Story: Too Many Vegetables by KATHLEEN DEAN
Guest storyteller Cilia Black Presenters:
Sheelagh Gilbey , Andrew Secombe
The Story of Garden Compost
Third of four films which were featured at Wildscreen 82
Today: Runner Up - Best Script Narrated by Richard Briers
Written by JAMES GRAY , CAROLINE WEAVER Directed and photographed by TONY ALLEN , JAMES CRAY
(Etosha-The Place of Dry Water tomorrow at 2.5 pm)
A series of six lectures by Professor Colin Blakemore 2: The Sound of Silence
The photosensitive rods in the retina of the eye are so sensitive that they can generate a signal when they catch a single quantum, the smallest unit of light possible. The sun is 10,000 million million times brighter. But our eyes can operate satisfactorily over that enormous range although our senses are passed to the brain over low-quality wires, our nerve fibres.
(The Sixth Sense - and the Rest tomorrow at 2.55 pm)
also starring
Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse
The powerful drama of a star on the slide trying to make a come-back amid a group of Hollywood exiles in Rome. Kirk Douglas plays the ageing, ex-alcoholic Jack Andrus - with Edward G. Robinson as a legendary film director who is in deep trouble with his latest epic.
Screenplay by CHARLES SCHNEE
Based on the novel by IRWIN SHAW Produced by JOHN HOUSEMAN
Directed by VINCENTE MINNELLI. Films : p 15 (Lust for Life is tomorrow at 3.55 pm)
The feature film starring Murray Head
Ciaran Madden , Nigel Green
The arrival of the Green Knight at a royal banquet, and his challenge to the king's fat and indolent knights are the events which set young Gawain off on a year-long quest in which he is to have many magical encounters, including one with the beautiful maiden Linet.
Music by RON GOODWIN
Screenplay by STEPHEN WEEKS . PHILIP BREEN Produced by PHILIP BREEN
Directed by STEPHEN WEEKS . Films: p 15
Australia v England from Melbourne
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the final day's play.
with subtitles, followed by Weather
by STEWART PARKER
On 16 June 1904 James Joyce met Nora Barnacle , the love of his life, and immortalised that day in his famous novel Ulysses. So what might the author and his characters have been up to in the week after the 16th? This disrespectful musical comedy celebrates the centenary of James Joyce 's birth.
With HARRY LEWIS
EAMONN JONES , BERNARD COLLINS
NORMAN TURKINGTON , SHAUN SUTTON
Musical director ALFRED RALSTON. Lighting DENNIS CHANNON. Sound JOHN HOWELL Designer STUART WALKER Producer TERRY COLES
Directed by DONALD MCWHINNIE
An introduction to Verdi's Falstaff on BBC2 on New Year's Day.
Presented by Michael Berkeley Directed by HAZEL WRIGHT
Part 2 of last night's concert
the famous feature film starring
Robert Redford as Bob Woodward Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein Based on the real-life investigation of two Washington Post reporters, this vivid and exciting movie is justly regarded as a modern classic. The reporters' coverage of the Watergate break-in led to the most significant political scandal of the decade.
Screenplay WILLIAM GOLDMAN , based on the book by CARL BERNSTEIN and BOB WOODWARD Produced by WALTER COBLENZ
Directed by ALAN J. PAKULA. Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)
