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1797-1828
A series of five programmes, made in 1978, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Schubert's death. It traces in sequence the composer's life and music
1: The Early Years - 1797-1815 With members of The Songmakers' Almanac FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
RICHARD JACKSON (baritone) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) and KATHARINA WOLPE (piano) Narrator DEREK JACOBI
Script devised by GRAHAM JOHNSON Graphics ROSEMARY TURNER Designer CHRISTINE RUSCOE Lighting PETER GREENYER Producer WALTER TODDS Director RON ISTED
(Postponed from 20 November 197S)

Contributors

Baritone:
Richard Jackson
Piano:
Graham Johnson
Piano:
Katharina Wolpe
Unknown:
Graham Johnson
Unknown:
Graphics Rosemary Turner
Designer:
Christine Ruscoe
Unknown:
Peter Greenyer
Producer:
Walter Todds
Director:
Ron Isted

A series of five programmes
1: Filling Time -five minutes in the dentist's chair.
A short series in which animated film-makers eavesdrop on real conversations and let their imaginations run riot.
Animator ANDY WALKER
Producer COLIN THOMAS. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Walker
Producer:
Colin Thomas.

Presented by Jeremy James Second Semi-final Larsen (Denmark) v Donner (Holland)
(A replay under faster time rules following last week's drawn game) '... He probably wants to play the tactical variation, but thanks to the Korchnoi matches against Spassky and Karpov, we all know some good systems against that! ' says Bent Larsen, four times world champion candidate, on the opening moves of an old personal friend but keen chess foe - Jan Hein Donner.
Another opportunity to watch two of the most knowledgeable and interesting talkers on the subject of chess in the world today.
Expert commentary and analysis by William Hartston , twice winner of this tournament.
Designer JOHN BONE
Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT Producer ROBERT TONER

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Jan Hein Donner.
Unknown:
William Hartston
Designer:
John Bone
Director:
Sandra Wainwright
Producer:
Robert Toner

A natural history by David Attenborough
A series of 13 programmes 6: Invasion of the Land
Evolution reached one of its most crucial stages, some 350 million years ago, when fishes crawled from water on to the land and became amphibians. To succeed they had to develop two special abilities - to walk over the ground and to breathe air. Today two remarkable animals show how they may have done so - the coelacanth and the lungfish.
The early giant amphibians ruled the land for some 100 million years, but then, as now, they were unable to become totally independent of water. Despite this newts, salamanders, frogs and toads still survive today in great variety: some frogs can fly, others hatch their tadpoles in their backs, and, most strange of all, there's even a species in which the male gives birth from its mouth!
Photography MAURICE FISHER
MARTIN SAUNDERS , RODGER JACKMAN Film editor RON MARTIN MUSiC EDWARD WILLIAMS
Assistant producer NEIL CLEMINSON
Executive producer CHRISTOPHER PARSONS Producer RICHARD BROCK. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Maurice Fisher
Unknown:
Martin Saunders
Unknown:
Rodger Jackman
Editor:
Ron Martin
Music:
Edward Williams
Producer:
Neil Cleminson
Producer:
Christopher Parsons
Producer:
Richard Brock.

Life on Earth

Episode 6: Invasion of the Land

Duration: 55 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Some 350 million years ago, evolution reached one of its most crucial stages when fish crawled from the water onto the land and became amphibians. Show more

between Patrick Campbell
Patricia Brake, Roy Marsden and Frank Muir, Susan Littler, Antony Hopkins
Referee Robert Robinson

Contributors

Panellist:
Patrick Campbell
Panellist:
Patricia Brake
Panellist:
Roy Marsden
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Susan Littler
Referee:
Robert Robinson
Deviser:
Mark Goodson
Deviser:
Bill Todman
Director:
Alan Bell
Producer:
Johnny Downes

Five writers look at their surroundings.
2: Three Streets in the Country
A personal view of the suburbs by Michael Frayn.
Millions of people live in them. Few people ever look at them. The suburbs, hundreds of square miles fringing our big cities are the butt of jokes and the settings for situation comedies. But, in their way, the suburbs are an astonishing piece of folk art, as extraordinary as Stonehenge or the great cathedrals.
MICHAEL FRAYN , playwright, novelist and journalist, turns his attention to the sprawling acres of suburban London, and in particular the small south west suburb of Ewell, where he grew up. This film evokes the suburbs as they appeared through the eyes of childhood, and explores the appeal of those tiny developments, once just three streets in the country, which mushroomed into the great dense dormitories so many of us live in today.
Photography PETER BARTLETT , JOHN HOOPER Sound BRYAN SHOWELL. GEOFF CUTTING Film editor JOHN NEEDHAM
Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Director DENNIS MARKS
(Programme 3: New Town, Home Town, tomorrow at 9.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Frayn.
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Unknown:
John Hooper
Unknown:
Bryan Showell.
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Director:
Dennis Marks

This week at The Heathrow Hotel, London and Castle Hill, Windsor Sacha's Anglo-French guests are Nicole Croisille and Julian Lloyd-Webber (cello) accompanied by SIMON NICHOLS On board the Silver Barracuda
(somewhere on the River Thames) Sacha's regular guests from Spain Baccara
Music PETER KNIGHT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Written by DAVID CUMMING Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBE Lighting SAM BRANTER
Associate producer ROY NORTON Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicole Croisille
Cello:
Julian Lloyd-Webber
Accompanied By:
Simon Nichols
Written By:
David Cumming
Producer:
Roy Norton
Producer:
Ken Griffin

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