from Ted Moult's Farm
Presenters Miranda Connell, Brian Cant and Ted Moult tells his own story 'The New Tractor'
(Colour)
A second start in mathematics
Down with multiplication, up with addition, thanks to logarithms.
Presented by Stewart Gartside
(Repeated on Saturday, BBC1, 9.30 am)
Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods
and Weather
(Colour)
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
What is a comprehensive school? And can it provide for the needs of children of all abilities? The Black Paper authors argue that quality is being sacrificed to equality, in the scramble to go comprehensive.
Man Alive, in the second of three programmes on secondary education, takes a look at a purpose-built comprehensive in Yorkshire, and an adapted London central school, now called comprehensive. Will your child be lost in these vast schools, or do they represent the solution to the problem of secondary education in England?
(Colour)
The work of e e cummings ranges from lyric romanticism to barbed political satire. Each poem is designed to please the eye as well as the ear. Alec Guinness and director James Cellan Jones have combined to present cummings's work in all its variety in a way that sharpens the understanding.
(Colour)
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Also on BBC1 and BBC Wales)
(Colour)
Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway
Carol Channing, the original star of Hello Dolly, and Pearl Bailey, the current 'Dolly' on Broadway, combine forces in a rumbustious cavalcade of comedy and song.
It is not often that you get two of the greats of musical comedy together in the same show. According to the book they should be trying to scratch one another's eyes out, but as they demonstrate, in duets like 'The two of us,' they make a great partnership.
(Colour)
looking at the world through the eyes of European television
Wherever there is a story the film crews of television on the other side of the channel are there reporting and commenting. From stations like NDR Hamburg, ORTF Paris, SSR Geneva, and a host of others
Introduced by Derek Hart
An invitation to step into the humorous and imaginative world of James Thurber
A series based on a selection of his famous stories and cartoons starring William Windom as John Monroe, Joan Hotchkis as his wife Ellen, Lisa Gerritsen as Lydia
Old soldiers never die, so they say, neither do old jokes, and if you are armed with enough you are bound to win a laughing contest. Aren't you?
(Colour)
(Colour)
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
(Colour)
