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7.40 Problem Identification Game

8.5 Water for Oxford

8.30 Interpreting a Dream

8.55 The Concept of Mind

9.20 Mechanics - Newton's Laws

9.45 Problems of Pollution

10.10 Disaster Simulation: 1: The Event

10.35 Instrumentation: Pressure Transducers

11.0 Borehold Logging

11.25 Air Traffic Control

11.50 Computing - Algorithms

12.15 Medieval Mystery Plays

1.5 Frank Lloyd Wright

1.30 The Northampton Mercury

starring Bob Hope
Mickey Rooney , Marilyn Maxwell
Boxing manager Wally Hogan joins the army when his top fighter Bullet Bradley is called up; Bullet, however, is rejected, while Wally becomes a reluctant military policeman and a spectacularly successful boxing instructor.
Screenplay by HAL KANTER and jack SHER Produced by HARRY TUGEND
Directed by GEORGE MARSHALL
. Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Hope
Unknown:
Mickey Rooney
Unknown:
Wally Hogan
Unknown:
Hal Kanter
Unknown:
Jack Sher
Produced By:
Harry Tugend
Directed By:
George Marshall
Wally Hogan:
Bob Hope
Herbie Tuttle:
Mickey Rooney
Connie Curtis:
Marilyn Maxwell
Earl Danzig:
Eddie Mayehoff
Bullet Bradley:
Stanley Clements
Vic Breck:
Marvin Miller
Chowhound:
Norman Leavitt
Himself:
Jack Dempsey

Jonathan Cohen , musical director and pianist, presents his own choice of music and songs with Kim Goody and the Co-operation Singers
This week he traces the influence of folk songs on rock and classical music.
Musicians: Robin Williams, Elizabeth Wilcock, Jan Schlapp, Tim Mason, Jeff Crampton, Phil Todd, Paul Carmichael, John Hayman

Contributors

Presenter/musical director/pianist:
Jonathan Cohen
Singer:
Kim Goody
Singers:
The Co-operation Singers
Musician:
Robin Williams
Musician:
Elizabeth Wilcock
Musician:
Jan Schlapp
Musician:
Tim Mason
Musician:
Jeff Crampton
Musician:
Phil Todd
Musician:
Paul Carmichael
Musician:
John Hayman
Lighting:
John Farr
Sound:
Anthony Philpot
Designer:
Gary Pritchard
Executive Producer:
Cynthia Felgate
Production:
Avril Price

Sweet Solutions
Sugar has a colourful history but new and surprising uses are being found for this energy-rich food. Brazil plans to run all its cars on alcohol made from sugar and it could become the feedstock for European chemical industries when oil runs out.

Tonight from BBC Wales:
The Day of the Working Horse
' Over and done', went the cry and across the country the ploughs the horses had drawn were soon gathering rust in the nettle-beds. But complete reliance on tractors was not in Griff James 's nature. He collected the discarded implements and ended up able to run his West Wales farm on Shire horsepower.
Ian Niall , the writer on country matters, suggests that the example shows a new day could dawn for the working horse.
Film cameraman RUSS WALKER Film editor BILL MAINMAN Producer DEREK TRIMBY Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Griff James
Unknown:
Ian Niall
Unknown:
Russ Walker
Unknown:
Frank Gillard

A series of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today. 11: The Ideas of Chomsky with Noam Chomsky , Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology.
This programme examines the central ideas of one of the truly seminal thinkers of our time.
Series prepared by BRYAN MAGEE Director TONY TYLEY
Executive producer JANET HOENIG
Book (same title), £7.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Talks:
Bryan Magee
Unknown:
Noam Chomsky
Unknown:
Massachusetts Insti
Unknown:
Bryan Magee
Director:
Tony Tyley
Producer:
Janet Hoenig

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

This week's guest, Derek Jameson, Fleet Street Editor, 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 to exchange 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:
Derek Jameson
Panellist:
Mary Cockcroft
Panellist:
Keith Fraser
Panellist:
Pam Griffin
Panellist:
Lisa Halstead
Panellist:
Gary Jackson
Panellist:
John McIlvride
Panellist:
Mark Renton
Research:
Gita Conn
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: George Thorogood & The Destroyers from North East London Polytechnic
Director tom CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pete Drummond
Unknown:
George Thorogood
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Producer:
Michael Appleton

In Performance tonight is in two parts and features two outstanding composers who have struck out down new paths of musical exploration.
Part 1: Andrzej Panufnik , composer and conductor, was born in Poland but for the last 25 years he has lived and worked in Britain.
The Symphony of Spheres is his 5th Symphony and he describes it as ' a musical structure influenced by the beauty and mystery of geometry.' This performance, given at last year's Proms, was conducted by the composer.
Antony Hopkins introduces this work, explaining its structure with poker chips, dice and ping pong balls, and the performance itself is illuminated by special visual techniques.
THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader IRVINE ARDITTI
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting HARRY THOMAS Director PETER BUTLER
(Panufnik's Sinfonia sacra, Tuesday Radio 3. 7.30 pm)
Part 2: Reich Revolution, 10.0 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrzej Panufnik
Introduces:
Antony Hopkins
Unknown:
Graham Haines
Unknown:
Harry Thomas
Director:
Peter Butler

A series of seven film profiles Introduced by Robert Robinson 4: V. S. Naipaul
' The best novelist now writing in England', wrote one English critic of this West Indian-born author. Whether writing with humour about his native Trinidad or with melancholy about England. NAIPAUL reflects the outsider's sense of place. He has won more literary awards than any other British author, winning The Booker Prize in 1971 for his short stories In a Free State.
In this rare television film, Naipaul talks to the writer Francis Wyndham about his life in England; he revisits the London he has lived in and reflects on its place in his writing. Readings RONALD PICKUP
Executive producer PETER FOGES
Director SANDRA GREGORY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Francis Wyndham
Producer:
Peter Foges
Director:
Sandra Gregory

Part 2: Reich's Revolution
Music should put all within listening range into a state of ecstasy.
The work of the American composer Steve Reich has been labelled ' trance music', 'pulse music ', ' process music'. Like the tribal music of West Africa where Reich spent some time studying drumming, it is dominated by strong, pulsing rhythms which gradually change from one pattern to another. He believes that music should be followed easily by the listener.
Tonight STEVE REICH introduces a performance of one of his latest pieces, ' music for 18 musicians' which calls for-among other things - maraccas, marimbas, xylophones, clarinets, human voice and four pianos.
Narrator HUMPHREY BURTON
Lighting cameraman PETER BARTLETt Film editor DAVE KING
Executive producer BARRIE GAVIN Directed by MICHAEL MACINTYRE Preview: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Reich
Introduces:
Steve Reich
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Editor:
Dave King
Producer:
Barrie Gavin
Directed By:
Michael MacIntyre

The John Player All-England Championships from the Wembley Arena featuring
THE LADIES' SINGLES FINAL THE LADIES' DOUBLES FINAL
THE MIXED DOUBLES FINAL
GILLIAN GiLKs of England, defending her Ladies' Singles Title, is seeded 3, with World Champion LENE KÖPPEN of Denmark and HIROE YUKI of Japan, seeded 1 and 2. Commentators BARRY DAVIES and RODDY MACCRIMMON
Television presentation BOB DUNCAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Gilks
Commentators:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
Bob Duncan

starring
Michael Craig , Peter Cushing Bernard Lee , George Sanders
After a jet airliner crash in which his co-pilot is killed, veteran pilot George Gort is found guilty of ' pilot error ' by a Court of Inquiry and is severely censured. Gort is grudgingly passed as fit to return to duty, but serious doubts remain about his ability to fly the new Phoenix jet aircraft....
Screenplay by ROBERT WESTERBY from the novel by DAVID BEATY Produced by AUBREY BARING Directed by CHARLES FREND
. Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Craig
Unknown:
Peter Cushing
Unknown:
Bernard Lee
Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
George Gort
Unknown:
Robert Westerby
Novel By:
David Beaty
Produced By:
Aubrey Baring
Directed By:
Charles Frend
Dallas:
Michael Craig
Gort:
Bernard Lee
Judd:
Peter Cushing
Charlotte:
Ellzabeth Seal
Manningham:
André Morell
Bateson:
Gordon Jackson
Joyce Mitchell:
Delphi Lawrence
Nigel Pickering:
Noel Willman
Sir Arnold Hobbes:
George Sanders

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