6.40 Therapeutic Community

7.5 The Press

Story: Big Ben
Written and told by James Blades Presenters:
CAROL LEADER , STUART MCGUGAN

5.25 Growth of American Cities

5.50 Festival of the Supreme Being

6.15 Plant and Animal Breeding

6.40 Electromagnetic Radiation

A series of five programmes.
Are you in your 30s or 40s and thinking of starting a new career? What is it like going back to work after some years at home?
MAVIS NICHOLSON talks to women who are making a fresh start in their working lives. 2: Sheena Fernie
Director ERICA GRIFFITHS
Producer IAN WOOLF
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The last of six programmes in which Noel Edmonds looks at the world of illusion and meets some of the people who work and play with illusion.
Phantasmagorical Trickography
Disappearing ladies, a one-man band of seven players, and his own . exploding head are some of the creations of GEORGES MELiES-the pioneer of trick cinematography.
John Huntley , film historian, looks back to the turn of the century when the Frenchman moved magical illusion from the stage to the screen. And 70 years on, the world of fantasy first explored by Melies finds an ally in the magical zaniness of The Goodies.
Jim Franklin , producer of The Goodies, looks at the creation of illusion 1970s style.
Producer MICHAEL LUMLEY

The eighth of nine programmes The Cry of a Bird
Introduced by Rene Cutforth
' So you see, when you get the trust of a bird, it's such a marvellous thing ..."
DOROTHY YGLESIAS has won the trust of countless injured birds since the day in 1928 when she first took in a jackdaw with a broken wing. She and her sister continued to care for the birds because they respected the trust of the children of Mousehole that they would cope with the injured and oiled birds brought to them. Dorothy, now in her 80s, is leading a local campaign to keep the Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital and Sanctuary. RENÉ CUTFORTH discovers why it matters so deeply to her and to the entire village.
Executive producer JENNIFER JEREMY Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT

The sight and sound of Champion Brass Bands in Concert Introduced by Gerald Harrison from The Civic Centre, Castleford The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band conducted by TREVOR WALMSLEY , DFC and on the Bandstand of Clarence Park , Wakefield
The Wakefield Schools Band conducted by LES HEPPLESTON featuring
George Chisholm (trombone)
With competition being the life blood of amateur brass music, all the bands taking part in this series will later this year represent their regions at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the National Brass Band Championships. Tonight, however, competition takes second place to entertainment.
Sound PIP SHEFHERD
Lighting GEORGE NORTON Producer KEN GRIFFIN

On 29 October 1972, a Lufthansa Boeing 727 was hijacked en route from Beirut to Frankfurt in a bid to release the terrorists captured at the Munich Olympic Games. In this dramatic reconstruction of the terrifying ordeal of the passengers and crew, the people who actually had to decide whether to accede to the hijackers' demands relive the experience and explain the reasons for their conflicting decisions. Written bv EDMUND WOLF
Director THEO MEZGER A BR/TV 60 production

Richard Baker ; Weather

The World Series from The Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio.
This new-format world series incorporates the leading players and money winners from throughout the world and is in many ways a climax to the 1976 season.
JACK NICKLAUS , JOHNNY MILLER , GARY PLAYER, TOM WEISKOPF. in fact the golfing elite, compete for prize money of$300,000. HARRY CARPENTER and PETER ALLISS describe highlights of the first day's play.
Television presentation by CBS Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

RONALD pickup reads
Love by PABLO NERUDA