A Question of Balance

Cartoonist Bill Tidy visits
Sussex Cricket Club in Hove. Producer PAUL SLATER BBC South (R)

Open University continue their special preview of programmes looking at education today.
Exploring Educational Issues Sam's Story
The inspiring story of a multiply-disabled girl who has been successfully integrated into a normal school.
Producer BOB WALTERS A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY production (R)

starring
All is set fair with music and romance on a luxury cruise, when a beautiful heiress changes her identity, to find a prospective husband who is not just another fortune hunter. The complications that follow point to plenty of stormy weather ahead.
Screenplay by MARY LOOS and RICHARD SALE Directed by LLOYD BACON
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Managing Schools
Burdiehouse Primary
The existence of this school is a triumph over adverse conditions in a part of Edinburgh which is beset with social problems.
12.55pm Managing Schools One More Step
What can school managers do to make the transition from primary to secondary school as smooth as possible? Answers come from
Stevenage in Hertfordshire. Producer GEOFF WHEELER A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY production (R)

A See Saw programme.

It's a windy day and Pat has problems doing his job.
Written by John Cunliffe. (R)

Prom Night Fall Out
The plaintiff goes to a salon to have a perm for her school prom, but her mother isn't pleased with the result!
Judge Joseph A. Wapner hears the evidence. (H)

Weather followed by Weekend Outlook

War and Revolution
Peter looks at the 1917 Revolution, the rise of Stalinism and the outcome of the German invasion in 1941 - as they were recorded on film: from Tsar Nicholas II's home movies to the grim documentary footage of the 1930s. Yevgeny Yevtushenko recites his poem to the victims of Babi Yar. (R)

Weather followed by The European Showjumping
Championships from Rotterdam, featuring the Team Championship. Great Britain defend their team gold medal which they won four years ago in Dinard. Competition will be stiffer this time though, including West Germany, team gold medallists in the Seoul
Olympics. The Whitaker brothers are once again the cornerstone of the British team, with John one of the favourites for the individual title on Sunday.
Commentators:
Raymond Brooks-Ward , Stephen Hadley Television presentation NOS including at
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

A film about the growth of the Kent coalfield. In the 20s and 30s miners from Northumberland and Durham went down to Kent, and they still maintain the traditions of the north east among the hopfields.
Producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK BBC North East (R)

Reporter Richard Vaughan watches the wealthy wet set at play during the Cowes to Torquay powerboat race last August, and finds himself being taken for a ride! Producers
JONATHAN BIGWOOD. NEIL HUGHES (R)

Maureen sings some of your favourite songs, joined by John Anderson , the Harlandic Male Voice Choir and the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra.
Designer JOHN ARMSTRONG Producer IAN HAMILTON

ends a season of films starring Britain's most endearing comedian with George wants to be a jockey - but selling ice creams on a racecourse is as near as he can get to his life's ambition. However, things turn out well for the guileless ukelele player when he rides the world's fiercest horse to victory.
Screenplay and story by ANTHONY KIMMINS , LESLIE ARLISS and VAL VALENTINE
Produced by JACK KITCHIN
Directed by ANTHONY KIMMINS
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The series where the public can make programmes under their own editorial control. Wake Up, Slop Out, Banged Away Again
Can it be justice when a man is locked up in prison for over 22 months before his case comes to trial - and then he's found not guilty? Can it make sense that a woman charged simply with breaking a window serves seven weeks in prison before her trial, when all she ultimately receives is a probation order? In this film the Howard
League for Penal Reform shows how cases like this lie at the heart of Britain's deepening remand crisis.
By exploring the problems through the eyes of people directly involved, constructive alternatives to the use of custody are proposed. With support from Rumpole of the Bailey writer, John Mortimer , QC, the League argues that the current policy of building ever more prisons should be reversed and we should start closing some down. Film camera DAVE GRAY
Film editor CHRIS STEPHEN
Executive producer TONY LARYEA Producer GILES OAKLEY Director LIZZI BECKER
Community Programme Unit

Carol and Andrew Phillips from Wallington have had enough. They are starting a new life on a farm in Cornwall to escape the crime, the traffic, the overcrowding and the pressure which a survey revealed made people in the properous south east the most miserable in Britain. Guy Michelmore looks at why more and more people are leaving the region. Producer MIKE DAVIDSON Editor COLIN STANBRIDGE
BBC South and East - Elstree
(Regional programme - for variations see below)

from Barnsdale, with Geoff Hamilton , Anne Swithinbank and Bill Symondson. A new clematis, 'Pink
Champagne', is launched on the market this month. Raymond Evison , who collected it in Japan some years ago, extols the virtues of clematis in all forms.
There are many poisonous plants and, for children particularly, they are a real hazard. For instance the universally popular spurges (Euphorbia) may cause skin complaints, vomiting and violent tummy ache. How careful do you need to be?
And Bill Symondson suggests controls for vine weevils.
Production assistant JAYNE SAVAGE Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261
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The Complete Story starring
4: Lake Tahoe , Nevada. 1958: Michael Corleone is the new 'Godfather', a man who must attend to family problems in the time-honoured way and use his frightening power to extend his criminal empire beyond America's shores ...
Screenplay by MARIO PUZO and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Produced by ALBERTS RUDDY and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (Final part next Friday) (R)
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Unusual insights into Britain today.
3: Vino Expresso
Parted from their native chianti the Italian community in London scour markets for the grapes that will bring a taste of Tuscan homebrew to their basements and garages.
Executive producer (BBC) DAVID PEARSON Producers
CARL PRECHEZER and PETER SALMI
A ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART production for BBCtv (R)

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick.

Programme 3.
The first of three performance programmes from the Edinburgh festival. tonight featuring the crazy French circus Archaos, whose act uses chainsaws rather than tigers, and motorbikes rather than elephants. All the noise, spectacle and excitement of being there, without the danger.
Researcher TIM NIEL
Director GEORGE CATHRO Editor JOHN ARCHER
(Programme 4 next Monday)

The first of three performance programmes sees a show by French circus act Archaos, who use chainsaws and motorbikes instead of tigers and elephants.

starring the inimitable Jack Benny with guest stars Dennis Day and Don Wilson.
How Jack Found Dennis
Or how Jack turned down Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby for a nobody working in a Chinese restaurant. Directed and produced by FREDKRICK DE CORDOVA

starring
It's a Dog's Life
A puppy (which he doesn't know about) and a bowl of food (which has his taste buds jumping) are the ingredients for another one of Ralph's get-rich-quick schemes. But which dog is about to have his day? Written by LEONARD STERN and SYDNEY ZELINKA Directed by FRANK SATENSTEIN