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The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People. 3: The History of Mars
The ' Red Planet has a very special fascination for sky-watchers and in this third lecture of the series Professor Carl Sagan explains entertainingly how it was that, exactly 100 years ago, civil. ised life was discovered on Mars, only to be ' undiscovered' more recently.
Sagan invites his young audience to put themselves in the place of the 19th-century astronomers.

Presented by Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw with David Sells including
Foreign Report from the BBC news correspondents around the world. Newsreader Peter Woods

' Going to Cambridge isn't an automatic passport to success but it still produces the kind of arrogance that makes people believe they can succeed.'
' Cambridge gave me the opportunities and the contacts to get where I am - but I think I'd have got there anyway.'
In 1969 six young women in their last term at Cambridge were filmed for a documentary about life at the University; and their plans for the future. Last year we traced them to six very different locations, in England, in New York and in Kuwait, to discover how their plans had worked out. With
Susana Duncan , Patricia Gadsby Helene Hayman , Sarah Martin
Jenny Richards , Charlotte Roueche Narrator DAVID PONTING
Director ALASTAIR REID
ANNE owen. BBC Bristol

Written by SPIKE MILLIGAN and NEIL SHAND
with JOHN BLUTHAL, ALAN CLARE, JOHN D. COLLINS, ROBERT DORNING, DAVID LODGE, NEIL SHAND, KEITH SMITH, JULIA BRECK, STELLA TANNER, RITA WEBB
The Goose Walk performed by ED WELCH
Designer jim CLAY
Produced by IAN MACNAUGHTON

At last retribution catches up with Kao Chiu and Lin Chung and his companions of the Lian Shan Po set out to lead China to new and peaceful horizons. \
English adaptation by DAVID WEIR Produced by NTV, Tokyo

Introduced by Richard Baker
This Lively Arts special, the second of three programmes featuring great European Orchestras, is a recording of last week's annual Christmas concert at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo and quadraphony. Bernard Haitink conducts the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of the Symphony No 1, in D by Mahler.
Directed for Dutch Television by WILHELMINA HOEDEMAN
For the best effect viewers with Stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.

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takes a look at today's rock music with films, album tracks, reviews and guests. In the studio:
The Ramons and The Motors
Introduced by Bob Harris
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON