King Vidor Season starring Brian Donlevy with Ann Richards , Walter Abel
John Qualen , Horace McNally
King Vidor chose to tell the story of the mighty American steel industry in terms of Steve Dan gos's success as he fights from rags to riches in a pursuit of the American Dream.
Director KING VIDOR. Films: page 9
An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur , Julie Stevens
Tony Robinson , Jonathan Cohen Spike Heatley , Alan Rushton Bob Falloon
Music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ann reay
Scriptwriter/director PETER CHARLTON
The Pill for the People
The story of the contraceptive pill is told by those who actually did the work, and the successes of the pill are used to suggest reasons for its failure.
Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Written and produced by ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
A series of four programmes
2: From Land and Sea - Norfolk
' A regional dish is a whole countryside.'
In one day, in 1907, 60 million herring were landed at Yarmouth and Lowestoft. But in the whole of 1973 there were only a few thousand. How has this affected the curing of the famous red herring and Yarmouth bloater?
DEREK COOPER sets out to answer some questions and to sample traditional Norfolk fare - crabs, whelks, samphire and boiled beef with dumplings.
Producer ANDREW SNELL BBC Manchester
Weather
BBC2 joins the Radio 1 In Concert programme in a Simultaneous Broadcast for an hour's contemporary rock music. This week
The Jess Roden Band
Introduced by JOHN PEEL
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
A simultaneous stereo broadcast with Radio 1. (To obtain the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 1 should turn off TV sound and position their loudspeakers on either side of the screen but close enough to relate stereo image to picture size. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative)
A film series starring
The Trial of Henry Blake
Victory is in the air -for Hotlips and Frank that is. Their complaints about Henry's fitness to command have at last been taken seriously by some idiot at HQ.
A Yesterday's Witness Special
Tonight's programme starts with the British pioneers, literally, getting off the ground - ' The only way to learn to fly was to go and teach yourself. You did straight runs, getting faster all the time, and then you looked over the side and found the ground was gone!' -and continues through to the time in the early 20s when young ex-Royal Flying Corps pilots flew for the world's first international airlines in ramshackle converted bombers.
With old film and music from the archives, with new film of present-day enthusiasts who fly some of these veteran flying machines for fun, and stories by some of the intrepid pioneers themselves, we have a taste of this Honeymoon in the Sky.
Narrator JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Film editor WILLIAM SYMON
Producer STEPHEN PEET
starring
Peter Schildt , Roland Hedlund
Harald, like most of the men in the area of Adalen, has been on strike for 25 weeks in protest against a proposed pay cut. Hunger and boredom fill the men's days, except for Harald's son, Kjell, immersed in his first love affair. Then the mill-owners bring in professional strike breakers ...
Written, directed and edited by BO WIDERBERG. Films: page 9
Weather
Tonight from BBC North East A Slight Case of Poison
The story of Mary Ann Cotton 1832-1873
2: All Done At Durham ..
They say that Mary Ann Cotton murdered more people than anyone else in Britain, yet she is little-known outside her native County Durham.
In the second of three weekly programmes David Mahlowe tells the story of her trial at Durham Assizes, and discusses some of the legal issues raised with Bernard Smythe , Senior Lecturer in Law at Durham Univerity.
Producer ROGER BURGESS
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD
King Vidor Season starring
Bette Davis , Joseph Cotten David Brian , Ruth Roman
Rosa Moline , discontented wife of a small-town doctor, is having an affair with a wealthy landowner, Neil Latimer , but when she runs away to join him, she discovers he plans to marry a debutante.
Director KING VIDOR
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(Bette Davis is in The Disappearance of Aimee, Wednesday BBC2, 9.30 pm)
