A series of ten programmes 2: Getting Started
Presented by ROBERT FINIGAN
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Story: A Tent for a Home by CHRISTINE HEWITT
Photographs by BARRY BOXALL Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Ben Thomas
A five-part serial that looks at how Secret Army was conceived, scripted, cast, designed, rehearsed, directed and produced.
2: All Those People Were Heroes
Film editor RICHARD SIDWELL
Produced by TONY ROBERTS
A 15-part sociology series 2: A Family Affair
Narrated by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX
Script adviser MALCOLM DAVIES Producer TONY ROBERTS
Director LIBBY HALLIDAY
5.15 Geophysic
5.40 The Island: Language and Drama
6.5 Geochemical Surveying
A programme in which animated film makers eavesdrop on real conversations and let their imaginations run riot.
'For 30 years I never could get a bed in this house - and I've only just come out of Broadweir Baths.'
BBC Bristol
(Repeat)
including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
A series of six films 5: Portland, Dorset
The ' island' of Portland has always supplemented its basic trades of stone-working and fishing by the windfall, whether in the form of a shipwreck or, as in the case of the latest enterprise, an opportunity to export tons of unwanted spider crabs to Spain.
Brian Trueman meets local people.
Producer JOHN c. MILLER
BBC Manchester
Presented by Anthony Smith
In Japan the development of a voice-controlled word processor will revolutionise their offices. In Sweden ' text inspectors' have to check on any illegal entries on computer files. In the USA the way information is filtered to the President in the White House is radically changing. In Britain Prestel can supply all kinds of information into homes and offices. ANTHONY SMITH examines some of the more far-reaching and subtle effects of the new information age. He asks: Can we foresee any of the cultural changes that lie ahead? '
A Horizon production
Produced by EDWARD GOLDWYN
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL JONES
by CARLA LANE
Ria is pleased to meet Kathleen, her old school friend. They have lots to talk about -but Ria talks too much and a friend turns into an enemy.
Designer JOHN BRISTOW
Directed by JOHN B. IIOBBS
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY
Ria is pleased to meet Kathleen, her old schoolfriend. They have lots to talk about, but Ria talks too much and a friend turns into an enemy.
This week: Phantom
They'll tell you that they are there as part of a balance - balance of fear. If these pilots of a front-line Phantom Squadron in Germany can convince the other side that they and their aircraft are primed and ready to fight, then, so the theory goes, they may never have to.
NATO is committed to deterrence; the aircrews stake their lives on it - because if it fails they don't expect to survive.
When the exercise sirens sound across RAF Wildenrath, Jack Pizzey takes off with the aircrew for a nightmare preview of the Phantom that haunts us all - the Third World War.
A revue featuring artists who appear out of the bright lights of the West End in the pubs and clubs of London's alternative cabaret circuit. With Keith Allen, Tony Allen, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle and the music of Paul Jones and the Blues Band.
PETER SNOW, CHARLES WHEELER , JOHN TUSA and PETER HOBDAY present an informed account of what's happening in the world: special reports from the BBC's correspondents at home and abroad, investigations by Newsnight's own team of reporters into what's going on behind the headlines; the latest news and weather forecast from LINDA ALEXANDER , plus the evening's sports results from DAVID ICKE.
