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6.35 Nuclear Weapons: Crisis Management 7.00 Women and Organisations 7.25 Calculus: Behaviour of Functions 7.50 From Child to Pupil 8.15 Working for Love
8.40 Photochemistry: Vision
9.05 Engineering Mechanics: Solids 9.30 Money Grows on Trees? 9.55 Arts: The Great
Exhibition 10.20 Nutrition and Digestion 10.45 Maths:
Volumes of Revolution 11.10
Open Forum Magazine: News and Views on Higher Education and the OU 11.35 Man-made
Macromolecules

Parliamentary committees scrutinise the work of government. lain
MacWhirter asks how well they do their job as he presents the liveliest committee sessions and passes on news from the Committee Corridor.
* TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Introduced by Bob Wilson.
Provisional Timetable
1.30 Cricket; 3.40 Tennis
4.40 Cricket
Cricket
England v West Indies Continued live coverage of the First Test from from Headingley.
(Further coverage at 11.45pm)
Tennis
The men's final in the French Open
Championships from Paris. Between them,
Sweden's Bjorn Borg and Mats Wilander have won this title nine times.
Fellow countryman Stefan Edberg has yet to score. Commentary by Dan Maskell and Mark Cox.
Television presentation Cricket Keith Mackenzie

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Wilson.
Unknown:
Bjorn Borg
Unknown:
Mats Wilander
Unknown:
Stefan Edberg
Commentary By:
Dan Maskell
Commentary By:
Mark Cox.
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie

Eight travellers along the world's great highways.
Silver Tracks. Even today the 17th-century silver routes of Bolivia are perilous. From the cyanide-weeping rocks of the Potosi mines, along a trail strewn with strange myths, customs and cultures, songwriter Billy Bragg and broadcaster Andy Kershaw trace a route to Chile and the seaport of Arica.
Director Michael Houldey 0 BOOK: same title, L 16.00, from booksellers
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Songwriter:
Billy Bragg
Unknown:
Andy Kershaw
Director:
Michael Houldey

The series investigating values in art asks if the west is getting a taste of its own medicine as Japan buys up European masterpieces. Altered States. Tonight's programme travels to three continents to look at art as an import/export business. Director Jake Auerbach
Executive producer Keith Alexander

Contributors

Director:
Jake Auerbach
Producer:
Keith Alexander

Personal reflections on the best of 20th-century British architecture.
County Arcade, Leeds.
Alan Bennett wanders through the exotic arcade designed by Frank Matcham in 1900. Director David Hinton
Producer Ruth Rosenthal

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Designed By:
Frank Matcham
Director:
David Hinton
Producer:
Ruth Rosenthal

John le Carre's 's classic story dramatised in seven parts by Arthur Hopcraft. Starring
Alec Guinness
6: Smiley has questioned Prideaux about his interrogation by the Russians. But he is even more interested to hear what happened when Prideaux returned to face questions in England.
Music composed and conducted by Geoffrey Burgon
Producer Jonathan Powell
Director John Irvin
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre'S
Unknown:
Arthur Hopcraft.
Unknown:
Alec Guinness
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
John Irvin
George Smiley:
Alec Guinness
Jim Prideaux:
Ian Bannen
Jerry Westerby:
Joss Ackland
Toby Esterhase:
Bernard Hepton
Peter Guillam:
Michael Jayston
Lacon:
Anthony Bate
Mendel:
George Sewell
Ricki Tan:
Hywel Bennett
Headmaster:
John Wells
Headmaster's mother:
Betty Hardy
Flemying-Smith:
Guy Standeven
Roach:
Duncan Jones
Spikely:
Daniel Beecher
Linda:
Jo Apted
Fawn:
Alec Sabin

Alex Cox introduces another in the season of cult films.
First showing on network television for this nightmarish comedy starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels
When Charlie gets picked up by Lulu one lunchtime, he has no idea how far she'll take him into the wild world she inhabits. Directed by Jonathan Demme, whose recent chiller The Silence of the Lambs has found enormous success at the box office and critical acclaim.
COVER STORY: page 20
FILMS: pages 31-38
PICTURE STORY: page 46
TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Introduces:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Melanie Griffith
Unknown:
Jeff Daniels
Directed By:
Jonathan Demme
Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel:
Melanie Griffith
Charles Driggs:
Jeff Daniels
Ray Sinclair:
Ray Liotta
Irene:
Margaret Colin
Country Squire:
Tracey Walter
Peaches:
Dana Preu
Larry Dillman:
Jack Gilpin
Irate chef:
Charles Napier
Richard Graves:
Robert Ridgely
Dottie:
Sister Carol East

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