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6.25 The 19th-Century Novel
6.50 The Making of a Myth
7.15 Maths: Quadric Surfaces
7.40 W.B. Yeats
8.5 Materials Under Stress
8.30 The Ghent Altarpiece
8.55 Toys for Children
9.20 Conflict in the Family
9.45 Advocacy: Liverpool Law Centre
10.10 Lavas of Etna
10.35 King Frederick and Voltaire
11.0 Maths: Newton's Third Law
11.25 The Symmetry of Nature
11.50 Social Psychology
12.15 Computing: Indexed Files
12.40 Science: Quantum Theory
1.5 Seventeenth-Century England
1.55 Curriculum in Action
2.20 Living Language
2.45 Instrumentation

starring Deanna Durbin with Adolphe Menjou
The talented daughter of an out-of-work trombone-player is determined to help her father and his fellow musicians. With customary exuberance, she sets out to found an orchestra and persuade the legendary Stokowski to conduct it.
Screenplay by BRUCE MANNING CHARLES KENYON , HANS KRALY and JAMES MULHAUSER based on a storv by HANS KRALY
Directed by henry KOSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Deanna Durbin
Unknown:
Adolphe Menjou
Unknown:
Bruce Manning
Unknown:
Charles Kenyon
Unknown:
James Mulhauser
Directed By:
Henry Koster
Patricia Cardwell:
Deanna Durbin
Leopold Stokowski:
Himself
John Cardwell:
Adolphe Menjou
Mrs Frost:
Alice Brady
John Frost:
Eugene Pallette
Michael:
Mischa Auer
Garage owner:
Billy Gilbert
Mrs Tyler:
Alma Kruger
Stage doorman:
Jack Smart
Bitters:
Jed Prouty
KUSSell:
Jameson Thomas

Cricket: First Test
PETER WEST introduces the final session of this afternoon's play from Lord's.
International Show Jumping
The World Show
Jumping Championships from Dublin
Further coverage of the third round in the individual championship. Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and STEPHEN HADLEY

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter West
Introduces:
Stephen Hadley

La Palma: a New Observatory
La Palma, in the Canary Isles, is a picturesque place. It is also ideal as a site for large telescopes, and it is here that a major observatory is being established. It is linked with the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and the project scientist is Dr Paul Murdin.
Patrick Moore reports from La Palma, giving the latest news of the huge telescopes to be set up there and talking to DR MURDIN and Professor Alec Boksenberg , Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Paul Murdin.
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Professor Alec Boksenberg
Editor:
Keith Raven
Producer:
Pieter Morpurgo

An edited recording of this morning's military parade when Her Majesty The Queen took the salute on Horse Guards Parade, London, on the occasion of the Sovereign's official birthday. The Colour trooped was that of the 1ST BATTALION, COLDSTREAM GUARDS. Commentators TOM FLEMING and LT-COL DAVID WEBB-CARTER , MC
Producer IAN SMITII

Contributors

Commentators:
Tom Fleming
Commentators:
Lt-Col David Webb-Carter
Producer:
Ian Smitii

Bernard Levin talks to Dr Jonas Salk
DR JONAS SALK , discoverer of the Salk polio vaccine, is both a scientist and an idealist. He is currently involved in developing theories which suggest a positive alternative to the visions of nuclear holocaust and world starvation which haunt the 20th century. At the Salk Institute in California one of his major projects is promoting the exchange of ideas between science and the arts.
Researcher FIONA MCKENZIE Producer TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Talks:
Bernard Levin
Unknown:
Dr Jonas Salk
Unknown:
Dr Jonas Salk
Unknown:
Fiona McKenzie

starring
Mimsy Farmer Pascal Sellier
Julien finds his schoolfriend Capo's brash behaviour with girls vaguely embarrassing - until it causes him to meet Helen, a beautiful American. Suddenly Julien is in love and every day seems more fantastic than the last.
Screenplay by PIERRE PELEGRI and BERNARD QUEYSANNE based on the novel by VOLDEMAR LESTItNNE
Directed by BERNARD QUEYSANNE
A French film with English subtitles

Contributors

Unknown:
Pascal Sellier
Play By:
Pierre Pelegri
Unknown:
Bernard Queysanne
Novel By:
Voldemar Lestitnne
Directed By:
Bernard Queysanne
Helen Miller:
Mimsy Farmer
Julien:
Pascal Sellier
Julien's Mother:
Andrea Ferreol
CapO:
Stephane Jobert
Gisbert:
Bernard Fresson
Julien's Father:
Serge Sauvion
Josée:
Madeleine Robinson
Bellboy:
Jacques Spiesser
ThUgS:
Roger Hannin
ThUgS:
Robert Hossein
Véro:
Veronique Delboriuje
Martine:
Eva Ionesco

The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships
Highlights of today's Semi-finals played on the magnificent grass courts at The Queen's Club, London Introduced by JOHN BARRETT Commentator
DAN MASKELL and MARK COX
BBC Vidcobook and Lascrvision video-disc Play Tennis (BBCV 10101 from retailers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Barrett
Commentator:
Dan Maskell

continues the season of films starring one of the screen's most powerful actors with Diana Dors , Tom Tryon
Phyllis Hochen believes she has committed the ' perfect crime ' - having murdered her unwanted lover and ' framed ' her equally unwanted husband for the killing. But Phyllis reckons without the indomitable will of Emma Hochen , the family matriarch.
Screenplay by JONATHAN LATIMER. based on a television play by F. w. DURKEE JR Produced and directed by JOHN FARROW Films: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Dors
Unknown:
Tom Tryon
Unknown:
Phyllis Hochen
Unknown:
Emma Hochen
Unknown:
Jonathan Latimer.
Play By:
F. W. Durkee Jr
Directed By:
John Farrow
Paul Hochen:
Rod Steiger
Phyllis Hochen:
Diana Dors
San:
Tom Tryon
Emma Hochen:
Beulah Bondi
Gwen:
Marie Windsor
The Rev Stephen Hochen:
Arthur Franz
Ezra Benton:
Luis van Rooten
Gino Verdugo:
Joe de Santis

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