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The Best of Tomorrow's World

on BBC One London

Or, on this occasion, The Best of Burke.
In this third and last programme which represents items from the award-winning show, the star is reporter James Burke. He's seen enjoying a Scotch in the Antarctic - 'the world's greatest living laboratory,' scientists have called it; the liquor may have been well aged, but it's nothing to the ice he's put in it - some of it dates from the time of Julius Caesar. In another item he talks about the hover-bed, a medical application of the air-cushion principle which might well turn out to be yet another British invention left for others to exploit; he looks at a new and revolutionary kind of magazine; and he attends the incredibly careful preparations for the launch of Mariner VI, America's latest Mars probe. Appropriately, because tomorrow Mariner VI is due to reach its nearest point to Mars. Introducing the items are Michael Bentine and Patrick Moore.

(Next week 'Tomorrow's World' returns with the first of two special editions from California)

Contributors

Reporter:
James Burke
Presenter:
Michael Bentine
Presenter:
Patrick Moore
Producer:
Peter Bruce
Editor:
Michael Latham

BBC One London

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