A series of 10 programmes 1: The Developing Child
with Michael Charlton.
A longer Thursday edition of Newsday includes the day's News Summary and a longer look at one of the vital issues of the week with the people concerned.
Preceded by Weather
From the novel by Iris Murdoch
Dramatised in four parts by Simon Raven
Hugh has become intrigued again by Emma whom he once loved. Randall has asked his father to sell the Tintoretto to provide the money he needs to elope.
The world Of Marcus Helvius Geminus, a Roman who lived between 30 and 65 AD. 3: A Job at the Mint
At 19, Geminus enters his first post in the Roman administration. He has to see that his mint-employees don't cheat, and he learns how the coins are the Government's public-relations medium and don'always tell the truth!
starring Eleanor Bron and John Bird
Starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker
and their guests Swingle II
and Cyd Hayman as Madame Cocotte
[with] George Ballantine, Alec Bregonzi, Stuart Fell, Ian Gray, Penny Irving, Julia McKenzie, Barbara New, Claire Nielson, John Owens
Written by Ian Davidson and Eric Geen, Ray Alan and Cardew Robinson, Spike Mullins, Gerald Wiley
A rich couple count their blessings and a cinemagoer gets annoyed when other audience members interrupt the film to discuss the plot. Show more
It is, perhaps, the nearest man will come to having wings. Gliding: flying without power, silent, awesome, seemingly miraculous. The 14th World Gliding Championships were held last year at Waikerie in South Australia. In a cloudless sky, 67 pilots, from 22 countries, swooped and soared as they competed, at the fastest speeds and on the longest course - ever.
Pilots like American school-teacher (and world champion) George Moffat, trying again for the championship in his glider 'Nimbus 2'; pilots like Adele Orso, the only woman competitor, flying for Italy.
This film is not only about the pilots but also their wives, their ground crews, the tensions and the jealousies as they go through the 11 days of the championship. Australia's leading aerial cameraman John Haddy captures the joy of gliding - a sport which has already inspired ten thousand glider pilots in Great Britain.
David Holmes
Weather
Michael Hordern reads an extract from Growing Old by Lord Byron
