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7.40 Robert Lowell

8.5 Aluminium in Anglesey

8.30 The Yorkshire Woollen Industry

8.55 Urban Development: Chicago

9.20 Weights. Measures and Statistics

9.45 Laws of Nature

10.10 Statistics - Linear Regression

10.35 Design for Life

11.0 Ants and Acacias

11.25 Organosilicon Compounds

11.50 Finance in Education

12.15 Six Characters in Search of an Author

1.5 Edwin Lutyens

1.30 Cubic Splines

1.55 M101/22 Modelling, Drugs

2.20 The Consultant

starring Norman Wisdom
Norman Pitkin is assistant to Mr Grimsdale, Family Butcher. When the latter swallows his gold watch, Norman sends for an ambulance.
Directed by ROBERT ASHER
. Films: page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Wisdom
Unknown:
Norman Pitkin
Directed By:
Robert Asher
Norman Pitkin:
Norman Wisdom
Grimsdale:
Edward Chapman
Janet Haskell:
Jeanette Sterke
Sir Hector:
Jerry Desmonde
Lady Brinkley:
Jill Melford

Tonight from BBC North East Wilf Mannion
WILF MANNION , the ' Golden Boy' of English soccer, is arguably the most talented footballer to have come from the North East in the last 50 years. He works today as a labourer in a Teesside chemical complex. His achievements are celebrated by players and fans. Among those taking part
Tom Finney , George Hardwick
Eddie Murphy and Wilf Mannion
Written/produced by JOHN MAPPLEBECK Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilf Mannion
Unknown:
Wilf Mannion
Unknown:
Tom Finney
Unknown:
George Hardwick
Unknown:
Eddie Murphy
Unknown:
Wilf Mannion
Produced By:
John Mapplebeck
Unknown:
Frank Gillard

50th Anniversary of Janacek's Death
Leos Janacek, the foremost Czech composer of this century, died 50 years ago today. Tonight's Prom presents two of his major works together with music by his fellowcountryman Dvorak. BBC2 joins with Radio 3 in stereo to relay the whole concert live from the Royal Albert Hall. Part 1
Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba
Dvorak Violin Concerto in A minor with the brilliant Italian virtuoso Salvatore Accardo as soloist.
At 8.30*. during the interval, Bernard Keeffe traces the development of Czech music with Antonin Tucapsky and Daniel Jones, two composers strongly influenced by Janacek. They look ahead to the colourful and festive Glagolitic Mass.
8.50* Part 2
Janacek Glagolitic Mass
Lorna Haywood (soprano)
Ameral Gunson (mezzo-soprano) John Mitchinson (tenor) Don Garrard (bass) Roy Massey (organ) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar Introduced by PATRICIA HUGHES
Sound GRAHAM HAINES
GEOFFREY KLINTON PARKER Lighting ALAN ROBERTS Producer
RODNEY GREENBERG
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.
(A portrait of Janacek in Omnibus. Wed. BBC1, 10.55 pm). Preview: page 15

Contributors

Soprano:
Lorna Haywood
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ameral Gunson
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Bass:
Don Garrard
Bass:
Roy Massey
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Introduced By:
Patricia Hughes
Introduced By:
Sound Graham Haines
Introduced By:
Geoffrey Klinton Parker
Unknown:
Alan Roberts
Producer:
Rodney Greenberg

Tonight's Midnight Movie double bill is a pair of science-fiction thrillers - one offering instant annihilation, the other a gradual but inexorable decline into non-existence.

Them!
Starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
After finding a six-year-old girl wandering in a state of shock in the New Mexico desert, State Police Sergeant Ben Peterson begins an investigation which leads him to a mysteriously wrecked car, the murdered owner of a nearby general store - and huge footprints at the scene of both crimes.
Films: page IS

Contributors

From a story by:
George Worthing Yates
Director:
Gordon Douglas
Sgt. Ben Peterson:
James Whitmore
Dr. Harold Medford:
Edmund Gwenn
Dr. Patricia Medford:
Joan Weldon
Robert Graham:
James Arness
Brigadier-General O'Brien:
Onslow Stevens
Major Kibbee:
Sean McClory
Ed Blackburn:
Chris Drake
Little girl:
Sandy Descher
Mrs Lodge:
Mary Ann Hokanson

starring
Grant Williams , Randy Stuart
Scott Carey and his wife are holidaying alone on a boat when Carey is momentarily enveloped in a strange mist. Six months later he finds that his body is shrinking, an inch a week.
Directed by JACK ARNOLD
. Films: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Grant Williams
Unknown:
Randy Stuart
Unknown:
Scott Carey
Directed By:
Jack Arnold
Scott Carey:
Grant Williams
Louise Carey:
Randy Stuart
Clarice:
April Kent
Charlie Carey:
Paul Langton
Dr Thomas Silver:
Raymond Bailey
Dr Bramson:
William Schallert

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