Story: First Day at School
(at Keble Memorial School, Hursley, Hampshire) Presenters
Delia Morgan , Stuart MtGugan
Pianist ANNE DUDLEY Designer jo DAY
Written and directed by NICK WILSON Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
The Braniff Airways World Doubles Championship
Further coverage from Olympia featuring the Wimbledon Champions, the US Open Champions, the WCT Champions and the rising young stars of the doubles game.
With sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
in The Cure
The cure is water; the disease is alcoholism. Charlie's responses to this fate worse than death are agile and inventive, and his precautions inadvertently turn the health spa into a source of good cheer.
Written and directed by CHARLES CHAPLIN New music composed by ALAN ROPER Musical director DENNIS WILSON
Executive producer WILLIAM FITZWATER
or How to See the Beauty of Maths The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures for Young People by Professor Christopher Zeeman , Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University
A series of six programmes 5: Waves and Music
In which we see with our eyes how we hear with our ears. An enormous musical sliderule is turned into an organ, and PROFESSOR ZEEMAN reveals the story of the missing harmonic, vanished from western music since the time of Bach.
Presented for television by HILARY HENSON
Weather on 2
by Thomas Ellice based on the novel by Emma Smith
with Tina Heath as Maggie, Liz Bagley as Charity, Tricia George as Nanette
Maggie, Charity and Nanette try to come to terms with the life of the boaters on the Grand Union Canal. War has brought them together and they try to adapt to this alien world - but life on the cut is not easily mastered.
"This production preserves the book's sharp observations as well as the innocence of an age which has gone, a combination which is refreshing and unusual." (The Stage)
BBC Birmingham
Angela Rippon and her guests meet to celebrate Twelfth Night.
Phil Drabble and his German Pointer, Tick. explore the most scenic parts of the Cleveland Way - the long-distance footpath that crosses the North Yorkshire moors. Elizabeth Eyden recently came across a countryman who claims to be the only craftsman still making besoms (the traditional witches' brooms) entirely from natural materials.
Bernard Price talks about trugs and other hand-made domestic implements from his native Sussex.
Produced by ROBIN, HELLlER
Series producer PETER CRAWFORD BBC Bristol
BBC2 Snooker Championship
The second frame in the qualifying round for the 1979 Pot Black Trophy featuring two Pot Black Champions in Group Two:
Perrie Mans (South Africa) v Doug Mountjoy (Wales)
Mountjoy begins the defence of his 1978 Pot Black Champion title. This is his first meeting with Perrie Mans since the left-handed South African Champion defeated him in the 1977 Final.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee SYDNEY LEE
Commentator TED LOWE
Director PHILIP FRANKLIN
Producer REG PERRIN. BBC Birmingham
starring Marie-Christine Barrault
Victor Lanoux , Marie-France Pisier One of the most successful French comedies of recent years, this broad slice of Gallic life is played out against a background of family parties, weddings, reunions, baptisms and funerals. Marthe and Ludovic are discontented with their separate marriages and attracted by each other. Marthe's husband and Ludovic's wife are having an affair but their own secret meetings are purely platonic - at least for the time being ...
Written and directed by JEAN-CHARLES TACCHELLA. Films: pp 16-17 A French film with English sub-titles (First showing on British television)
Every July musicians and fans converge on the Swiss town of Montreux for the Jazz Festival, one of the most prestigious events in the jazz calendar.
Tonight's programme features The Buddy Rich Big Band Mary Lou Williams Xanadu All Stars
Miriam Makeba , Bill Evans Trio with Kenny Burrell
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
Recorded in co-operation with SWISS TELEVISION (SSR) Director JEAN BOVON Producer DON SAYER
Weather
Owen Watford reads Two Inkwells by J. c. HALL
