10.10 Childhood 5-10: Starting School

10.35 Consumer Decisions: Turning on the Heat

11.0 No Handicap to Learning

(to 11.25)

starring
Natasha Parry , Jane Hylton Diana Dors , Petula Clark
Carole, Georgie, Eve and Mary work together-and spend their spare time at the local 'palais de danse'. Each has her sights set on winning the dance championship. But before the finals, broken romances, family upsets and dramatic confrontations will affect their lives. This is one of the finest-and most neglected - of all Ealing Studios productions, which today gives a vivid and compelling portrait of the early 1950s. It is also notable for its fine cast, many of whom have since become household names.
With GERALDO AND HIS ORCHESTRA
TED HEATH AND HIS MUSIC
Screenplay by E. v. h. EMMETT
DIANA MORGAN , ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON
(Blade and white). Films: page 16
(Diana Dors is the castaway on Desert Island Discs tonight, Radio 4 at 6.15)

starring Brian Cant in an entertainment of jokes, comedy and music. with Delia Morgan , Alex Norton Janine Sharp , Jonathan Cohen and the Play Away Band
Musical arrangements by JONATHAN COHEN Designer GWEN EVANS Director ANNE GOBEY Producer ANN REAY

The Autumn Sky
Pegasus is the main autumn constellation-do you know where to find it? Can you see Mars now? Where should one look for the Great Spiral in Andromeda? Presented by Patrick Moore
Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Part 1 starring Ludmila Savelyeva
Sergei Bondarchuk
The Russians' own film version of the most famous book in their literature is on a truly Tolstoyan scale with literally thousands of men deployed in the spectacular battle sequences and a peculiarly Russian intensity of emotion in the more intimate scenes. It is shown during this weekend and next in its original four parts with sequences restored that were cut for the British cinema release.
1805: In St Petersburg the talk is of Napoleon, threatening Europe and perhaps Russia herself. Nearer home, there is a more fascinating piece of gossip: Pierre Bezukhov , a socially graceless young man, has inherited a fortune, becoming overnight the most eligible bachelor in town.
Screenplay by SERGEI BONDARCHUK and VASILY SOLOVYEV Director SERGEI BONDARCHUK. Films: p 16 (A Russian film with English subtitles) (Part 2 tomorrow at 3.25)

Anatoly Karpov (World Champion) v Viktor Korchnoi (Challenger)
Presenting exclusive coverage of the match, with up-to-the-minute news, interviews and a report on the best game of the week.
Presented by Jeremy James
Expert analysis WILLIAM HARTSTON
ProducerROBERT TONER

with Kenneth Kendall and Michael Blakey ; Weather

The television weekly review presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses Dallas (BBC1), The Borgias (BBC2) and World in Action (Granada) with Andrea Newman , John Hale and Peter Jenkins.
Also an interview with Don Hewitt , Executive Producer of 60 Minutes the current affairs programme that regularly tops the US ratings.
Director PETER DALE
Producer JOHN ARCHER

Japan and the Legacy of the Samurai
A series of seven films
Narrated by Julian Pettifer
From early times the Japanese have been acutely sensitive to the beauty of their natural surroundings, the inspiration for art of every kind. In painting, architecture, pottery, lacquerwork, textile design and even the decoration of sword guards, the love of nature is ever-present and it lies at the heart of the celebrated Japanese tea ceremony.
In the 14th century the recently imported fashion of tea drinking offered an excuse for exuberant parties accompanied by communal bathing, gambling and drunkenness, but by 1600, the start of the Edo period, it had developed into a semi-religious ritual, performed in an atmosphere of refined simplicity. In the tea room, the 'Abode of Fancy', emphasis was placed on irregularity and incompleteness, the avoidance of decoration and, above all, harmony with nature. Within such surroundings, it was believed, there could be harmony among men.
Book (same title), £12.95, from retailers

Today is the 50th birthday of the Master of the Queen's Music. This celebratory concert, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in October, features Malcolm Williamson 's largest-scale work. It was begun as long ago as the 1950s and completed within the last few years.
For large orchestra and chorus and with four soloists, the Mass is sung in Latin, is highly charged, rich in texture and, as the composer himself says, makes public a private statement of his personal beliefs. with Jill Gomez (soprano)
Anne Howells (mezzo-soprano) Robin Leggate (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
THE COMBINED HARLOW AND NORTH EAST LONDON POLYTECHNIC CHORUSES chorus-master
MICHAEL KIBBLEWHITE
Philharmonia Orchestra led by RAYMOND OVENS conducted by Frank Shipway
Introduced by RICHARD BAKER
A seemingly endless outpouring of melody richly impels the work's 16 short sections forward, yet there is an overriding emotional unity binding it into a satisfying whole. (THE GUARDIAN) Producer KENNETH CORDEN Directed by ROY TIPPING
(A Karites promotion in association with the National Westminster Bank)
(Malcolm Williamson is This Week's Composer on R3 at 9.5 am on weekdays)
For the best effect, viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative

A television play in two parts by IAN CURTEIS Part 2 starring
The British:
Conservative Party Labour Party The Arabs The Israelis: The French: The Russians: The Military: and Designer ALLAN ANSON
Script editor ALAN SHALLCROSS Producer CEDRIC MESSINA
Directed by MICHAEL DARLOW
The full text of this play, in booklet form, £3.75 inc postage), from [address removed]

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

starring Joan Crawford with Cliff Robertson
Vera Miles , Ruth Donnelly
As the controversial film of Joan Crawford 's life has its European premiere at the London Film Festival, tonight's film Autumn Leaves sees Joan Crawford in one of her greatest screen roles. As a lonely woman, neurotically afraid of emotional involvements, she finds herself drawn to the charming and much younger Burt Han son. After an impulsive marriage she discovers that Burt has lied about his past and she is tied to an increasingly dangerous psychotic.
Screenplay by JACK JEVNE , LEWIS, MELTZER and ROBERT BLEES Produced by WILLIAM GOETZ Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH ,