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7.40 Biotechnic Community

8.5 River Thames

8.30 Writing History

8.55 Philosophy: Other Minds

9.20 The Binomial Theorem

9.45 Mr Galileo was Correct

10.10 Brick by Brick

10.35 Instrumentation: Strain Gauging

11.0 Project FAMOUS

11.25 The £5000-million Industry

11.50 Computing: Introduction

12.15 Baroque Wind Instruments

12.40 The Image of Empire

1.5 Charles Rennie Mackintosh

1.30 Two Yorkshire Families

starring
Irene Dunne , Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire , Randolph Scott
The action is set in and around a fashionable Paris dress shop called ' Roberta ', with Irene Dunne as a White Russian princess (real) and Ginger Rogers as a Polish Countess (bogus).
Screenplay by JANE MURFIN, SAM MINTZ and ALLAN SCOTT , from the play Roberta (Book by OTTO A. HARBACH) Music by JEROME KERN
Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN Directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER

Contributors

Produced By:
Pandro S. Berman
Directed By:
William A. Seiter
Stephanie:
Irene Dunne
Scharwenka:
Ginger Rogers
Huck Haines:
Fred Astaire
John Kent:
Randolph Scott
Roberta:
Helen Westley

Jonathan Cohen , musical director and pianist, presents his own choice of music and songs with Kim Goody and the Co-operation Singers
This week: different aspects of keyboard music and the intricacies of a pianola-piano.
Musicians PETER boita and MIKE WARD Lighting JOHN FARR
Sound ANTHONY PHILPOT
Designer GARY PRITCHARD
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Production AVRIL PRICE

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Unknown:
Kim Goody
Musicians:
Peter Boita
Designer:
Gary Pritchard
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Tonight from BBC North West
Brian Redhead tells how, in a pursuit unchanged since John Peel's day, the six Fell Packs still hunt the fox over many square miles of the most rugged country in England. On foot, because of the terrain, the huntsmen of the Blencathra, the Melbreak, the Ullswater, the Eskdale and Ennerdale, the Coniston and the Lunesdale, cover 20 miles and more a day in a season lasting from September to April, the lambing time when the threat of the fox is at its greatest. Huntsmen and supporters argue that they perform a service for the hill farmer; passers-by don't always agree.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Film Reporter:
Frank Mellor
Producer:
Bob Mozley
Series Co-ordinator:
Frank Gillard

A series in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today. 8: Moral Philosophy, with R. M. Hare , Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University. Series prepared by BRYAN MAGEE Director TONY TYLEY
Executive producer JANET HOENIG Book (same title), £7.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Talks:
Bryan Magee
Unknown:
R. M. Hare
Unknown:
Bryan Magee
Director:
Tony Tyley
Producer:
Janet Hoenig

If you had the chance, who would you most like to meet?

This week The Rt Hon Edward Heath, MP, meets The Seven:
Mary Cockcroft, business analyst, aged 24
Keith Fraser, car worker, aged 23
Pam Griffin, PE teacher, aged 22
Lisa Halstead, housewife, aged 23
Gary Jackson, artist, aged 23
John McIlvride, actor, aged 24
Mark Renton, undergraduate, aged 18

Each week the 'Seven' have the chance for an exchange of views with a personality of their choice. Their guests will come from any one of the worlds of showbusiness, politics, industry or the arts.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Guest:
Edward Heath
Panellist:
Mary Cockcroft
Panellist:
Keith Fraser
Panellist:
Pam Griffin
Panellist:
Lisa Halstead
Panellist:
Gary Jackson
Panellist:
John McIlvride
Panellist:
Mark Renton
Director:
Peter Hamilton
Producer:
Derek Towers

A series featuring the best of contemporary British and American rock bands.
Each week's recording takes place on a college campus in front of an audience of students. Introduced by Pete Drummond.
This week: Herbie Hancock from Chelsea College

Contributors

Presenter:
Pete Drummond
Singer:
Herbie Hancock
Director:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Michael Appleton

A series of seven profiles introduced by Robert Robinson
Montaillou - what was life like for ordinary people in the Middle Ages? Few books have answered that question more vividly than Montaillou by the French historian Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie. The book is a chronicle of life in a 14th-century village in the Pyrenees. The film is a portrait of Montaillou as it was in 1300 and as it is today.

Contributors

Introduced by:
Robert Robinson
Reader:
Martin Jarvis
Reader:
Denise Bryer
Producer:
Peter Foges

Each week Michael Charlton is joined by two guest interviewers for BBC2's television press conference.
National and international figures -people who are in the news or who make news - discuss and explain their views and intentions.
Producer ANNE MOIR

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Producer:
Anne Moir

The RAI prizewinner at the 1978 Prix Italia.
Viktor Ullmann composed this short opera in 1944 for his fellow prisoners in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. It was never performed, and both the composer and his librettist Peter Kien died in Auschwitz.
More than 30 years later the score was rediscovered in London by Kerry Woodward , a young British conductor, and given its first performance in Amsterdam.
This film version, made in Germany with an international cast, is directed by another Briton, JOHN GOLDSCHMIDT , director of Spend, Spend, Spend, which won the BAFTA Drama Award in 1977. The opera's theme is an affirmation of life and hope in a world of chaos and madness.
THE LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by Kerry Woodward Introduced by HUMPHREY BURTON Sung in German with English sub-titles
A brilliantly ironic fable.... It sounds superb .. In scale and style ideally suited to television.
(PETER FIDDICK, THE GUARDIAN)
A WDR/CLASART production from West Germany

Contributors

Unknown:
Viktor Ullmann
Unknown:
Peter Kien
Unknown:
Kerry Woodward
Unknown:
John Goldschmidt
Conducted By:
Kerry Woodward
Introduced By:
Humphrey Burton
Emperor:
Siegmund Nimsgern
Death:
Alexander Malta
Drummer:
Teresa Stratas
Pierrot:
Richard Lewis
Soldier:
Rudiger Wohlers
Girl:
Janet Perry
Loudspeaker:
Richard Cross

An anthology of films based on the stories of nine distinguished American authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tonight: Bernice Bobs Her Hair by SCOTT FITZGERALD starring Shelley Duval
Bernice is transformed from a shy ' ugly duckling' into a much sought-after vamp by her manipulative cousin Marjorie. But when she is tricked into bobbing her hair, the consequences are a little unexpected.
Written and directed by JOAN MICKLlN SILVER
Produced by PAUL R. GURIAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Shelley Duval
Directed By:
Joan Micklln Silver
Produced By:
Paul R. Gurian

covering motor-racing's Formula One World Championship
The South African Grand Prix from Kyalami
Highlights of today's race on the 21-mile circuit near Johannesburg. Will French drivers in French cars dominate as decisively as they did in the first two races in South America? Or will another team come up with an answer to the flying Ligiers of JACQUES LAF-FITE-winner in both Argentina and Brazil - and PATRICK DEPAILLER ? World Champion MARIO ANDRETTI will be out to make an immediate response in defence of his title at the track where he won his first Grand Prix back in 1971. Commentator MURRAY WALKER
Television presentation by SABC Producer richard TILLING Editor JONATHAN MARTIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Depailler
Unknown:
Mario Andretti
Editor:
Jonathan Martin

starring Sidney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre , Geraldine Fitzgerald On the night of the Chinese New Year in London, three strangers meet beneath the gaze of a Chinese idol. They become partners in a sweepstake ticket for a forthcoming race, hoping to change the hand that fate has dealt them in life. But violence and duplicity complicate the intertwining destinies of all three in this tantalising and sophisticated melodrama.
Screenplay by JOHN HUSTON and HOWARD KOCH from a story by JOHN HUSTON Directed by JEAN NECULESCO

Contributors

Unknown:
Sidney Greenstreet
Unknown:
Peter Lorre
Unknown:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Unknown:
John Huston
Unknown:
Howard Koch
Story By:
John Huston
Directed By:
Jean Neculesco
Crystal:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Arbutny:
Sidney Greenstreet
Johnny West:
Peter Lorre
Gabby:
Peter Whitney
Lady Rhae:
Rosalind Ivan
Shackleford:
Alan Napier
Icy:
Joan Lorring
Fallon:
Robert Shayne
Senior clerk:
Clifford Brooke
Junior clerk:
John Alvin

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