by Brigid Chard
With Maurice Denham
Today: Badgers
(Repeat)
Mike takes his pick from over 1,000 new children's paperbacks, and suggests books to borrow for the holiday.
Qucntin Blake draws a record-breaking illustration, and there's a special 2,000th appearance by Desperate Dan.
Director CLAIRE WALMSLEY Producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
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from Christ Church, Oxford
A service of Ante-communion including the singing of the St John Passion
Ministers: the Dean, THE VERY REV ERIC HEATON and the Precentor, THE REV MICHAEL WATTS
Director of Music SIMON PRESTON Organist FRANCIS GRIER
Music: Kyrie (Byrd 5-part Mass); Popule meus (Victoria); Crux fidelis (John IV of Portugal)
Hymns: There is a green hill far away; When I survey the wondrous Cross
Lighting JOHN MASON. Sound JEFF BAKER
Television presentation by RAYMOND SHORT
Since William the Conqueror first claimed the New Forest as his own, in 1079, the woodland, heath and marshland have sheltered a wide variety of wild animals. Now modern man is making increasing demands on the Forest. This celebration of its survival is also a plea for its future.
Narrated by TONY BRITTON
Written and produced by JOHN KING
BBC Bristol.
Weather MICHAEL FISH
Introduced by Roy Castle with Toni Arthur , Floella Benjamin Brian Cant, Keith Chegwin
George Chisholm , Jonathan Cohen John Craven , Sam Dale
Noel Edmonds , Simon Groom
Tina Heath , Maggie Henderson Jan Hunt , Su Ingle
Lesley Judd , Susan King
Carol Leader , Lucy Mathen
Stuart McGugan , Maggie Philbin Peter Purves , Julie Stevens Christopher Wenner and Norris McWhirter
A chance to see again your favourite children's programme presenters joining Roy Castle for the Fun of the Fair-where dreams can come true!
Valerie Singleton makes a special guest appearance to watch the Miss Children's Programmes 1979 contest.
Musical arrangements
FRANK BARBER , JOHNNY COLEMAN JOHNNY PEARSON , DEREK WARNE
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON Choreographer SALLY GILPIN Designer ROGER CANN
Producer ALAN RUSSELL
starring
Virginia McKenna Bill Travers
Based on the best-selling books by joy ADAMSON, whose recent tragic death was a great loss to the cause of world wildlife, Born Free is one of the most famous and successful of all true-life adventure movies.
George Adamson , a Senior Game Warden in Kenya, brings home three baby lion cubs, whose mother he has shot. With his wife, Joy, he succeeds in rearing them and Joy becomes particularly attached to the smallest, Elsa.
Screenplay by GERARD L. T. COPLEY Produced by SAM JAFFE and PAUL RABIN DirectorJAMES HILL Films: page 23
When There Was a Big Mix-up
with Willie Rushton
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. MILNE
Today: Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest
with Peter
Purves Saint Therese of Lisieux
'My name is written in heaven.' So said the five-year-old Therese Martin. Years later she knelt at the feet of the Pope and begged to be allowed to enter the austere Carmelite Convent at the age of 15. Ten years later she died in Carmel, unknown beyond its walls. Yet, after 30 years, she was proclaimed a saint, and millions all over the world became devoted to Saint Therese, the Little Flower of Lisieux.
With ANGELA DOWN as the voice of St Thérèse
Written and researched by DOROTHY SMITH Directed by SARAH HELLINGS
Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
Nosey, the Sweetest Skunk in the West
Tender-hearted teenager Kim takes care of an orphaned baby animal generally held in bad odour. It makes a most unusual pet.
A WALT DISNEY production
The feature film starring Doug McCIure with John MeEnery Susan Penhaligon
An exciting adventure fantasy from the writer of the immortal Tarzan stories. In 1916 the survivors of a British supply ship take over the German submarine that sank their vessel. Whilst heading for a safe port they are transported to a mysterious, inhospitable island where prehistoric beasts and tribes of apemen threaten their lives ...
Screenplay by MICHAEL MOORCOCK and JAMES CAWTHORN
Based on the story by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Produced by JOHN DARK
Directed by KENNETH CONNOR
(First showing on British television) Films: page 23
with Richard Baker
Weekend Weather MICHAEL FISH
A whodunit series starring an off-beat young lawyer with a flair for detective work with with guest stars Tricia O'Neil, Dennis Cole, Barbara Rhoades
When Julie Heller is accused of murdering millionaire Lloyd Wesley Jordan, Capra is pleased to find that she has an alibi for the time of the crime - but not when he finds out what it is...
by J. H. MAUNDER
The words written and arranged by SHAPCOTT WENSLEY
This performance of Maunder's greatest oratorio was recorded in Gloucester Cathedral.
Kenneth Bowen (tenor) Gwynne Howell (bass) James Lancelot (organ) Cardiff Polyphonic Choir conducted by Richard Elfyn Jones
Sound HARRY THOMAS
Lighting LEN STEPHENS
Producer j. MERVYN WILLIAMS. BBC Wales
A crisply witty romantic comedy starring Katharine Hepburn Laurence Olivier
Jessica Medlicott , recently widowed and rich, comes to the chambers of successful barrister Sir Arthur Granville-Jones . She is being sued for breach of promise by a young man and counts on Sir Arthur to win her case. He accepts the brief but is shattered to discover that the lady does not recognise him.
The memory of three tempestuous days in Toronto, 40 years before, has coloured his whole life,
Screenplay by JAMES COSTIGAN
Director GEORGE CUKOR. Films: page 23