6.40 James Bond (2)
7.5 Industrial Relations Act 1972
7.30 Maths: Measurable Functions
Told by Richard Briers
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with John Grant
What did it mean when the Neanderthal folk saw the sun disappear? What happened to Littlenose when he went off on his own to find his missing pet mammoth? Did Littlenose ever learn to fly like a bird? And however did he manage to become Littlenose the Leader?
Today: The Timestick
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A series of cartoon films featuring some disguised detective bears; a bamboozled buzzard; and three brainless robonic stooges.
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Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead? A collection of your letters and ideas on how to use your spare time, presented by the WDY gang.
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(Write to Why Don't You ... at [address removed]; please enclose a long, stamped addressed envelope if you want instructions about an item shown)
The adventures of the daring chevalier, Francois de Recci, during the war between France and Spain 400 years ago. A film serial in 10 episodes.
Francois arrives at the beleaguered fort of Casal when the Spaniards are doing all in their power to destroy it before a truce can be called.
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Weather MICHAEL FISH
with Thora Hird
Story : Lucy's Parcel by LESLIE PITT Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Stuart McGugan
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An extraordinary picture puzzle with Adrian Hedley
Janet Ellis and John Leeson
Can you find out what today's six-letter word is? Last week's word was SPRING, but that will not help you. Jigg, the talking jigsaw piece, gives you some clues, while Pterry, the nearly extinct pterodactyl puts in a wise word or two and Cid Sleuth has his moustache stolen.
If you think you can put a 100-piece jigsaw together in less than ten minutes, write in to enter Jigsaw's 'Puttertogetherer Cham pionship '.
Producer CLIVE DOIG
Only Big John can help Homer with his magic.
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with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
Presented live from London and the BBC studios around Britain. Frank Bough, Sue
Lawley Hugh Scully , John Stapleton and Bob Wellings are the team that bring you Britain's most watched current affairs programme. Each weekday evening they present analysis of topical events, plus the features and films that make up the scene Nationwide
Producer LINO FERRARI
Deputy editor DAVID LLOYD
EditorHUGHWILLIAMS
A series of discovery and underwater adventure.
Jacques Cousteau 's
Blind Prophets of Easter Island
Jacques and Philippe Cousteau fly to Easter Island -a dot in the Pacific, 11,000 miles from the nearest inhabited island.
Met by hula girls with flower wreaths, they are mystified by the island's hidden history. How old is it and how rich the surrounding seas? What destroyed the verdant covering of trees and flowers?Who constructed, and later destroyed, the huge stone sculptured figures? Who was the Birdman?
Persistent questioning and imaginative exploration unravels the island's mystery.
Produced by the COUSTEAU FOUNDATION Presented by BBC BRISTOL
A Man and his Music (Part 1)
A one-man show by the great entertainer in a reprise of songs he made famous.
In the late 60s Frank Sinatra recorded a series of programmes for American TV which have become classics. Tonight's programme, recorded in 1965, includes successes such as ' Nancy with the laughing face', Young at heart', ' Come fly with me ', ' The lady is a tramp'
Orchestras of NELSON RIDDLE and GORDON JENKINS
Produced and directed by DWIGHT BEMION
with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
Starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
In Paris, Colonel Vlassov of the KGB insists on being handed over to the Americans. He has 'information' that the Russians have infiltrated every European intelligence service at top level. The problem for the CIA is to decide whether Vlassov is a traitor to his own country or a carefully planted spy.
Screenplay by HENRI VERNEUIL and GILES PERRAULT
Based on the novel 13e Suicide by PIERRE NORD
Directed by HENRI VERNEUlL. Films: p 17
