6.40 Henry James
7.5 Maths: Linear Programming
7.30 Mechanics: Energy
Story: "Dear Dustman" by Gene Zion, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Grahame
11.25-11.50 Handicapped in the Community
5.0 Pure Maths: Rings
5.25 The Argument from Design
5.50 Maths Analysis: Integration
6.15 Technology and Economics
David Attenborough investigates the rich, yet sadly vanishing, culture of the North West American Indians of the tribe of Haida, Gitksan and Kwakiutl.
A series of ten programmes presented by Bob Symes-Schutzmann.
This second of two programmes on military modelling concentrates on building vehicles, painting figures and horses, and 'playing' war games.
Book (same title) £1.60 from bookshops.
with Michael Charlton
Every weekday evening an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines follows the News Summary
Preceded by Weather
For the last three programmes in the series, Robert Robinson presents a selection from The Book Programme
This week, John Fowles talks about his collection of short stories The Ebony Tower; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner talks about how his 47 volumes of handbooks The Buildings of England were written; and Alan Bennett and Basil Bunting read from a favourite book - Alan Bennett's choice is Nancy Mitford 's The Pursuit of Love and Basil Bunting reads a passage from Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels.
A series of seven films in which David Attenborough relates masterpieces of the world's tribal art to the people and places that produced them.
The Indians of the Northwest Coast of America had a genius for the theatrical. Their dances were rich in illusion and they used powerful masks to conjure the spirits of forest creatures from the darkness.
The great chiefs proclaimed their status with lofty totem poles and spectacular ceremonies called ' potlatches.' Potlatching was outlawed for many years but survived, and each summer thousands of dollars in gifts change hands as the chiefs compete for the highest standing among their people.
(Repeated: next Saturday evening)
on behalf of the National Referendum Campaign
(Also on BBC1)
Tonight's film in this season Images of Childhood starring David Bradley with Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes
Young Billy Casper lives with his mother and stepbrother on a council estate in a northern industrial town. At school he is bored and unresponsive until one day, he gets the chance to go birds' nesting, finds a kestrel's nest and takes one of the fledglings. Billy's life suddenly takes on a new meaning.
"...the best British film since 'If'" (Derek Malcolm, Guardian)
"...may well be regarded as, artistically, one of the most accomplished films of its kind in the whole of British post-war production." (Patrick Gibbs, Daily Telegraph)
Angela Rippon ; Weather
Jill Balcon reads "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
