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' One's whole life is devoted to re-creating the past and making it live '-Sir Mortimer Wheeler 's battle cry until he died in 1976. The second of two Chronicle films on the life of the great archaeologist takes him from a Roman trading station on the Bay of Bengal to Mohenjo Daro - the great city of the Indus Civilisation. In 1950 he returned to Britain to begin a new career-in television, where he enchanted millions.
Executive producer PAUL JOHNSTONE Producer DAVID COLLISON
The first of six programmes with Richard Stilgoe , Gillian Reynolds and Dr Mike Smith
Actor and singer Roger Daltrey says why he needs strenuous exercise. The programme also discovers the secret of the Scarborough smile, gets entangled with long hair, helps Gillian give up smoking and invites Erika Roe to test a new sporting bra.
Studio director ROY CHAPMAN
Producer KEITH sheather. BBC Bristol
starring Warner Oland with Keye Luke , J. Carrol Naish
The first in a season of 11 classic murder mysteries starring Warner Oland as one of the screen's most enduring detectives. Charlie Chan visits the circus with his family - '14 including humble self' - and finds himself embroiled in the murky murder of the circus's much-hated co-owner. Who is the killer? The strong man, the snake charmer, the Chinese contortionist, the midgets or the ape?
Screenplay by ROBERT ELLIS , HELEN LOGAN based on the character created by EARL DERR BIGGERS Produced by John Stone
Directed by HARRY LACHMAN
with subtitles, followed by Weather
The show made by young people
If You Didn't See ... this last programme takes a random dip into three years of Something Else and comes up with just some of the wide range of styles and subjects explored by the series young programme makers. Everything from sex roles to sectarianism, space invaders to Soho.
It also features poetry from JOHN COOPER CLARKE and LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, plus music from STEEL
Said early classic performances by THE JAM, THE DAMNED and DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS.
Made with the help of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT
Tn this Gardeners' World special, recorded earlier this summer,
Clay Jones visits the delightful
Oxfordshire home and garden of the world-famous botanical artist
Leslie Greenwood He first began to paint when serving in the Army in the East, where he later lived for many years. It was during this period that he painted a co lection
Sf some of the world's most exotic plants and flowers, many of which appear in Flowers of the World, perhaps his most ambitious proJect. mts exhibitions of flower paintings have received many awards from the Royal Horticultural Society and his work is known throughout the world.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Fxecutive producer .JOHN KENYON Producer denis w. gartside BBC Pebble Mill
The television weekly review, presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses the opening Film on Four drama Walter (Channel 4, by David Cook), Boys from the Blackstuff (BBC2, by Alan Bleasdale) and Horizon: Intimate Relations (BBC2) about marital breakdown, with novelist David Lodge , author of How Far Can You Go?, John McGrath, television playwright and artistic director of the 7:84 theatre company and journalist Celia Haddon, author of The Limits of Sex. Also Laurie Taylor, Professor of Sociology at York University, visits Brookside, the estate that is the setting for the Channel 4 soap opera.
Assistant producers CAROL OWENS and STEPHEN GARRETT
Director CLARE PATERSON Producer JOHN archer
A new comedy series, written by Dudley Long, starring Brian Murphy as Lester Small
featuring in order of appearance Hilda Braid as Mrs Davies, James Cossins as Chief Inspector Rodgers, Amanda Barrie as Sally Small, Colin Spaull as Bert the Milkman, Richard Vernon as Mr Davies, John Forgeham as Alf, Tony Millan as Sid
With a royal visit to the town in the offing, Mr Davies elects himself as chairman of the Welcoming Committee. Keeping Lester and Mrs Davies away from the planned parade is the first problem...
by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Pte Pike
...in which our heroes capture a runaway barrage balloon
The voice of Bud Flanagan
Signature tune by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner played by The Band of the Coldstream Guards conducted by their Director of Music Capt Trevor L. Sharpe, MBE, LBAM, ARCM, PSM
(First shown on BBC1)
by William Trevor
with Brenda Fricker as Bridie, John Kavanagh as Bowser Egan and Cyril Cusack as Mr Dwyer
Bridie has been going to the Ballroom of Romance every Friday night since she was 16 - a long time ago now. On this particular Friday something makes her look at the place - the glitterball, the faltering music, her ageing partners and herself, in a new way. Is this weekly romance still enough for her, or is it past time she found a partner to go beyond the last dance?
The Ballroom of Romance is the most famous of William Trevor's short stories about Ireland. It is set in the late 50s when wayside dance halls were still the main source of entertainment for country people.
A BBC/RTE co-production
Feature p7
The Carnation Wightman Cup
Great Britain v USA from the Royal Albert Hall , London
Best of the action from the second day, introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentator DAN MASKELL
JOHN BARRETT , ANN JONES
David Hepworth and Mark Ellen look at the rock scene with guests Ultravox ,The Roches
Plus news, views, clues, reviews
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
