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You and Your Health
Safer Sex ... Living with AIDS. '... if you are sexually active. you've got to take precautions whatever, even if it's the first person you've slept with ...' When WENDY and MICHAEL find themselves alone together, the last thing they think about is the risk of unprotected sex.
Safer Sex looks at all sexually transmitted infections including the AIDS virus. How have people's attitudes to relationships changed? Producer COLIN NOBBS
Series producer ANDY WALKER (e)
10.05am You and Me
Maths-at-the-Fair: Dodgems.
Books: Monsters Are Like That; The Doorbell Rang
Presenter GARY WILMOT Animation PETER LANG and ALAN ROGERS
Director SUE ARON (R) (e)
10.18am Music Time Hdry Jdnos
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (R) (e)
10.40am Thinkabout Eggs
Watch baby ducklings hatching out of their shells and see how to blow an egg and decorate it using a wax resist method
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (R) (e)
10.58am Zig Zag Cathedrals
The Life of a Cathedral
From Sunday to Sunday, Derby Cathedral and the people who work there are busily involved with their local community. Film editor PAUL RAPLEY
Producer PETER M. EVANS (e)
11.20am Into Music Moving to Music
The children work out actions to go with their music which represents a threatening inner-city atmosphere.
Presenters SHELAAGH FERRELL
STEVEN WREN.
Children from GLEBE FIRST and MIDDLE SCHOOL
Produced and directed by ELIZABETH BENNETT (e)
11.40am Getting to Grips with Racism
Teacher's Programme
Presenter PETER EVANS (R) (e)
12.00 Quinze Minutes
A new French magazine series for beginners.
Visites en France
Exchange visits and holiday courses in France for young people learning French. Presenter NICHOLAS MEAD Producer CAROLINE GODLEY (e)
12.15pm History File
Twentieth-Century History The Arabs and Israel since 1947.
Commentary JOHN TIDMARSH Written by DAVID SELLS
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)
12.35pm Seventeen. Alternatives Good and bad experiences on the dole - TONY is gaining useful skills on a Sunderland scheme; an ex-prostitute is trying to 'settle down and lead a proper life'. Plus style on a shoe-string with jumble sale fashion, singer/songwriter
ROBERT and Community Arts; and CLAIRE, taking a year out to do voluntary work.
Film editor RICK SPURWAY Producer MIKE DICK
Series producer CLARE ELSTOW (e)
1.00pm Science in Action Boundless Energy
Presenters TERRY MARSH and KJARTAN POSKITT Assistant producer. LAMBROS ATTESHLIS
Series producer ROBIN MUDGE (R) (e)

Contributors

Producer:
Colin Nobbs
Presenter:
Gary Wilmot
Presenter:
Animation Peter Lang
Presenter:
Alan Rogers
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton
Producer:
Peter M. Evans
Presenters:
Shelaagh Ferrell
Unknown:
Steven Wren.
Directed By:
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter:
Peter Evans
Presenter:
Nicholas Mead
Producer:
Caroline Godley
Unknown:
John Tidmarsh
Written By:
David Sells
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Editor:
Rick Spurway
Presenters:
Terry Marsh
Producer:
Robin Mudge
Frank:
Jim Dunk

Tortoise's Dream
Vicky, Charlie and the children sing about an apple tree - and in the story,
Tortoise dreams about the Omumbo-rombonga tree, which grows bananas, dates, coconuts, melons, millet, and lots more - if only you can remember its name!
Presenter Vicky Ireland with Charlie
Animation GIL POTTER Music IAN HUMPHRIS
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (e)

Contributors

Producer:
Moyra Gambleton

The first of two programmes. The exploits of RAF pilots in the Second World War are widely known and well documented: But what has not been recognised is the achievement of a civilian organisation on which the men who fought the war in the air had to depend. David Lomax tells the story of the women who flew for the Air
Transport Auxiliary. Their job was to ferry the fighters and bombers from the factories to the RAF. It was a difficult and dangerous task, and many lives were lost.
Today the programme shows how the Air Transport
Auxiliary was formed, how the women had to overcome the prejudice of the military authorities, and how success was tinged with sorrow at the death of Amy Johnson , the first to be killed. Producer JOHN COLEMAN
Series editor DAVID SEYMOUR (R) (Part 2 next week)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lomax
Unknown:
Amy Johnson
Producer:
John Coleman

Starring Ginger Rogers Joel McCrea.

With a family like Ellie May's, it's no wonder she lies about them when romance enters her life. After all, dad's a drunk and ma's money comes from 'gentlemen friends'.
But the truth will out... Farce, comedy and drama combine in this fascinating portrait of small-town poverty.
Films: page 21

Contributors

Screenplay:
Allan Scott
Screenplay/Produced and directed by:
Gregory La Cava
From the play by:
Robert L. Buckner
From the play by:
Walter Hart
Ellie May Adams:
Ginger Rogers
Ed Wallace:
Joel McCrea
Mamie Adams:
Marjorie Rambeau
Gramp:
Henry Travers
Homer:
Miles Mander
Grandma:
Queenie Vassar
Honeybell:
Joan Carroll
Thelma:
Vivienne Osborne
Carmelita:
Carmen Morales

Out of Our Heads
with Elaine Cusack.
Elaine quietly smiles when you say she is hard to label; she revels in the contradictions. A child of the Thatcher era, she remains an independent thinking young woman - rejecting some of the 80s values, with a distinct romantic 50s air about her. She is a poet, but a poet more influenced by music than words.
Tonight's music includes the Fall, the Housemartins and live performances by Martin Stephenson and 50s style band, the Sureshots. Director JOHN WARWICK Producer MARLA BLAKE
A ZENITH NORTH production for BBC Newcastle
7.05-7.40 Snub
This week's Snub brings you a rare interview with top cult band Wire, an exclusive feature on the wildly eccentric Pere Ubu during the recording of their new album, plus lots more from the current independent music scene. Director PETER FOWLER Producer BRENDA KELLY
DEF II editor JANET STREET PORTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Cusack.
Unknown:
Martin Stephenson
Director:
John Warwick
Producer:
Marla Blake
Unknown:
Pere Ubu
Director:
Peter Fowler
Producer:
Brenda Kelly
Editor:
Janet Street Porter

with Martin Young and Elin Rhys Skytech
In a cramped, converted laboratory, Britain's space engineers are enthusiastically designing and launching rockets.
The laboratory? Acton High School in west London. The space engineers?
A group of 11- to 17-year-old school children. This Is IT
As employers cry out for more skilled technologists, Sarah Greene launches This is IT - a video competition especially designed to counter girls' negative images of information technology.
Assistant producer LAKVIAR SINGH Producer TERRY MARSH
Series producer BERNARD ADAMS (e)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Young
Unknown:
Sarah Greene
Producer:
Lakviar Singh
Producer:
Bernard Adams

Black Schizophrenia
British Afro-Caribbeans are ten times more likely to develop schizophrenia than the rest of the population, according to a psychiatric study in Nottingham.
Black critics claim that white psychiatrists are misdiagnosing black people and that the report is a classic example of racism in medicine. They also warn that the report may do untold harm to our race relations.
The Nottingham researchers believe that their findings could provide a clue to the causes of this mysterious and terrible form of madness.
Are their conclusions valid and should the research have been done?
Narrator Paul Vaughan Film editor JOHN LEE
Written and produced by ANGELA TILBY
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
0 TRANSCRIPT: please send a cheque for £1.75 to:
Horizon [address removed]
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Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
John Lee
Produced By:
Angela Tilby
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

starring
Tony Lo Bianco
Timothy Williams.
When teenager Bobby Cavalero is arrested on a street known as a gay pick-up spot, he confesses that he has been having an affair with an older man. Even though his mother tries to be understanding, his father can accept only the values of old-fashioned masculinity and rejects him. But facing the scorn of his father and the ridicule of his classmates is only the beginning.... This sensitive and controversial drama is directed by Herbert Wise , best known for his work on I, Claudius.
Screenplay by CONRAD BROMBERG Produced by THOMAS DE WOLFE and CYMA RUBIN
0 FILMS: page 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lo Bianco
Unknown:
Timothy Williams.
Unknown:
Bobby Cavalero
Directed By:
Herbert Wise
Unknown:
Conrad Bromberg
Produced By:
Thomas de Wolfe
Bobby Cavalero:
Timothy Williams
Joe Cavalero:
Tony Lo Bianco
Rose Cavalero:
Gisela Caldwell
Mark Reed:
Stephen James
Ann Marie:
Moira Harris
Cleary Biggs:
Adam Baldwin
Beth Lund:
Nan Woods
Mr Geffin:
John Karlen
John Hamill:
John Pleshette

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick Reporters
NICK CLARKE , CHRIS LOWE
DAVID COSS , GAVIN ESLER
OLENKA FRENKIEL
MARGARET GILMORE
WESLEY KERR. PETER MARSHALL
JULIAN O'HALLORAN
DAVID SELL. RUPERT SEGAR
SARAH SPILLER
FRANCINE STOCK
DAVID TINDALL , JANET TREWIN CHARLES WHEELER.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Reporters:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
David Coss
Unknown:
Gavin Esler
Unknown:
Olenka Frenkiel
Unknown:
Margaret Gilmore
Unknown:
Wesley Kerr.
Unknown:
Peter Marshall
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Unknown:
Rupert Segar
Unknown:
Sarah Spiller
Unknown:
Francine Stock
Unknown:
David Tindall
Unknown:
Janet Trewin
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler.

The topical arts and media programme reports on issues and performances.
This week's presenters: Sarah Dunant
Tracy MacLeod and Waldermar Januszczak Producer CHARLES MILLER
Executive producer KEVIN LOADER Editor MICHAEL JACKSON

Contributors

Presenters:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Tracy MacLeod
Unknown:
Waldermar Januszczak
Producer:
Charles Miller
Editor:
Michael Jackson

Arts Foundation Course
Poetry: Language and History
Can poems about words and places be political? They must be, argue
TOM PAULIN and TERRY EAGLETON , in a discussion on two Irish poems. Producer TONY COE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Unknown:
Terry Eagleton
Producer:
Tony Coe

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