10.30 Countdown to the ou: Programme 3

10.55 The First Year of Life - All Yours

Pay in the Pits

A series of 13 programmes 1: The Company President

The World Cup Slalom from Kitzbuhel
Today's slalom is the last World Cup event for men before the World Championships in Garmisch next week. INGEMAR STENMARK has a clear lead in this year's World Cup, and a win today will almost ensure that he retains the trophy. Commentator DAVID VINE
TV presentation AUSTRIAN TV service Editor PAUL LANG

A series of 15 programmes
1: An Introduction to Philosophy

France v England Ireland v Scotland
Last season saw a revival of England's rugby fortunes and third place in the Championship after three years of 'the wooden spoon.' The opening international this season against the champions, France, in Paris, must be their hardest task but a win could revitalise a side that for too long has flattered to deceive.
Scotland have won the last three matches against Ireland and must be slight favourites against a side undergoing a re-building process under new coach Noel Murphy. At Pare des Princes, Paris: commentator BILL MCLAREN
At Lansdowne Road. Dublin: commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Television presentation: Paris: FRENCH TV SERVICE Dublin: IRISH TV SERVICE
Series producer BILL
TAYLOR Bill McLaren writes on page 14

News of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear, with Angela Rippon
Editor BILL NORTHWOOD

Forest of the Bigi Watra Dagoo .. a search for the giant otter with Nicole Duplaix
The giant Brazilian otter or ' bigi watra dagoo ' is one of the world's ten most endangered mammals. This film follows NICOLE DUPLAlX , an American otter specialist with World Wildlife Fund, as she searches the piranha-infested creeks in the remote forests of Surinam. South America. These are the first studies in the wild of this rare and delightful animal.
Arawak Indians and Djuka Negroes have long fished the same rivers as the giant otter. But West Surinam is fast being developed and the areas where the otter lives are threatened ...
Narrated by yvonne COLLYMORE with Surinam folk songs by GERDA HAVERTUNG
Film cameraman HUGH MAYNARD Film editor DAVID ALIBAND
Produced by EDWARD MILNER
Series editorsMtCHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS BBC Bristol

by Thomas Hardy
The Classic Serial
Dramatised by Dennis Potter in seven episodes
starring Alan Bates as Michael Henchard with Anne Stallybrass as Susan
and Avis Bunnage, Jack Galloway, Janet Maw
"For my part, I don't see why men who have got wives shouldn't get rid of 'em as these gypsy fellows do their old horses" - 18 years have passed since Michael Henchard uttered the words which are to haunt him for the rest of his life.

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Vienna: The Mask of Gold
A personal documentary written and presented by Michael Frayn.
At the turn of the century. Vienna was still one of the world's great Imperial capitals. Seventy years on. all that remains of the golden mask of Viennese culture are the heavy imperial fagades, the tourist attractions and a nostalgia for past greatness.
Playwright, novelist and journalist, MICHAEL FRAYN explores the cultural legacy of those years. Behind the uniforms and rigid moral codes of court life, he examines the new world that was being born -the erotic world of the painters Klimt and Schiele, the world of the unconscious mapped by Freud, the new musical worlds of Mahler and Schoenberg. This film is an attempt to evoke the vanished civilisation that has shaped our lives.
A bewitching essay ... packed with beautiful things to look at and awash with glorious things to hear. (THE TIMES) A television achievement (9BSERVER)
Executive producer BILL MORTON Producer DENNIS MARKS

The series of films featuring the re-discovered work of amateur cameramen and ' home-movie' makers of the 20s and 30s.
Introduced by James Cameron
' A home-made film ' says the title at the beginning of this reel, bought in a junkshop. It's a film portrait of the village of St Boswells in the Scottish Lowlands -or rather a portrait of the villagers themselves and its simple. direct style builds up a moving picture of its subjects' lives, to establish its unknown maker as something of a naive genius of the cinema.
Film editor KATE RIVERS
Film research KATHLEEN DARBY Series producer DAVID COLLISON Presented by PAUL JORDAN

starring
Woody Allen , Janet Margolin
By the time he was 25, Virgil Starkwell had an amazing criminal record - more by circumstance than design. During a despondent, purse-snatching stroll through the park, Virgil meets Louise and falls in love. Trouble starts when Virgil tries to go straight....
Directed by WOODY ALLEN. Films: page 8 (first showing on British television)