Starring Greer Garson, Robert Ryan
with Barry Sullivan
The first woman teacher is appointed to an exclusive boys' boarding school and is put in charge of a group of 11-year-olds who do not take kindly to the idea.
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Starring Brian Cant in an entertainment of comedy, music, songs and games with Toni Arthur, Chloe Ashcroft, David Wood, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton, Bob Falloon
Twice a year millions of birds begin journeys that will take them up to 10,000 miles across the world's hemispheres. How do they know where to go? How do they find their way? Scientists have recently proved that migrating birds and their cousin the homing pigeon have quite extraordinary powers of navigation and make use of an incredible set of guidance mechanisms, perhaps even using a sense organ that we still know very little about.
The programme in which the BBC hands over air-time to the public.
This evening The Commonwealth War Graves Commission: I Will Make You a Name
A film made by the staff of the Commission which illustrates their work and present-day significance. Against a background of war cemeteries and memorials to one-and-three-quarter-million dead, it traces some of the operations in which Commonwealth forces fought and died in two World Wars.
Narrated by Gabriel Woolf, with music by the Royal Military School of Music.
Made by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and presented by the Community Programme Unit
Robin Ray introduces a Gala Concert from Moscow
Recorded last week in the vast Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin, this celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution includes folk song and dance groups from all over the Soviet Union, together with stars Of the BOLSHOI OPERA AND BALLET and the MOISEYEV ENSEMBLE.
Produced by IGOR MOISEYEV
A soviet TELEVISION production
An account of a most unusual legal case.
In April this year a long-distance call from Moscow was put through to a London barrister. In the 15 seconds before she was cut off by the KGB, a Russian woman begged the lawyer to undertake the defence of her husband. His name was Professor Yuri Orlov, held incommunicado in Lefortovo Prison on unspecified charges.
John MacDonald, QC, accepted the unique brief, and this film documentary is the story of how he, a British lawyer, unfamiliar with Russian and the Russian legal system, set out nevertheless to defend a client he had never seen, and to whom the authorities would allow no access.
Yuri Orlov is a Russian dissident and champion of human rights. The story of his defence is told at a time when the USSR and other signatories to the Helsinki Declaration are assembled in Belgrade, a time when the issue of human rights could be the key to East-West detente.
Tonight from BBC West
Cheddar, famous for cheese and strawberries and for the Gorge which is the outstanding natural feature of the Mendips, faces a dilemma. A lime kiln has been built in the quarry at Batts Combe, a hill that overlooks the village.
How industrial can Cheddar become without suffering permanent damage? To what extent is Cheddar's dilemma one for us all?
Weather
Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis
Solaris is the planet where night-mares come true. Of the 85 crew in the Russian space station in orbit round Solaris, only three remain. Psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate...
Although it is frequently described as a Russian 2001, Andrei Tarkovsky's science fiction epic is a much more personal and humanist film. His cosmonauts are exploring: their tensions and fears are universal; pain, memory and desire order their lives. Against these intensely human factors the director emphasises the harsh realities of space age technology.
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(First showing on British television)
