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6.35 Pure Maths: Cycles
7.00 Assessing Chances
7.25 Calculus: Behaviour of Functions
7.50 Technology: Something New under the Sun?
8.15 Working for Love
8.40 Photochemistry: Vision
9.05 Interpersonal Communication
9.30 Force and Violence
9.55 Arts: The Great Exhibition
10.20 Diabetes: Restoring the Balance
10.45 Maths: Volumes of Revolution
11.10 Genetics: Of Gann and Genes
11.35 Man-Made Macromolecules

Christopher Jones with the week's best speeches, most telling moments and wittiest asides. A look at the politicians at work in the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Committee Rooms. Editor Lydia Howard
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Then at 12.35pm how decisions taken at Westminster will affect your part of the country.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Jones
Editor:
Lydia Howard

Isobel Ward, Simon Barnes and Chris Davies present the magazine programme that challenges able-bodied perceptions of disability. With subtitles and sign-language interpretation for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Barnes
Unknown:
Chris Davies

Introduced by Steve Rider.
2.00 Tennis
4.00 Cycling
5.00 Tennis
Tennis
The French Open Championships from Paris. Live coverage of the Men's Singles Final. In 1989 it was Michael Chang 's first Grand
Slam win. Commentators:
Dan Maskell and John Barrett.
Cycling
The full story of the 33rd Milk Race, which began two weeks ago.
Commentators: Phil Liggett and Hugh Porter.
Producer Martin Hopkins Editor John Philips

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider.
Unknown:
Michael Chang
Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett.
Unknown:
Hugh Porter.
Producer:
Martin Hopkins
Editor:
John Philips

Even Mrs Thatcher seems to have come round to the idea of tying the pound to the other European currencies before the next election.
And joining the European exchange-rate mechanism is now the centrepiece of Labour's policy for inflation. But are we being conned? Steve Levinson reports from France and Spain on the impact of the system on business and inflation. Producer Martin Small Editor David Nissan

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Unknown:
Steve Levinson
Editor:
David Nissan

Starring Shirley MacLaine Anne Bancroft
Everything changes for American Ballet Theater star Emma Jacklin when Emilia, the daughter of her dancing contemporary
Deedee Rogers , joins the company in New York and unwittingly ignites the fierce rivalry of the past.
This film features the screen debut of famous Russian dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Director Herbert Ross
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Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley MacLaine
Unknown:
Anne Bancroft
Unknown:
Emma Jacklin
Unknown:
Deedee Rogers
Unknown:
Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Director:
Herbert Ross
Deedee Rogers:
Shirley MacLaine
Emma Jacklin:
Anne Bancroft
Yuri:
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Emilia Rogers:
Leslie Browne
Wayne Rogers:
Tom Skerritt
Adelaide:
Martha Scott
Sevilla:
Antoinette Sibley
Madam Kahkarova:
Alexandra Danilova

The Fire and the Rose
'Transfiguration is what we most desire in the creative process, because this is what unites us with our Creator!' These words of Sofia
Gubaidulina introduce a portrait of one of the most important and original compositional voices in the Soviet Union. In this film she describes her childhood and the awakening of music within her, her deep religious convictions and her extraordinary passion for the poetry of T S Eliot.
With Vladimir Tonkha (cello), Friedrich Lips (accordion), the Mark Pekarsky Percussion
Ensemble and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Director Barrie Gavin

Contributors

Cello:
Vladimir Tonkha
Accordion:
Friedrich Lips
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.
Director:
Barrie Gavin

The fifth in this series of dramas inspired by the Ten
Commandments shows the appalling brutality of murder.
Shot through yellow and green filters to heighten the disturbing mood, Krzysztof Kieslowski 's film unsparingly witnesses two killings.
The feature film A Short Film about
Killing, developed from this programme, won the Jury Prize and the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988 and has been hugely acclaimed throughout the world.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Jacek:
Miroslaw Baka
Piotr:
Krzysztof Globisz
Taxi driver:
Jan Tesarz

Canadian Grand Prix
The Formula One circus goes back west across the Atlantic to the picturesque lie Notre-Dame circuit in Montreal. Once again it's Ayrton Senna 's McLaren that everyone has to beat following his triumph in Monaco two weeks ago. Watch out too for the Williams of Boutsen and Patrese, hoping for a repeat of their first and second positioning of last year.
Commentators: Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Unknown:
Ayrton Senna
Commentators:
Murray Walker
Commentators:
James Hunt.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside

Alex Cox introduces another in the season of outstanding cult films.

Starring Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of British cinema, this five-in-one horror film with its famous ventriloquist sequence is one of the most chilling cinematic excursions into the unknown.
Architect Walter Craig goes to the home of a new client, but finds the house and its inhabitants strangely familiar. Each of the guests has a story to tell and gradually Craig realises he is trapped in a ghastly recurring nightmare.
Directors Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer Producer Michael Balcon
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Contributors

Introduces:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Michael Redgrave
Unknown:
Googie Withers
Unknown:
Walter Craig
Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Basil Dearden
Unknown:
Robert Hamer
Producer:
Michael Balcon
Maxwell Frere:
Michael Redgrave
Walter Craig:
Mervyn Johns
Joan Cortland:
Googie Withers
George Parratt:
Basil Radford
Larry Potter:
Naunton Wayne
Sally O'Hara Sally:
Ann Howes
Eliot Foley:
Roland Culver
Dr Van Straaten:
Frederick Valk
Hearse driver:
Miles Malleson
Beulah:
Elizabeth Welch
Mrs Foley:
Mary Merrall
Peter Cortland:
Ralph Michael
Sylvester Kee:
Hartley Power
Mrs Craig:
Renee Gadd

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