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9.40 Lifeschool Going to Work. Fit for the Job Sixteen-year-old Lizzie is in a wheelchair and determined to get herself a job when she leaves school.
Director MORTON SURGUY
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)
10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Jeni's guinea pig has died, how will Cosmo and Dibs cope? Book: The Walking Coat by PAULINE WATSON.
Presenter JENI BARNETT Animation ANDY WALKER
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN (R) (e)
10.18am Music Time The Bush
The song Palm and Cedar and some music describing the spirits of the bush.
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (R) (e)
10.40am Thinkabout Playgrounds
The children build a box-shaped and a pyramid-shaped house in an adventure playground.
Producer PAT FARRINGTON (R) (e)
10.58am Zig Zag The Greeks
Greek Schools
SHEELAGH GILBERT travels back in time to an Athenian classroom and explores the world of wax tablets.
Producer TOM STANIER (R) (e)
11.20am Update USA Energy Boom (R) (e)
11.40am Mindstretchers Bypass: the Problem
Problems for 10- to 12-year-olds with suggested solutions.
FEROZA SYAL explains the pros and cons of bypasses. Which is the best route for the bypass for Edsbridge?
Producer ED HAYWARD (R) (e)
11.45am Micro Mindstretchers: Using the Computer
Spreadsheets: the Problem
Presented by CAROL VORDERMAN How would you use a microcomputer and a spreadsheet to analyse the results of an experiment to measure reaction times? Carol explains how spreadsheets work.
Producer GEORGE AUCKLAND (R) (e)
11.50am Pages from Ceefax
12.00 Mach's Gut! 4: Socialising
Introducing; birthday celebrations; good luck and get-well wishes. With ROBERT RAUCH and SYLVIA ROTTER
Introduced by PAUL MCDOWELL Producer CAROLINE GODLEY (R) (e)
12.15pm History File
Medicine Through Time
Medicine, Women and Society. Only about one in four GPs in Britain is a woman. How were women excluded from medicine during the Middle Ages, and what problems did women medical students, and Britain's first woman doctor
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , face in the 19th century? Presented by PAUL VIRAGH With CAROLINE RYDER
JANET HENFREY. KATE GODFREY JON CARTWRIGHT , JOHN BURGESS IAN BLEASDALE and IAN HARVEY Designer GLORIA CLAYTON Director MORTON SURGUY
Producer JILL SHEPPARD (e)
12.35pm Pages from Ceefax
1.00pm Big Top Science Memory
A visit to the Discovery Dome to investigate memory with TERRY MARSH and KJARTAN POSKITT . Production ROBIN MUDGE. GEORGE AUCKLAND
Musical director PETER MOSS (R) (e)

Contributors

Director:
Morton Surguy
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Unknown:
Pauline Watson.
Presenter:
Jeni Barnett
Producer:
Richard Callanan
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Pat Farrington
Unknown:
Sheelagh Gilbert
Producer:
Tom Stanier
Presented By:
Carol Vorderman
Unknown:
Robert Rauch
Introduced By:
Paul McDowell
Producer:
Caroline Godley
Unknown:
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Presented By:
Paul Viragh
Unknown:
Caroline Ryder
Unknown:
Janet Henfrey.
Unknown:
Kate Godfrey
Unknown:
Jon Cartwright
Unknown:
John Burgess
Unknown:
Ian Bleasdale
Unknown:
Ian Harvey
Designer:
Gloria Clayton
Director:
Morton Surguy
Producer:
Jill Sheppard
Unknown:
Terry Marsh
Unknown:
Kjartan Poskitt
Unknown:
Robin Mudge.
Unknown:
George Auckland
Director:
Peter Moss

Egypt Today (1)
What's life like in modem
Egypt? A look at the daily life of two families, one in a delta town, the other in Cairo.
The children are seen at home, at school and at play.
Narrator Samira Kirollos Film editor JOHN BILLINGHAM Producer DAVID MELDRUM (e)

Contributors

Narrator:
Samira Kirollos
Producer:
David Meldrum

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
The Challenging Bull
Can you twitch your nose? Can you wriggle your toes? In today's story, the bull is very keen to challenge the other animals - but less keen to carry out his boasts!
Presenter Vicky Ireland with Charlie
Animation BURA AND HARDWICK Music
IAN HUMPHRIES , PADDY KINGSLAND Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hardwick Music
Unknown:
Ian Humphries
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton
Lizzie:
Karen Frawley
Joan:
Penny Morrell
Tracey:
Liza Harmer
Mr Martin:
Michael Burrell
Marion:
Sarah Shipton
Gary:
Gary Forbes
Joe:
Robert Hartley
Sharon:
Buki Armstrong

Weather followed by London Season
Here I Come
Margaret Powell Looks at High Society
For this film the late
Margaret Powell, once a kitchenmaid, 'did' the London season - that period between May and the end of August when debs come out. She enjoyed every moment - but wished that she had
'come out' 50 years earlier. Producer JEREMY BENNETT (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Powell
Producer:
Jeremy Bennett

The first of three programmes in which
Paul Heiney cruises the Solent in his gaff cutter. It's 50 years since the yachtsman and author K. Adlard Coles first published his famous guide to these popular waters, and it is this first edition which has inspired Heiney to set sail to discover how the Solent has fared at the hands of developers and visitors. Producer CHRIS JONES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
K. Adlard Coles
Producer:
Chris Jones

starring
Dick Powell
Gloria Stuart
Adolphe Menjou.
Medical student Dick Curtis is paying his way through college by working as a clerk in a fashionable summer hotel. When he meets beautiful heiress Ann Prentiss , a song is never far away ...
This exuberant musical contains the amazing Lullaby of Broadway number - one of Busby Berkeley's finest achievements.
Screenplay by PETER MILNE. ROBERT LORD. MANUEL SEFF Produced by ROBERT LORD
Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY
0 FILMS: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Powell
Unknown:
Gloria Stuart
Unknown:
Adolphe Menjou.
Unknown:
Dick Curtis
Unknown:
Ann Prentiss
Unknown:
Peter Milne.
Produced By:
Robert Lord
Directed By:
Busby Berkeley
Dick Curtis:
Dick Powell
Ann Prentiss:
Gloria Stuart
NiCOleff:
Adolphe Menjou
Mrs Matilda Prentiss:
Alice Brady
T Mosely Thorpe:
Hugh Herbert
Humbolt Prentiss:
Frank McHugh
Arline Davis:
Dorothy Dare
Betty Hawes:
Glenda Farrell
Schultz:
Joseph Cawthorn
Louis Lamson:
Grant Mitchell
Winny:
Winifred Shaw

Tonight's guest is the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd , MP. How can British football grounds be made safer?
Should The Satanic Verses be banned?
Does the new
Secrets Bill really serve the public interest?
Will deregulation guarantee better broadcasting?
Tonight the Home Secretary is challenged on these and other issues by young people from all over Britain. Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy Researcher PAUL GALLAGHER Director Liz SCOTT
Producer DAVID MARTIN BBC Scotland
(Postponed from 1 May)

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Hurd
Presented By:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Presented By:
Researcher Paul Gallagher
Director:
Liz Scott
Producer:
David Martin

Depeche Mode
Despite a nine-year history littered with hit singles and hit albums, Depeche Mode still struggle for credibility in Britain. Not so in Europe and America where they enjoy success on a huge scale and their haircuts are of no significance.
The boys from Basildon, Essex, reveal all.
Researcher RORY SHEEHAN Produced and directed by DAVID G. CROFT (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rory Sheehan
Directed By:
David G. Croft

A series for faint-hearted and disillusioned cooks presented by Kevin Woodford with guest Rick Wakeman.
Funny thing about barbecues, they're always better in theory than practice.
The experience of rock musician Rick Wakeman consists of steaks charred on the outside and raw inside. His neighbour on the Isle of Man just happens to be Kevin Woodford , a dab hand with the firelighters.
Film cameraman JOHN RHODES
Production assistant DAMARIS PITCHER Series producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE (e)
0 BOOK: available from booksellers,
96.95 paperback, £11.95 hardback.
0 COOKERY: page 103
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Presented By:
Kevin Woodford
Unknown:
Rick Wakeman.
Musician:
Rick Wakeman
Unknown:
Kevin Woodford
Unknown:
John Rhodes

The 'white heat' of scientific revolution was the mood into which Horizon was born. Twenty-five years ago the deepest discoveries of science, as well as the most fascinating, were accessible to millions of viewers for the first time. But before long "Horizon" turned from straightforward reportage to criticism. Twenty years before 'green' was acceptable, scientists and industrialists were attacked for their rape of the environment.

Obstetricians were accused of inducing births to suit hospital schedules. Government was accused of ignoring the exciting possibilities of micro-chip electronics. Were these criticisms valid and what effect have they had?

(VOICE OVER: page 96)
(CEEFAX SUBTITLES)

Contributors

Film Editor:
Tim Craven
Written and Produced by:
Vivienne King
"Horizon" Editor:
Robin Brightwell

Starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Ron Karabatsos.

Sara Scott is a private detective with a problem - she's plagued by the recurring nightmare of her husband's death - gunned down by an unknown assailant before her eyes. On the case of an adulterous psychiatrist, Sara stumbles across some connections with the murder.
Films: page 31
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Mike Hodges
Sara Scott:
Elizabeth Montgomery
Sam Gage:
John Reilly
Valerie Scott:
Lou Anne
Claude Papazian:
Ron Karabatsos
Lawrence Conrad:
Robin Gammel
Spencer Harris:
Julius W Harris
Andy Scott:
David Haskell
Jorge Martinez:
Daniel Pilon
Anna Perez:
Gina Alvarado
Helen Richman:
Leigh Hamilton
James Richman:
Alan Oliney
Judith Rosenus:
Leslie Ackerman
Al Seco:
Tim Dunigan
Sincoff:
Kurtwood Smith
Produced by:
Doug Chapin

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with international reports by DAVID SELLS, CHARLES WHEELER GAVIN ESLER and JULIAN O'HALLORAN.
Directors JOHN WILKINSON and MARK LUCAS
Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Gavin Esler
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran.
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Directors:
Mark Lucas
Editor:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
John Morrison

Michael Ignatieff visits
Bradford, in the wake of the Salman Rushdie affair, and reports on how British
Muslims are reconciling their traditional values with the pressures of Western life. Producer FIONA MURCH Director BETH HOLGATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Salman Rushdie
Producer:
Fiona Murch
Director:
Beth Holgate

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