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Reporting the world tonight Martin Bell
with Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and BBC News correspondents
and Weather

Contributors

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

This week's programme in the series on Man and Science today

J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most controversial and eccentric figures that British science has produced this century. His experiments on himself are legendary. To Haldane the idea of two cultures was unthinkable. He was both a classical scholar and a brilliant mathematician who applied his skill to genetics. Born into an upper-class family he was educated at Eton and Oxford, but his life was marked by a series of battles with established authority. He died a naturalised Indian and a Communist sympathiser.
Tonight's programme is a portrait of this remarkable but unusual scientist and begins with Haldane delivering his own filmed obituary.

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
R. W. Reid
Producer:
Christopher La Fontaine

Do all the nice girls still love a sailor? What does the captain actually do on board ship? Is a life at sea still an attractive career for boys?
Gerald Harrison gets some unorthodox responses to these and other questions from some of the 800 Liverpool children who enjoyed an Educational Cruise in the Mediterranean earlier this year.
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Gerald Harrison
Producer:
Bob Mozley

A non-stop sing-in of familiar tunes with Kiki Dee, Heathmore, Lois Lane, Mike Redway, Tom Saffery, Andee Silver, Danny Street and The Fine Tooth Combs

Contributors

Singer:
Kiki Dee
Singer:
null Heathmore
Singer:
Lois Lane
Singer:
Jackie Lee
Singer:
Mike Redway
Singer:
Tom Saffery
Singer:
Andee Silver
Singer:
Danny Street
Singers:
The Fine Tooth Combs
Musical Director/Arranger:
Bill Shepherd
Design:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Johnnie Stewart

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