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Modern Studies
In the mid 1980s, 1,690,000 people were living on a low income in Scotland. What does this mean to a family?
Commentator: James Hunter. Producer Laurie Stanley BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Commentator:
James Hunter.
Producer:
Laurie Stanley

The Logokids show Timmy Mallett how a recursive procedure is like the house that Jack built, or a picture of a picture of a picture. The possibilities are endless. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timmy Mallett

The second of a two-part story by Grazyna Monvid.
Bridget has told the police about the sexual abuse she's suffered from her dad since she was nine. But her action doesn't please everyone.
Editor Kate Evans
Producer/Director Roger Tonge
CHILDLINE: phone [number removed]. All calls are free.

Contributors

Writer:
Grazyna Monvid.
Editor:
Kate Evans
Producer/Director:
Roger Tonge
Bridget:
Anya Phillips
Mother:
Cherith Mellor
Father:
Will Tacey
Debbie:
Jenny Jay
Champa:
Shahnaz Pakravan
Helen:
Jill McCullough
Andrew:
Lyndon Davies
Lucy:
Emma Bolton
Jamie:
Andrew Laycock
Aunt Jean:
Gillian Hanna
Policeman:
Mike Lunney

Writers, actors, directors and readers talk about the creative process leading to four very different language 'performances': the poetry of Maya Angelou , Pride and Prejudice, Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads and Romeo and Juliet.
Producer Susie Nott-Bower Series producer Paul Ashton

Contributors

Unknown:
Maya Angelou
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Producer:
Paul Ashton

Introduced by David Icke.
Football
Action from this week's World Cup warm-ups, including England v Brazil, and from past World Cup winners. Bobby Moore looks back on 1966, and forward to how England might repeat that success this year.
Motor Sport
The opening rounds of the World Rally Championship from Monte Carlo and Portugal. And from Brands Hatch, the first round of the Honda CRX Challenge saloon car championship. Television presentation Motor Sport BHP
Studio director Mark Wilkin Produced by Philip Bemie
Including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50-4.00pm News; Weather Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke.
Unknown:
Bobby Moore
Director:
Mark Wilkin
Produced By:
Philip Bemie

A documentary biography by James Cameron.
The story of one of the greatest popular entertainers of all time is as remarkable as any of his fictions. Born in 1875, the illegitimate son of a small-time actress, he became a newspaper seller, medical orderly, poet, war correspondent, tipster, novelist, dramatist, film-maker, racehorse owner, impresario, politician. He made fortunes and spent them again - on the stage and the turf. He died in Hollywood, while writing King Kong. He was larger than life. Including contributions from Lord
Cudlipp, Dorothy Dickson , John Gielgud ,
Cathleen Nesbitt , Carol Reed , Alastair Sim and Emlyn Williams. Producer Edward Mirzoeff (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Cameron.
Unknown:
Dorothy Dickson
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Unknown:
Carol Reed
Unknown:
Alastair Sim
Unknown:
Emlyn Williams.
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff

Celebrating creative talent in the North of England.
How did the long-running miners' strike affect the wives of the men involved?
Playwright Margaret Pine moved into a mining community - Easington in County Durham - absorbing the atmosphere of pickets, scabs and soup kitchens to gain material for her play reflecting the changes brought about by the dispute.
Producer Sue Durkan

Contributors

Playwright:
Margaret Pine

This week's programme features items on road safety in Britain and Louise Aitken-Walker 's challenge for the Ladies' World Rallying Championship title.
With William Woollard
Sue Baker
Chris Goffey and Tony Mason.
* FEATURE: page 74
0 COMPETITION: next week, a chance to drive in a world-class rally with the Radio Times Rally Quest 90 Competition.

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Aitken-Walker
Unknown:
William Woollard
Unknown:
Sue Baker
Unknown:
Chris Goffey
Unknown:
Tony Mason.

Starring
Gregory Peck Win Min Than
1945: in the sweltering heat of the Burmese jungle the officers and men of an RAF station are increasingly disturbed by the strange behaviour of Squadron Leader Forrester. After meeting Anna, a beautiful
Burmese girl, he is seemingly a changed man. But his life takes a nightmare turn when a routine flight to a nearby base is struck by disaster.
Miss McNab Brenda De Banzie Screenplay by Eric Ambler from the novel by H E Bates Director Robert Parrish
0 FILMS: pages 18-21

Contributors

Unknown:
Gregory Peck
Unknown:
Eric Ambler
Director:
Robert Parrish
Forrester:
Gregory Peck
Anna:
Win Min Than
Dr Harris:
Bernard Lee
Blare:
Maurice Denham

The fifth in a series of programmes exploring local history in the south and east. The Icknield Way
One of Britain's oldest and most mysterious roads, the Icknield Way, runs along the chalk spine of southern England. Tony Gregory, archaeologist and author, follows the route taken by First World War poet
Edward Thomas in 1911. Starting at Thetford in Norfolk and ending near Swindon in Wiltshire, his walk follows 150 miles through eight counties and 5,000 years of history.
Series producer Denis Moriarty Producer Emma De 'Ath
BBC South and East - Elstree
10 REGIONAL PROGRAMME: for details of variations see panel below

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Thomas
Producer:
Denis Moriarty
Producer:
Emma de 'Ath

Teenage patients face adolescence and chronic disease; a nun faces a challenge to her beliefs and her femininity; a parent watches her child suffer daily; they are all living with cancer.
Sally Hurton explores the experience of cancer and the partnership between the patients and their ally in the battle against the major disease of our time - the cancer nurse.
Director Robert James Producer Rex Deny
Best of British Films and Television production for BBCtv (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Hurton
Director:
Robert James
Producer:
Rex Deny

Keith Wiley is the young, dynamic curator of the Fortesque Garden Trust in Devon. His imaginative creations are an inspiration. With Geoff Hamilton
Nigel Colbom and Diane Kemp.
Series producer Mark Kershaw Editor Dennis Adams BBC Pebble Mill
W GARDENING: page 85

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Wiley
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Nigel Colbom
Unknown:
Diane Kemp.
Producer:
Mark Kershaw
Editor:
Dennis Adams

The English Rose
The term 'English rose' conjures up a variety of images which fall somewhere between the delicate pink roses of high summer and the fair complexion of a young girl. Either way, the term is synonymous with beauty and innocence, and through the centuries has been absorbed into our heritage. Arena goes in search of the perfect English rose in a journey through fact and fairy tale, history, religion and the back garden. Are we looking for a girl or a perfect exhibition bloom?
Contributors include
Jack Harkness , OBE, breeder and rose grower; Don Charlton , rose-growing champion; Barbara Daly , make-up artist and creator of 'the face' of Princess Diana for her wedding; Cyril Fletcher and Jane Asher , both of whom have given their names to famous roses. Director Mary Dickinson
Series editors Anthony Wall and Nigel Finch

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Harkness
Unknown:
Don Charlton
Unknown:
Barbara Daly
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Jane Asher
Director:
Mary Dickinson
Editors:
Anthony Wall
Editors:
Nigel Finch

Duke Ellington was the most important composer in jazz history basing his orchestral works on his distinctive piano style. Tonight's session was originally shown on the first evening that BBC2 was transmitted in April 1964. Presenter: Mick Hucknall. Original material produced by Yvonne Littlewood
Series producer Sharon Ali

Contributors

Presenter:
Mick Hucknall.
Produced By:
Yvonne Littlewood
Producer:
Sharon Ali

Starring George Segal Tom Courtenay
The war in the east is drawing to its close but to the prisoners of war trying to survive in Changi Prison freedom seems far away.
Director Bryan Forbes
0 FILMS: pages 18-21

Contributors

Unknown:
George Segal
Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Director:
Bryan Forbes
Corporal King:
George Segal
Lt Grey:
Tom Courtenay
Fit Lt Marlowe:
James Fox
Larkin:
Denholm Elliot
Tex:
Todd Armstrong
Mar:
Patrick O'Neal
Dr Kennedy:
James Donald
Smedley-Taylor:
John Mills
McCoy:
Leonard Rossiter

BBC Two England

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