A programme for children at home
Today's story: "The Baby and the Band" by Joanne Cole
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
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(to 11.20)

Introduced by D.R.C. Holmes, C.Eng.A.M.I.Prod.E
(Repeated next week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on BBC-1 and BBC Wales)
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 22
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The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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Horizon - Man and science today

J.B.S. Haldane was one of the most controversial figures that British science has produced during this century. He was born in an upper-class Scottish family and educated at Eton and Oxford; he died in India, a naturalised Indian and a communist sympathiser. He was a brilliant mathematician who applied his skill to genetics; but he was also a classical scholar who put his original mind to a huge range of subjects. For him the idea of two cultures was unthinkable.
Haldane's behaviour is legendary, and not only in scientific circles. He was involved in daring exploits in the first world war, performed dangerous scientific experiments on himself (his family motto was 'Suffer'), and throughout his life maintained a running battle with established authority.
Tonight's programme is a portrait of this remarkable but unusual scientist seen through the eyes of his friends and critics.

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from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
A weekly series featuring some of the world's top jazz artists in concert
The Horace Silver Quintet
featuring
Randy Brecker (trumpet), John Williams (saxophone), Bennie Maupin Jr. (bass), Billy Cobham (drums)
Introduced by Benny Green
(The Horace Silver Quintet appear by arrangement with Harold Davison)
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Dr. Jacob Bronowski presents a dramatised essay on the man and his work.

For thirty-five years of his life Blake lived under the iron heel of war and three revolutions-in France, in America, and in the growing industry of Britain. He was a rebel against political and religious dogma, a mystic who dined with Isaiah, a poet of the stature of Milton. As an artist, he considered himself in the company of Michelangelo and Raphael - a presumption, maybe, but all his life he struggled to convey extraordinary visions: he saw the plight of twentieth-century man crushed by the Machine of State. Yet he lived with the hope. that man's imagination would enable him to rise free. He believed Jerusalem could be built among the satanic mills.
Like most men ahead of their time he was deemed mad. Only today can we see him as a prophet whose work is as relevant to our time as that of any modern thinker.
Commentary by Dr. Jacob Bronowski
Dramatised and produced by Adrian Malone
A co-production with N.E.T., U.S.A.
See page 29
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Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, John Tusa, Graham Turner

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with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley, and guests

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