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7.40 Chancellor's School

8.5 The Simplex Method

8.30 Mendelssohn's Dream

8.55 Stantonbury: a Blueprint Analysed

9.20 Harmony

9.45 Patterns of Inequality

10.10 Interior Decoration

10.35 Schrodinger Wave Equations

11.0 Functions of Random Variables

11.25 Ubu Roi

12.15 Biology: Form and Function

12.40 Sweet Smell of Success

1.5 Marking Time

1.30 Volcanoes

1.55 Complex Human Ecosystems

starring Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy
The first of two films uniting great directors with two of Hollywood's leading ladies. Joan Crawford stars in this classic rags-to-riches melodrama. She plays Jessie Cassidy, who escapes a loveless marriage to gambler Eddie Miller only to have him enter her life again - this time in the role of blackmailer.
Screenplay by LAWRENCE HAZARD based on Marry for Money by KATHARINE BRUSH
Produced by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Directed by FRANK BORZAGE
Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Crawford
Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Joan Craw
Unknown:
Jessie Cassidy
Unknown:
Eddie Miller
Play By:
Lawrence Hazard
Produced By:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Directed By:
Frank Borzage
Jessie Cassidy:
Joan Crawford
John L Hennessey:
Spencer Tracy
Eddie Miller:
Alan Curtis
BriggS:
Ralph Morgan
Beryl:
Mary Phillips
' Pa ' Cassidy:
Oscar O'Shea
Mrs Cassidy:
Elizabeth Risdon
Clifford:
Leo Gorcey

' In the Beginning.... '
Our galaxy contains over 100,000 million stars. Far away in space, so remote that their light takes thousands of millions of years to reach us, are other galaxies.
In the crystal-clear atmosphere of La Palma in the Canary Islands the new Northern Hemisphere Observatory is being built. This observatory, a joint international project, is designed to study these galaxies and perhaps lead us on to a real knowledge of the way in which the Universe was bom.
One of the scientists involved is Professor F. Graham Smith , Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, who talks to Patrick Moore about these exciting new developments.
Producer PIETER MORPURGO
Book 7 (same title), 12.25 from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor F. Graham Smith
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Producer:
Pieter Morpurgo

starring
Joan Bennett , James Mason
In this intense melodrama Joan Bennett plays a woman left alone to cope with family problems while her husband is away on business in Europe. Her teenage daughter's affair with an unscrupulous older man turns to tragedy when the man is accidentally killed. But this is only the start of Lucia's problems as she is confronted by a blackmailer who threatens to expose the family's secrets.,..
Screenplay by HENRY CAHSON , ROBERT W. SODERBERG based on The Blank Wall by ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDING Produced by WALTER WANGER Directed by MAX OPHULS
. Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bennett
Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
Joan Bennett
Unknown:
Henry Cahson
Unknown:
Robert W. Soderberg
Unknown:
Elisabeth Sanxay
Produced By:
Walter Wanger
Directed By:
Max Ophuls
Lucia Harper:
Joan Bennett
Martin Donnelly:
James Mason
Beatrice Harper:
Geraldine Brooks
Mr Harper:
Henry O'Neill
Ted Darby:
Shepperd Strudwick
David Harper:
David Bair
Nagle:
Roy Roberts
Sybil:
Frances Williams

The Middlesex Sevens from Twickenham
The final Saturday of the rugby season by tradition provides a festival of sevens rugby at Twickenham.
In the qualifying rounds 248 clubs fought it out to join last year's victors Richmond, runners-up Rosslyn Park, as well as guests Cardiff and Leicester in today's final 16.
Introduced by NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Director ALASTAIR SCOTT Producer HUW JONES
Theme music on Sporting Themes (record REH 348, cassette zcb 348) from record shops

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Director:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Huw Jones

from Ferndown Golf Club, Dorset The first of a new series of six programmes in which Peter Alliss plays golf and talks with well-known people.
His guest this week is magician
.Paul Daniels, whose mixture of illusions and humour has made Turn one of Britain's top entertainers.
Director ALASTAIR SCOTT Producer DAVID KENNING
(The Paul Daniels Magic Show: Monday
9.0 pm BBC2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Paul Daniels

Bernard Levin talks to Sir Colin Davis
Tonight his guest is the Musical Director of the Royal Opera, and perhaps the greatest living interpreter of Mozart. Davis secretly decided to become a conductor at the age of 14, but it was nearly 20 years before his talent was acclaimed. After he had conducted Don Giovanni in place of Otto Klemperer , The Times described him as ' a conductor ripe for greatness'.
Assistant producer TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS Director CHRISTOPHER LEWIS
Producer JOHN SHEARER. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Talks:
Bernard Levin
Unknown:
Sir Colin Davis
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Otto Klemperer
Producer:
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Director:
Christopher Lewis
Producer:
John Shearer.

(La Dentelliere).
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton
Claude Goretta's warm, sensitive picture of two people longing to love each other but unable to cross their own barriers, is one of the most successful foreign films released in this country in recent years. Pomme, 18-years-old, a hairdresser's apprentice in Paris, has never seen the sea. Persuaded into a holiday in Normandy by her man-hunting friend, Marylene, Pomme is soon left on her own - which is how she meets Francois and embarks on a holiday romance that is to change her life.
"An elegant, graceful, caring film" (DAILY MAIL)
"This Swiss film is full of treasures and pleasures of observation" (THE TIMES) "The sort of film you thought then didn't make any more" (SUNDAY TIMES) Screenplay by PASCAL LAINE and CLAUDE GORETTA from the novel by CLAUDE GORETTA
Directed by CLAUDE GORETTA. Films: p 14
(A French language film with English sub-titles
(First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Claude Goretta
Unknown:
Pascal Laine
Unknown:
Claude Coretta
Unknown:
Claude Goretta
Directed By:
Claude Goretta
Beatrice (Pomme):
Isabelle Huppert
Francois Beligne:
Yves Beneyton
Marylene Thorent:
Florence Ciorcetti
Pomme's mother:
Anne Marie Duringer
M Beligne:
Jean Obe
Mme Beligne:
Monique Chaumette
Marianne:
Renata Schroeter
Gerard:
Michel de Re

Somewhere Over the Rainbow ... As a child, trapped in a crazy Jewish household in a poor Chicago tenement, the American artist Robert Natkin had to find a way to change his life. His imagination was engulfed by movies from Fred Astaire to The Wizard of Oz, and by the vast collection of modern European paintings at the Chicago Institute. In Life magazine he read an article on Jackson Pollock and realised ' even a schmuck like me can become an artist'
This film is about some of the paradoxes of his success, about how and why he paints the way he does and why the English critic Peter Fuller , author of a recent provocative book on Art and Psychoanalysis, thinks these particular abstract paintings matter,
Film cameraman COLIN WALDECK Film editor CHRISTOPHER SWAYNE Producer MICHAEL DIBB
Series editor ALAN YENTOB

Contributors

Artist:
Robert Natkin
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Jackson Pollock
Unknown:
Peter Fuller
Unknown:
Colin Waldeck
Editor:
Christopher Swayne
Editor:
Alan Yentob

There is a persistent taboo on the subject of mental illness. Patrick Stewart , the central character in a new drama series, shows that psychiatric wards are not places of gloom and despair, but of hope and even humour.
(Maybury begins on Tuesday, 9.25 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick Stewart

starring Randolph Scott
Buchanan, a Texan adventurer, rides into a small border town controlled by the corrupt Agry family. When he befriends a young Mexican who has killed one of the Agry brothers the pair soon find themselves at the mercy of a lynch mob ...
Screenplay by CHARLES LANG from the novel The Name's Buchanan by JONAS WARD Produced by HARRY JOE BROWN
Directed by BUDD BOETTICHER , Films: p 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Randolph Scott
Unknown:
Charles Lang
Produced By:
Harry Joe Brown
Directed By:
Budd Boetticher
Buchanan:
Randolph Scott
Abe Carbo:
Craig Stevens
Lew Agry:
Barry Kelley
Simon Agry:
Tol Avery
Amos Agry:
Peter Whitney
Juan:
Manuel Rojas
K T:
Jennifer Holden

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