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Jesus -His Life and Teaching Jesus and Healing
Is sickness a matter of chance? The gospels are full of healing stories. What can modern Christians understand about healing and the will of God?
A celebration of Parish Eucharist from St Michael and All Angels, Bedminster, Bristol. Speaker
THE REV DR JOHN POLKINGHORNE
Celebrant THE REV PETER CHAMBERS Organist DAVID HOCKING
Introduced by RAYMOND SHORT
Bible readings: Mark 2, vv 1-12 2 Corinthians 12, vv 7-10
Hymns: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton); King of glory, King of peace (Gwalchmai)
Sound IAN LEIPER
Lighting JACK BELASCO Director MICHAEL WOOD
Series producer RAYMOND SHORT
TARA ARTS GROUP, the only full-time Asian theatre company in this country, attempts to give expression to the Asian experience in Britain through multi-national theatrical traditions. The group's base at the Tara Arts Centre in Wandsworth, London, is also a focal point for emerging Asian arts activities. In today's programme there is a film report from the centre, observing and talking to members of the group as they prepare and rehearse their latest stage production Meet Me (Pyaar Kiya to Darna Kya). The play is based on research into mental illness among Asians and its author JATINDER VERMA and director YOGESH BHATT describe the background to its concept and production. In addition to other stories from the communities, Asian Song Contest winner DOLLY JUTLEY sings a ghazal.
Producer YOUSUF Aziz
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by DR EDWARD DE BONO
Six programmes which show a variety of ways in which thinking skills can be applied in business and organisational situations.
4: Crises, Problems, Opportunities
Director CAROLINE PICK Producer PETER RIDING
Book, de Bono's Thinking Course, 13.75 from booksellers
A series of 24 programmes aimed at giving help with 0-level maths. 14: Volume II
Director PATRICK TITLEY
Producer ROBERT CLAMP
Books, Parts 1 and 2, 13.95 from booksellers
A ten-part series in Modern Greek for beginners with CHRIS SERLE , KATIA DANDOULAKI
The language used when meeting Greeks, and talking about their background and yours. Andros Island: a portrait.
Consultant DAVID A. HARDY
Assistant producer MARY SPRENT Producer TERRY DOYLE
For information about opportunities to learn Greek in your area contact: England and Wales: Broadcasting Support Services [number removed]; Northern Ireland: Media Follow-up [number removed]; Scotland: Network [number removed].
Book (same title), cassettes and records from booksellers
Five programmes about responses to youth unemployment.
4: Not a Rockface in Sight
'Three days spent living and talking together can be just as valuable for young people as clambering up and down mountains.' This film looks at the progress of one such course at Honiley Hall, Warwickshire.
Film editor PATTIE WINTER
Producer IAN WOOLF
Background notes, £2.00 from: The Unemployment Industry, PO Box 7, London [Postcode removed]
Ten programmes on survival and success in small business.
9: The Computer - Time -saver or Toy?
Film director GEOFF GRIFFITHS
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
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For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, presenting news, views and entertainment, with sign language interpretation and subtitles.
Presented by MAGGIE WOOLLEY WENDY DAUNT and JOHN LEE
Produced by CHARLES PASCOE
Ten programmes
4: Introducing Graphics
Most modern computers are capable of displaying graphics - in other words, pictures.
Ian McNaught-Davis begins an exploration of what you can do with a modest personal micro.
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with PHILIP WRIXON
DAN CHERRINGTON , JAMES GLADSTONE
Producers PHILIP HICKS , KEN POLLOCK Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
Weather for farmers JIM BACON
starring Lana Turner , John Gavin Lana Turner stars as an actress forced to weigh career against personal happiness in this deeply affecting version of a famous novel.
Lora Meredith , an attractive widow with a small daughter, Susie, comes to New York determined to make a career as an actress. She gives shelter to a kindly Negress, Annie Johnson , who also has a young daughter. Lora pursues an increasingly successful career while Annie continues to look after both families - a growing problem.
Screenplay by ELEANORE GRIFFIN and ALLEN SCOTT , based on the novel by FANNIE HURST Produced by ROSS HUNTER
Directed by DOUGLAS SIRK . Films: page 15
Dangerous Cargo
The Coastguards share Spurn Point with the Humber Lifeboat. It is their task to co-ordinate all search and rescue missions - and to launch the lifeboat when necessary. But part of their job is to guard the shoreline. One weekend last winter, some containers of toxic chemicals were washed up on the beaches around Spurn. This set in motion a train of events that was to keep the Humber Coastguard very. busy for the next 48 hours. Written and narrated by Brian Thompson
Produced by JOHN GAU
Directed by PAUL BERRIFF
by JAMES HILTON dramatised in six episodes by ALEXANDER BARON. Episode 1
An instant bestseller when first published, the memories of 85-year-old Mr Chips of his long years as a master at orookfield School have moved the hearts of millions of readers for over 50 years. Brookfield boys REPTON SCHOOL and , BRECON CHRISTCOLLEGE
Music composed and conducted Y DUDLEY SIMPSON
Make-up designer SYLVIA THORNTON Script editor TERRANCE DICKS Designer COLIN SHAW Producer BARRY LETTS Director GARETH DAVIES
0 BACK PAGES: 86
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
with Cliff Michelmore
John Carter and Anne Gregg
The island of Bermuda is in the Atlantic, not the Caribbean, yet it holds out the same palm-fringed promises to holidaymakers. Can those promises be kept? CLIFF MICHELMORE lifts his comPass to work out the Bermuda angle. Holland isn't designed for mountaineering holidays but that very fact makes it ideal for bike riding as ANNE GREGG discovered when she sampled a two-wheeled tour of the flat lands.
Alistair MacDonald from BBC North contributes to the series of regional reports - travelling to the Lake District on a National coach tour.
In the studio, news and comment on the holiday scene.
Film editor MAX WHEELER
Executive producer TOM SAVAGE Producer COLIN STRONG
with Derek Griffiths and friends 4: On the Right Track
Do you drink more on holiday? Benidorm holiday-makers find that every excursion includes free drinks.
Film editor AL GELL. Director FIONA PITCHER Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY
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A series of ten programmes based on the Zoo Vet books by DAVID TAYLOR 1: We Called in the Experts by ANTHONY READ starring
Donald Turner returns to his home town to work as assistant to the local vet. It is difficult enough to adjust to a new job, but when your first patient is an elephant with 'the skitters'...
Music composed by MICHAEL OMER Script editor TED RHODES Designer JOHN COLEMAN
Produced by BILL SELLARS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER BAKER 0 FEATURE: page 78
with Magnus Magnusson
Mastermind's 12th season opens at the University of Dundee when four contenders from Scotland and Northern Ireland meet in the first heat of the 1984 competition.
Mary Burton (computing supervisor) The Scots Quair Trilogy of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Stephen Bowers (unemployed) French History 1715-1799
Norman Izzett (assistant rector) Ancient Athens
Gordon McAlister (unemployed) The Bolsheviks 1914-1920
Director LAURENCE VULLIAMY Producer ROGER MACKAY
Book, Mastermind 4, 11.50 from booksellers 0 FEATURE: page 12
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
with Esther Rantzen
The reporters are Bill Buckley
Gavin Campbell , Michael Groth And at the That's Life Newsdesk Doc Cox and Joanna Monro
Director BOB MARSLAND
Producer ESTHER RANTZEN Editor GORDON WATTS
A series of films celebrating the traditional cuisine of 11 different countries. 3: Spain
Catalonia, originally an independent country, was one of the first parts of Spain to be colonised by the Romans. In the town of Sitges, Chef Carlos Santis still maintains 'I am Catalonian first and Spanish second'. The dishes he prepares include a regional speciality - chicken and lobster in a chocolate-flavoured sauce and peaches in white wine.
Narrator Derek Cooper
Television presentation by PETER RIDING, CATHERINE ROBINS A SCREENSCOPE production
Book (same title) £2.25, from booksellers
[Starring] Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko
Bilko is mesmerised by the money to be made as a hypnotist but only succeeds in putting Doberman into a trance - so what's new?