Story: "Boy in a Boat"
Presenters this week Julie Stevens, Johnny Ball
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
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Story: "Boy in a Boat"
Presenters this week Julie Stevens, Johnny Ball
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
Fourth day
Further coverage including the closing overs from Headingley
Weather
Introduced by Michael Reinhold and Meryl O'Keeffe
From asthma to varicose veins a surprising amount of medical research is paid for by charitable donations. But how many of the people who give the pennies or the pounds know what happens to their money? Is this really the way to achieve cures?
Some of the best of this Western film series
Against the best of advice and his own better judgment Blue determines to rescue a white girl from the Apaches. The danger of his lone mission is inescapable, but bravery and chivalry are hard to separate.
A musical quiz
Joseph Cooper as question-master invites you to match your musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Bernard Levin, Paul Jennings
Starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett
Special guests Alan Price and Georgie Fame
with Elaine Delmar, Sally Brace, Elizabeth Counsell, Ian Gray, Roland MacLeod, Mary Merrall, Brian Nolan, John Owens, Maurice Quick, John Rutland, Jerold Wells
and Sue Lloyd as Blanche
The Fred Tomlinson Singers
"It is as if the current of some different life swept through them - as if they drew their vitality from different depths that we are denied" (D. H. Lawrence)
The Etruscans, that strange people who lived in central Italy before the Romans, left behind them extraordinary cities of the dead once full of their most precious possessions. And yet for all these riches we do not know what language they spoke nor what their origins were.
In this Chronicle programme Bernard Keeffe explores the tantalising facts.
With Dr John Wilkins and David Ridgway
(Alec McCowen is a National Theatre player)
with John Edmunds; Weather
The final programme in this current series is "Cleaners Action"
'We want to talk about the domestic and working problems of night cleaners and about our attempts to organise them.'