Brian: the Life of an Ordinary Man

9.30am italiani
Un ritratto dell' Italia d'oggi attraverso le esperienze di vita di cinque Italiani autentici.
2: // restauratore di Opere d'Arte Voce ENRICO VERDECCHIA Testi DAVID WILLEY
Regia generate JEREMY BENNETT Regia Italiana VIVIANA WOODRUFF (R) (e)
10.00am Science Workshop Twigs and Wood (B)
(e)
10.25am Thinkabout Down Our Way
(e)
10.40am Geography Casebook Pastures New
(e)
11.00am Update Europe
Belgium's Old Industrial Area Commentary ROBIN ELUS Series producer LEN BROWN
Producer CAROLINE GODLEY (R) (e)
11.20am Landmarks The Pharaohs
(e)
11.40am Scene
Keep Your Cool (R) (e)
(Details tomorrow at 11.55am)
12.10pm Update USA Sun Belt City Phoenix, Arizona, spreads ever outwards to the surrounding desert as industry cashes in on the 'pro-business climate' of the Sun Belt.
Producer LEN BROWN (R) (e)
12.30pm Pages from Ceefax
12.55pm Inset
School Management
2: New Ways with Staff
How can the challenges be met? (e)

Practice Makes Perfect with the voices of Ian Lavender , Jessica Martin , Sam Kelly , David Shaw Parker Devised and written by GEOFFREY BOURNE-TAYLOR and JOHN MURPHY EDWARDS Music JOHN KELHAM
Produced and directed by TREVOR BOND (R)

with Don Spencer Busy busy busy
It's astonishing no less
You couldn't guess how many creatures
Live at this address.
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Percussion WILL HILL
Assistant producer SHEILA FRASER Production BARBARA RODDAM (R)

Talking Drums
(e)

Weather followed by Watch
The Celts. Rivers and Woods Why aren't there many Iron Age wooden objects around today? And why can coracles in Wales and curraghs in Ireland be seen today? with Louise Hall-Taylor and Tony Neilson
Film editors RAY NICOLAIDES ANN BURROWS
Series producer JULIA DRUM (e)
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Spinal Injury
Written and presented by Tony Wilkinson
Director JONATHAN BULLEN
Executive producer CYRIL GATES (R) (Postponed from 7 April)

Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship Semi-Finals
Day 13: and this is no time for the chicken-hearted or the superstitious! Four men are one step away from the final.
Failure means E31,500. A place in the final means £63,000. As for winning? Well, at this stage money matters nought. For the players, there's little point in coming this far without seeing it through. Form dictates a line-up:
Davis v Hendry and Foulds v Parrott.
Introduced by David Icke from the Crucible Theatre. Play is over the best of 31 frames, seven this afternoon. including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

starring
Christopher Lee Nigel Green
Fu Manchu - notorious Oriental master criminal - embarks on a plan for world domination.
Screenplay by PETER WELBECK
Produced by HARRY ALAN TOWERS Directed by DON SHARP
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Five programmes in holiday mood with some simple Italian phrases.
Ha una camera? Do you have a room?
4: Market, Porchetta, the Inedible Vegetable, e la Vita Contadina.
Roman actress
Mirella D'Angelo discovers Umbria, past and present.
Film cameraman ELMER COSSEY Assistant producer DANIELLA DANGOOR
Series producer DAVID CORDINGLEY (e)
(A complementary radio programme is on Saturdays at 4.30pm on Radio 4 FM)
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Glitch in the System
Elmer Fike was never a quitter. At university he lived in the furnace room and shovelled coal for tuition. Today, owner of a chemical plant in Nitro, West
Virginia, he is fighting the Environmental Protection Agency. They claim his site is the most hazardous in America and estimate clean-up costs of 26 million dollars. But Elmer disagrees. 'My plant looks like hell, but we do not kill people.' Director JACOB YOUNG
Executive producers MARK SAMELS PAUL WATSON

with Michael Buerk and reporters John Howard , Grant Mansfield and Linda Mitchell.
One of the great Irish achievements was turning its bogland into fuel - even the power stations are run on peat. But it takes 10,000 years to create a bog, and only a few years to destroy one. Now
European conservationists are trying to save some of the remaining ones - which some Irish find distinctly odd.
And, how do gardeners know whether their Dutch bulbs really come from Holland, as the packet says, or have been illegally collected from the wild in Turkey?
Studio director DAWN MONAGHAN
Series producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN Editor PETER SALMON BBC Bristol

World Professional Snooker Championship
The second semi-final gets underway this evening, with eight frames to be played, out of a possible 31. Is it
Neal Foulds against John Parrott , or Jimmy White ?
David Vine is your host. Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CUVE EVERTON Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JOHN VIRGO , EDDIE CHARLTON Producers KEITH PHILLIPS
MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE

The way we live now. Inside Broadmoor
Jimmy Savile , self-styled 'boss of Broadmoor,' explains how he became chairman of a task force setting up a new therapeutic regime at the maximum security hospital in Berkshire. His appointment came after an official report called the hospital prison-like and its practices out-dated.
In tonight's film, the 520 patients, some notorious, others never convicted of an offence, are shown for the first time - during therapy, at work and at 'socials,' where men and women can mix.
Jackie and Bob ask for permission to marry, though they will never be allowed to be alone together. David is at last able to talk about his crime. Lily, at 83, is worried about the prospect of leaving.
Photography MARTIN PATMORE
Film editor DAVID ELLIOTT
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM
40 Minutes editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF

Also starring Julie Kavner
Dan Castellaneta
Joe Malone and Sam McMurray in Francesca Alone and People at Work
Produced by RICHARD SAKAI

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick

Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship Semi-Finals
The last visit today to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield where the four remaining players have begun their bids for the 1989 world title.
Introduced by David Vine

helps you plan your weekend by previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open
University on Saturday and Sunday. A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY production

Fundamentals of Computing One Small Step....
The American Space Shuttle project would have been impossible without computers - but how do they work? Producer DAVID SAUNDERS (R)