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7.40 Design Strategies

8.5 Aluminium in Anglesey

8.30 The Yorkshire Woollen Industry

8.55 Laws of Nature

9.20 Mechanics: Fourier Series

9.45 Coal Power

10.10 Earthquakes and Technology

10.35 Modulation and Noise

11.0 Porphyry Copper Deposits

11.25 Sheep Production

11.50 Computing: String Processing

12.15 Six Characters in Search of an Author

1.5 Edwin Lutyens

1.30 World War II

1.55 'A Wealth of Words'

2.20 An Option for Eternity

A double bill featuring the legendary Marlene Dietrich.
Also starring Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant.

In this 1932 melodrama of love and jealousy Dietrich gives a magnetic performance as Helen, a Berlin stage performer, who marries an American, Ned Faraday. Some years later, Ned discovers he has radium poisoning. Helen's search for sufficient money to pay for the treatment that will save his life leads her to the stage of a New York night club - and to the wealthy and attractive Nick Townsend.
Directed bv JOSEF VON STERNBERG
(First showing on British television)
(Black and White)
(Films: page 18)

and at 4.45
"Dishonoured"
Also starring Victor McLaglen.

Marlene Dietrich is X-27, beautiful spy for the Austrian Secret Service, in this vintage classic set in First World War Vienna. But her brilliant undercover career is endangered by the traitorous Lieutenant Kranau ...

(First showing on British television)
(Black and white)
(Films: page 18)

Contributors

Director/Writer:
Josef von Sternberg
Helen Faraday/X-27:
Marlene Dietrich
Edward Faraday:
Herbert Marshall
Nick Townsend:
Cary Grant
Johnny Faraday:
Dickie Moore
Ben Smith:
Gene Morgan
'Taxi Belle' Hooper:
Rita Laroy
O'Connor:
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Detective Wilson:
Sidney Toler
Dr Pierce:
Morgan Wallace
Lt Kranau:
Victor McLaglen
Col Kovrin:
Lew Cody
Secret Service Head:
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Young Lt:
Barry Norton
Gen Von Hindau:
Warner Oland
Court officer:
Davison Clark
Gen Dymov:
Wilfred Lucas
Manager:
Bill Powell

Tonight from BBC N Ireland: The World of Percy French
Brendan O'Dowda presents the story of the man who wrote ' The Mountains o' Mourne', illustrated in song, verse and painting.
With Eddie Pearl (pianoforte)
BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by Marcus Dods
Sound JOHN LIINN
Lighting MAURICE IRVINE
Designer JOHN ARMSTRONG Production ALAN TONGUE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brendan O'Dowda
Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Conducted By:
Sound John Liinn
Designer:
John Armstrong

An investigation into the mystery of the Turin Shroud
Kenneth More narrates this award-winning film, which examines the claim that a cloth kept in Turin Cathedral is genuinely the burial shroud of Jesus Christ and that the ghostly image of a crucified man discovered on the fibres of the cloth is that of Jesus himself.
The film reveals the new scientific and medical evidence that has startled sceptics and believers alike, including two US Air Force scientists' discovery of the three-dimensional information encoded within the image. Swiss forensic expert Max Frci details his discovery of micro-organisms on the shroud that prove to him that the cloth originated in the Holy Lands. Author/historian Ian Wil son presents his research which, for the first time, traces the shroud back to the time of Christ. After the film, Peter France asks Professor Sir George Porter , Nobel-prize-winning scientist and Director of the Royal Institution, for his assessment of the evidence. Dr John Robinson , author of Honest to God and Professor Nicholas Lash , Norris Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, argue the astonishing claim that the Turin Shroud may be proof of the Resurrection itself.
The Silent Witness produced and directed by DAVID w. ROLFE
Everyman editor PETER ARMSTRONG (First shown on BBClt

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth More
Unknown:
Max Frci
Unknown:
Ian Wil
Unknown:
Sir George Porter
Unknown:
Dr John Robinson
Unknown:
Nicholas Lash
Unknown:
Norris Hulse
Directed By:
David W. Rolfe
Editor:
Peter Armstrong

In four parts
2: A German Dream
With a small cast, an artificial style, and a wealth of allusions. this is an attempt to escape from the Hollywood myth, and to re-examine Hitler's effect on modern German history.
In the producer Syberberg's opinion, the Germans, in supporting Hitler, thought they were following traditional values. By denying their part they deny these values, the romantic and imaginative in their history, and are left only with a sterile materialism - Hitler's legacy.
Written and directed bv HANS JÛRGEN SVBIUBKKG cameraman DIETRICH LOHMANN
Produced by tsm/solaris MUNICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Dietrich Lohmann

continues the season of Midnight Movie double-bills
The Strange Door starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff
Enticed to pass through a strange door, Denis de Beaulieu finds himself a captive of the sinister Sire de Maletroit. Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff preside over sliding panels, dark dungeons and screams in the night.
Screenplay by JERRY SACKTEIM
Based on ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON's story The Sire de Muletroit's Door
Produced by TED RICHMOND
Directed by JOSEPH PEVNEY
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
starring Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers
Legend has it that Tera, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness, had a power beyond the tomb. How great a power is revealed by the series of horrifying events which befall the members of the expedition who discover her tomb, in this classic Hammer thriller in a modern setting.
Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER WICKING
Based on the novel Jewel of the Seven Stars by BRAM STOKER
Produced by HOWARD BRANDY
Directed by SETH HOLT

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Laughton
Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Denis de Beaulieu
Unknown:
Charles Laughton
Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Play By:
Jerry Sackteim
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Produced By:
Ted Richmond
Directed By:
Joseph Pevney
Unknown:
Andrew Keir
Unknown:
Valerie Leon
Unknown:
James Villiers
Play By:
Christopher Wicking
Unknown:
Bram Stoker
Produced By:
Howard Brandy
Directed By:
Seth Holt.
Alan de Maletroit:
Charles Laughton
Voltan:
Boris Karloff
Blanche de Maletroit:
Sally Forrest
Denis de Beaulieu:
Richard Stapley
Talon:
Michael Pate
Edmond de Maletroit:
Paul Cavanagh
Count Grassin:
Alan Napier
Corbeau:
William Cottrell
FuchS:
Andrew Keir
Margaret/Tera:
Valerie Leon
Corbeck:
James Villiers
Dandridge:
Hugh Burden
Berigan:
George Coulouris
Tod Browning:
Mark Edwards
Helen:
Rosalie Crutchley
Dr Putnum:
Aubrey Morris
Older male nurse:
James Cossins
Young male nurse:
David Jackson
Veronica:
Tamara Ustinov

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