The Royal Institution
Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Eric Laithwaite of Imperial College, London 1: Looking Glass House
In Looking Glass House there are many strange objects and some of them will possibly modify our view of the real world objects on the ' front side' of the mirror. But, like Alice, we shall proceed quite slowly and with some caution, for we tread new ground. To do that is exciting and an end in itself.
Presented for TV by BRIAN JOHNSON
The Quieter Side of 74 Narrated by Richard Baker
Introduced by BILL NORTHWOOD
Science and Religion are sometimes thought of as opposites. But recently modern scientists have begun to talk in a way that almost sounds mystical. Tonight's film is about the work of Jill Purce, and about her attempts to relate the two.
Valdes - Bay of the Whales Narrator Hugh Falkus
Unique close-up encounters with whales in their breeding grounds off the Argentine coast: meeting a 60-foot whale underwater face to face sounds like a frightening assignment, yet this is what Krov and Ann Menuhin undertook to do for their first film.
It was part of an eight-month visit to the Valdes Peninsula to film a unique concentration of breeding sea-lions, elephant seals, whales, penguins and other sea-birds.
A Menuhin-Pruna Production Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS (Bristol)
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A teenage girl is lost on the moors. She will die unless she is found quickly. SERGEANT SPENCER of the Lancashire Police reconstructs what happened when he and his police dog set out to search for the girl on a snowy day in November 1973.
Director TIM KING
A new series, filmed on location, in which Dana sings her way round the country.
Special guests Rod Hull and Emu Musical director
JOHNNIE COLEMAN
Cameraman KEN WILLICOMBE Producer PETER WHITMORE
-The Fifth Element
The world is made up of earth, air, fire and water -but there is another element-the Florentines. These brilliantly talented people created between 1450 and 1550 an extraordinary century of artistic achievement - but during those very years a long struggle took place between the proud Republican city and the family which was eventually to dominate it - the Medici.
John R. Hale recounts for Chronicle this remarkable story, using the rich background of the Renaissance and the actual locations where the events took place.
Executive producer PAUL JOHNSTONE Producer KENNETH SHEPHEARD
Weather
Gabriel Woolf reads In Santa
Maria del Popolo by THOM GUNN
