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A Yesterday's Witness programme. X-rays were discovered quite by chance in Germany in 1895. A handful of enthusiasts grasped the medical value of the discovery and founded the earliest hospital X-ray departments. What none of these pioneers could know were the terrible dangers to the human body of accumulated radiation.
Four radiographers recall what it was like to be among the first ' X-ray men'.
Producer STEPHEN PEET
Director CHRISTOPHER COOK

Contributors

Producer:
Stephen Peet
Director:
Christopher Cook

in conversation with Iain Johnstone
A Film 82 Special

Daughter of the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, wife of the director Louis Malle and a widely published photographer in her own right, Miss Bergen has starred in many films, notably: The Group, Carnal Knowledge, Starting Over, and most recently, Rich and Famous.
(First shown on BBC1)
(Iain Johnstone interviews Jack Nicholson tomorrow at 6.20 pm)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Iain Johnstone
Interviewee:
Candice Bergen
Executive Producer:
Barry Brown
Producer:
Ann Freer

America had just become independent when Britain started the industrial revolution. Tonight Sally James takes her American guest presenter, David Soul , to the centre of that revolution - Iron-bridge Gorge in Shropshire. And they meet Lord Joe Gormley and Sir Derek Ezra , whose careers in coalmining led to a breakthrough in traditional industrial relations.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally James
Presenter:
David Soul
Unknown:
Lord Joe Gormley
Unknown:
Sir Derek Ezra
Editor:
Peter Hercombe

with Isla St Clair and Desmond Lynam
All the latest stories from the world of travel, together with full information kit for people on the move.
Today's Exchange Rates: what it will cost you abroad for everything from petrol to postcards.
Traffic Jam of the Week: where it's going to be and how to avoid it. Holiday Weather: Jim Bacon sticks his neck out.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Jim Bacon
Producer:
Roger MacDonald
Producer:
Alan Dobson

Like Daniels in the lions' den, two campaigners are taken to the heartland of their opposition ... Peace - Palestinian Homeland? While the Peace Now movement in Israel protests against Prime Minister Begin's politics, two British Jews - Rabbi David Gold-berg and The Rt Hon Reg Freeson , MP - visit Kibbutz Tirat Zevi overlooking the West Bank, to argue that peace will not come to the Middle East unless the Palestinians are eiven the homeland they deserve.
Chairman Nick Ross
Producers
TOM CONWAY and HUGH PURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Reg Freeson
Unknown:
Kibbutz Tirat Zevi
Unknown:
Nick Ross
Producers:
Tom Conway
Unknown:
Hugh Purcell

starring
Glynis Barber as Jane and featuring
Robin Bailey
Suzanne Danielle and the voice Of BOB DANVERS WALKER
Why is Jane so kissable? Find out in the third instalment of her wartime adventures.
(Part 4 tomorrow at 9.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Glynis Barber
Unknown:
Robin Bailey
Unknown:
Suzanne Danielle

A movie quiz devised, written and presented by Robin Ray.
Taking part this week are a doctor from Wigan, a works controller from Nottingham, a careers officer from the Wirral and a theatrical publisher from Sevenoaks.
They each identify a compilation of four films, answer general questions on stars, directors, writers, composers, and choose a specific area of the cinema on which to be more closely tested.
Tonight these areas are: Horror Films since 1950; Films of Billy Wilder ; Films of Alec Guinness ; Westerns of the 50s.
Designer CHRIS EDWARDS Directed by PAUL LOOSLEY Produced by JOHN BUTTERY

Contributors

Presented By:
Robin Ray.
Unknown:
Billy Wilder
Unknown:
Alec Guinness
Designer:
Chris Edwards
Directed By:
Paul Loosley
Produced By:
John Buttery

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The last of four episodes dramatised for television by Bill Craig
Starring Vivien Heilbron as Chris Colquohoun and Hugh Fraser as Robert Colquohoun

'Not even for Robert could I change and pretend. I had found in the moors and the sun my surety unshaken, lost maybe myself. But I followed no cloud, be it named or unnamed.'

BBC Scotland

Contributors

Author:
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Dramatised by:
Bill Craig
Film Cameraman:
Alex Scott
Studio Lighting:
Alan Henderson
Designer:
David McKenzie
Producer:
Roderick Graham
Director:
Tom Cotter
Chris Colquohoun:
Vivien Heilbron
Robert Colquohoun:
Hugh Fraser
Dalziel of Meiklebogs:
Donald Douglas
Peter Peat:
Hugh Martin
Old Leslie:
Alex McCrindle
Hairy Hogg:
Malcolm Rennie
Else Queen:
Celia Imrie
Alex Hogg:
Jim Byars
Ake Ogilvie:
Alec Heggie
Dod Cronin:
Billy McColl
MacDougall Brown:
Nicholas McArdle
Mrs Brown:
Anna Cowie
Cis Brown:
Sharon Erskine
Dite Peat:
Brian Pettifer
Stephen Mowat:
Robert Longden
Kindness:
Alexander Morton
Will Melvin:
Andrew McCulloch
John Muir:
Billy Riddoch
Ag Moultrie:
Terry Cavers
Ewan Tavendale:
David Leonard
Mrs Hogg:
Margo Gillies
Banker:
Milton Cadman
Jeannie Grant:
Fiona Knowles
Jock Cronin:
Jon Morrison
Mrs Kindness:
Bridget McCann
Dr MacCormack:
Carey Wilson
Mr Geddes:
Charles Houston
Mrs Geddes:
Maureen Morris
Miss McCaskill:
Primrose Milligan
Miss Ferguson:
Jo Cameron Brown

BBC2 Invitation Pairs Crown Green Bowling Tournament
From a record entry of 56 top county bowlers, 14 players have battled through the opening rounds of this year's competition to join defending champions, Gene Bardon and Roy Nicholson , in the chase for a share of the £6,030 prize-money.
Tonight's opening quarter-final features Bob Hitchen and Allan Thompson of Yorkshire, who face the experienced Cumbrians, John Wilts and Ken Brookshaw.
Introduced by RICHARD DUCKENFIELD from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer BRIAN ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Gene Bardon
Unknown:
Roy Nicholson
Unknown:
Bob Hitchen
Unknown:
Allan Thompson
Unknown:
John Wilts
Unknown:
Ken Brookshaw.
Introduced By:
Richard Duckenfield
Commentator:
Harry Rigby
Producer:
Brian Rogers

BBC Two England

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