Story: "The Magic Bubble" by Ron Riches
With Carol Chell, Lionel Morton
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
An overseas agent breaks his contract. What can you do?
Introduced by Brian Jackson
with Peter Woods
Weather
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
They do these things differently in South America. There they have fireworks and grotesque masks and parades that seem to last for days and the sun shines all the time. Even the nights are hot. It snowed in Birmingham even at midday in March, but the students did try. They had a procession with a rag time band and in the week before carnival day they dwile flonked, pedal-car raced and paddled home-built rafts on a pond only just not frozen. A typical students' rag week with a serious aim - to raise money for charity and some serious events, like donating blood.
Yet it all seemed to bring as much trouble as it did joy, particularly the traditional rag mag with its references to sex and bodily functions.
Jeremy James and a Man Alive film crew followed the students of the University of Birmingham and Aston in their annual rag week. An attraction to compete with the Mardi Gras? Well, hardly, but then Birmingham is hardly Rio de Janeiro. But the students were trying - all the time.
The distinguished British international guitarist plays
Visee Suite in A
Granados Tonadilla: La Maja de Goya
(Colour)
World Billiards Champion Williams and former World Snooker Champion Davis meet for the first and last time in this series. The winner meets John Spencer, the current World Champion, in next week's Final.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(Colour)
by Moris Farhi
with Jennifer Hilary as Penny Bowers, Anthony Ainley as Bowers-One, Bernard Brown as Bowers-Two and Gerald Sim as Det-Sgt Greene, Derek Benfield as Dr Liam Moore
After spending six months in hospital following a car accident, Dr Frank Bowers is allowed to go home. Instead of warning his wife, he decides to give her a wonderful surprise.
At the end of 1928 the first "talkies" arrived from Hollywood. They caused a sensation. The public clamoured for more. In British studios - which were still churning out silent films - there was instant chaos.
The scramble to make Britain's first talkies is described by some of the producers, directors, technicians and stars of the time:
Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Wilcox, Sir Michael Balcon, Ronald Neame, Alec Murray, Albert Ross, Harry Miller, John Longden, Mabel Poulton, Margot Grahame, Chili Bouchier and John Stuart
Including excerpts from Kitty, Atlantic, Rookery Nook, and from the first full-length British talkie, Hitchcock's Blackmail.
(Cockney Mabel didn't speak proper: p 11)
