Introduced by Robert Robinson
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament
A weekly programme made by groups who have something to say.
The story of how the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, 'father' of the atomic bomb, was snatched from under the noses of the Germans in 1943.
A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world. The interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic - plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
With Richard Whitmore
Weather
Reflecting the religious world of a new generation. Presented by Alex Dolphin and Alastair Pirrie
Hong Kong shelters a Chinese community which lives on the water - 80,000 people for whom their boats are home. The whole family eats, sleeps and works on them. Even weddings are celebrated in floating restaurants. When they die they go ashore - to be buried on the land.
Each year special boats are fantastically decorated to compete against one another in the Dragon Boat Races at the Chinese New Year. It is a unique and colourful way of life which is slowly changing, as many of the boat people of Hong Kong are beginning to settle in terraced houses ashore.
by Rosemary Anne Sisson
with James Maxwell as Henry VII
The rebels, Lord Lovell and the Stafford brothers, are more determined than ever to overthrow the usurper Henry VII. The perfect solution would be to kill him.
Book 30p; see page 86
[Repeat]
The story of piano sound through 250 years: presented by Kenneth van Barthold
Like Mozart and Haydn before him, Beethoven never heard his piano music the way it is usually played today. The first pianos sounded more like harpsichords. This film traces the development of piano sound, starting with one of the earliest instruments made by the piano's Italian inventor Cristofori, and including Beethoven's own piano. Piano music, from C.P.E. Bach to Chopin, Liszt and Frank Martin, is played on original instruments of the sort for which it was written.
Written by Kenneth van Barthold
Written by Eddie Braben
[Starring] Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
with Anita Harris
featuring Anthony Sharp, Ann Hamilton
with Reg Lye
Weather
John Fortune and Eleanor Bron pose this deathless question. William Rushton, John Wells, Clive James, James Cameron and special guest Eric Idle supply the life enhancing answers.
