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9.45am Economics: A Question of Choice
(e)
10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Cosmo decides she doesn't like her green hair.
Book: A Lion for Lewis by ROSEMARY WELLS
Presenter INDIRA JOSHI
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN (R) (e)
10.20am Science Workshop Twigs and Wood (A)
Big trees and old ones.
Grain, plywood and veneers. Producer MICHAEL COYLE (R) (e)
10.40am Textile Studies The Right Stuff
(e)
11.00am Words and Pictures
Fourteen Rats and a Rat-Catcher (e)
11.15am English Time Talking about People How do we formulate our ideas about people? Actor JOHN WOODNUTT
Producer JILL GLYNDON REED (R) (e)
11.35am The Geography Programme
What Ice Did to the Land
BERNARD CLARK investigates the way the Ice Age left its mark on the British landscape.
Producer LEN BROWN (R) (e)
11.55am A-level German 1: It's a Man's World
Is a muscular body attractive? Production GODFREY JOHNSON SUSAN PATON (R) (e)
12.15pm Big Top Science Radio
(e)
12.35pm Ufeschool Going to Work Robotics
(e)
1.00pm Business Matters
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.
Series editor BRIAN DAVIES (R) (e)
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BBC Education and Training Sales, BBC Enterprises Ltd, Room A2063, Woodlands. 80 Wood Lane, London W12 OTT.

Goodbye, Hello!
Charlie decides that it's time to leave Merrywit and return to the circus.

The Greeks
(e)

Weather followed by Storytime
The Magic Birthday Cake Birthdays are special days and they're even better with a magic birthday cake.
Presenter IAIN LAUCHLAN Animation ALAN ROGERS PETER LANG
Series producers DIANE MORGAN and PAT FARRINGTON (R) (e)

Racing from Cheltenham
2.20 EBF Novices' Hurdle Final (Handicap. 2m)
2.50 Piper Champagne
Golden Miller Steeplechase (3m 2f). Mercy Rimell goes for a hat-trick in this event.
3.25 South Wales Showers Mira Silver Trophy Chase
(21m). Beau Ranger looks set to win another valuable prize for Martin Pipe.
4.00 Steel Plate and Sections Young Chasers
Championship Final (3m) Introduced by Richard Pitman
Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , JOHN HANMER
World Snooker
World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.
This afternoon sees
Willie Thorne completing his first round tie and Neal Foulds beginning his first session.
David Icke continues to keep an eye on things in Sheffield. Producer (racing) WENDY SHEPPARD Executive producer (snooker) KEITH MACKENZIE including at
3.00pm News and Weather

Regional News and Weather

from Bamsdale and Silverdale. with Geoff Hamilton ,
Roy Lancaster , John Kelly. Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261

Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers in Twiki Is Missing
The treacherous Omni-
Guard, three all-powerful females, are despatched by the evil Kerk Belzak to kidnap Twiki.
Written by JARON SUMMERS Director SIG NEUFELD

Antoine de Caunes
In this week's fast moving show, Rapido talks to the Bee Gees in London where they will be touring for the first time in 20 years. There are also features on Paula Abdul and the most talked about American rock band of the decade, Guns 'n' Roses. Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO Director BERNARD FAROUX Executive producers
ALEX BERGER. TIM NEWMAN An NB de C production
DEFH editor JANET STREET. PORTER

Amsterdam-Update
Magenta De Vine and Sankha Guha uncover a different Europe that you won't find in most guide books. Facts and figures have been updated for 1989 Director JOSH HAUL
Series producer RACHEL PURNELL BBC North West (R) revised
● TRAVEL: page 109

Images of Another World The prehistoric cave paintings of Europe were discovered by accident in 1881. But at 40,000 years old they remain a mystery. What do they mean? Are they simple decoration or Stone
Age hunting magic? How can we possibly find out? David Drew reveals how the Bushmen of the Kalahari and American neurologists have begun to cast a new and unexpected light on the world of trance and medicine men.
Readings John Woodvine Photography JOHN ELSE
Film editor PETER BARBER
Series editor BRUCE NðRMAN Producer DAVID F. TURNBULL
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Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
Stephen Hendry meets his first opponent in the Championship.
David Vine , Gary Wilkinson. hosts in Sheffield.
(Further coverage on 'Spartsnight'
10.05pm BBC1)

Last in the series by Richard Cooper
Starring Jonathan Hyde
with Michael Feast, Terry Taplin, Leslee Udwin.

The accused man is Hawley Harvey Crippen. The solicitor is Arthur Newton. Marshall Hall quite naturally expects to be briefed for the defence.

(Ceefax subtitles)

Last of nine programmes narrated by Bob Peck. When Am I?
Where does the 'past' go? At what time is there no time? Animation STEVE BURRELL and CATTI CALTHROP
Research ANDREW CHITTY and HELEN MACLEOD
Written and directed by STEVEN BILLINGER
A DIVERSE PRODUCTION for BBC Elstree

Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with the day's top stories and the background on events making the news at home and abroad.

presents New Release
Tonight, the latest BBC2 arts series looks at the earliest. New Release featured painters, poets, film-makers, actors and musicians within its magazine format, and later became Release, the first regular arts series to be transmitted in colour. The
Late Show plunders the New Release archives to mark the 25th birthday of BBC2.

12.10 Working Mothers
Increasing numbers of mothers of small children go out to work. Does this mean that men take on more domestic duties? Three mothers talk about their experiences.
Producer CLARE FALKNER (R)
12.35 Gallium Arsenide Pulledfrom Obscurity
Will this material replace silicon for the 'chip"" A programme in the Design and Innovation series explores this crucial invention. Producer KEVIN NEWPORT (R)