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Today's story: "Sarah's Walk" by Peter Wiltshire
Presenters this week Carol Chell, Lionel Morton
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Today's story: "Sarah's Walk" by Peter Wiltshire
Presenters this week Carol Chell, Lionel Morton
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
At 71 Charlie Cole is still a racing cyclist; His time for 25 miles is 1 hour 6 minutes 23 secs. How does he view growing older? He is one of the people who talk about their philosophy of life after 70.
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With Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad.
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A Western adventure series with Hannibal Heyes and Jed 'Kid' Curry, starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
with guest stars Joanna Barnes, Patricia Crowley, Nico Minardos, Craig Stevens.
Jones goes south of the border on a comfortable, well paid assignment. However, in a typically sunny and friendly Mexican town he is arrested and charged with murder. Smith rides to the rescue but the evidence of guilt is overwhelming. And the firing squad is getting impatient.
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A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Rosemary Leach, Denis Norden and Frank Muir, Katharine Whitehorn, Patrick Cargill.
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
Next week: A new series of Face the Music
Balls of fire that pass through walls, torrents of periwinkles, gigantic unknown sea creatures, mysterious glowing lights m the night sky.
There has never been a time when men did not report seeing strange things. The reaction was usually a mixture of curiosity and fear. But how can science study these rare, improbable occurrences that are short-lived and usually witnessed by untrained, highly susceptible observers?
In the 18th century the French Academy of Sciences refused to believe in the existence of meteorites. Might we not be making the same mistake with sea monsters and unidentified flying objects? Certainly they pose present-day scientists with a dilemma. They raise such questions as what is acceptable evidence? What is an experiment?
Tonight Horizon looks at some of these phenomena that have baffled and irritated scientists for centuries, and considers how science can deal with them.
by Ron Berry.
Above a South Wales valley Dai and his girlfriend Cissie court and tease each other and talk of marriage, but the teasing becomes aggressive and at times savage...
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