Programme Index

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Playdays
Why Bird looks at primary colours.
(R)

7.20 Moomin
Animation. The Snork gets the flying machine working.

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
Cartoon cat-and-mouse capers.
(R)

8.10 Clever Creatures
Puppetry. The American Allstars face the Polar Perils.
(Shown last Thursday on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.35 Bruno the Kid
Animated action with an 11-year-old spy.
(R)

Comedy drama starring
Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
- Nealthy Corby Lane repays a debt to the people of Progress, Arkansas, but her generosity has unexpected consequences. Director Lloyd Bacon (1954)
(BW)(S) Films: pp 56-63 * *

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Unknown:
Jean Simmons.
Unknown:
Nealthy Corby Lane
Director:
Lloyd Bacon

Adventure, beginning a short season of Second World War films. As Japanese forces overrun the Philippines, a US major is ordered to destroy at all costs a secret American base.
(1958) (BW) (S)
(Marine Raiders is tomorrow at 1.10pm)
Films: pp 56-63 **

Contributors

Director:
Edward L Cahn

This week an investigation into a huge rise in drug use among Asian youth, shattering the image of a clean-living, law-abiding, family-orientated community. Interviews with addicts paint a picture of unemployment, discrimination, cultural alienation, poor housing and social exclusion as root causes of heroin abuse by children as young as 11. Presented by Rajesh Mirchandani.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Rajesh Mirchandani
Producer:
Bish Mehay
Series Producer:
Sunandan Walia

Series unlocking the secrets of ancient frozen bodies.

The second programme looks at the discovery of a Stone Age man found frozen to the rocks on a high Alpine pass in 1991. Experts have been able to reveal a mass of information about the 5,000-year-old body.
(Postponed from 17 July)
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Producer:
Tim Haines
Series Editor:
Bettina Lerner

Continuing the guided tour of madness in the company of people who've been there. This week former patients describe their experiences of manic depression.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Producer:
Alexandra Scott
Executive Producer:
Ian Macrae

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 A Tale of Two Capitals - Paris and Rome
(S)
1.30 Theory and Practice
(S)

Teenagers and Families
2.00 Being a Teenager: 2

Languages
4.00 Spanish Journey: Part 2

Working In Sport and Leisure
5.00 Careers

Open University
6.00 Changing Voices
6.30 Public Murals in New York
(S)

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