Maths: The Double Integral.
A magazine programme for Asian women .providing advice and information on matters of interest to them. It also includes demonstrations on how to make useful items of everyday use at home, sewing and cooking, a story for children and an item of popular music.
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill Gharbar. Asian Unit. BBC. Pebble Mill
Road. Birmingham B3 7QQ. Is ithe address to write to.
Live coverage of the debates in Brighton as the TUC puts forward its ideas on economic policy. Reporting team:
VINCENT HANNA and LORD SCANLON
Story: Mr Ebenezer's Painful Gardening Day Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Ben Thomas
Developing Mathematical Thinking: Fractions.
Palladio created in 16th-century Italy a type of villa which has inspired architects ever since. This programme shows how he drew his inspiration from the ruins of ancient Rome and how he adapted these ideas to the practical needs of his Venetian patrons, whether for pleasure or for work.
Producer NICK LEVINSON
A BBc/Open University production
The classic cliffhanger serial in 15 chapters, starring Kay Aldridge as Nyoka
Chapter 3: Devil's Crucible
In which the traitor Torrini passes on to the venomous Vultura the transcription of the Papyrus and Larry and Nyoka are trapped by Vultura's henchman Cassib on the edge of fiery, bubbling volcanic craters.
(For cast see Monday page 37)
(Chapter 4 tomorrow at 5.40 pm)
To See or Not to See
What does your inner self look like? Actually he looks just like you, only smaller and more scared. Czech animator BRETISLAV pojar shows how you can stare down your worst fears if you only wear the right glasses. Produced by the NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
Anatomy of a Volcano
The eruption of Mount St Helens on 18 May 1980 was the scientific event of the year. This is its story, told largely from the point of view of the scientists who flocked to the north west USA at the first stirring of the volcano. They found themselves not just studying a geological event, but witnessing a catastrophe. Narrator RAY MOORE
Marvellous photography ... a unique close-up of both nature and scientists under pressure.
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by STUART HARRIS
The first of seven programmes Bob Bell 's Maxi Racer Condor
Every sailor has an individual dream of the perfect boat. For Bob Bell it's the 80.ft long ocean racer Condor. Bob Fisher traces the return of interest in big boat racing after a lapse of 40 years, from sunny Sardinian seas to the grey waters of the Solent, and watches Condor join her big sisters in the Seahorse Maxi Regatta.
Producer JEREMY PALLANT BBC Pebble Mill
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Presented by Dr Edward de Bono
A series of ten programmes about improving your thinking skills. 1: Thinking is a Skill
DR DE BONO shows that thinking, rather like cooking, is a skill Which can be improved by attention and practice. One deliberate tool Which can be used is called' PMI' Which involves examining in sequence the Plus, Minus and Interesting points of an idea. Director CAROLINE PICK Producer PETER RIDING
Book (same title) £3.75 from booksellers from 16 September
Woddis On ... page 77
This week's theme: The Land
Constable (1776-1837) Salisbury Cathedral - Private collection
This was the last of many hauntingly beautiful sketches and paintings Constable made of Salisbury Cathedral. He worked on it for years. During a bout of rheumatic fever, he propped the picture up against the foot of his bed. In the end he was satisfied... At last,' he wrote, 'I have got the Great Salisbury into the condition I wish to see it'.
(Tomorrow at 7.25: Holman Hunt - I The Hireling Shepherd')
Book, Great Paintings, £22.95 from booksellers
Introduced by Ray Moore from Cheltenham Ladies' College
During the summer RAY MOORE has visited four of the music centres and colleges which provided some of the young musicians who appeared at the last season of Schools Prom.
The first of four programmes features the talented youngsters from
Cheltenham Ladies' College Choir conductor
DOROTHY DICKINSON
Hastings Junior Early Music Group conductor
ROSEMARY FLEET
Elliott Jazz Workshop
Klrklccs Youth Orchestra conductor
NICHOLAS SMITH with special guest soloist Clare McFarlane (violin) and international guests from Germany Turkheim Schoolband
Director DEREK JEWELL
Producer LARRY WESTLAND
Television presentation by KEN GRIFFIN
(Organised by The Times in conjunction with Commercial Union Assurance)
A Light Snack
TheFinal
Robin Ray puts the questions to the four contestants who have reached this final programme via postal and telephone quizzes elimination bouts, and the heats and semi-finals of the series.
In this last chance to win the title they have specifically chosen: The Films of Elia Kazan ' B ' Movies
Val Lewton and his Films Cartoon Characterisations
Devised and written by ROBIN RAY
Film research by MALCOLM ILLINGWORTH Designer CHRIS EDWARDS Directed by PAUL LOOSLEY Produced by JOHN BUTTERY
BBC2 invitation pairs Crown Green bowling tournament Second Semi-final Brian Duncan and Norman Fletcher v
Mike Leach and Vernon Lee .
This match is certain to produce a feast of spectacular bowling, with the charismatic pair Mike Leach and Vernon ' Badger' Lee pitting their skills against the favourites for the title, Brian Duncan and Norman Fletcher. The pace will be fast and highly entertaining, but who is going to crack first?
Introduced by RICHARD DUCKENFIELD from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool. Commentator HARRY rigbk
Producer BRIAN ROGERS
For the last in the present series the inimitable George Melly together with John Chilton 's Feetwarmers performs on stage at The Hexagon, Reading, numbers that include the haunting ' Michigan water' and Johnnie Mercer 's ' Goody goody', and is joined by his special guest Georgie Fame for a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael. featuring
JOHN CHILTON (trumpet) BRUCE BOARDMAN (piano) BARRY DILLON (bass)
CHUCK SMITH (drums) x Sound BARRIE HAWES
Lighting JOHN STERLING Designer STEPHEN SCOTT Producer SIMON BETTS
with special reports from the Trades Union Congress and the Edinburgh Festival.
Despite the achievements of the modern movement, the majority of between-the-wars architecture remained traditional. This programme contrasts the classical tradition and the Scandinavian municipal style with the new buildings in the modern style which were appearing in the 30s.
Producer MIRIAM RAPP
A BBC/Open University production