Exploring Frequency Space
Microbes and the Microscope
A Question of Control
Disaster Simulation 2: Debreifing
Science: Spreading Oceans
What Price The Worker?
Maths: 'Real' Exponential Functions
Open Forum: New Distance Teaching
Engineering Statics
Beneath Scotland
Oceanography: Water Masses
ABC in Kansas City: 4
Biology: Intermediary Metabolism
Cheddar: Mapping the Mendip Anticline
Neurophysiology
New Bearings for Old
Maths Methods: Linear Equations
Highlights of the Melrose Centenary of Sevens
Helicopter: helix - spiral; pteron - a wing. To the pioneers it looked easy, but it's not. The development of a machine that could screw itself into the air vertically has been fraught with difficulty and danger. It did not really begin until about 1940, yet only 25 years later the helicopter was the main-stay of the US Army in Vietnam. In the cryptic terminology of GIs a disabled helicopter 'glides like a grand piano'; and a number of recent accidents have tragically underlined the vulnerability of this unlikely and extraordinarily complex flying machine
But now the helicopter is on the verge of a major change in the layout of its controls and rotor systems which should make helicopters of the future safer, faster, larger and, for the US Army that pays the bills, more deadly. Tonight Horizon lifts off in search of the secrets of vertical flight, and finds an unfulfilled dream we now call 'the chopper'
Narrator: Martin Jarvis
Film editor: Colin Jones
Horizon editor: Graham Massey
Written and produced by Patrick Uden
starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, with James Robertson-Justice and Gordon Jackson
Ealing Studios won international recognition with this spirited comedy, shot on the remote Hebridean island of Barra. It is 1943, and the island of Todday is anisland of despair. Everyone's spirits are at zero-Todday is without whisky, the water of life. Then a shipwreck brings hope when the islanders learn that the cargo is whisky. But finders cannot always expect to be keepers.
Contributors
Written By: Compton MacKenzie
Written By: Angus MacPhail
Produced By: Michael Balcon
Directed By: Alexander MacKendrick
Captain Paul Waggett: Basil Radford
Mrs Waggett: Catherine Lacey
Sergeant Odd: Bruce Seaton
Peggy Macroon: Joan Greenwood
Joseph Macroon: Wylie Watson
Catriona Macroon: Gabrtelle Blunt
George CampbeIl: Gordon Jackson
Mrs CampbeU: Jean Cadell
Dr McLaren: James Robertson Justice
The Biffer: Morland Graham
Sammy MacC')drum: John Grecson
Roderick MacBurie: James Woodburn
Old Hector: James Anderson
Constable Macrae: Jameson Clark
Angus MacCormae: Duncan MacRae
With sub titles
The Marlboro Race of Champions from Brands Hatch
Brian Widlake, Valerie Singleton with the money magazine, including news of a competition for schoolchildren, invited to come up with their ideas for running the economy
Far beneath the sunny beaches of the Caribbean lies a network of under
Action replay of the Men’s Singles drama, with Borg out to make it five wins in a row, McEnroe bent on stopping him
David Soul warms up for his ITV war game with a quick nine holes partner
(3) The Scheme. Eric Robson’s inner-city study takes him into the no-go, ghetto of Barrowfield, the East End’s I toughest housing scheme where violence and despair reach their extreme limits, and the razor gangs roam
Starting a repeat showing of the much-liked R. F. Delderfield dramatisation, with John Duttine as the young Great War veteran just starting on his new career as a school
First TV showing for Robert Altman's intense, well-intentioned but exas
