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6.25 Images: The Third Dimension
6.50 Inquiry: Plate Tectonics
7.15 More Than Meets the Eye
7.40 BART 1: The Bart Car
8.5 Crashing with Safety
8.30 Steel, Stars and Spectra
8 55 Social Sciences: A Woman's Place?
9.20 Mathematical Experience
9 45 OUSA National Conference. York
10.10 Velocity Diagrams
10.35 Tectonics and the Red Sea
11.0 Oceanography: Currents
11.25 TV and Politics: Britain 2
11.50 Biology: Genetic Expression
12.15 Rock Textures
12.40 Pathways in the Brain
1.5 The Technology of the Office
1.30 Maths Modelling: Knots

Introduced by Desmond Lynam
2.0*
Cricket
The John Player League
The 15th season of this popular limited overs competition won last summer by Sussex. Commentators JIM LAKER
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN JENKINS , PETER WALKER
2.20*
Motorcycling from Hockenheim
The German 500cc Grand Prix
American FREDDIE SPENCER has won all three rounds of the championship so far and leads with 45 points.
Commentator MURRAY WALKER
2.40*
International Swimming from Leeds
The Sun Life International
Great Britain v Canada v USSR
The second day of the season's major international. Commentators ALAN WEEKS , HAMILTON BLAND
4.15*
Rugby League from Wembley
The State Express
Challenge Cup Final
Highlights of yesterday's confrontation between the holders, Hull, and Featherstone Rovers. Commentators
RAY FRENCH ALEX MURPHY
5.0*
International
Gymnastics from Gothenburg: The European Women's Championships
Again the girls from the Eastern bloc are likely to contest the medals, with a tremendous battle in prospect for the overall title between the holder, MAXI GNAUCK of East Germany and, from the USSR, world champion OLGA BICHEROVA. Commentator RON PICKERING
•The above timings indicate only the first of several transmissions.
TV presentation: Cricket BOB DUNCAN Motorcycling GERMAN TV SERVICE Swimming RICHARD TILLING' Rugby League KEITH PHILLIPS
Gymnastics SWEDISH TV SERVICE Assistant editor Grandstand JOHN ROWLINSON
Producer Grandstand MARTIN HOPKINS Editor Grandstand MIKE MURPHY
Cricket scores on Ccefax

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Commentators:
Jim Laker
Unknown:
Christopher Martin Jenkins
Unknown:
Peter Walker
Unknown:
Freddie Spencer
Commentator:
Murray Walker
Commentators:
Alan Weeks
Commentators:
Hamilton Bland
Unknown:
Ray French
Unknown:
Alex Murphy
Unknown:
Olga Bicherova.
Commentator:
Ron Pickering
Unknown:
Bob Duncan
Unknown:
John Rowlinson
Unknown:
Martin Hopkins
Unknown:
Mike Murphy

The Underwater World of Al Giddings
Most people are content to watch sharks from the safety of the cinema or television - Al Giddings, underwater photographer extraordinary, prefers to film them live. The programme looks at some of Al's most astonishing work, from diving under the North Pole to swimming with whales in Hawaii; from hand-feeding sharks in the Maldives to filming the skeletons of sailors in the wrecks of the Japanese fleet in Truk Lagoon. The World About Us team followed Al from San Francisco to South Australia where he was filming the great white shark for a seven million dollar Disney Circle vision project. The great white shark was the star for Jaws - this time it was for real. Narrator Robert Powell
Underwater photography AL GIDDINGS
Film editor PHILIP elliott Producer TONY salmon Series editors
ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Al Giddings
Unknown:
Al Giddings
Editor:
Philip Elliott
Producer:
Tony Salmon
Unknown:
Anthony Isaacs
Unknown:
Peter Jones

Eight films on modern art and a century of change.
Robert Hughes looks at the past 100 years through the lens of its art, from the Impressionists to the present day.
1: The Mechanical Paradise
In 1913 a French writer remarked ' the world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it has in the last 30 years'. This was a widespread feeling. Rapid advances in science and technology radically changed man's view of himself and the world in which he lived. And artists responded with radical new approaches to the new world.
This film shows the optimism with which people in general, and artists in particular, reacted to the machine age.
Written and presented by ROBERT HUGHES
Hughes has gone a long way towards restoring to television the combination of wide knowledge and natural eloquence that has not been seen and heard on this subject since Lord Clark retired from the screen. (OBSERVER) Film editor MARTIN CRUMP
Produced by LORNA pegram

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hughes
Presented By:
Robert Hughes
Editor:
Martin Crump
Produced By:
Lorna Pegram

A World About Us Special
Last week the series reported on the war in Afghanistan as seen by the euerrilla fighters, the Mujahidin. Tonight the other side of the war.
Ever since the Russians invaded
Afghanistan more than three years aeo Kabul has guarded its secrets closely. Recently the Communist government allowed Paris-based cameraman Eric Durschmied to spend five weeks there. His movements were monitored, his viaeotapes censored. Yet he has emerged with a unique view of the military and propaganda war against the Muslim Resistance Fighters.
Durschmied witnessed tribal leaders pledging their guns allegiance for £40 a month; the show trial of a French doctor captured with resistance fighters, and the conditioning of Afghan conscripts in both body and mind, to fight against their brothers in the mountains.
Written and narrated by Nicholas Woolley
Videotape editor MALCOLM WARNER ProducerNICK WELLS
Executive producer ELWYN PARRY JONES
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Durschmied
Unknown:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Malcolm Warner
Producer:
Nick Wells
Producer:
Elwyn Parry Jones
Editors:
Anthony Isaacs
Editors:
Peter Jones

The world-renowned tenor in a programme of popular songs, ballads and operatic arias. His guest for the first programme in this series is Anne Howells.
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by ROBIN STAPLETON Accompanist JOHN CONSTABLE
Lighting TONY ESCOTT Sound HARRY THOMAS
Designer GERALD MURPHY
Producer j. MERVYN WILLIAMS
Director ANDREW QUICK . BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Howells.
Leader:
Desmond Bradley
Conducted By:
Robin Stapleton
Accompanist:
John Constable
Unknown:
Tony Escott
Unknown:
Harry Thomas
Designer:
Gerald Murphy
Producer:
J. Mervyn Williams
Director:
Andrew Quick

by R.F. Delderfield. Dramatised in 13 parts by Andrew Davies, starring John Duttine, Frank Middlemass

Content with his life at Bamfylde, with Beth and the twins, David is given his first promotion. Is he really ready to take on the extra responsibility?
(First shown on BBC1)
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 270)

Contributors

Author:
R.F. Delderfield
Dramatised by:
Andrew Davies
Producer:
Ken Riddington
Director:
Ronald Wilson
Cordwainer:
John Welsh
Algy Herries:
Frank Middlemass
David Powlett-Jones:
John Duttine
Beth:
Belinda Lang
Ellie Herries:
Patricia Lawrence
Marty Lile:
Danny Schiller
Lorry driver:
Terry Walsh
Dobson:
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Boyer:
Simon Gipps-Kent
Cuitis:
Toby Hill
Winterbourne:
Grant Bardsley
[Actor]:
Marcus D'Amico
[Actor]:
Sean Gascoine
[Actor]:
Charles Wilson

Michael Moriarty as Richard Maple Blythe Danner as Joan Maple
If I could undo it all, I would.' ' Where would you begin?' Joan Maple 's questioning reply to her husband, Richard, typifies their relationship. They are a well-off American couple who - after 15 years - find themselves with a marriage based on mutual distrust and dissatisfaction. John Updike 's devastating series of Maple stories has been adapted into scenes from an American marriage.
With GLENN CLOSE KEN KERCHEVAL JOSEF SOMMER and KATHRYN WALKER
Adapted by WILLIAM HANLEY from the short stortes by JOHN UPDIKE Produced by cmz schultz
Directed by FIELDER COOK. Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Moriarty
Unknown:
Richard Maple
Unknown:
Blythe Danner
Unknown:
Joan Maple
Unknown:
Joan Maple
Unknown:
John Updike
Unknown:
Glenn Close
Unknown:
Ken Kercheval
Unknown:
Josef Sommer
Unknown:
Kathryn Walker
Adapted By:
William Hanley
Unknown:
John Updike
Produced By:
Cmz Schultz
Directed By:
Fielder Cook.

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