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6.25 The Social Primate: Growing Up
6.50 Mental Health: WhitUngham
7.15 Whlttlesea Mere
7.40 Conformation in Proteins: 1
8.5 Mechanics: Rockets. Orbits
8.30 Quantum Theory: Electrons, Photons
8.55 People and Society
9.20 Geometry, Axioms
9 45 Alternative Technology
10.10 Gas and Steam Turbines
10.35 Loudspeaker Telephones
11.0 Pollination
11 25 The Tennessee Evolution Trial
11.50 Modelling Photosynthesis
12 15 Research: Reporting the Findings 1240 Chemical Processes: Zinc
1.5 Too Much of a Good Thing
1.34 Prey for the Predator

Scottish XV v Fijians from Murrayfield
Scotland, who ended last season in a blaze of glory against Wales, will hope to continue their exciting winning ways under their new coach Colin Telfer.
With their opponents, the Fijians, also committed to fast open rugby, a thrilling game should ensue.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH introduces the programme and brings news. views and action from the rest of the weekend's rugby.
Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Telfer.
Introduces:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Bill McLaren

The 1982 Greenall Whitley Bowling Handicap The Final
Two men-the product of 2,048 starters-play the final match in front of a packed, noisy, and knowledgeable crowd at the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool.
RICHARD DUCKENFIELD introduces highlights of Crown Green's biggest day of the year.
Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer NICK HUNTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Greenall Whitley
Commentator:
Harry Rigby

Starring Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie

The first in a short season of musicals is a film rarely seen on television, featuring some great Fred Astaire dancing and that well-known song 'One for my baby (And one more for the road)'. Fred Astaire stars as a famous American pilot in the Second World War, who falls in love with a magazine photographer while he is on leave incognito in New York. But misunderstandings abound when he declines to reveal his true identity as a Flying Tiger. FREDDIE SLACK AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Screenplay by FRANK fenton , LYNN ROOT Produced by DAVID HEMPSTEAD
Directed by EDWARD H. GRIFFITH
, films: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Joan Leslie
Unknown:
Frank Fenton
Produced By:
David Hempstead
Directed By:
Edward H. Griffith
Fred:
Fred Astaire
Joan:
Joan Leslie
Harriman:
Robert Benchley
Reg:
Robert Ryan
Mrs Fisher:
Elizabeth Patterson
Canteen lady:
Marjorie Gateson

Painting by Numbers
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly between the skyscrapers of a city centre? ... to take a trip through Saturn's rings? ... or walk around inside a molecule of DNA? 'Computer Graphics' provides ways of simulating reality or building fantastic new worlds-together with the power to explore or manipulate the 3D images created.
For the artist, it's a new way to paint, for the scientist, to understand his data and for anyone, to play ever more elaborate space-invaders-style games or to control dangerous or impossible events ... Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
... a feast for the eye (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Editor GRAHAM MASSEY
Written and produced by ALEC NISBETT

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Graham Massey
Produced By:
Alec Nisbett

A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world: the interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. with Jan Leeming
Editor RICHARD GAMBLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Leeming
Editor:
Richard Gamble

Presented by Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton
With PAUL BARRY , NICK CLARKE
MARK ROGERSON and LUKE CASEY reporting in Britain and abroad on business, finance, your money and other people's.
Featuring this week
The Video Boom: Fast-forward or Re-wind? There are now some 25,000 video-cassette outlets in Britain. But this mushrooming high-street business is in chaos. The little men are falling in and out of trade at the rate of hundreds a month. The big multiple stores are rapidly re-drawing their plans. The customer is overwhelmed by what is on offer and at what price. And the video pirates are making a killing. Luke Casey reports.
Plus Moneymaker on how to get the best out of your savings.
Producers
TOUT KLANEY, PETER GILLBE
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor jom REYNOLDS

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Widlake
Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
With Paul Barry
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Unknown:
Luke Casey
Unknown:
Peter Gillbe
Editor:
Andrew Clayton

The Ultimate Explorer
John Young is a middle-aged American you wouldn't look at twice - average height, average build, a face you'd forget an hour later. But he has been rocketed into space five times, visited the moon twice and was Commander of the first Space Shuttle. Now the Chief Astronaut at NASA, he is the only man both to walk on the moon and to fly the Shuttle.
But for all this John Young remains, by his own choice, unknown to most people both here and in the States. Now, this media-shy 'reluctant hero' has agreed to talk for the first time about himself and his work, which is illustrated with breathtaking film, much of it never seen before. After 20 years as an astronaut with achievements like his, Young might be expected at the age of 52 to move over for a younger man, but not him. Next year he is planning yet another ' first in space'.
Reporter Michael Dean
Film editor PHILIP ELLIOTT Producer TONY SALMON Series editors
ANTHONY ISAACS and PETER JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
John Young
Unknown:
John Young
Reporter:
Michael Dean
Editor:
Philip Elliott
Unknown:
Anthony Isaacs
Unknown:
Peter Jones

by Sheila Macleod
What was it like to be a child in the second half of the last century? To grow up and have your own children long before the Welfare State? To try to look after a family on about 91 a week?
Glimpses of working people's lives, in photographs and in their own words, are interwoven with the life stories of Bella and her small children, and of Mrs Layton, one of a family of 14.

Contributors

Writer:
Sheila MacLeod
Sound:
John Howell
Lighting:
Dave Sydenham
Designer:
Paul Joel
Producer:
Ann Scott
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Bella:
Kathryn Pogson
Mrs Layton:
Kathleen Michael
Mrs Burrows:
Elizabeth Bradley
Margaret Llewelyn Davies:
Kathleen Byron
Annie:
Maggie McCarthy
Flo:
Poppy Hands
Edie:
Jacqueline Morgan
Lizzie:
Eileen Davies
Betty:
Susan Twist
Sal:
Sarah Wynter
Mary Macarthur:
Anne White
Walter Long:
Norman Scace
Cleric:
John Dunbar
Cleric:
Hugh Morton
Sir Rufus Issacs:
Louis Haslar
Minnie (aged 8):
Michelle Akers
Minnie's friend:
Teresa McArdle
Woman at door:
Sheri Shepstone
Nun:
Eileen Helsby
Minnie's aunt:
Jo Anderson
Ticket collector:
Peter Finn
Minnie (aged 15):
Catherine Clarke
Minnie's employer:
Elizabeth Benson
Servant:
Susie Fairfax
Young Mrs Layton:
Eliza Hunt
Mr Layton:
Barry Ewart
First doctor:
Richard Pescud
Mrs Frazer:
Anne Kristen
Mrs Arkwright:
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Chairman:
Diana Payan
Mrs Clark:
Maggie Ford
Mrs Evans:
Sarah Nash
Albert:
Stephen Oxley
Midwife:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Second doctor:
John Kidd
Bella's child:
Laura Hill
Bella's child:
Katie Hill
Bella's child:
Jessie Hill
Chemist:
Keith Marsh
Speaker:
Unity Grimwood

The Kodak Masters Bowls Tournament which took place at Beach House Park, Worthing, in June
The first of seven nightly programmes featuring eight of the best flat-green bowlers in the world.
The players are divided into two groups and play in a ' round robin' format with the top two in each group going through to the semi-finals. BILL MOSELEY from South Africa defends his title against the strongest field ever assembled in Worthing.
Today: DAVID BRYANT in his opening match against PETER BELLISS from New Zealand. Commentators
DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Moseley
Unknown:
David Bryant
Unknown:
Peter Belliss
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

In the space of a few weeks James Galway 's tour of Japan included visits to all the major cities, television and recording sessions with Japanese musicians, and concert dates in which he appeared as soloist and conductor.
In this film he talks also about the traditional music of Japan and how it has profoundly affected his attitude to music-making. with Philip Moll (piano) The Yomiurl Nippon Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio de Almeida The Osaka String Ensemble
Written and produced by HERBERT CHAPPELL

Contributors

Unknown:
James Galway
Piano:
Philip Moll
Conducted By:
Antonio de Almeida
Produced By:
Herbert Chappell

concludes the season of feature films by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. starring Geraldine Chaplin Christopher Walken Teresa Wright and Lilia Skala
Three portraits of love, loneliness and ambition set against the common background of New York's famous ballroom, Roseland. In this West-side dance hall people come to dance, to meet others, to remember times past. Their stories and longings interweave to form a charming mosaic of this fascinating stratum of American society.
Original screenplay by RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA
Produced by ISMAIL MERCHANT Directed by JAMES IVORY
(Postponed from 12 September) Films: page 13

Contributors

Director:
James Ivory.
Unknown:
Geraldine Chaplin
Unknown:
Christopher Walken
Unknown:
Teresa Wright
Unknown:
Lilia Skala
Unknown:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Produced By:
Ismail Merchant
Directed By:
James Ivory
The Waltz: May:
Teresa Wright
The Waltz Stan:
Lou Jacobi
The Waltz MC:
Don de Natale
The Waltz Ruby:
Louise Kirtland
The Waltz Redhaired lady:
Hetty Galen
The Waltz Young May:
Carol Culver
The Waltz Eddie:
Denny Shearer
The Hustle Marilyn:
Geraldine Chaplin
The Hustle CleO:
Helen Gallagher
The Hustle Pauline:
Joan Copeland
The Hustle Russel:
Christopher Walken
The Hustle George:
Conrad Janis
The Hustle Bella:
Jayne Heller
The Peabody: Rosa:
Lilia Skala
The Peabody: Arthur:
David Thomas
The Peabody: Bartender:
Edward Kogan
The Peabody: Camille:
Madeline Lee
The Peabody: Bert:
Stan Rubin

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