A Question of Control

Footballers
Back in 1985. Derek Ryan and Steve Blackwell were 17 and football mad.
Director BRIAN JAMES (R)

The first of three morning westerns starring Tim Holt. Bill Barker , former gunman turned marshal, sets out to bring the law into force, West of Tombstone. His first mission is to arrest the trigger-happy Tonto Kid....
Screenplay by JOHN TWIST and CLARENCE UPSON YOUNG Produced by CLIFF REID
Directed by GLENN TRYON
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Lewes, East Sussex
Written and presented by Alec Clifton-Taylor .
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN (R)
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A See-Saw programme (R)

Faces and Feelings with Floella Benjamin.
Musical director RICHARD BROWN Producer SHEILA FRASER Executive producer
CYNTHIA FELGATE (R)

Before the Mast
Gorch Fock is the pride of the West German Navy. Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol (R)

Weather followed by Holiday Outings California by Camper Clint Eastwood once travelled across California with an orang-utan. John Pitman makes the same journey on a Camper holiday and searches for the superstar mayor.
Director ANNE MORRISON (R)

This week Peter Seabrook explores the Philadelphia Flower Show and Mandai Orchids in Singapore.
Every year in downtown Philadelphia, PA, the arrival of spring is heralded by an indoor flower show - the largest on earth. American nurserymen go to endless lengths to produce colourful displays of flowering plants representing every season of the year. In Singapore, Mandai Orchids have become pioneers in producing cut orchids as a commercial crop. From a valley surrounded by tropical forest just minutes from the city of Singapore, their cut orchid blooms are flown to markets all over the world.
A WGBHtv production
BBC Pebble Mill

Weather followed by Roraima - the Lost World
Roraima has always been a legend. It's a fabled mountain plateau deep in the interior of Guyana. It's believed to be a source of diamonds and gold, and it's the mountain Conan Doyle envisaged in 1912 when he wrote The Lost World. Producer NEIL MCCALLUM

Regional News and Weather

Six programmes celebrating 100 years of a great city presented by Michael Buerk 2: Homes Fit for Heroes
As Birmingham enters a year of centenary events, Michael Buerk continues his story of Britain's second city. He recalls the emergence of Britain's most famous car factory, pioneering housing at Bournville and Birmingham's massive contribution to the Great
War. With rare archive film, he charts the rapid expansion of the city in the golden age of the tram - when over
100,000 homes were built for the returning heroes of 1918. Producer DAVID NELSON

British Youth Darts Championship
The first round draws to a close as the last four quarter-final places are decided.
Among those in action on the Lakeside oche is the recent winner of the world youth title, 17-year-old
Sean Dowling from Coventry.
Introduced by Tony Gubba CommentatorsSID WADDELL
TONY GREEN
Television presentation KEITH MACKENZIE
Producers KEITH PHILLIPS , RON GUBBA BBC North West

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starring Burt Lancaster Foreign Legion
sergeant Mike Kincaid , jailed for flirting with the Commandant's lady, offers to lead a small band of fellow prisoners in a daring mission against the Riffs. It'll be rough, tough and incredibly dangerous - but what have they to lose ...
Set in the North African desert this exciting film is a popular blend of comedy and adventure.
Screenplay by ROLAND KIBBEE and FRANK DAVIS
Produced by HAROLD HECHT Directed by WILUS GOLDBECK
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Tom Peters ,
Business Evangelist
American Tom Peters is the most famous business guru in the world. He has made himself a millionaire from his business books and lectures. Reporter David Lomax and the Business Matters cameras were present when he addressed a conference of top European business people who had paid over E400 each to hear his views about the importance of the customer. Photography IAN HILTON Sound JIM MCALISTER
Series editor BRIAN DAVIES
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The series where the public can make programmes under their own editorial control, helped by the Community Programme Unit.
An Evening without John McCarthy
With live music from
Squeeze's Glenn Tillbrook and Chris Difford , Steve Naive and the Playboys,
Ranking Roger and Lynval Golding , 2,000 people recently gathered in London for a birthday celebration. But the guest of honour was notably absent. For three years British journalist John McCarthy has been held hostage in Beirut. With this programme made by the 'Friends of John McCarthy ', people like ITN's Jon Snow , ex-hostage
Anthony Grey and John's girlfriend Jill Morrell criticise what they feel is the lack of serious international effort to secure the release of British hostages in Beirut.
Executive producer JEREMY GIBSON Produced and directed by BARBARA MACKIE
Directors JON FELIX. KIT ELLIOTT

William Woollard visits the British Commercial Vehicle Museum at Leyland in Lancashire to sample
Britain's unique contribution to the truck and bus industry. The original Audi Quattro was a tough act to follow.
Tiff Needell drives the new Audi Coupe with four-wheel drive to see whether it makes the grade. Chris Goffey samples Britain's latest turbo-charged diesel Montego. Tom Boswell examines how anti-lock brakes work and whether they're always an asset. 1989 marks 30 years of the Mini. Beki Adam looks at the way this brilliant family car has been raced, rallied, customised and abused. Producer JON BENTLEY
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

starring with Shirts and Skins
A case of sexual blackmail finds Maddie working for the woman who took the law in her hands, while David backs the boss who took the bullet in his foot. Blue Moon is a battle zone as chromosomes clash; men are pitted against women; it's war!
Written by ROGER DIRECTOR
Directed by ARTIE MANDLEBERG

Eight films with David Jessel 3: Safe in Their Hands
Keith Hicks was an epileptic who died in Brixton Prison. When he was first taken there his family thought he was in safe hands. They were proved tragically wrong when it emerged that he died because of the lack of care given to him in the prison hospital. In tonight's film, David Jessel looks at three such disturbing cases of people dying in custody and asks what kind of medical care Britain's 55,000 prisoners are getting. Producer STEVE HEWLETT Research BILL LOCKE ANDREA MICHELL
Series producer ELIZABETH CLOUGH

Unusual insights into Britain today.... 3: Vino Espresso
Parted from their native chianti the Italian community in London scour markets for the grapes that will bring a taste of Tuscan homebrew to their basements and garages.
Executive producer (BBC) DAVID PEARSON Producers
CARL PRECHEZER. PETER SALMI
A ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART production for BBC Bristol

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick Directors JOHN WILKINSON
VICTOR MELLANEY. PETER DAY Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

Performances, people and issues in the arts and media. Directors DAVID G CROFT. JOHN BUSH

Life and Death in Rio
How do the 9,000,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro cope with the disease, malnutrition and death?
Producer VICTOR LOCKWOOD