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Programmes for young people - some may not be suitable for the very young, though the , 9.45am and 2.00pm slots are for pre-school children. Repeats are not separately indicated.

9.00 Great Experiments: Number Crunching

9.25 Topics: Far Away But Not Forgotten/If Only I Could

9.45 Storytime: Norah's Ark

10.00 Mathsworks: Using Graphs

10.18 Music Time: Mechanical Sounds
(Stereo)

10.40 Square One: The Case of the Willing Parrot

11.00 Zig Zag: The Olympics - Human Bodies

11.20 Lernexpress: Ich Uber Mich

11.35 Sports Science: Winning Through

11.55 Geography Case Book: Pastures New

12.15 Job Bank: Computer Consultant/Primary School Teacher

12.35 Lifeschool: Profit Sharing

1.00 The Geography Programme: Retail Chain

1.20 Fingermouse

1.35 Dilly the Dinosaur

1.40 Landmarks: Transport - the Docks Today

2.00 News and Weather; followed by Storytime

The series in which the public make programmes under their own editorial control.

Nicola Jennings was adopted as a baby 30 years ago. In this personal film, she challenges the assumptions behind the new trend for so-called "open adoption", which encourages continuing contact between adoptive families and birth families. She puts the case that the silent majority of adopted people like herself who don't wish to search for their birth parents are regarded as "deviant" and not consulted.

A Goldhawk production for BBCtv
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)
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Contributors

Presenter/Producer:
Nicola Jennings
Executive Producer:
Giles Oakley

Memories of three women locked into a video world is the theme of tonight's dance film in the Commissions and Collaborations season.
Choreographer Paul Clayden worked with stills photographer Chris Nash who makes his debut as a director.
• STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Clayden
Unknown:
Chris Nash

The population of the world is growing faster now than at any other time in history: the UN projects that it will double in 60 years. Any other animal community which grows at an unprecedented rate will crash spectacularly when it exceeds the "carrying capacity" of its environment - it will run out of food and destroy its life support systems. When will the human population reach the carrying capacity of its planet, and will life be worth living when it does?
(Stereo) (Teletext subtitles: p888)

Transcript: send cheque for £2.00 payable to BSS to [address removed].

Documentary: page 12

Contributors

Producer:
Bettina Lerner
Editor:
Jana Bennett

Adaptation of Raymond Chandler 's detective novel, starring Robert Mitchum
Giant ex-con Moose Molloy offers Philip Marlowe the job of finding his long-lost love, and he's a hard man to turn down.
With Harry Dean Stanton ,
Joe Spinell and Sylvester Stallone. Director Dick Richards
* TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 • FILMS: pages 43-48

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Chandler
Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Unknown:
Moose Molloy
Unknown:
Philip Marlowe
Unknown:
Harry Dean Stanton
Unknown:
Joe Spinell
Director:
Dick Richards
Marlowe:
Robert Mitchum
Mrs Grayle:
Charlotte Rampling
Nulty:
John Ireland
Mrs Florian:
Sylvia Miles
Brunette:
Anthony Zerbe
Moose Molloy:
Jack O'Halloran

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