Programme Index

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9.00 Snap! - Landscapes (Teletext)

9.10 Standard Grade Geography: Greenbelt Pressures - Edinburgh

9.30 Let's See: Animal Rights - Otter
How to help these creatures in their environment.

9.45 You and Me - Just Suppose

10.00 Mathscope - Boxes

10.15 Over the Moon - Keep Safe on the Road

10.30 The Global Environment - the Greenhouse Effect

10.50 Mathsphere - Would you believe it?

11.10 Landmarks: History of Writing and Printing - The future of the word

11.30 West Africa - Oil in the Delta
How Nigeria is trying to escape from over-dependence on oil.

11.50 Job Bank - Entrepreneur; Printing

12.10 Good Sport - Get moving!
How good movement contributes to sport.

12.30 Science in Action - Sixth sense
Exploring beyond the limits of the naked eye.

12.50 Teaching Today - Language in society/Talk
A day in the life of two institutions.

1.20 The Adventures of Spot

1.25 What's Inside?

1.35 Crystal Tipps and Alistair

1.40 Music Time - Sleigh ride (Stereo)

2.00 News and Weather
followed by You and Me - Just Suppose

Toyota World Matchplay Championship from
Wentworth Club, Surrey.
Today's first round will decide opponents for the four seeded players in the quarter-finals. Introduced by Steve Rider. Producer Alastair Scott

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider.
Producer:
Alastair Scott

Further championship coverage from Wentworth with the closing stages of the 36-hole first round.
Commentary by Peter Alliss , Bruce Critchley , Alex Hay ,
Clive Clark and Mike Hughesdon. (Further coverage in Sport on Friday tomorrow at 2.15pm)

Contributors

Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Bruce Critchley
Commentary By:
Alex Hay
Unknown:
Clive Clark
Unknown:
Mike Hughesdon.

The Close Encounters season continues with a classic sci-fi about a doomed
Earth, hurtling into a collision with the planet Bellus.
Director Rudolph Mate • FILMS: pages 43-48

Contributors

Director:
Rudolph Mate
Dave Randall:
Richard Derr
Joyce Hendron:
Barbara Rush
Dr Cole Hendron:
Larry Keating
Dr Tony Drake:
Peter Hanson

Tonight: simmered dishes and a lesson in slurping noodles. Presented by author
Lesley Downer , with Minoru Yoneda. Director/Producer Caroline Hawkins
A Hawkshead Ltd production for BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Downer
Unknown:
Minoru Yoneda.
Producer:
Caroline Hawkins

Motorfair 91 opens this week at London's expanded Earls
Court and there's a review of the new models. Plus a road test on the latest version of the Vauxhall Astra and a report on rising Formula 3 star David Coulthard.
Producer Ken Pollock
Executive producer Dennis Adams
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Contributors

Unknown:
David Coulthard.
Producer:
Ken Pollock
Producer:
Dennis Adams

More anarchic humour and bad taste with Alexei Sayle , Owen Brenman , Angus Deayton , Tony Millan and Jan Ravens.
Director/Producer Marcus Mortimer • STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexei Sayle
Unknown:
Owen Brenman
Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Tony Millan
Unknown:
Jan Ravens.

Alec the Pole
The documentary series returns with the strange story of a man with an identity crisis. For 47 years
Alec Krawczynski has lived in Scotland. He is known as Alec the Pole. But his real name is not Krawczynski and he has never been to Poland. He came from the Ukraine and for nearly 50 years has kept a deadly secret. Now, as the Ukraine reaches out for independence, he discovers members of his family are still alive. He returns to the Ukraine to discover if his country and family are ready to forgive him for being, in his own words, a traitor. Producer Richard Denton Editor Caroline Pick
A Raptde production for BBCtv
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 • DOCUMENTARY: page 10

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Denton
Editor:
Caroline Pick

First of six journeys through colour.
White. White is ... the beginning. It's John Lennon 's piano, the sliced loaf and lies that don't count.
Producer Jenny Abbott
Series producer Andy Batten-Foster

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lennon
Producer:
Jenny Abbott
Producer:
Andy Batten-Foster

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