Story: The Duck Pond by Malcolm Carrick
(Repeated today on BBC2 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
Should all 16-19-year-olds be educated under one roof?
(Book, 80 p: p63)
Animal behaviour and survival.
Some moths can detect females at a range of six miles. Discovering how animal sense organs function is important, for not only are they often superior to our own but they are the guides for the behaviour of the animals themselves.
(from Bristol)
No one in Holland is surprised to see a monk in a lounge suit standing as a left-wing delegate on a town council, or a nun donning a crash helmet and motor-cycling to work everyday. It's all part of the liberalisation of religious attitudes for which the Dutch Church blazed the trail some years ago. But in this atmosphere of revolution, there are many who want to return to the strict disciplines of the traditional Church.
Two contrasting reports from a free commune and a closed order.
Introduced by Derek Hart
by Guy de Maupassant
Dramatised in five parts by Robert Muller
Georges Duroy, an ex-Hussar, is working as a junior railway clerk in Paris. Badly paid, he feels drawn towards the apparently unattainable rich life of Paris which teems all around him.
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(Repeated next Saturday evening)
Gordon Snell talks to Sir Frederic Osborn
New Towns give people better living conditions nearer their work. They owe much to the pioneers of the Garden City movement. Sir Frederic Osborn became one of the first of a new profession, the Town Planner; in 1920 he established Welwyn Garden City.
At 100 mph a passenger train can't dodge out of danger like a car. But, statistically, you are 200 times safer in the compartment of a British passenger train than you are in a car.
This film, using the few steam trains that remain, recreates the circumstances of past rail accidents - Clayton Tunnel in 1861, Armagh in 1889, Quintinshill in 1915 - and shows how our technical wizardry and high rail-safety record has been bought with the lives of Victorian travellers.
"...it fulfilled all three of the basic obligations of the Corporation's overall duty to inform, educate and entertain" (The Times)
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by David Rudkin
The sixth in this season of short plays from Birmingham.
'The nice dreams they end just a moment too soon. Nightmares they end just in time. Good job...!'
The Kinks Kronikle brought up to date, from the raucous 'You Really Got Me' to the brass band revival of 'The Village Green Preservation Society.'
Ray Davies (lead vocals/guitar), Dave Davies (lead guitar), John Dalton (bass guitar), John Gosling (piano) Mick Avery (drums), Mike Cotton (trumpet), Alan Holmes (saxophone), John Beecham (trombone)
with David Tindall; Weather
A weekly round-up of issues concerning the world of television. Michael Dean surveys the week's output and invites others to assess its achievements and effect.
(Colour)
