Story: "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen
The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Eric Laithwaite of Imperial College, London
We discuss the possibility of a school for inventors. What should we teach? The question that is harder to answer is what type of person would derive most benefit from such a form of education? They may not have had any scientific education at all!
with Michael Charlton. Every weekday evening an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines follows the News Summary. Preceded by Weather
Three of America's top comedy shows, tonight starring Jodie Foster as Addie and Chris Connelly as Moze who con their way from adventure to misadventure across the American Mid-West of the 30s in a rickety Model A Ford.
This week: Visions of Las Vegas
Thousands lost their holiday in the sun last summer when Court Line collapsed. Has the era of the cheap package holiday now come to an end? Can British resorts provide entertaining holidays for the disillusioned, the disappointed, or the plain hard-up? And how much will your holiday cost this summer? Presented by Alan Watson, Richard Wakely, John Swinfield.
A comedy film series re-creating the successful feature film starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John.
Based on the novel by Hermann Sudermann
Written for television by Robert Muller
The story of Lilli Czepanek's search for her ideal lover. It is set mainly in Vienna in the last care-free years before the outbreak of the First World War.
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No hands and no dial - just a bell - to ring the hours. That was the first mechanical clock.
Kenneth Ullyett, with the aid of other experts including Arthur Negus, looks at some remarkable people and inventions as he traces the development of the clock in this country.
(Bristol)
Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson celebrate the New Year with a quiz for movie addicts with questions embracing 50 years of films.
Philip Jenkinson: pages 17 and 18
with David Holmes; Weather
GABRIEL WOOLF reads Caring for Animals by JON SILKIN.
