Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed
(Repeated: Wednesday BBC2 10.35 am)
A series of five programmes
3: Manufacturing Industry - accountable to the nation?
Geoffrey Robinson, until recently Managing Director of Jaguar Cars, talks to young managers.
Introduced by Sir Frederick Catherwood
from St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
Celebrant: Rev Philip Barrett
Preacher: The Rector, Rev Colin Deedes
Last of 20 programmes: presented by Roy Hudd and Irene Thomas
with Eileen Fowler
(Repeated: Thursday 1.0 pm)
Seventy Plus, 30p from bookshops
A series of ten programmes for hearing-impaired people
How can the deaf take a more active part in their own affairs? What plans are there for an improved deal for the deaf in Britain? Jack Ashley, CH, MP, presents the second of two personal views and talks amongst others to Rt Hon Barbara Castle, MP, Secretary of State for Social Services.
(The programme will be captioned for those who cannot hear.)
Book (same title) 85p, from bookshops
A personal view of childhood in different societies by Urie Bronfenbrenner
'Chairman Mao is more dear to us than our parents', sing kindergarten children in China. Children growing up in all societies are surrounded by models which guide them into the roles they will play as adults. Some of these models are the real people in their lives, others the product of media and ideology. Which images are the most influential? What are the implications for children if we alter the traditional roles of mother and father?
(Repeated: Monday 7.5 pm BBC2)
Written and presented by Derek Cooper
Once completely covered in trees; in the early 19th century peppered with lead mines; now it's evolved into a beautiful rural valley, well-farmed and much used by tourists seeking escape from the industrial North East.
But there could be another change, from a boom in cement and fluorspar mining. The landscape and the community could suffer a further upheaval. Do the people who live there want it, and do any of the rest of us care?
(Birmingham)
with Geoffrey Wheeler
in Goofy's Glider
A WALT DISNEY cartoon
Starring Ben Murphy as Jones and Roger Davis as Smith
with guest stars J.D. Cannon, James Drury, Larry Storch
Smith and Jones are in real trouble. After a long chase by a determined sheriff and his hard-riding posse they are finally captured. Only one person can help them now - their old enemy, Harry Briscoe!
(First shown on BBC2)
by Eleanor H. Porter
Dramatised in six parts by Joy Harington
Starring Elaine Stritch as Aunt Polly
Pollyanna is a little girl with a remarkable gift for looking on the bright side. When she goes to live with her Aunt Polly, she walks into a situation that might have been specially designed for her therapeutic talents.
[Repeat]
Weatherman Barbara Edwards
Colin Morris takes a hard look at the world of religion in 1975.
by N.J. Crisp
Starring Jean Anderson, Patrick O'Connell, Jennifer Wilson
with Robin Chadwick, Derek Benfield
Whilst Edward settles comfortably into marriage and David starts to enjoy life again, Paul Merroney quietly and skilfully begins to feather his own nest...
If Edward expects Jennifer to forget his own past, then he must forget hers...
Starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell
with Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen
Belgium, 1944: during the Battle of the Bulge, a symphony orchestra entertaining American servicemen is captured by a German Panzer division under orders to shoot all prisoners.
The executions are prevented by the intervention of General Schiller, an avid music lover who offers to spare the orchestra if its conductor Lionel Evans will agree to conduct a concert for him. Evans, however, refuses....
This Week's Films: page 13
with Richard Baker; Weather
Pinchas Zukerman is one of the world's greatest violinists. This film traces his development from his birth in Israel in 1948 to his current association with the English Chamber Orchestra as soloist/conductor. It includes tape recordings from the age of nine, and film performances from the age of 19, including his official New York debut. Filmed in Spoleto, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, New York, London and Munich. With music by Bach, Corelli, Mozart, Wieniawsky, Beethoven, Telemann, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Vivaldi.
An Allegro Film
(Mozart's Symphony No 29 and the fourth Violin Concerto from the concert in Munich will be on BBC2 15 June)
A series of eight films on the background of the present conflict.
Women have traditionally played a passive role in Arab countries. How far is their situation changing and what kind of results will this have?
