Screenplay by STEPHEN MACLEAN Produced by DAVID ELFICK and RICHARD BRENNAN
Directed by GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jo Kennedy
Unknown:
Ross O'Donovan
Unknown:
Jackie Mullens
Unknown:
Gillian Armstrong
Unknown:
Jo Kennedy.
Unknown:
Stephen MacLean
Produced By:
David Elfick
Produced By:
Richard Brennan
Directed By:
Gillian Armstrong
Jackie:
Jo Kennedy
Angus:
Ross O'Donovan
Pearl:
Margo Lee
Gran:
Pat Evison

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with international reports by DAVID SELLS
CHARLES WHEELER
GAVIN ESLER and JULIAN O'HALLORAN
Producers JOHN BARTON ,
KEITH BOWERS , EILEEN FITT. MARION KERR Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
David Sells
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Gavin Esler
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Producers:
John Barton
Unknown:
Keith Bowers
Unknown:
Eileen Fitt.
Unknown:
Marion Kerr
Editor:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
John Morrison

The live magazine programme reports on issues and events in the arts and media.
This week's presenters: Sarah Dunant ,
Michael Ignatieff and Tracey MacLeod Producer FIONA MURCH

Contributors

Presenters:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Tracey MacLeod
Producer:
Fiona Murch

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