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A Wirral couple - horrified at the squalor and poverty of the slum dwellers in Ecuador - have set themselves an awesome task. From their semi-detached home in Bromborough, Vivienne and Joe Farnin are running an international relief effort for Ecuador's poor.
Martyn Lewis tells the story of the remarkable couple. Producer Dave Guest

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Farnin
Unknown:
Martyn Lewis
Producer:
Dave Guest

Hiawatha. Scene from a longer ballet performed by Michelle Kocsis and Clifton Bryan of Harehills Middle School, Leeds. Producer Mike Murray (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michelle Kocsis
Unknown:
Clifton Bryan
Producer:
Mike Murray

Teylers Museum. Situated in the historic centre of the city of Haarlem, the oldest museum in the Netherlands was built in 1778 and houses acquisitions of art and science from the 18th century. Director/Producer Willy Lindwer
A Radio Netherlands Television production
(Tomorrow: National Museum 'Palace Het Loo ')

Animation featuring Bertha, a large machine with a mind of her own.
Panjid discovers that all the cardboard packages have been nibbled and Bertha is programmed to capture the intruder. Narrated by Roy Kinnear with Sheila Walker. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Sheila Walker.

England v New Zealand
Tony Lewis introduces live coverage of the afternoon's play.
Commentary by Richie Benaud and Jack Bannister. Summaries by Ray Illingworth and Tom Graveney.
Including at
2.00pm and 3.00pm News and Weather

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis
Commentary By:
Richie Benaud
Commentary By:
Jack Bannister.
Unknown:
Ray Illingworth
Unknown:
Tom Graveney.

Muriel Gray visits the London
Design Centre with David Hillman , designer of The Guardian and the New Statesman, to test the public's reaction to the finalists in the graphics section of the competition. BBC Design Awards Exhibitions sponsored by National Power

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel Gray
Unknown:
David Hillman

Vous parlez français comment? If your French is rusty O-level and you'd like to improve it, then this is the series for you. Normandie.
Dariane Lorian 's journey starts in Normandie where she shows you how to buy food, reserve a room in a hotel and what to do if you get lost. Producer Frank Ash
* SUPPORT MATERIAL: book (same title) £3.50, and cassette £4.99 from booksellers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dariane Lorian
Producer:
Frank Ash

This week in a special edition, East reveals the results of a specially-commissioned poll of the Asian community with subjects ranging from education and identity to marriage and voting patterns. A panel of experts discusses the results.
Series producer Charles Bruce Editor Narendhra Morar

Contributors

Producer:
Charles Bruce
Editor:
Narendhra Morar

Last in the series about winemaking.
Winter. For Margaret Vaughan country winemaking is a passion that affects all aspects of her life. It is very difficult to identify the end of the winemaker's year, as the wonders of sharing the fruits of the hedgerows may be experienced all year round.
Producer Andy Kemp
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Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Vaughan
Producer:
Andy Kemp

A series of six personal views by Jonathon Porritt. The former director of Friends of the Earth shows practical examples from around the world of how to control many of our national and global problems. 2: Farming's Future.
'Through a battery of grants and subsidies farmers have been persuaded to increase production at the expense of everything else - including the countryside and food quality.'
Producers Paul Kriwaczek and David Williams
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt.
Producers:
Paul Kriwaczek
Producers:
David Williams

Another chance to see the cream of Clive James's highly successful last series. On tonight's show, he talks to the Los Angeles fitness instructor Jake Steinfeld and comic genius Peter Cook.
Director Dominic Brigstocke Producer Beatrice Ballard (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jake Steinfeld
Unknown:
Peter Cook.
Director:
Dominic Brigstocke
Producer:
Beatrice Ballard

Inside Peterhead. For the first time since the 1987 riots which rocked
Scotland's jails a BBCtv crew has been allowed inside Peterhead
Prison - Scotland's maximum security jail. Focal Point was given unprecedented access to prison life. Inmates, prison officers and the governor talk candidly about the jail and its future.
Forbes McFall reports. Producer Val Atkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Forbes McFall
Producer:
Val Atkinson

Every fisherman dreams of finding a place where no angler has been before, and when legendary mountaineer Joe Brown says he's 'just going over there to fish for pollock off the rocks', you can bet he's found it. The cliffs at Cape Wrath in Scotland have been unfished since time began, except by ten million sea birds. Producer Michael Begg
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Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Brown
Producer:
Michael Begg

BBC Two England

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More