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Story: The Lonely Skyscraper Written by JENNY HAWKESWORTH
Illustrated by EMANUEL SCHONGUT Presenters
Rosalind Wilson , Ben Thomas
Pianist RICHARD BROWN
Designer CAROLE RICHMOND
Graphic designer TOM BROOKS Photographies BARRY BOXALL Written by TREVOR MCCALLUM Director EVELYN SKINNER Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Written By:
Jenny Hawkesworth
Illustrated By:
Emanuel Schongut
Unknown:
Rosalind Wilson
Pianist:
Ben Thomas
Pianist:
Richard Brown
Designer:
Carole Richmond
Designer:
Tom Brooks
Unknown:
Barry Boxall
Written By:
Trevor McCallum
Director:
Evelyn Skinner
Producer:
Anne Gobey
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

helps you plan your weekend by previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open University. This week's selection includes A Policeman's Lot and Light, the Destroyer.
Producer SUZANNE CAMPBELL-JONES
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
Suzanne Campbell-Jones

The feature film starring
Tom Conway , Madge Meredith
The Falcon's exploits take him in search of a gang of thieves who are ' manufacturing' diamonds for South American markets. A characteristic mixture of chases, distraught young ladies and dead bodies leads to the climax with the sleuth triumphant.
Screenplay by AUBREY WISBERG Produced by HERMAN SCHLOM Directed by WILLIAM BERKE
Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Conway
Unknown:
Madge Meredith
Play By:
Aubrey Wisberg
Produced By:
Herman Schlom
Directed By:
William Berke
Falcon:
Tom Conway
Luisa Braganza:
Madge Meredith
Goldie:
Edward S Brophy
Sutton:
Robert Warwick
Doris:
Myrna Dell
Benny:
Steve Brodie
Denison:
Ian Wolfe
Helen:
Carol Forman
Inspector Cavanaugh:
Joseph Crehan

Introduced by Richard Baker
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo at the Royal Albert Hall for a live relay of the first half of tonight's Henry Wood Promenade Concert, the opening of the 89th season. Beethoven Mass in c major Ileana Cotrubas (soprano)
Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo-sop) Robert Tear (tenor)
Gwynne Howell (baritone) BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus conductor BRIAN WRIGHT
London Philharmonic Choir conductor RICHARD COOKE
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conductor Sir John Pritchard
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting HARRY THOMAS Executive producer KENNETH OORDEN Director
RODNEY GREENBERC
For the best effect, viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones are an alternative.
Part 2 is on Radio 3 at 8.40*
(Sunday Night at The Proms beoins on BBC1 on 31 July)
Nicholas Kenyon , Wilfrid Metiers write on The Proms in the LISTENER dated 14 July

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Soprano:
Ileana Cotrubas
Soprano:
Kathleen Kuhlmann
Baritone:
Gwynne Howell
Conductor:
Richard Cooke
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
Sir John Pritchard
Producer:
Kenneth Oorden
Director:
Rodney Greenberc
Unknown:
Nicholas Kenyon

The third of six short programmes in which Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, California, finds pleasure in thinking about the way the world really is.
This week: How to enjoy a trip to the dentist - by thinking what makes the drill bit go round.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Feynman
Film Editor:
Michael Flynn
Producer:
Christopher Sykes
Executive Producer:
Graham Massey

from Limavady, Northern Ireland Mary Spiller and Geoff Hamilton find themselves in a wonderful garden that's been very carefully planned, but which, as its creator
Doreen Moody describes it, is also a bit of a hotchpotch.
The climate is kind and mud, but the light sandy soil requires special treatment.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Spiller
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Doreen Moody
Unknown:
Jean Laughton
Producer:
John Kenyon

The popular game of musical knowledge between
Frank Muir with John Amis and Denis Norden with Ian Wallace Questions set by Steve Race
Recorded at the Westminster Theatre Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Douglas Hespe

A series in seven parts Alice
Part 3 by SHANE CONNAUGHTON
Alice's past has many versions. Roebuck tries to unravel them. Perhaps only then can she show her face.
Music by DARYL RUNSWICK
Videotape editor RON BOWMAN Studio lighting ALAN HORNE Designers HUMPHREY JAEGER and PHILIP LINDLEY
Producer RUTH BOSWELL Directed by BARRY DAVIS
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Unknown:
Shane Connaughton
Music By:
Daryl Runswick
Editor:
Ron Bowman
Unknown:
Alan Horne
Designers:
Humphrey Jaeger
Designers:
Philip Lindley
Producer:
Ruth Boswell
Directed By:
Barry Davis
starring Dr Eddie Roebuck:
Patrick Stewart
Alice:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Mr Caswell:
Clive Merrison
Mrs Caswell:
Elizabeth Morgan
Higgins:
Allan O'Keefe
Mrs Chambers:
Rita Davies
Sally:
Virginia Lester

Tonight's performance is the fifth of the preliminary rounds between Noelle Courtis-Bedu (France) Philip Skinner (USA)
Linda Li Sau Lin (Hong Kong) Mari Ffion Wiliams (Wales) with the BBC WELSH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by JAMES LOCKHART Piano accompanist INGRID SURGENOR
Directed by MARI GRIFFITH , ANDREW QUICK and HEFIN OWEN
Produced by VINCENT DOWDALL
Executive producer j. MERVYN WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Noelle Courtis-Bedu
Unknown:
Philip Skinner
Leader:
Desmond Bradley
Conducted By:
James Lockhart
Accompanist:
Ingrid Surgenor
Directed By:
Mari Griffith
Produced By:
Vincent Dowdall
Producer:
J. Mervyn Williams

with JOHN TUSA , PETER SNOW and DONALD MACCORMICK , JOAN BAKEWELL and LINDA ALEXANDER
Producers
PETER BELL , TONY HALL , DAVE STANFORD Directors
MIKE CATHERWOOD , JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , JOHN MORRELL Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Linda Alexander
Unknown:
Peter Bell
Unknown:
Tony Hall
Unknown:
Mike Catherwood
Unknown:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Unknown:
John Morrell
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Lloyd

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