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9.45am Economics: A Question of Choice The Right Price
(e)
10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Dibs finds a good way to alter Jeni's bad moods.
Book: Maggie and the Monster by ELIZABETH WINTHROP. Presenter JENI BARNETT
Animation ALAN ROGERS and PETER LANG
Producer NICCI CROWTHER (R) (e)
10.20am Pages from Ceefax
10.40am Textile Studies Clothes Talk
(e)
11.00am Words and Pictures
On the Other Side of the River (e)
11.15am English Time Gentle Persuasion
People who persuade for a living - a market trader, a television advertiser and a barrister - talk about their techniques and their language. North London pupils make two contrasting films about the area around their school. Film editor JOHN DINWOODIE Producer PAUL ASHTON (R) (e)
11.35am The Geography Programme
Once There Were Volcanoes Here
MALCOLM STACEY visits the Isle of Skye, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Northumberland, and looks at landscapes that owe their existence to volcanic rocks. Producer LEN BROWN (R) (e)
11.55am A-level German
5: Der Andere Teil Deutschlands KLAUS ROMER talks to West German and Austrian teenagers. Life in nearby East Germany is strange and foreign, even though they share the same language. Production GODFREY JOHNSON SUSAN PATON (R) (e)
12.15pm A-level Biology Cell Biology
(e)
12.35pm Lifeschool Going to Work
I'm in Charge Here!
(e)
1.00pm Business Matters
(e)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeni Barnett
Unknown:
Animation Alan Rogers
Unknown:
Peter Lang
Editor:
John Dinwoodie
Producer:
Paul Ashton
Unknown:
Malcolm Stacey
Producer:
Len Brown
Talks:
Klaus Romer
Unknown:
Godfrey Johnson
Unknown:
Susan Paton

with Nick Mercer and Stella Goodier.
There's a problem buzzing around in the greenhouse but Green Claws comes up with a brilliant solution - or so he thinks!
Script by URSULA JONES Illustrations JANE GEDYE Designer BOB COVE
Producer CHRISTINE HEWITT (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Mercer
Unknown:
Stella Goodier.
Script By:
Ursula Jones
Unknown:
Jane Gedye
Designer:
Bob Cove
Producer:
Christine Hewitt

Weather followed by Storytime Dogger
Dave loses his favourite toy but his big sister comes to the rescue.
Presented by Tina Gray Story by SHIRLEY HUGHES
Series producers DIANE MORGAN PAT FARRINGTON (R) (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Storytime Dogger
Presented By:
Tina Gray
Story By:
Shirley Hughes
Producers:
Diane Morgan
Producers:
Pat Farrington

The first of two programmes.
Each year Whitehall recruits ' about 100 of the country's brightest graduates - batches of hopefuls come to Whitehall for two gruelling days.
What happens has never been filmed before. One is Tim Cooke , educated at comprehensive school and Oxford before joining the GLC. Will his background be an advantage?
Producer CHRIS curling Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Cooke
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

Weather followed by Betjeman
A Land for All Seasons An anthology by Sir John Betjeman.
Poems read by Sir John Betjeman , Donald Houston ,
Gary Watson , Barbara Leigh -Hunt, Gabriel Woolf , Pauline Letts and John Boswall. Produced by JOHN BIRD
Series editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman.
Read By:
Sir John Betjeman
Read By:
Donald Houston
Read By:
Gary Watson
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
John Boswall.
Produced By:
John Bird
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank. It's time for a number of important jobs in the garden. Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer JOHN KENYON
BBC Pebble Mill Plant list on Ceefax page 261

Contributors

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

6.00pm Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
starring
Flight of the War Witch (1) Buck comes across an unlikely ally when trying to save a peaceful planet.
Written by ROBERT W. GILMER and WILLIAM MAGEEAN
Directed by LARRY STEWART

6.45pm Rapido
with Antoine de Caunes
Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks talks about her new solo LP.
Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO Director PETER STUART Executive producers
ALEX BERGER. TIM NEWMAN An NB de C production
DEF II editor JANET STREET-PORTER

7.15pm Rough Guide to Europe: Ljubljana - Update
Magenta De Vine and Sankha Guha find fewer differences than they might have supposed. Director JOSH HALIL
Series producer RACHEL PURNELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Buck Rogers
Written By:
Robert W. Gilmer
Written By:
William Mageean
Directed By:
Larry Stewart
Talks:
Stevie Nicks
Unknown:
Jean Baptiste Mondino
Director:
Peter Stuart
Unknown:
Alex Berger.
Unknown:
Tim Newman
Editor:
Janet Street-Porter
Unknown:
Magenta de Vine
Unknown:
Sankha Guha
Director:
Josh Halil
Producer:
Rachel Purnell
Buck Rogers:
Gil Gerard

The Skeletons of Spitalfields with David Drew.
Who is skeleton number
2,309? How old was she when she died? What did she do in life? In a unique excavation, 1,000 bodies buried as recently as 1800 have been removed from a London crypt. By analysing how and why these people died, dentists, doctors and archaeologists are helping current forensic and medical research, as well as uncovering an extraordinary record of life in early 19th-century London. Photography david SOUTH Film editor DAVID PYGRAM
Series editor BRUCE NORMAN Producer CLARE PATERSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
David Drew.
Editor:
Bruce Norman
Producer:
Clare Paterson

in Temporary Duty Written by KEN LEVINE and KEN ISAACS
Directed by burt METCALFE (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Ken Levine
Written By:
Ken Isaacs
Directed By:
Burt Metcalfe
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
BJ:
Mike Farrell
Col Potter:
Harry Morgan
Hot Lips:
Loretta Swit
Charles:
David Ogden Stiers
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Klinger:
Jamie Farr
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher

Fourth in a five-part series written and directed by GARETH JONES with and March 1987
Mumtaz combines student union politics, law studies, family and Islam. Jackie doubles as young mother and rising star at Astler's. Adam holds down the family business, art and fatherhood. Complicated lives, sexually and professionally.
Videotape editor IAN COLLINS Script editor ROGER GREGORY Lighting DAVE BUSHELL Designer IAN ASHURST Producer CHRIS PARR
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Contributors

Directed By:
Gareth Jones
Editor:
Ian Collins
Editor:
Roger Gregory
Editor:
Lighting Dave Bushell
Designer:
Ian Ashurst
Producer:
Chris Parr
Sadiq Sattar:
Zia Mohyeddin
Sarah Morris:
Charlotte Cornwell
Joe Astler:
John Cater
Shehnaaz Sattar:
Shahnaz Pakravan
Mumtaz Sattar:
Mamta Kaash
Adam Morris:
Toby Rolt
Jackie:
Clare Holman
Hafiz Sattar:
A Yub Khan Din
Rashid Sattar:
Jimmi Harkishin
Alex Astler:
A Viva Goldkorn
Phil Morris:
Raad Rawi
Said Farrukh:
Paul Bhattacharjee
Meera:
Janet Steel
Nasreen:
Souad Faress
Mrs Chowdri:
Charu Bala Chokshi
Astler's foreman:
Roger McKern
Richard:
Stewart Bevan
Fina:
Kimberley Palmer

12.00 Structuring Decisions
Why should doctors grow trees before they decide what to do? Producer JEREMY COOPER (R)
12.25am Marketing the Micro The cut-throat world of microcomputers provides the setting for a look at two approaches to marketing. Is thorough market research necessary? Or is it just a question of utilising the latest technology? Producer KEVIN NEWPORT (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Jeremy Cooper

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