An eve-of-the-Common Market edition, and report on the British economy
Presented by Brian Widlake
(Shown last Friday)
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The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Geoffrey Gouriet, Chief Engineer, BBC Research and Development
Nowadays, we all take for granted our transistor radios, hi-fi, and colour television sets. Yet to people 50 years ago all these things would have appeared absolutely fantastic.
With the use of many fascinating experiments Geoffrey Gouriet takes us back even farther-to those first exciting responses of magnetism and electricity which meant the birth of radio as we know it today.
(Lecture 2: Monday, 6.25 pm)
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A special edition which selects from the past 12 months some Aspects of a Quiet Year: 1972
Introduced by John Edmunds
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A Personal History of the United States in 13 parts written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
The rail link across the continent, which was completed in 1869; the invention of the wind pump, the steel-faced plough and barbed wire-these developments were fatal not only to the Indian but to the free-ranging cowboy with his now-romanticised lawlessness. Alistair Cooke looks at the end of the Wild West, and at some of the men and - especially - women who tamed it.
(Rptd: Monday, 8.25 pm. This series Is currently printed in The Listener)
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My dancers should not only master technique, but they should have unusual stamina, the daring of an acrobat, the skill of a juggler, the speed of a fencer and know how to act as well. (Igor Moiseyev)
A spectacular hour of entertainment - the internationally famous Moiseyev Dance Company performs a programme of Russian folk dances throbbing with the breathless energy that has thrilled audiences throughout the world
Directed by Kurt Paeti at Bavaria Studios, Munich
[Repeat]
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with Peter Hall, Alfie Bass, Michael Hordern, Ronnie Stevens, Paul McDowell, Dennis Plenty
Variations on a theme in the form of poetry, comedy sketches, songs and discussion.
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by Nick McCarty
Starring Roddy McMillan as Pike
with Jean Taylor-Smith, Adrienne Corri
The Clearances seem to have come to Scotland again and Pike finds himself working on the side of the villains.
(Roddy McMillan: see pages 12-13)
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A last half-hearted stand before entry.
Patriotically presented by James Cameron, Kenny Everett, William Rushton, John Wells
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Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
With no money to buy seed, Jeeter Lester has planted no crops for seven years, and he and his family are barely eking out an existence. But with the same spirit as the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath they never give up hope and never lose their sense of humour.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
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