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7.40 Design Strategies

8.5 San Francisco Railway (1)

8.30 Traffic Control

8.55 Is Music Noise?

9.20 Maths - Turing Machines

9.45 Laws of Thermodynamics (2)

10.10 Computing - String Processing

10.35 Maths: Normed Spaces

11.0 The Transuranium Elements

11.25 The Surface of Mars

11.50 Purification of an Enzyme

12.15 'Bloody Good Colliers'.

12.40 Laws of Nature

1.5 Maths - Wave Equation

1.30 Income Distribution

1.55 Elementary Maths - Buckling

2.20 Chemical Processes

starring Anton Rodgers
Eric Sykes
Charlotte Rampling
Despite protests from some of his old-fashioned henchmen, ' The Duke ' decides to introduce automation into his next master-minded robbery - and finds science has its limitations.
A story of bumbling crooks which ends in total disaster, with Eric Sykes on the side of the cops and Anton Rodgers leading the robbers.
Director JOHN BOULTING

Contributors

Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Unknown:
Eric Sykes
Unknown:
Charlotte Rampling
Unknown:
Eric Sykes
Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Director:
John Boulting
' The Duke ':
Anton Rodgers
Hunt:
Eric Sykes
Sara:
Charlotte Rampling
Vine:
Ian Bannen
Jelly:
Dudley Sutton
Lenny:
Kenneth Griffith
Seapa:
James Beckett
Countess:
Avis Bunnage
Anxious:
Victor Maddern
Preston:
Thorley Walters
Sir Henry:
Peter Vaughan
Prison governor:
Raymond Huntley

Tonight from BBC East If There are Ghosts,
They Should be Here
The story of the greatest construction effort these islands have ever seen - 500 World War II paved airfields, built in just three years. Now most lie disused, concrete scars on the peaceful East Anglian landscape - vast memorials to the bravery, the death and the destruction of those momentous times. Narrated by IAN EMMERSON
Written by ROGER FREEMAN
Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD

Contributors

Written By:
Roger Freeman
Producer:
Christopher Lewis
Unknown:
Frank Gillard

A weekly view of the countryside with Julian Pettifer and his country guests Elizabeth Eyden
Bernard Price and Ted Moult
This week: Seeing the wood for its trees: hazel hurdles for shepherds and willow bats for cricketers; your rights of way in woodland and across the farmer's field; and a special report from Richard Mabey on planting commemorative trees for Jubilee.
Director ROBIN HELLIER
Producer PETER CRAWFORD. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Unknown:
Elizabeth Eyden
Unknown:
Bernard Price
Unknown:
Richard Mabey
Director:
Robin Hellier
Producer:
Peter Crawford.

Introduced by Rene Cutforth
A programme from the BBCtv Archives for each of the past 25 years: 1964
Ten Years After
In 1955 Special Enquiry made a film about five London teenagers from different backgrounds. In 1964 the film was up-dated to see how they had changed. Afterwards RENÉ CUTFORTH talks to some of the teenagers again, 22 years after the original film was made.
Ten Years After:
Music composed by THOMAS HENDERSON Photography louis WOLFERS
Sound recordist MICHAEL COLOMB
Film editor MICHAEL JOHNS. A film by NORMAN SWALLOW and DENIS MITCHELL

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rene Cutforth
Composed By:
Thomas Henderson
Unknown:
Michael Colomb
Editor:
Michael Johns.
Editor:
Denis Mitchell

An affectionate tribute to the life and work of the American humorist and poet, Ogden Nash.
Performed by Dinsdale Landen Prunella Scales and Clive Swift Introduced and narrated by Robert Robinson
At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jo I joggle.
The problems of growing old was one of OGDEN NASH'S favourite subjects, along with courtship, marriage, parents and children, animals, the agonies of modern life.
Nash, 1902-1971, is one of America's most quoted of poets, famous for his wit and tortuous rhymes:
I could not love New York so much Loved I not Baltimore.
In this programme, Nash's poems are read before an invited audience in the studio and there are reminiscences on film, from Nash's wife Frances, his daughters Linell and Isabel, and his friends and colleagues Albert Hackett , Cornwell Jackson and Milton Rosenstock.
Music BRIAN MILLER. Director MARTIN L. BELL Producer WILL WYATT

Contributors

Unknown:
Ogden Nash.
Unknown:
Dinsdale Landen
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Albert Hackett
Unknown:
Cornwell Jackson
Unknown:
Milton Rosenstock.
Music:
Brian Miller.
Director:
Martin L. Bell

A season of Midnight Movie double bills continues with two classic 30s films uniting those two masters of horror and fantasy -
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
The Raven
Escaped criminal Bateman goes to brain specialist Dr Vollin for plastic surgery - and finds himself in the power of a madman bent on revenge....
Director LOUIS FRIEDLANDER and at 12.5 am
The Black Cat
Lugosi is again bent on horrible revenge, and Karloff, playing the leader of a cult of devil worshippers, is again on the receiving end ...
Director EDGAR ULMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Bela Lugosi
Director:
Louis Friedlander
Director:
Edgar Ulmer
Bateman:
Boris Karloff
Dr Vollin:
Bela Lugosi
Jean Thatcher:
Irene Ware
Jerry Holden:
Lester Matthews
Hjalmar Poelzig:
Boris Karloff
Dr Verdegast:
Bela Lugosi
Peter Alison:
David Manners
Joan Alison:
Jacqueline Wells
Karen Poelzig:
Lucille Lund
Majordomo:
Egon Brecher

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