The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
Weather
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The BBC's award-winning entry for the Italia Prize (Documentary Category)
The familiar cries of the gulls along our coastline are only a small part of the language of these birds. During the breeding season especially, they use a number of other sounds as well as postures to communicate with each other. The meaning and use of all these are examined in this remarkable study of life in a colony of Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Introduced and photographed by Professor Niko Tinbergen
(from BBC South and West)
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presented by Robin Ray
Ruggiero Ricci, violinist, directs the City of London Ensemble in works by Bach and Vivaldi
Previn and the Promenaders: the London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor asks 'Where do Promenaders go in the winter?'
The Place: The new arts centre where The London Contemporary Dance Company have just completed their first London season. Robert Cohan, choreographer, talks to Nigel Gosling, and members of the Company perform a scene from his production Cell. The music is by Ronald Lloyd
Brass Bands: is this the reason Jack Scott left Miami for Sheffield?
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Starring Terry Scott
with June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth
[and] Barbara Evans, Roger Avon, James Ottaway, Denis McCarthy, Janet Webb, The Jo Cook Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers
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by Graham Seal
'That's right, love everyone. I don't want your Christian love, Slade. It stinks. Why don't you just admit you hate me?'
Two men - just two men cooped up together in a small hut in a wilderness of snow. They're there to do a job but living like this does something to a man-it makes him act like an animal.
(David Graham is in "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" at the Saville Theatre, London)
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A weekly look at the cinema
This week's guest Peter Cook on location for his new film The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer - his first solo starring role
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
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