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7.40 Technology and Economics

8.5 Brickworker

8.30 Cell Dynamics: 2

8.55 Communications in Planning

9.20 Computing: Hardware Structures

9.45 Vinyl Chloride Production

10.10 Crime

10.35 Public Expenditure: Too Much?

11.0 Computer Design Systems

11.25 Sir Edward Frankland

11.50 Handicapped in the Community

12.15 Housing 1840-1895

12.40 Earth Science Topics

1.5 Industrial Location: Chicago

1.30 Elementary Maths: Integration

Most visiting sides appreciate they are in for a hard struggle on the compact ground at Park Avenue, Bradford. Under their new captain, Mushtaq Mohammad, Northants have made a most encouraging start to the new season but will do well to maintain their progress against Geoffrey Boycott and his Yorkshiremen who are determined to restore Yorkshire cricket to its former glories.

Tony Gubba introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.

(Wales: Glamorgan v Leicester)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Gubba
Commentator:
Jim Laker
Commentator:
Peter Walker
TV Presentation:
Bob Duncan
TV Presentation:
Nick Hunter

To save itself from its own savage heroin addiction, the West has persuaded the East to attack the problem at source - the opium fields of Northern Thailand. In doing so, a traditional way of life for the ' People of the Poppy' - the hill tribes of Thailand - is being destroyed.

This film looks at one of these tribes - the Meo, their traditional way of life, their dependence on opium as their only cash crop and the efforts being made by the King of Thailand and his Government with the help of the United Nations to introduce economic replacement crops, modern medicine and an education for a new life - a life without the poppy.

If and when the projects are successful the law of Thailand will be enforced. The poppy will go - and with it the rich cultures it sustained and shaped.

Contributors

Producer:
Brian Lewis
Editor:
Anthony Isaacs
Editor:
Michael Andrews

An opera in one act by Puccini
Starring Zero Mostel

This story from Dante's Inferno tells how an engaging rogue falsifies a will in order to deprive a group of avaricious relatives.

Contributors

Conductor:
Robin Stapleton
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Lighting:
Alec Robson
Sound:
Derek Miller-Timmins
Production Assistant:
Alan Benson
Designer:
Stanley Morris
Producer:
Patricia Foy
Lauretta:
Norma Burrowes
Rinuccio:
David Hillman
Zita:
Sheila Rex
Sitnone:
Don Garrard
Nella:
Pauline Tinsley
Gherardo:
Robert Bowman
La Ciesca:
Margaret Kingsley
Marco:
Richard van Allan
Betto:
Derek Hammond-Stroud

Variations on a theme of patterns, light, sound and music in a film without words.

An African sun dissolves the lingering lake-side mist revealing wraiths as hosts of feathered flowers - pink-tipped orchids poised on slender stalks. Myriad wings take flights of fancy, free as wind and sky, coming together in communion to reflect on golden sheen... turning to silhouettes at sunset... strung with Diane's diamond necklace at night. Birds of demi-paradise.

Contributors

Producer/Photography:
Patrick Carey

'Thinking' said Henry Ford, 'is the hardest work there is - which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.'

Undeterred Malcolm Muggeridge puts some of the baffling questions submitted by the viewers to this week's guests Lord David Cecil, Rev Don Cupitt, Janet Morgan, Jonathan Steinberg

(Send your questions on a postcard to: Stop to Think, [address removed])

Contributors

Presenter:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Panellist:
Lord David Cecil
Panellist:
Rev Don Cupitt
Panellist:
Janet Morgan
Panellist:
Jonathan Steinberg
Producer:
Oliver Hunkin
Editor:
Peter Chafer

Raoul Walsh Season
Starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland
with Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale

Raoul Walsh's delightful recreation of New York in the 1890s is a romantic comedy starring Cagney as the aptly-nicknamed Biff Grimes, a tough little guy who 'don't take nothing from nobody'.

Films: page 7

Contributors

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Biff Grimes:
James Cagney
Amy Lind:
Olivia De Havilland
Virginia Brush:
Rita Hayworth
Old Man Grimes:
Alan Hale
Hugo Barnstead:
Jack Carson
Nicholas Pappalas:
George Tobias

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