8.5 Systems Performance

8.30 Handicapped in the Community

8.55 The State of Water

9.20 Rubbish

9.45 Black Youth in Brent

10.35 Dartington Hall School

11.0 English Flats of the 1930s

11.25 Water Resources

11.50 Chemistry of Carbon Compounds

12.15 Evolution by Natural Selection

12.40 Solar Cells

1.5 Computing: Linked Lists

1.30 Chemical Reactions

Starring Arthur Askey
with Sidney James, Glenn Melvin, Shani Wallis, Frankie Vaughan

Bill Ramsbottom, landlord of the 'Bull and Cow', inherits a ranch in Canada and sets sail with his family to find fame and fortune in all that is left of the Wild Wild West!

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The Lawn Tennis Championships

A courtside view of the sixth day's play on the world famous Centre Court and No 1 Court, brought to you by BBC outside broadcast cameras direct from the All England Club.

A closer look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament.
Presented by Noel Lewis

Weather

From the novel by Sybille Bedford, dramatised in five parts by Robert Muller.
Starring Claire Bloom, Irene Handl, Richard Hurndall, Robin Bailey, Angela Pleasence, Geoffrey Whitehead, Isla Blair
with John Fraser as Julius von Felden and Flora Robson as the Narrator

At Julius' 50th birthday party he met Sarah's young English friend, Caroline. He is determined to marry her, partly because she was kind to Robert, his ape.

Introduced by Melvyn Bragg and P.J. Kavanagh

'No gags on Scotsmen, Welsh-men, clergymen, drink or medical matters. Do not sneeze at the microphone.'
These were the BBC's official instructions to aspiring performers and entertainers back in 1925. Tonight's programme takes an affectionate look at radio comedy from the earliest days of the British Broadcasting Company right up to the present day.

Among those appearing in the programme to remember their successes and to reminisce with the help of Sound Archives are:
Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch - Band Waggon
Hatti Jacques, Derek Guyler - ITMA
Maurice Denham, Sam Costa - Much Binding in the Marsh
Alan Simpson, Ray Galton - Hancock's Half-Hour
Frankie Howerd - Variety Bandbox
Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Barry Cryer - Hello Cheeky

The Lawn Tennis Championships

Recorded highlights from the outstanding match on the sixth day's play.

Harry Carpenter introduces the action with comment by Dan Maskell and Jack Kramer.

A repeat of a show recorded for the series, during their visit to England in the spring of last year.

Weather

Gwen Harold, an American girl, meets and falls in love with Hidenari Terasaki, a young Japanese diplomat in Washington. Despite opposition from her family and his Embassy officials, they marry but, later, with the attack on Pearl Harbour, their dream of 'a rainbow across the Pacific', a bridge of peace between Japan and the United States, seems shattered forever.

Based on Gwendolen Terasaki's autobiography.

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