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Managing Assessment
Assessment and testing at four key stages - how are schools learning to cope with the new demands and working towards achieving a sound, whole school policy? Presented by Martin Young . Producer GEOFF WILSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Young
Producer:
Geoff Wilson

Maps and Mapping 1: Making Maps.
How do map-makers manage to give an accurate and detailed picture of a whole town or village on just a small sheet of paper?
Presented by Billy McElhanney and Simon Sharkey. Producer MARIANNE BAIRD

Contributors

Presented By:
Billy McElhanney
Presented By:
Simon Sharkey.
Producer:
Marianne Baird

Weather followed by Storytime
The Trouble with Dad
... is all the fantastic machines he keeps making. Presented by: Aidan Cook with children from Easton
Infants School.
Animation MIKE HIBBERT and ANDY WAGNER
Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON
A Ragdoll production for BBCtv

Contributors

Presented By:
Aidan Cook
Unknown:
Mike Hibbert
Unknown:
Andy Wagner
Producer:
Moyra Gambleton

Embassy World Indoor
Bowls Championship 1990 Featuring the first quarter-final in the pairs.
David Icke reports on the action from the Preston Guild Hall.
Commentators: David Rhys Jones and Jimmy Davidson. Summarisers: John Bell ,
Mal Hughes and David McGill.
Including at
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
David Icke
Commentators:
David Rhys
Commentators:
Jimmy Davidson.
Unknown:
John Bell
Unknown:
Mal Hughes
Unknown:
David McGill.

With Magenta De Vine,
Sankha Guha ,
Michael Douglas , John Holdsworth ,
Laura Walsh , Brenda Emmanus , Tyler Brule and the team. Studio director TONY HARRISON Editor RACHEL PURNELL
('Reportage Update' next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sankha Guha
Unknown:
Michael Douglas
Unknown:
John Holdsworth
Unknown:
Laura Walsh
Unknown:
Brenda Emmanus
Unknown:
Tyler Brule
Director:
Tony Harrison
Editor:
Rachel Purnell

With guests Basia, the Blue Nile,
Paul Carrack and Tipitina's.
Presented by Antoine de Caunes. Titles JEAN BAPTISTE MONDINO
Executive producers ALEX BERGER and TIM NEWMAN
An N B de C Production

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Carrack
Unknown:
Jean Baptiste Mondino
Producers:
Alex Berger
Producers:
Tim Newman
David Vincent:
Roy Thinnes
Warren Doneghan:
Arthur Hill

Only Dummies Don't Take Risks
The 1983 seat belt law is widely believed to have saved hundreds of lives a year. But it hasn't. Transport boffin John Adams believes improving safety produces riskier behaviour.
Thinking through Science The National Curriculum aims to promote 'science for all'. Educationist Joan Solomon looks at new teaching methods which need to be brought into the classroom if children are to learn how to think.
Creatures of Chance
Simon Conway Morris looks at the latest fossil evidence for the sudden appearance of the first animals on earth. Why did some survive and others disappear?
Editor JANA BENNETT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Adams
Unknown:
Joan Solomon
Unknown:
Simon Conway Morris
Editor:
Jana Bennett

A play with music in six parts by Dennis Potter.
Starring Bob Hoskins Cheryl Campbell and Gemma Craven.
4: Better Think Twice
Arthur and Eileen are both in London, now going their separate ways - he to start his own record shop and she to live the life that begins at Oxford Circus. Survival is hard and they are each finding their adventures beginning to sour. A chance meeting in a pub and they are reunited. Will they do better together than apart....?
Choreography TUDOR DAVIES Produced by KENITH TRODD
Directed by PIERS HAGGARD (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Potter.
Unknown:
Bob Hoskins
Unknown:
Cheryl Campbell
Unknown:
Gemma Craven.
Unknown:
Tudor Davies
Produced By:
Kenith Trodd
Directed By:
Piers Haggard
Cafe proprietor:
Tony Caunter
Eileen:
Cheryl Campbell
Cafe customer:
Tudor Davies
Prostitute:
Phyllis McMahon
Mrs Corder:
Bella Emberg
Joan Parker:
Gemma Craven
Arthur Parker:
Bob Hoskins
Barman:
Will Stampe
Tom:
Hywel Bennett
Pub whores:
Olwen Griffiths
Pub whores:
Maggy Maxwell
Irene:
Jenny Logan
Policeman:
Howard Lew Lewis
Accordion man:
Kenneth Colley
Doctor:
Vass Anderson
Youth:
Tony London

The Boots Factory in Nottingham is a vast glass palace built by Owen Williams in 1932. Iwona Blazwick, from London's ICA, tours the factory which is acknowledged as a masterpiece of early British modernism.
Producer CLARE PATERSON Director TERRY FLAXTON BBC Elstree (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Clare Paterson
Director:
Terry Flaxton

12.00 From Child to Pupil Producer NICK BRENTON (R)
12.25 An Introduction to
Psychology: Two Research Styles
Two psychologists from
Leeds University demonstrate two different styles of psychological research.
Producer VICTOR LOCKWOOD (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Brenton
Producer:
Victor Lockwood

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