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The four-page supplement of 1973 Open University programmes, as printed last week in Radio Times, is obtainable on request from Information Services, [address removed].

Since going to press, the times of some course programmes have changed. Students please note: all television programmes scheduled for 8.30 am on Saturday and Sunday will now be transmitted at 1.50 pm on the same days.

Starring Don Taylor
with Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, Patrick Holt

While Richard the Lionheart is held prisoner abroad, his brother John is plotting to usurp the throne of England and loyalists seek the help of Robin Hood to outwit the traitors.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Director:
Val Guest
Robin Hood:
Don Taylor
Friar Tuck:
Reginald Beckwith
Lady Alys:
Eileen Moore
King Richard:
Patrick Holt
Sir Guy Belton:
David King Wood
Sir Nigel Saltire:
Douglas Wilmer
Hubert:
Harold Lang
Walter:
Ballard Berkeley
Hugo:
Wensley Pithey
Little John:
Leslie Linder
Will Scarlet:
John Van Eyssen
Father David:
Toke Townley
Elvira:
Vera Pearce
Sheriff of Nottingham:
Leonard Sachs

An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
[with] Julie Stevens, Derek Griffiths, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
People and places - music and jokes. Games for indoors and out.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Cant
Musician:
Julie Stevens
Musician:
Derek Griffiths
Musician:
Jonathan Cohen
Musician:
Spike Heatley
Musician:
Alan Rushton
Writer/Director:
Peter Charlton
Producer:
Ann Reay
Executive Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Today on Capitol Hill President Richard Nixon takes the Oath of Allegiance at the start of his second term and outlines his policy for the next four years in his Inaugural Address. Robert MacNeil reports on the ceremony direct from Washington.
Presented in association with EBU and the US networks

Contributors

Reporter:
Robert MacNeil

A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird
Among the main events:

Teresa Berganza
Mezzo-soprano star of Covent Garden, the 'Met,' La Scala, turns tonight to the music of her native Spain. With Felix Lavilla, her husband, at the piano, she sings songs by Granados, Mompou and Manuel de Falla.

Archigram
Cheer up with Archigram, a travelling exhibition which starts off this month from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In the studio, models, designs and projects including Throwaway buildings, the Living Pod and the Instant City. Archigram are an experimental group of English architects who won the 1970 competition for a new entertainments complex in Monte Carlo. Peter Cook, one of the co-founders of the group in 1961, talks about some of their ideas and about his new job as director of the ICA.

(More about Archigram in Scan: Thursday at 8.45 pm, Radio 4)

The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
play music by John McCabe and Josquin des Pres.

9.45 George Reborn
by David Cregan

'I think, perhaps my parents dominated me too much when I was a child. I'll teach them. I shall go mad.'

Patricia Beer was born and brought up in Devon. Tonight she reads and talks about her poetry which often deals with subjects taken from her own domestic life in the West Country.

10.40 The Red Buddha Theatre
present "The Man from the East"
Masks and mime, the traditional arts of Japan, and modern rock music combine in a theatre spectacle devised by the young Japanese percussion player Stomu Yamash'ta.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joe Melia
Performer:
Joe Bird
Director:
Vernon Lawrence
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Producer:
Tony Cash
Producer:
Michael MacIntyre
Assistant Editor:
Tony Staveacre
Editor:
Bill Morton
Mezzo-Soprano:
Teresa Berganza
Pianist:
Felix Lavilla
Interviewee (Archigram):
Peter Cook
Musicians:
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
Writer (George Reborn):
David Cregan
George:
Ronald Pickup
Anna:
Susan Jameson
Charlie:
Tenniel Evans
Amy:
Stephanie Turner
Alice:
Paula Wilcox
Erm:
Sharon Duce
Sydney:
Tim Wylton
Poet/Interviewee:
Patricia Beer
Percussionist:
Stomu Yamash'ta

Starring Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens

The story of a dedicated and talented jazz musician, his affair with an attractive but insecure vocalist, and the crisis in their relationship when - in a bar-room brawl - his courage is tested and found wanting.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Producer/Director:
John Cassavetes
John 'Ghost' Wakefield:
Bobby Darin
Jess Polanski:
Stella Stevens
Charlie:
Cliff Carnell
Red:
Seymour Cassel
Shelley:
Dan Stafford
Pete:
Richard Chambers
Nick:
Nick Dennis
Baby Jackson:
Rupert Crosse
Benny Flowers:
Everett Chambers

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