6.40 A View of Middlemarch
7.5 Maths: Dual Cones
7.30 Mechanics: Fields
Story: Jonathan Just
Written and illustrated by BARRY WILKINSON
5.0-5.25 Pure Maths: Topology
5.50 Maths: Complex Integration
6.15 Environment
A series of ten programmes presented by Bob Symes Schutzmann.
Fly gliders, helicopters, aerobatic and scale models by radio control. Fly combat and team-racing models by control-line.
Book (same title) £1.60 from bookshops.
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Introduced by Robert Robinson
J. G. Farrell 's novel Troubles, set in Ireland in 1920, won for him the Faber Memorial Prize when it was first published. Two years ago his novel The Siege of Krishnapur, set in the Indian Mutiny in 1857, was awarded the coveted Booker Prize for fiction. Both books now appear in paperback, and JULIAN SYMONS talks to j. G. FARRELL in a filmed interview.
Also, Ronnie Barker reads extracts from a new comic novel The Death of Reginald Perrin by David Nobbs : 'When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus. Nothing could have been further from his thoughts ... '
Producerphilip SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT
Andrew Shonfield argues that
Britain needs the Common Market now more than ever before.
' We need it,' he says, ' to help us out of the mess we are in.' In this, the first of two debates on the Common Market, ANDREW SHONFIELD, Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, argues that Britain should remain in the EEC.
He believes that the most dangerous thing we can do is to believe that we would be better on our own. We used to think that we could get the food we want by just shopping around and buying in the cheapest market. ' This,' he says, ' is no longer the world that we live in. It is also going to be harder to sell our products abroad against competitors who are ganging up together and integrating their industries.
' We need friends abroad who will support Britain while we modernise our industries. We need friends who have an interest in the success of Britain.'
ANDREW SHONFIELD argues this case with his critics before an invited audience at the Royal Institution, London. Chairman Robin Day
A season of feature films showing the adult world through the eyes of children: tonight starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
Before the police can arrest him for murder, Ben Harper is able to tell his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden a large sum of stolen money. The children are sworn to secrecy but they soon find themselves threatened by the frightening figure of Ben's ex-cell mate Harry Powell - a psychopathic preacher.
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From the Lancaster to the Lightning
The second of two programmes from the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon. William Woollard looks at the aircraft which took the RAF into the jet age.
Producer BRIAN JOHNSON
Angela Rippon ; Weather
GABRIEL WOOLF reads A Poem is Precious by HANNAH KELLY
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