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featuring today's events as they happen direct by satellite and all the highlights of the XIX Olympic Games
including
Swimming: Ladies' 100 Metres Backstroke (Heats), Men's 400 Metres Medley (Heats)
and Boxing, Gymnastics
Introduced by David Vine with the BBC Olympic team of commentators

(Colour)
(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Presented by:
Dewi Griffiths
Presented by:
Bill Taylor

Five programmes on research into the way our lives are affected by Sound, Noise, and Vibration

What is it that will reach our ears when a supersonic aircraft passes over?
Introduced by Dr. Peyto Slatter.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr. Peyto Slatter
Speaker:
Professor E. Zepler
Speaker:
Roger Thornton
Director:
Mary Hoskins
Producer:
John Braybon
Series Editor:
James McCloy

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

Contributors

Newsreader:
John Timpson
Newsreader:
Peter Woods

by Arnold Bennett
Dramatised by Denis Constanduros
With John Barrie as Jack Hollins and Peter Graves as Shelton-Shelton
Tales of the Twenties

Mr Jack Hollins is a self-made millionaire at odds with values and life in the 1920s. His daughter Minnie strives to be an emancipated woman. She is an art student and a socialist, and longs for her own life away from home. Her father refuses to let her go and when she eventually escapes by marrying, Jack Hollins, through his money, still controls her life. But the world is changing and it is beyond Mr. Hollins's control. He finds himself no longer master of his fate.
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Arnold Bennett
Dramatised by:
Denis Constanduros
Script Editor:
Andrew Brown
Designer:
Austen Spriggs
Producer:
Harry Moore
Director:
David Saire
Jack Hollins:
John Barrie
Minnie Hollins:
Felicity Gibson
Julian Cope:
Giles Block
Sarah Allbright:
Karin MacCarthy
Samuels:
Arthur Hewlett
Sir Maurice Cope:
Kenneth Benda
Shelton-Shelton:
Peter Graves

A look at the world through European eyes

In the past few weeks the world has applauded the brave and united stand that the Czechs have made in the face of Soviet occupation. The Slovaks have not enjoyed so much popular recognition and, indeed, for decades they have felt themselves to be the 'poor relations.' But this week they hope to gain cultural and political autonomy in a federal system of government. Elsewhere ethnic minorities get a rougher deal. The Kurds have for eight years fought a desperate battle to gain equality in Arab dominated Iraq. Tonight Europa looks at these two very different countries and examines their prospects.
Introduced this week by Olivier Todd

Contributors

Presenter:
Olivier Todd
Producer:
Frank Smith

They are still out in Arizona, but now it's the film companies who take them there - together with the equipment, the props, the people, and the horses to turn out a fifty-minute television Western in five days. But even with air-conditioned dressing rooms, gallons of iced drinks and the comfort of a luxury hotel at night, life in the desert with the thermometer at around 115 degrees is not so easy - the rattlesnakes and the poisonous cacti have scant respect for star actors.
The High Chaparral series, which returns to BBC-2 next week, is filmed almost entirely on location in and around Tucson Arizona. For a few hectic days last summer a BBC crew joined the production unit to film it in action and to talk to some of the people involved.
Among those appearing: Linda Cristal, Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow, Mark Slade and producer, William Claxton
(Colour)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Linda Cristal
Interviewee:
Leif Erickson
Interviewee:
Cameron Mitchell
Interviewee:
Henry Darrow
Interviewee:
Mark Slade
Interviewee:
William Claxton
Director:
Jonathan Phillips
Producer:
Richard Drewett

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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