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9.45am Economics: a Question of Choice
Workers or Machines
(e)
10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Harry thinks the music is too loud, Liz does not.
How can Cosmo and Dibs keep them both happy? Transport song:
Wheels on Tracks
Book: Hena Finds a Friend. Presenters LIZ SMITH.
HARRY TOWB
Studio director NICCI CROWTHER Film director JUDITH MILES (R) (e)
10.20am Science Workshop Levers (A)
A cherry picker, a dumper truck and a concrete nibbler, all rely on levers.
Written by EURFRON GWYN JONES Series producer MICHAEL COYLE (R) (e)
10.40am Textile Studies Fashion Makers
Presented by KEITH CHEGWIN. VALERIE GOAD from Kent gets inspiration for her special designs from her own children. Producer JOHN CHAPPLE
(e)
11.00am Words and Pictures Tomorrow
Vicky. Charlie and the children are busy in the library this week. Presenters VICKY IRELAND with CHARLIE
Animation BURA AND HARDWICK, PETER LANG
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (e)
11.15am English Time
What Happened Then?
Producer JILL GLYNDON REED (R) (e)
11.35am The Geography Programme
River Landscape
BERNARD CLARK follows the River Tees from source to mouth. Producer LEN BROWN (R) (e)
11.55am A-level German 3: Gabriele Stiegler
Gabi is training to be a teacher while still at school herself. Production GODFREY JOHNSON SUSAN PATON (R) (e)
12.15pm Big Top Science Water
TERRY MARSH and KJARTAN poskitt find out what's in drinking water, and together they build an aquarium. Production ROBIN MUDGE
GEORGE AUKLAND. BRENDA BARRIE Musical director PETER MOSS
Production assistant WENDY HARDIE (R)(e)
12.35pm Lifeschool Going to Work
Working Together
This documentary looks at the 'turn round' of an aircraft and the teams of people involved. Producer JILL GLYNDON REED
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)
1.00pm Business Matters 1992 is Too Late
1.25pm
Green Claws with Nick Mercer and Stella Goodier
Green Claws is having problems with his clocks, so Percy and he try to invent a new clock - after all, the Claws family are great inventors.
Claws Family stories by SONYA DANN Illustrations JANE GEDYE Script by URSULA JONES
Produced by CHRISTINE HEWITT (R)
1.40pm Zig Zag The Greeks
Women and Children.
Everyday objects from the British Museum are brought to life in a studio reconstruction of a Greek household.
Producer TOM STAMER (R) (e)
2.00pm News Weather followed by Storytime
The Four Friends
In this Indian legend, when a deer is trapped in a hunter's net, a mouse hitches a lift from a bird to go to the rescue.
Presenter BEULAH CANDAPPA Animation RICHARD TAYLOR
Series producers PAT FARRINGTON and DIANE MORGAN (R) (e)
0 Parents should note that some of 'Daytime on Two' is aimed at teenagers and may be unsuitable for the young.

Contributors

Presenters:
Liz Smith.
Written By:
Eurfron Gwyn
Producer:
Michael Coyle
Presented By:
Keith Chegwin.
Presented By:
Valerie Goad
Producer:
John Chapple
Unknown:
Peter Lang
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton
Producer:
Jill Glyndon Reed
Unknown:
Bernard Clark
Producer:
Len Brown
Unknown:
Gabriele Stiegler
Unknown:
Godfrey Johnson
Unknown:
Susan Paton
Unknown:
Terry Marsh
Unknown:
Robin Mudge
Unknown:
George Aukland.
Unknown:
Brenda Barrie
Director:
Peter Moss
Unknown:
Wendy Hardie
Producer:
Jill Glyndon
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Unknown:
Nick Mercer
Stories By:
Sonya Dann
Stories By:
Illustrations Jane Gedye
Script By:
Ursula Jones
Produced By:
Christine Hewitt
Producers:
Pat Farrington
Producers:
Diane Morgan

An Israeli Kibbutz with Kathy Tayler
A break from work or a working break? Is the experience of a kibbutz holiday exhausting or exhilarating? Kathy Tayler slips down to the appealing banana groves of Israel to help out and find out. Director JEREMY mills
Producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kathy Tayler
Unknown:
Kathy Tayler

Weather followed by Wild World
Kopje A Rock for All Seasons Narrated by Barry Paine.
Kopjes are granite islands set in the vast Serengeti plains of Tanzania. These remote rocks are a refuge all year round for a variety of animals, birds, reptiles and insects; even the rock pools are abundant with life. Producer BARRY PAINE BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Paine.

A series of six programmes The Severn
4: Crossing and Docking
Angela Rippon explores the stretch of the Severn between Shepperdine and the mouth of the Avon, where people have crossed not only in ferries and over a bridge, but even on their own two feet.
She discusses industrial pollution of the estuary and sees how its bed is regularly charted so that ships can navigate in and out of port. Producer PAUL SMITH (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Rippon
Producer:
Paul Smith

The first of two programmes celebrating the Mi's 30th birthday.
Tango Tango One Three follows the fortunes of two police patrol-car drivers whose beat is the 30-mile stretch of motorway running through Northamptonshire. Producer DICK MEADOWS
(The second programme, 'The Gap', is on tomorrow at 4.30pm BBC2)

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank.
The bee is the gardener's friend. But is it sensible to set up a beehive in a small garden?
Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
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Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank.
Unknown:
Christine Hardman
Producer:
John Kenyon

with Antoine de Cannes
Simple Minds talk about their new LP. Plus John Lydon 13 years on from Anarchy in the UK.
Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO Director PETER STUART Executive producers
ALEX BERGER .TIM NEWMAN An NB de C production
DEFII editor JANET STREET-PORTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Baptiste Mondino
Director:
Peter Stuart
Unknown:
Alex Berger
Unknown:
Tim Newman
Editor:
Janet Street-Porter

Milan - Update
Magenta De Vine and Sankha Guha
Mothers and sons, sunglasses and spaghetti, high fashion, and that hot accessory - the car radio.
Director JOSH HAUL
Series producer RACHEL PURNELL BBCNorthWest (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Sankha Guha
Producer:
Rachel Purnell

Playing with History Introduced by Christopher Andrew
Two stories tonight reflect the contribution made to history by non-professionals. British and Guaranteed
A look at those who re-create their childhood and the golden age of British engineering by collecting
Frank Hornby 's celebrated model trains.
A Batchelor's Delight
Anne Batchelor has spent four years tracing her family line back to 1527. Among her ancestors is the Elizabethan lutenist, Daniel Bachiler. Cameraman PAT TURLEY
Producers CANDIDA PRYCE-JONES ANTONIA BENEDEK
Series editor ROY DAVIES
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Christopher Andrew
Unknown:
Frank Hornby
Unknown:
Anne Batchelor
Unknown:
Daniel Bachiler.
Unknown:
Pat Turley
Producers:
Candida Pryce-Jones
Producers:
Antonia Benedek
Editor:
Roy Davies

in Mail Call Three
Written by EVERETT GREENBAUM and JIM FRITZELL
Directed by CHARLES S. DUBIN (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Everett Greenbaum
Directed By:
Charles S. Dubin
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
BJ:
Mike Farrell
Col Potter:
Harry Morgan
Hot Lips:
Loretta Swit
Charles:
David Ogden Stiers
Klinger:
Jamie Farr
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher

Second in a five-part series written and directed by GARETHJONES with and June 1985
A-levels loom. Mumtaz studies hard but Adam and Jackie are distracted by each other - and by Mumtaz.
And while Shehnaaz's business fights to get off the ground, there are signs of trouble at Astler's.
Costume designer JANICE RIDER Camera supervisor DON COOPER Lighting DAVE BUSHELL Designer IAN ASHURST
Producer CHRIS PARR. BBC Pebble Mill
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Contributors

Unknown:
Don Cooper
Unknown:
Dave Bushell
Designer:
Ian Ashurst
Producer:
Chris Parr.
Sadiq Sattar:
Zia Mohyeddin
Sarah Morris:
Charlotte Cornwell
Joe Astler:
John Cater
Shehnaaz Sattar:
Shahnaz Pakravan
Hafiz Sattar:
Ayub Khan Din
Mumtaz Sattar:
Mamta Kaash
Adam Morris:
Toby Rolt
Jackie:
Clare Holman
Alex Astler:
Aviva Goldkorn
Nasreen:
Souad Faress
Astler's foreman:
Roger McKern
Meera:
Janet Steel
Candy:
Buki Armstrong
Rashid Sattar:
Jtmmi Harkishin
Imam:
Tariq Yunus
Jackie's mum:
Margot Leicester

12.00 The Trouble with Science
Why is it that there are insufficient girls to fill places in university science departments?
Producer MEG SHEFFIELD
12.2Sam Open Forum: News - Views
CHRIS SEARLE and MOIRA STUART take a look at higher education.
Production PETER CHAMPNESS and JEAN ROWTON
Series producer KEVIN NEWPORT

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Searle
Unknown:
Moira Stuart
Unknown:
Peter Champness

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