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Carol Vorderman explores numbers that crop up in music.maths helpline on [number removed] (24 hours).
● HELPLINE: for adults wanting to find out about local help with maths, there is advice on a free 24-hour helpline on [number removed] CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Vorderman

Up in the Air. Wings (Part 3) Modem flight: from seaplanes to space shuttles. Ellis Ward and Simon Davies visit
Concorde. In the story, Angela goes to the airport and flies a plane - by mistake.
Producer Susie Nott-Bower (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Davies
Producer:
Susie Nott-Bower

Classic Texts
Great Expectations. Charting Pip's often painful journey of self-discovery, from childhood on the marshes to a life of 'great expectations'.
Director Jeremy Woolf Producer Geoff Wilson

Contributors

Director:
Jeremy Woolf
Producer:
Geoff Wilson
Pip:
Mark Burdis
Magwitch:
Jack Watson
Joe:
Sean Blowers
Miss Haversham:
Jill Melford
Estella:
Melanie Thaw

The week's international action, including England v the Cameroons.
Snooker
The Benson and Hedges
Masters from the Wembley
Conference Centre: the third quarter-final played over the best of nine frames. If the seedings have worked out, world No 3 John Parrott will be playing sixth seed
Terry Griffiths. Commentary by Ted Lowe , Jack Kamehm and Clive Everton. Summaries by John Spencer and Ray Edmonds.
Introduced by Helen Rollason. Producer Sharon Lence
Editor Philip Bemie
Including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
John Parrott
Unknown:
Terry Griffiths.
Commentary By:
Ted Lowe
Commentary By:
Jack Kamehm
Unknown:
John Spencer
Unknown:
Ray Edmonds.
Introduced By:
Helen Rollason.
Producer:
Sharon Lence
Editor:
Philip Bemie

Bali plus holidays for disabled people. Presented by Anne Gregg and Eamonn Holmes.
● FACTSHEET: send a large A4 sae to Factsheet 4. Holiday 91. [address removed].
● FACT-LINE: [number removed]. Calls cost 33p per minute off-peak and 44p per minute at all other times.
● TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT: pages 45-56 ● CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Presented By:
Anne Gregg
Presented By:
Eamonn Holmes

Low fat spreads; yoghurt cake; and feeding a women's rugby team. Presented by Chris Kelly , Michael Barry and Jill Goolden.
RECIPES: in BBC Good Food magazine, £ 1.00 from newsagents; non-recipe information on BBC Fact Line [number removed]. Calls cost 33p per minute cheap rate. 44p per minute at other times.
● FOOD: page 16

Contributors

Presented By:
Chris Kelly
Presented By:
Michael Barry
Presented By:
Jill Goolden

Starring
Yul Brynner
George Chakiris
A spectacular adventure set in Ancient Mexico: Prince Balam succeeds to the Mayan throne as his country is being invaded.
Director J Lee Thompson * FILMS: pages 29-36

Contributors

Unknown:
Yul Brynner
Unknown:
George Chakiris
Unknown:
Lee Thompson
Black Eagle:
Yul Brynner
Prince Balam:
George Chakiris
Ixchel:
Shirley Anne Field
Ah Min:
Brad Dexter
Ah Zok:
Barry Morse
Isatai:
Armando Silvestre
Hunac Ceel:
Leo Gordon
Ixzubin:
Victoria Vettri
Pitt:
Rudy Solari
Chief:
Ford Rainey
Balam, the elder King:
Angel Di Steffano
Sacrifice:
Jose Moreno

A Price on Your Life?
Demand for health care is outstripping available resources. The NHS faces massive demands on its limited budget and doctors say that they are already being forced to choose which of their patients get treatment.
BBCtv's health correspondent Sarah Barclay examines the increasing pressure on health authorities to ration health care, and a controversial proposal that would allow some people to die for the good of others. Presented by Peter Taylor.
Editor Nigel Chapman

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Barclay
Presented By:
Peter Taylor.
Editor:
Nigel Chapman

In the last in the series, David Stevens compares Stowe's landscaped garden with domestic plots. Also, there is a look at the work of two very alternative designers who set about building a garden of the future that uses unusual materials, which are not normally associated with the outside room.
Director/Producer Nick Patten ● GARDENING: page 1 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens

A comedy series written by Kim Fuller and Vicky Pile. Starring
Mark Arden
Stephen Frost
What Happened to the Gerbil? A stunt rabbit is murdered, thus severely damaging the British film industry. Did actor Duane Blake really do it and how tall is he? It's another tough case for Lazarus and Dingwall, but at least their teeth are clean.
Director Bob Spiers ● PICTURE STORY: page 75
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Contributors

Written By:
Kim Fuller
Written By:
Vicky Pile.
Unknown:
Mark Arden
Unknown:
Stephen Frost
Unknown:
Duane Blake
Lazarus:
Stephen Frost
Dingwall:
Mark Arden
Chief:
Peter Bland
Armitage:
Race Davies
Clinton:
Jim Findley
First plain clothes:
Simon Godley
Second plain clothes:
Neil Mullarkey
Duane Blake:
Lionel Blair
Bateman:
Jeremy Gittins
Sandy Delgrano:
Kay Stonham
Film director:
Geoffrey McGivern
Child suspect:
Edwin Silvester
Child Solicitor:
Russell Evans

Forty-two years of Communist rule left Czechoslovakia nicknamed Absurdistan.
Among the bizarre tales told in this film are those of window cleaners with PhDs, film stars in gun battles with the secret police, and strippers vetted by Communist Party committees. Producer John Whiston
Editor Michael Jackson (R)

Contributors

Producer:
John Whiston
Editor:
Michael Jackson

Starring
Peter Sellers
Dany Robin
Ghislaine, a beautiful French-woman, arrives in England to extract a promise of marriage from General Fitzjohn to whom she has remained faithful for 17 years. However, there is already Emily,
Fitzjohn's harridan of a wife.
From the play by Jean Anouilh Director John Guillermin ● FILMS: pages 29-36

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Dany Robin
Play By:
Jean Anouilh
Director:
John Guillermin
General Fitzjohn:
Peter Sellers
Ghislaine:
Dany Robin
Emily:
Margaret Leighton
Robert:
John Fraser
Doctor:
Cyril Cusack
Estella:
Prunella Scales
Sidonia:
Denise Coffey
Agnes:
Jean Anderson
Court president:
Raymond Huntley
Undertaker:
Cardew Robinson
Vicar:
John Le Mesurier
Mrs Bulstrode:
Vanda Godsell

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