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(from Birmingham: repeated on Wednesday at 1.0 pm (not N Ireland))
(Colour)
from Victoria College, Jersey
Staff and boys of the school reflect on man's relationship to his environment and his fellow man. From the high ground behind the school, headmaster Martyn H. Devenport looks out over St Helier, the coast and countryside which provide a theme for music, readings and discussion.
The Royal Institution, London, Annual Lectures to Young People in tribute to Geoffrey Gouriet formerly Chief Engineer BBC Research and Development
Nowadays, we take transistor radios, hi-fi, and colour television for granted. Yet, 50 years ago, these things would have seemed fantastic. With fascinating experiments, Geoffrey Gouriet takes us back even further.
(Lecture 2, Sunday 5 August: first shown on BBC2)
From a small West London factory, established 200 years, swords are sent all over the world.
Introduced by Ron Pickering
with Tom McNab and John Crotty
Weather
Told by Richard Baker
With Derek Griffiths
(from Manchester)
Three Months with the Bridlington Lifeboat
'Why do men go out on lifeboats when they get frightened and they get cold and some of them get sea-sick? There is no logical answer' John King, Coxswain.
For Those in Peril... sets out into a January gale; brings a sick man off a tanker; plunges out through the big waves to a sinking yacht... and the nearest it comes to an answer are the words of George Travers, Second Coxswain: 'You feel rough, you swear blind you'll never go to sea no more, but if somebody can just come up and say "thank you" for saving their lives, that means a hell of a lot.'
A sea-salty documentary... a great half hour's viewing... (Daily Express)
Starring Tyrone Power, Orson Welles
Andrea Orsini, sent on a murderous assignment by the infamous despot Cesare Borgia, finds himself falling under the spell of his intended victim.
This Week's Films: page 9
by Nina Bawden
Dramatised in four parts by Rosemary Anne Sisson
Mary has made the acquaintance of Simon. Later, she sees an Indian boy come ashore.
The second of two films in which John Betjeman looks at some of the ways Londoners spend their Sundays.
(Repeated on Tuesday at 11.35 pm)
by Jane Austen
Dramatised in six parts by Denis Constanduros
Harriet has been rescued from an embarrassing situation and her susceptible emotions have been stirred again. Emma has been reprimanded by Mr Knightley.
(First shown on BBC2)
A season of films displaying the many-sided talents of Peter Sellers
Tonight starring with Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell and Richard Attenborough
The librarian in a Welsh town lives in an atmosphere of cluttered discomfort at home and irritation and boredom at work.
This Week's Films: page 9
with John Edmunds; Weather
The first of six visits to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1973 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.
Iona Brown plays Walton Violin Concerto in B minor with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader Erich Gruenberg
Conducted by James Loughran
The programme begins with Elgar's Cockaigne Overture
Introduced by Richard Baker
(Part of the concert given on 21 July)
(Colour)
Editors and top journalists consider the issues behind the news.
Chairman William Hardcastle