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9.00 Tutorial Topics: People Talk

9.10 Standard Grade English: The Language of Laughs
Analysing and illustrating Scottish humour.

9.30 Let's See: Risks and Hazards: Stay Safe
How to react to strangers.

9.45 You and Me

10.00 Mathscope: Time and Travel

10.15 Over the Moon

10.30 The Global Environment: A Breath of Fresh Air
Air pollution and the struggle for clean air in Mexico City and northern Europe.

10.50 Mathsphere: What Luck

11.10 Landmarks: Victorian Children: Queen Victoria's Children
How their lives contrasted with children forced to work.

11.30 Soviet Union - and After: Siberian Riches
An engineer at a wood pulp factory voices concern for the environment.

11.50 Job Bank: Forestry Work; Nature Conservation

12.10 Sports Science: The Energy Machine
How to balance a body's energy supply with its output.

12.30 Science in Action: Body Machine
Muscles

12.50 Teaching Today: Reading
Pupils discuss a Blake poem.

1.20 The Adventures of Spot

1.25 What's Inside

1.35 Jimbo and the Jet Set

1.40 Music Time: Loud and Quiet (Stereo)

2.00 News and Weather
followed by You and Me

Screen adaptation of H G Wells's classic novel, starring Gene Barry Ann Robinson
The Close Encountersseason continues with the story of the earth in peril from ruthless aliens bent on total destruction.
Director Byron Haskin • FILMS: pages 55-60

Contributors

Unknown:
Gene Barry
Unknown:
Ann Robinson
Director:
Byron Haskin
Dr Clayton Forrester:
Gene Barry
Sylvia Van Buren:
Ann Robinson
Gen Mann:
Les Tremayne
DrPryor:
Robert Cornthwaite
Commentator:
Cedric Hardwicke

Second of eight programmes. The excitement of the first plant collectors is relived at
Chilton as Harry Dodson awaits his new arrivals - banana and grevillea for the tropical Stove House, insect-eating bog plants and a collection of delicate auriculas. With Peter Thoday. Producer Keith Sheather • STEREO
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page888 • GARDENING: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Dodson
Unknown:
Peter Thoday.
Producer:
Keith Sheather

In this week's edition: a report on car auctions; a profile of Francine Bogg , the winner of this year's Radio Times Rally Quest Competition, and a test drive in the new Honda Civic.
Producer Jon Bentley
Executive producer Dennis Adams 0 CAR LINE: ring 0[number removed]for information on this week's new cartest; and 0[number removed]for information on secondhand cars. Call costs 36p per minute cheap rate. 48p other times.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francine Bogg
Producer:
Jon Bentley
Producer:
Dennis Adams

Anyone for Tennis?
A quirky picture of the Muswell Hill United Reformed Church
Lawn Tennis Club's triumphs and disasters in the summer of 91. Producer John Pitman Editor Caroline Pick
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 0 FEATURE: page 35

Contributors

Producer:
John Pitman
Editor:
Caroline Pick

Six journeys through colour. 4: Green is.... envy, environmental issues and men from Mars. With Jonathon Porritt and David Bellamy. Producer Julia Simmons
Series producer Andy Batten-Foster

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt
Unknown:
David Bellamy.
Producer:
Julia Simmons
Producer:
Andy Batten-Foster

David Dimbleby , Kirsty Wark and Vivian White report on the parliamentary by-election results in the contested seats of Kincardine and Deeside,
Langbaurgh and Hémsworth. Editor Peter Horrocks

Contributors

Unknown:
David Dimbleby
Unknown:
Kirsty Wark
Unknown:
Vivian White
Editor:
Peter Horrocks

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