The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Charles Taylor
Ping! Thud! Blah! Each day we are surrounded by sounds like this - and more. But are they noise - or music? Can science find the answer? The sounds made by pipes, strings, voices, machines and instruments are varied in their complexity and effects.
Professor Taylor can best be described as an enthusiast who believes that to make science more easily understood and enjoyed teachers should apply 'showbiz' technique to their lectures. (He does.) He will gladly play Bach's Air on a G String or 'Daisy, Daisy.'
With the audience's help he makes different sounds and scientifically explores their qualities.
(Lecture 2: Monday, 6.30 pm)
(This Week's Sounds: page 15)
Handel's sacred oratorio with Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend
Ian Hare (chamber organ), James Lancelot (harpsichord), Arthur Wills (organ),
Gordon Webb (solo trumpet)
Conducted by David Willcocks
Specially recorded for television
Thirty years ago Christoph von Furer Haimendorf visited the Nagas - a wild tribe of head-hunters who live in the hills between India and Burma.
He returned last year and filmed the Nagas at the turning point between their violent past and the developments yet to happen.
A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk
by Emile Zola
Dramatised in five parts by David Turner
Catherine has become Chaval's mistress and Etienne has a room at Rasseneur's. The villagers prepare for their Fair Day.
Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
Guest stars Neville King, The Monarchs, Eric and Cedric
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage, Andy Cole
with The Television Toppers
(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing at the Victoria Palace, London, and at the Grand Theatre, Leeds)
The important ways in which skin works for us, how we can look after it and the things that can go wrong.
and Weather
Munich, Stockholm, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and Boston - a few of the places visited by Line-Up this year. James Baldwin, Spike Milligan, Hildegarde Knef, Jimmy Wheeler, Memphis Slim, Malcolm Muggeridge, Paul Ehrlich, Jimmy Reid, Sir Oswald Mosley, Kyung Wa Chung, Richard Crossman MP - a few of the people who visited Line-Up this year.
The pick of Line-Up 1971 in Line-Up The Year.
