Today's story is 'The Wind' by John Eyers
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Dr Cyril Hilsum holds a post of special responsibility at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, and is the world authority on Gallium Arsenide. This is his story of the science, technology, and despair of a hunch which turned out right in the end.
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Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woodswith Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan,
David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and BBC News correspondents
and Weather
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Gordon Wilkins covers the world of aviation.
The Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet was due to make its first passenger flight to London from New York yesterday.
What impact will this 350 seater have on airports and air travel? Does its size increase the risk of mid-air collisions? Why do pilots want more pay to fly it? Will the Jumbo make holiday inclusive tours to the sun and snow cheaper?
On the inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 the Wheelbase team takes to the air to examine the plane's effect on flying round the world.
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Pieter Bruegel, the elder, died just over 400 years ago. He lived and worked in the Netherlands in the middle of the 16th century and was one of the great witnesses of his age. He described the lives of ordinary working men and women in town and country. In his paintings of religious subjects he placed biblical events in contemporary contexts and so described the facts of oppression and religious persecution. He showed realistic activity taken to fantastic extremes and described the fantastic in completely realistic terms. His terrifying vision of 'The Triumph of Death' anticipated by three-and-a-half centuries the familiar landscapes of modern war.
A film by Paul Haesaerts for the Flemish Service of Belgian Radio and Television
English version and commentary by Michael Dibb
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This week's presentation in the series of feature films reflecting some of the finest work of many of Italy's most famous and talented directors and artists stars Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Yvonne Furneaux, Madeleine Fischer
A Rome couturier who returns to her native Turin to open a boutique becomes involved with a group of young women who lead empty, boring, and emotionally insecure lives.
Key to L'Avventura and many of Antonioni's later films, The Girl Friends is based on a melancholy tale by Cesare Pavese. The five female parts are beautifully cast, in particular Yvonne Furneaux as Momina.
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Michael Dean looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron and other people, other views
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