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Or How to Examine Your Inside from the Outside
The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Heinz Wolff of the Medical Research Council 2: Pumps, Pipes and Flows
At one time the heart was thought to be the very seat of life and love; we now know that the heart is simply a pump, or to be more precise a double pump, keeping the vital blood in circulation. How this circulation is regulated is the subject of tonight's lecture and we shall measure how much blood the heart is actually pumping without spilling a single drop.
Television presentation by BRIAN JOHNSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinz Wolff
Presentation By:
Brian Johnson

with Robin Day and Richard Kershaw
The day's News from Peter Woods is followed by an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.
Associate producer JOHN REYNOLDS Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Kershaw
Unknown:
Peter Woods
Producer:
John Reynolds
Producer:
Christopher Capron

How Green Was My Valley

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 50 minutes

on BBC Two England

Wales at the end of the 19th century. Life is harsh but uncomplicated in the Rhondda. The Morgans are a happy and united family, but as a new century approaches, the younger generation is restless.

Contributors

Gwilym Morgan:
Stanley Baker
Beth Morgan:
Sian Phillips
Bronwen Morgan:
Nerys Hughes
Ianto Morgan:
Keith Drinkel
Owen Morgan:
Mike Gwilym
Angharad Morgan:
Sue Jones-Davies
Director:
Ronald Wilson

by Richard Llewellyn
The BBC2 Serial: dramatised in six parts by Elaine Morgan
Starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips

Life is harsh but uncomplicated in the Rhondda Valleys. The Morgans are a happy and united family but as the new century approaches the younger generation is restless.

Contributors

Author:
Richard Llewellyn
Dramatised by:
Elaine Morgan
Title music composed and played by:
Osian Ellis
Lighting:
Sam Barclay
Script Editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Graham Oakley
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
Ronald Wilson
Beth Morgan:
Sian Phillips
Huw Morgan (as a child):
Huw Justin
Gwilym Morgan:
Stanley Baker
Miner:
Clive Roberts
Huw (as a boy):
Rhys Powys
Rev Gruffydd:
Gareth Thomas
Ifor Morgan:
Norman Comer
Ianto Morgan:
Keith Drinkel
Owen Morgan:
Mike Gwilym
Angharad Morgan:
Sue Jones-Davies
Mr Elias:
Aubrey Richards
Mr Price:
Eric Francis
Bronwen:
Nerys Hughes
Cyfartha:
John Clive
Dai Bando:
Ray Smith
Marged:
Victoria Plucknett
Mrs Evans:
Elizabeth Stewart
Mr Evans:
Dudley Jones
Meillyn Lewis:
Maureen Williams

starring
Richard Thomas as John-Boy Michael Learned as Olivia Walton Ralph Waite as John Walton Will Geer as Grandpa in The Romance

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Thomas
Unknown:
John-Boy Michael Learned
Unknown:
Olivia Walton
Unknown:
Ralph Waite
Unknown:
John Walton
Unknown:
Will Geer

The Trobriand Experiment
In pubic leaf, warpaint and feathers, serried ranks of Trobriand islanders advance across a field with arms outstretched. They are about to play their extraordinary version of the Old English game of cricket-one where the players start by enacting the arrival of a visiting team by air. Sixty years ago, anthropologist
Bronislaw Malinowski predicted that the vigorous and distinctive culture of these ' savages' would die out quickly under Western influences. Instead, they borrowed and adapted our ideas. Then came famine, and this modified Garden of Eden faced its toughest test-the very survival of a society based on the giving and taking of food.
Horizon's camera observes the solution attempted by a young Trobriander who returns to his island with the greatest magic ever known to his people-a university education. If JOHN KASAIP -WALOVA succeeds, could his way offer a model for other peoples? Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Film cameraman JOHN ROOPER Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Written and produced by ALEC NISBETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Bronislaw Malinowski
Unknown:
John Kasaip
Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Rooper
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Produced By:
Alec Nisbett

Introduced and conducted by Boris Brott
Tonight's theme Night and Day includes an orchestration of Cole Porter 's song with that name and Prélude a la Nuit from ' Rapsodie Espagnole' by Ravel. Gordon Hunt (oboe)
Karen Shelby (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra led by ROBERT ST JOHN WRIGHT
Producer ARNOLD LEWIS
Director VINCENT DOWDALL BBC Cymru/Wales
(Postponed from 10 November)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Boris Brott
Unknown:
Cole Porter
Oboe:
Gordon Hunt
Mezzo-Soprano:
Karen Shelby
Unknown:
Robert St John Wright
Producer:
Arnold Lewis
Director:
Vincent Dowdall

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