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6.50 Maths: Tutor-Marked
Assignments 7.15 Education: A Price for Play 7.40 Probability and Statistics 8.05
Engineering the Software 8.30 Working with Systems:
Diagrams 8.55 Changing
Britain: The Multinational 9.20
Physics: Energy to Go Round
9.45 Making Readers for
LifelO.10 The Main Frame and the Micro: From DP to IT 10.35
The Case of Czechoslovakia
11.00 Managing Schools: A Department 11.25
Environment: Forest Futures
12.15 Materials in Action:
Going Through a Phase 12.40 Art in 15th-century Italy:
Florence 1.05 The All Electric
Home 1.30 Modem Art:
Pissarro 1.55 Chris Plantin ,
Polyglot Printer of Antwerp
2.20 Jamaica and the Sea

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Plantin

In India this 91-part epic drama is cult viewing for 115 million people. Based on an epic poem, it is a tale of love, war and good triumphing over evil.
(In Hindi with English subtitles. Repeated tomorrow at 12.20am on BBC1)

Jupiter and Family
At this time of the year,
Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky. The
Sun's largest planet, even a small telescope shows details upon its disk. But now the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft have provided new insight into Jupiter and its family of moons. Presented by Patrick Moore.
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Contributors

Presented By:
Patrick Moore.

Comedy starring Ronald Colman
Celeste Holm
Unemployed genius
Beauregard Bottomley sets out to ruin a major soap company by winning the cash prize on a quiz show it sponsors.
Director Richard Whorf
* FILMS: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Colman
Unknown:
Celeste Holm
Unknown:
Beauregard Bottomley
Director:
Richard Whorf
Beauregard Bottomley:
Ronald Colman
Flame O'Neil:
Celeste Holm
Burnbridge Waters:
Vincent Price
Gwenn Bottomley:
Barbara Britton
Happy Hogan:
Art Linkletter

Day five of the World Figure Skating Championships from Munich, featuring the Ladies Free Programme.
Commentary by Alan Weeks and Christopher Dean.
Introduced by Barry Davies. Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Commentary By:
Alan Weeks
Commentary By:
Christopher Dean.
Introduced By:
Barry Davies.
Producer:
Jim Reside

A celebration of Britain's best-loved fell-walker.
The Isle of Skye. His holidays in Scotland were the furthest that Wainwright ever travelled from his Lake District home.
At the age of 80, he made an emotional return visit to the island of Skye, and 'the finest mountains in Britain'.
Producer Richard Else

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Else

Once a Pirate ...
In South Africa, soccer is a way of life. Nowhere do the passions run higher than in Soweto, where the football club Orlando Pirates is based.
This first of four programmes shows the build up to a crucial semi-final match.
0 PICTURE STORY: page 38

One Irish Rover
For more than two decades,
Van Morrison has been fusing different musical influences, creating a style of his own. In this programme he duets with Bob Dylan and plays harmonica with blues legend
John Lee Hooker. He leads the Danish Radio Big Band, sings with Irish folk group the Chieftains and relives the heyday of 60s r 'n' b with the Georgie Fame Band. Executive producer Nigel Finch
Director Anthony Wall
(A one-man show based on the life of Oscar Wilde can be seen on Arena tomorrow at 3. 00pm) 0 FEATURE: page 10

Contributors

Unknown:
Van Morrison
Unknown:
Bob Dylan
Unknown:
John Lee Hooker.
Producer:
Nigel Finch
Director:
Anthony Wall

To mark the beginning of a major season of African cinema on BBC2, this programme traces the history of film-making on that continent and features interviews with distinguished Senegalese director Ousemane Sembene whose powerful work Camp de Thiaroye is included in the series, and Idrissa Ouedraogo, the young director from Burkina Faso whose film Yaaba begins the season at 10.10pm.

Booklet: send cheque or PO for £ 2.75, payable to BSS, to [address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Freand Jones
Producer:
Gillian Gearing

First showing on British television.
Set in Burkina Faso, this first film in the Africa on Film season is the simple tale of the unlikely friendship between two children and an old outcast woman they call Yaaba (meaning grandmother). Written and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo , it confirmed his international stature. A Burkinabe film with English subtitles.
0 FILMS: page 29

Contributors

Directed By:
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Yaaba:
Fatlma Sanga
Bila:
Noufou Ouedraogo
Nopoko:
Roukietou Barry
Kougri:
Adama Ouedraogo
::
Tibo Amadetoure
Poko:
Sibidou Ouedraogo
Razougou:
Adama Sidibe
Noaga:
Rasmane Ouedraogo
Finse:
Kinda Moumouni
Koudi:
Assita Ouedraogo
Pegda:
Zenabou Ouedraogo

Starring Kyle MacLachlan Michael Ontkean
As Leland Palmer is laid to rest, Cooper thinks it is safe to leave Twin Peaks, but things conspire to make him stay.
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Kyle MacLachlan
Unknown:
Michael Ontkean
Unknown:
Leland Palmer

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