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An introduction to the social sciences

All societies have rules about the way their members should behave. What happens to those who can't, or won't, conform?
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Linked with Radio 3, Study: Fridays, 7.0 pm. For details of book and NEC correspondence course see page 44)

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Director:
John Groom
Producer:
Howard Smith

Reporting the world tonight
Peter Woods
With Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall and BBC News correspondents
and Weather

Contributors

Newsreader:
Peter Woods
Reporter:
Martin Bell
Reporter:
Michael Blakey
Reporter:
Michael Clayton
Reporter:
Michael Sullivan
Reporter:
David Tindall
Reporter:
Richard Whitmore

A duel of words and wit between Katharine Whitehorn, Gwyn Thomas, Bruce Trent and Fyfe Robertson, Angela Douglas, Anita Prynne
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Panellist:
Katharine Whitehorn
Panellist:
Gwyn Thomas
Panellist:
Bruce Trent
Panellist:
Fyfe Robertson
Panellist:
Angela Douglas
Panellist:
Anita Prynne
Referee:
Robert Robinson
Call My Bluff devised by:
Mark Goodson
Call My Bluff devised by:
Bill Todman
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
T. Leslie Jackson

Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, Alan Watson and John Tusa including
Whatever happened to the tea-lady? The tea-lady is alive and well and living in a vending machine: John Tusa reports.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Widlake
Presenter:
Alan Watson
Presenter:
John Tusa
Associate Producer:
John Walker
Producer:
Michael Bunce

Dramatised by Hugo Charteris
Starring Carroll Baker as Sadie Thompson, Michael Bryant as Mr Davidson
with Gordon Jackson as Dr MacPhail, Stella Tanner as Mrs Davidson, Rona Anderson as Mrs MacPhail

An evangelical missionary and his wife are stranded on a South Sea island with Sadie Thompson, a blonde American from San Francisco. Confined to the only lodging house, with the tropical rain beating on the tin roof, they take uneasy meals while Sadie plays the phonograph and entertains sailors.
(Colour)
('The part I'd have gone to Timbuctoo to do': page 8)
(Next week: "The Unconquered")

Contributors

Author:
W. Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by:
Hugo Charteris
Costumes:
Michael Burdle
Lighting:
John Treays
Script Editor:
Andrew Brown
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
John MacKenzie
Sadie Thompson:
Carroll Baker
Mr Davidson:
Michael Bryant
Dr MacPhail:
Gordon Jackson
Mrs Davidson:
Stella Tanner
Mrs MacPhail:
Rona Anderson
Horn:
Ken Jones
Quartermaster:
Bruce Boa
Horn's daughter:
Yasmin Singh
Horn's wife:
Joan Snow
Customs Officer:
Vincent Wong
Sailors:
Ray Marlowe
Sailors:
Terence Mountain

Presenting each week some of the international jazz stars recorded at Europe's Number One Jazz Club
Tonight Ronnie Scott introduces: The Gary Burton Quartet, The Buddy Tate Quartet,
The Clarke-Boland Big Band
(All artists appear by arrangement with Harold Davison Ltd)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ronnie Scott
Musicians:
The Gary Burton Quartet
Musicians:
The Buddy Tate Quartet
Musicians:
The Clarke-Boland Big Band
Title Music:
Francy Boland
Associate Producer:
Vernon Lawrence
Production:
Terry Henebery

BBC Two England

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