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Eight programmes looking at the sub-continent twenty years after Independence.

'The principle or system of social division in India'
Under the pressure of modernisation the ancient caste system persists and is even strengthened, taking on new and surprising forms.
Written and introduced by Roderick MacFarquhar.
See page 31

Contributors

Writer/Presenter:
Roderick MacFarquhar
Presented by:
Howard Smith
Producer:
Peter Dunkley

by John Pennington.
Starring Ewen Solon
with James Grant and Callum Mill
Guest star, Leonard Rossiter

Easy money is the usual lure in smuggling. But there can be other motives; as Smith and McInnes discover when they dig into the past of a man who seems to have everything money can buy.

Contributors

Writer:
John Pennington
Series devised by:
Pat Dunlop
Series devised by:
Alan Haire
Designer:
Roderick Laing
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Richard Argent
Ormerod:
Leonard Rossiter
John Gillespie:
Gerard Slevin Jr.
Ross McInnes:
James Grant
Walker:
Larry Marshall
Waterguard Officer:
Harry Hankin
Luke Frazer:
Claire Neilson
Smith:
Ewen Solon
Dot:
Katie Gardiner
Gladys:
Nancy Gilmour
Annie Gillespie:
Patricia Heneghan
Hugh Evans:
Paul Dawkins
Jason:
Paul Kermack
Campbell:
Callum Mill

A review of the sciences introduced by Christopher Chataway.

A man playing chess blindfold against eight opponents, an American worm eating its relatives, an octopus reacting to a scientist's signals in Naples... These are some of the elements in tonight's investigation of memory.

Research on the brain and its workings has recently expanded enormously, producing a record crop of scientific theories. But how near are we yet to any real knowledge of the mysterious processes by which we record, store, and recall our memories?

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Chataway
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Editor:
R. W. Reid

A look at the world through European eyes.
Introduced this week by Olivier Todd with the help of the cameras of the European television networks.

Contributors

Presenter:
Olivier Todd
Associate producer:
Geoffrey Baines
Producer:
Anthony Smith

by John Galsworthy.
A second chance to see this dramatisation by Anthony Steven.
Starring Eric Porter, Susan Hampshire, Nicholas Pennell

Fleur has continued to encourage Wilfrid. Michael has arranged for Victorine to model for Aubrey Greene. Soames discovers that Elderson has been accepting secret commissions.
(Shown on Saturday)

Contributors

Author:
John Galsworthy
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Producer:
Donald Wilson
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Soames:
Eric Porter
Fleur:
Susan Hampshire
Michael Mont:
Nicholas Pennell

A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests also Philip Jenkinson with more film requests.
Letters to Philip Jenkinson should be addressed c/o Late Night Line-Up, [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Item presenter (Film Requests):
Philip Jenkinson

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