Programme Index

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9.40am Lifeschool: Going to Work
How job sharing works for some people.
Producer JILL GLINDON REED
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL (R) (e)

10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. When Dibs drops his teddy, Jeni and Cosmo have to help him find it by retracing their steps. Children make 'this way up' labels. Book: A Balloon for Grandad by NIGEL GRAY. Presenter JENI BARNETT Film editor DAVID PAINTER
Producer NICCI CROWTHER (R) (e)

10.18am Music Time
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (R) (e)

10.40am Thinkabout Holiday Afloat
The children find out all about canals and narrow boats, past and present.
Producer DEREK LONGHURST (R) (e)

10.58am Zig Zag The Greeks: Greek Theatre
Western drama began in Ancient Greece and Sheelagh Gilbey visits the spectacular theatre of Epidaurus.
Producer TOM STANIER (R) (e)

11.20am After Metal-Bashing
Presenter ROBINA OSMANI
Producer David Scott Cowan

11.40am Mindstretchers: Lies and Statistics: the Problem
with FEROZA SYAL and ANTHONY DANIELS (R) (e)

11.45am Micro Mindstretchers Using the Computer Problems: Control
How would you use your microcomputer to control the lights and curtains for a puppet theatre?
Presented by CAROL VORDERMAN
Producer GEORGE AUCKLAND (R) (e)

11.50am Pages from Ceefax

12.15pm History File: Medicine through Time
Medicine, Technology and the Individual
Presented by Paul Viragh. The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up, and acted on, so quickly during the 19th century? With Ian Harvey, Jon Cartwright, Ian Bleasdale, Alan Thompson.
Designer GLORIA CLAYTON Director MORTON SURGUY
Producer JILL SHEPPARD (e)

12.35pm Pages from Ceefax

1.00pm A-level Biology: Genetics
The problems and agonies suffered by some couples in the genetic game of chance, and some hopes for the future. Graphics BERNARD ALLUM
Series producer PETER BRATT (R) (e)

Contributors

Producer:
Jill Glindon
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Unknown:
Nigel Gray.
Presenter:
Jeni Barnett
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer:
Derek Longhurst
Producer:
Tom Stanier
Presenter:
Robina Osmani
Producer:
David Scott Cowan
Unknown:
Feroza Syal
Unknown:
Anthony Daniels
Presented By:
Carol Vorderman
Producer:
George Auckland
Presented By:
Paul Viragh
Unknown:
Lan Harvey
Unknown:
Jon Cartwright
Unknown:
Ian Bleasdale.
Unknown:
Alan Thompson.
Designer:
Gloria Clayton
Director:
Morton Surguy
Producer:
Jill Sheppard
Unknown:
Bernard Allum
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Sally:
Vicky Licorish
Fisherman:
Harry Towb

A See-Saw programme by JOANNE COLE. AND MICHAEL COLE. Narrated by Patricia Hayes
Gran 's Good News
Gran gets fed up with the bad news on television and decides to do something about it.
Music and lyrics by BRYAN DALY Animation DEREK MOGFORD Designed and directed by IVOR WOOD (R)

Contributors

Programme By:
Joanne Cole.
Programme By:
Michael Cole.
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Bryan Daly
Unknown:
Derek Mogford
Directed By:
Ivor Wood

Beside the Seaside
Albert Brown and his granddaughter, Rachel, go to Blackpool for the day. It's a place where Albert spent many holidays as a child. Is Blackpool the same now as it was then?
Narrator Su Pollard
Producer DIANE MORGAN (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Brown
Narrator:
Su Pollard
Producer:
Diane Morgan

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
Mrs Plug the Plumber
To do a job properly, you need to use the right tools. Vicky, Charlie and the children try out the tools in a carpenter's bag - and in the story, Mrs Plug the Plumber's useful bag helps foil a robbery and wins her a wonderful reward.
Presenter
Vicky Ireland with Charlie
Animation DICK TAYLOR Music
IAN HUMPHRIS. PADDY KINGSLAND Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Plug
Unknown:
Mrs Plug
Music:
Ian Humphris.
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton

Weather followed by Living on the Land Gordon Price and His Inherited Horse
A wild young horse transforms the life of a Herefordshire farm family, carrying them at full gallop into the sport of kings. Producer DON HAWORTH (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Don Haworth

The final programme tracing a summer cruise of the Solent as Paul Heiney follows the guide first published 50 years ago by yachtsman and author K. Adlard Coles. This week the crew of the Grace O'Malley visit the Isle of Wight. Could this lovely island be better off linked to the mainland? Has the real spirit of Cowes week been lost forever? And can the creeks and harbours cope with the increasing numbers of yachtsmen who come to enjoy their attractions? Producer CHRIS JONES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
K. Adlard Coles.
Unknown:
Grace O'Malley
Producer:
Chris Jones

Eight documentaries about some of the leading masters of martial arts, and their extraordinary skills. 4: The Filipino Way Narrated by Dennis Waterman. Cacoy Canete is the undisputed master of the Philippines' own martial art. Eskrima is spectacular, fast and very effective, tested by the need to survive in a violent society. The Canete family founded a club to practise and develop their art, and are seen celebrating its 50th anniversary in the company of experts from all over the country. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Waterman.
Unknown:
Cacoy Canete

European Championships from Brussels introduced by Barry Davies. The battle for supremacy in women's gymnastics continues as the Soviet
Union's best gymnasts once again face their arch rivals from Romania. These two countries have dominated all major championships in recent years.
Highlights as the gymnasts compete for both overall and individual apparatus titles. Commentator MITCH FENNER Television presentation RTBF
Assistant producer PAUL DAVIES Produced by BARBARA SLATER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barry Davies.
Commentator:
Mitch Fenner
Producer:
Paul Davies
Produced By:
Barbara Slater

6.40pm Tiree Wave Classic
In October 1987, over 50 top British windsurfers made their way to the remote island of Tiree in Scotland to compete in the wildest wave competition of the year. With their heads full of cutbacks, carve gybes and Cantagalli rolls, they pointed their camper vans north-west in search of the reputed sun, wind and 25-foot Hawaiian-style waves. But it was with mixed feelings that the locals watched the windsurfers roll off the ferry onto their tiny island paradise.
Camera GARRY MORRISON Sound GORDON FORSYTH Editor CHRIS MASON
Dubbing BRONEK KORDA
Director HAMISH BARBOUR

7.10pm That Was Then... This Is Now
The start of a new, restyled series - a 30-minute in-depth interview with artists who have made their mark on the music industry.
In the summer of 76, a punk group was formed who, although not the founding fathers of punk, became the greatest group of that genre. It was guitarist Mick Jones and his colleague Paul Simonon who assembled the Clash.
Mick Jones gives one of his most revealing interviews including his version of the split with the Clash. Plus original footage of the group, and Mick with Big Audio Dynamite.
Videotape editor COLLO CAULTON Interviewer STUART COSGROVE Researcher BRENDA EMMANUS Director ANYA CAMILLERI Producer MAUREEN WHITE

Contributors

Unknown:
Garry Morrison
Unknown:
Gordon Forsyth
Editor:
Chris Mason
Unknown:
Dubbing Bronek Korda
Director:
Hamish Barbour
Guitarist:
Mick Jones
Unknown:
Paul Simonon
Unknown:
Mick Jones
Editor:
Collo Caulton
Interviewer:
Stuart Cosgrove
Producer:
Maureen Wiute

Last in the series presented by Kevin Woodford with guest Jimmy Nail.
You can't always judge a book by its cover. Jimmy Nail , Geordie star of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, may act the yob but his palate is surprisingly delicate. And when it comes to learning how to cook, as he says himself - 'large people aren't always heavy-handed....' Researcher DAMARIS PITCHER
Film editor ALASTAIR MITCHELL
Series producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE (e)
0 BOOK: a step-by-step cookery manual. 'The Reluctant Cook', is available from booksellers, £6.95 paperback. £11.95 hardback.
0 COOKERY: page 92
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Contributors

Presented By:
Kevin Woodford
Unknown:
Jimmy Nail.
Unknown:
Jimmy Nail
Unknown:
Damaris Pitcher
Editor:
Alastair Mitchell
Producer:
Clare Brigstocke

The New Sixth Sense
There is a new technology which will revolutionise doctors' work, the way we watch over the environment, the control of many industrial processes and the purity of food.
It uses a remarkable extra sense that we do not consciously realise we have. Hidden within our bodies is a capacity to recognise and measure the fine details of all our bodily processes: the chemistry of life. In
'biosensors', this biology is combined with electronics to give direct access to that information. It is a field where Britain now has a strong scientific lead. But will we keep it?
Narrator Paul Vaughan Film editor CHRIS BEZANT Written and produced by ALEC NISBETT
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
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Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Chris Bezant
Produced By:
Alec Nisbett
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

starring Karen Valentine Ben Masters.
When her husband is reported killed in a plane crash off the coast of France, Linda Dobbins finds herself unable to believe the official explanation. She takes over his sales job in Europe hoping that she may uncover more information about his death.
What she discovers, to her growing terror, is that her husband was not the man she believed him to be and that his dangerous world is threatening to engulf her.
Screenplay by CAROLE SHERRY and STANLEY Z. SHERRY
Produced and directed by WALTER GRAUMAN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Valentine
Unknown:
Ben Masters.
Unknown:
Linda Dobbins
Unknown:
Carole Sherry
Unknown:
Stanley Z. Sherry
Directed By:
Walter Grauman
Linda Dobbins:
Karen Valentine
Larry Dobbins:
Ben Masters
Claude de Rochemont:
Brian Murray
Cliff:
Wayne Tippitt
Arnie:
Joe Silver
Jim Desmond:
Mark Walker
Anne:
Bronwen Mantel
Iris:
Renee Girard
Grover:
Vlastra Vrana
Parker:
John Lefebvre
McNabb:
Harry Hill
Davidson:
Philip Spensley
Robaine:
Victor Desy
Colonel Shapiro:
Neil Shee
MacEnerny:
Carl Marotte
Inge:
Lyn Jackson
Dr Pascal:
Pierre Zimmer

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick. Directors JOHN WILKINSON and MARK LUCAS
Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick.
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Directors:
Mark Lucas
Editor:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
John Morrison

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