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6.40 The National Grid

7.05 Maths: Calculus

7.30 Geology of the Alps

7.55 The Third Dimension

8.20 Ecology: Ancient Woodland

8.45 What's in Store

9.10 Education: Learning Maths Together

9.35 Science: Nuclear Tunnelling

10.00 Hamlet Workshop

10.25 Personnel Selection

10.50 Technology: Facts Are Not Enough!

11.15 Global Firms - Shrinking Worlds

11.40 Relational Concepts

12.05 On the Right Track

12.30 A Question of Resource

12.55 Scenes from "Dr Faustus" by Marlowe

1.20 In Search of Identity
A story of immigrants in Sao Paulo who are actively contributing to the development of their adopted hometown

1.45 A Level Playing Field

2.10 Public Health: Going with the Flow

2.35 The Sale of Awacs to Saudi Arabia

L The first of a short season of films shown in tribute to the star who died this month. Also starring Arthur Kennedy Mel Ferrer
When a young girl is murdered by a hold-up gang in a small Wyoming town, her cowboy fiance swears vengeance.
Director Fritz Lang
(Marlene is on Monday at 9.30pm) 0 FILMS: pages 49-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Kennedy
Unknown:
Mel Ferrer
Director:
Fritz Lang
Altar Keane:
Marlene Dietrich
VernHaskell:
Arthur Kennedy
Frenchy Fairmont:
Mel Ferrer
Beth:
Gloria Henry
Baldy Gunner:
William Frawley
Maxine:
Lisa Ferraday

Among the 180,000 visitors to the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, were Nigel Colborn ,
Anne Gregg and Alan Titchmarsh. They reflect on the pleasure and some of the new ideas they found at this year's show. ● STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Colborn
Unknown:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh.

The closing stages of the second round from Wentworth.
Introduced by Steve Rider. Producers Alastair Scott and Barbara Slater
Executive producer John Shrewsbury
Saturday's ITV/C4 morning/afternoon listings are on pg 65

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider.
Producers:
Alastair Scott
Producers:
Barbara Slater
Producer:
John Shrewsbury

Documentaries about the hidden world of science.
The Strange Story of Napoleon 's Wallpaper. "I die before my time, murdered by the English," wrote Napoleon Bonaparte, in exile on St
Helena. Three weeks later he was dead. His accusation seemed without foundation until more than a century later, when a carefully preserved lock of his hair was found to contain arsenic. David Jones searches for the truth.
Producer Hendrik Ball
● STEREO
0 DOCUMENTARY: page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jones

Leading British businesswoman Anita Roddick takes a break from running her global empire to look at the challenges facing women running their own enterprises in Africa. Roddick works with them, but finds the going tougher than she expected. Director Gurinder Chadha
Producer Gerard Rosenberg An IBT production for BBCtv
● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
● INFORMATION: for a leaflet on women and business. please send 40p in stamps and your address to [address removed]. ● FEATURE: page 40

Contributors

Unknown:
Anita Roddick
Director:
Gurinder Chadha
Producer:
Gerard Rosenberg

The series that charts the richness of world music.
Big City - the Hidden Sounds of London. Concluding a two-part journey around the cultural street map of the capital. Tonight: rap poetry from
Greek Cypriot Haji Mike, an Eritrean freedom celebration in Brixton, and the east/west fusion of Bengali duo Joi. Director Tim May
Series editors Nigel Finch. Anthony Wall ● STEREO

Contributors

Editors:
Nigel Finch.

First showing on network television for the continuation of Neil Simon 's cycle of autobiographical stage plays, adapted by the author and starring Matthew Broderick Christopher Walken
1945: Young Eugene Jerome is sent to do his US Army basic training in Mississippi, a long way from his Brooklyn home.
Director Mike Nichols
● STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 ● FILMS: pages 49-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Simon
Unknown:
Matthew Broderick
Unknown:
Christopher Walken
Unknown:
Eugene Jerome
Director:
Mike Nichols
Eugene:
Matthew Broderick
Sgt Toomey:
Christopher Walken
Wykowski:
Matt Mulhern
Epstein:
Corey Parker
Selridge:
Markus Flanagan
Carney:
Casey Siemaszko
Hennesey:
Michael Dolan
Daisy:
Penelope Ann Miller

I In memory of Indian film director Satyajit Ray , who died last month, a screening of his film about the British annexation of the state of Oudh. Starring Sanjeev Kumar Saeed Jaffrey
Richard Attenborough The continuing duel of two chess-playing noblemen, oblivious to political and private turmoil. A film in Hindustani with English subtitles.
● FILMS: pages 49-56

Contributors

Director:
Satyajit Ray
Unknown:
Sanjeev Kumar
Unknown:
Saeed Jaffrey
Unknown:
Richard Attenborough
Mirza Sajjd Ali:
Sanjeev Kumar
Meer Roshan Ali:
Saeed Jaffrey
Gen Outram:
Richard Attenborough
King Wajid Ali:
Amjad Khan
Khurshid:
Shabana Azmi
Nafeesa:
Farida Jalal
Aulea Begum:
Veena
Ali Naqi Khan:
Victor Bannerji

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