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6.25Ecology
6.50 The Urban Experience
7.15 Database: Local Authorities
7.40 Topological Surfaces
9.5 Paris: La Belle Epoque
8.55 Before Einstein
9.45 Imagery and Imagism
10.10 An Introduction: Oceanography
11.0 Introducing Photochemistry
11.25 Physical Chemistry and Industry
11.50 Biology: Form and Function
12.15ModelsInChemistry
12.40 Images of the Third World
1.5 Instrumentation
1.30 Maths Methods: Direction Fields

A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail
'To the wakeful, to the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, come imaginations of the strangest kind; of flesh turned to atoms and driven before the wind.'
(VIRGINIA WOOLF, 1882-1941)
Virginia Woolf is regarded by many as one of the century's greatest English novelists. This film was made 12 years ago, when many who knew her were still alive: the painter Duncan Grant , novelist Elizabeth Bowen and critic Raymond Mortimer. Others who survive and contribute to this celebration of her life and work include Lord David Cecil and her biographer and nephew Quentin Bell. Narrator GAVIN MILLAR
Film editor ROGER CRITTENDEN Director JULIAN JEBB

Contributors

Unknown:
Duncan Grant
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bowen
Unknown:
Raymond Mortimer.
Unknown:
Lord David Cecil
Narrator:
Quentin Bell.
Narrator:
Gavin Millar
Editor:
Roger Crittenden
Director:
Julian Jebb

Gosforth v Waterloo
In their centenary year Waterloo need a victory to make certain of a place in next year's John Player Cup competition. Gosforth, with two current international players, will be strong opposition.
Commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Commentator:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Huw Jones

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 FRED HOLTUM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Leeming
Editor:
Fred Holtum

Presented by Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton With LUKE CASEY
NICK CLARKE and MARK ROGERSON Featuring this week:
The Grand Hotel Sale-21 of Britain's most famous hotels are up for sale. They include The Charing Cross, beloved by Betjeman, and the Turnberry with its Open Championship Golf; they are all British Transport Hotels, part of British Rail. Bids have come in from all over the world, and the sealed envelopes will be opened tomorrow. Nick Clarke reports.
Plus Moneymaker on how to make the best of your savings.
Producer VICTOR MARMION
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor JOHN REYNOLDS

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Widlake
Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
With Luke Casey
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Producer:
Victor Marmion
Editor:
Andrew Clayton
Editor:
John Reynolds

The Horse from the Gods
An Indian is interrupted at his prayers by a great saddled beast moving slowly towards him out of the rising sun. This is the beginning of a dramatised version of how an American Indian sees his first horse, is terrified by it and then learns to ride it.
It is 1541. Until this date no horse had been seen in North America. Then the Spanish Conquistadores brought them in their search for fabled gold and in doing so revolutionised the life of the Indian, and indeed of the whole continent.
A MICHAEL SYSONS production
Presented by DAMARISFLETCHER
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES

Contributors

Editors:
Anthony Isaacs
Editors:
Peter Jones

The first of seven programmes celebrating the work and the ways of the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman
Presented by Jonathan Stedall
Hating lorries and loving Max Miller-a date with Parkinson-memories of boarding school-looking at old film-brutes and redheads - and a conversation with John Osborne about music-hall and about the New English Bible, and with producer Edward Mir zoeff about the making of the film Metro-land. With extracts from Metro-land (1973), Parkinson (1977), Marble Arch to Edgware (1968), Monitor (1959) and the film of John Betjeman 's verse autobiography Summoned by Bells (1976).
Film editor ERIC BROWN Producer
JONATHAN STEDALL
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman
Presented By:
Jonathan Stedall
Unknown:
Max Miller-A
Unknown:
John Osborne
Producer:
Edward Mir
Unknown:
John Betjeman
Editor:
Eric Brown
Producer:
Jonathan Stedall

by KEITH DEWHURST
The first in a series of five plays Live from Pebble Mill
For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield, facing cannon, cavalry, and infantry. If they're still standing as the day ends, they've won.
Lighting PETER BOOTH Sound DAVID HUGHES Costume AL BARNETT
Designer SALLY ENGELBACU Produced and directed by ROBIN MIDGLEY BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Dewhurst
Designer:
Sally Engelbacu
Directed By:
Robin Midgley
Emperor Napoleon:
Ewan Hooper
Duke of Wellington:
Michael Culver
General Maitland:
Morris Perry
Captain Leith:
John Standing
Ensign de Vere:
Lynne Miller
Sergeant Crow:
Godfrey James
Corporal Ross:
Willlam MacBain
Drummer Dibbs:
Paul Russell
Slewpot:
Warren Clarke
Bamber:
Dave Atkins
Sniffer:
Peter Benson
Wolfhound:
Martin Carthy
Ferris:
Dai Bradley
Mrs Bamber:
Eileen Bell
Polly Dripping:
Vicky Ogden
Looter:
Peggy Aitchlnson
Ballad singer:
Martin Carthy

The Embassy
World Indoor Bowls Championship from the Coatbridge Indoor Bowling Club
Hignngnis from this afternoon's final which decided the World Indoor Bowls Champion 1983 title. Commentators
DOUGIE DONNELLY , DAVID BRYANT
DAVID RHYS JONES, GRAHAM HOWARD
Assistant producers MIKE ABBOTT JOHN GRAHAM , ALLAN PENDER Producer BILL MALCOLM BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Dougie Donnelly
Unknown:
David Bryant
Unknown:
David Rhys
Producers:
Mike Abbott
Producers:
John Graham
Producers:
Allan Pender

The World's Greatest Dog Show Top Dog
Over 9,000 dogs compete for the title of Supreme Champion 1983.
For the last three days the competition has taken place and tonight one of these 9,000 dogs will become Supreme Champion, taking the title from the toy poodle-last year's winner.
Dennis McCarthy and Les Crawley report on the 87th Crufts -the highlight of the dog year.
Organised by THE KENNEL CLUB at Earls Court. London Director NEIL ECCLES
Producer PETER MASSEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis McCarthy
Director:
Neil Eccles
Producer:
Peter Massey

concludes a major season of recent American movies.
Tonight starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman
Worried that their Kansas 'branch' is seeking independence, a Chicago gang send their toughest enforcer, Nick Devlin, to investigate - and collect - any outstanding debts. In Kansas, Nick is confronted by 'Mary Ann' the local gang leader who is considerably more brutal than his name.
This is one of the most unusual films in the season of recent American movies, a vivid portrait of organised crime with superstars Marvin and Hackman, daggers drawn on the wrong side of the law.
Films p 11 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Robert Dillon
Producer:
Joe Wizan
Director:
Michael Ritchie
Nick Devlin:
Lee Marvin
Mary Ann:
Gene Hackman
Clarabelle:
Angel Tompkins
Weenie:
Gregory Walcott
Poppy:
Sissy Spacek
Violet:
Janit Baldwin
Shay:
William Morey
Delaney:
Clint Ellison
Shaughnessy:
Howard Platt

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