Story: The Big River by ELIZABETH AND GERALD ROSE
Presenters . Lesley Nightingale , Fred Harris
The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship rhe Semi-finals - First day
Four players remain from an original field of nearly 50 and the first two of these players begin their best of 31-frame semi-final. DAVID VINE introduces live coverage and looks back at the first ten days. Commentators TED LOWE JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON
starring
Ronald Colman , Signe Hasso
Cukor is often considered one of the world's finest directors of actresses, but in this film he steered Ronald Colman towards an Academy Award for his performance as the Broadway actor increasingly dominated by the character of Othello, leading him to madness and, possibly, murder.
Screenplay RUTH GORDON , GARSON KANIN Produced by MICHAEL KANIN Directed by GEORGE CUKOR
. Films: page 12
(George Cukor 's The Corn is Green is on Friday at 4.40 pm)
Frame of the Day
DAVID VINE introduces highlights
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by the Weather
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Part 3
A third series of ten programmes presented by Delia Smith
Advanced Pastry
Making choux and puff pastry can daunt even the most experienced cook. In this programme, DELIA SMITH shows how easy it is to make basic choux pastry and how it can then be used to make mouth-watering chocolate profiteroles and also a delicious savoury dish, gougere, with cheese. Studio guest JOHN TOVEY then demonstrates his own quick method of making rough puff pastry and how this can easily be turned into vol-au-vents with a variety of tasty fillings. Director PAULA GILDER Producer PETER RIDING
COOKERY COURSE: 3 - page 81
The Semi-finals. First day
DAVID VINE introduces live coverage of the second semi-final that begins this evening.
investigates, discovers, questions This week:
Vandals or Visionaries?
They plan where we will live and where we will work. They decide which buildings will be pulled down and which will be put up. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong. They are that amorphous group we ignore until they want to put a motorway, a pylon or whatever at the bottom of our garden.
They are The Planners.
Are they visionaries or vandals? How well do they do their job? Do we have too much planning or too little? How much say do we, the public, really have in the planning decisions that affect our lives? Reporter Jeremy James
Producer JOHN PERCIVAL Editor TIM SLESSOR
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 MARSHALL LEE.
The Semi-finals First day
DAVID VINE introduces highlights of the second semi-final which began this evening.
