The Effective Manager: Meetings
Patrick Moore talks about the latest developments with Dr Michael Penston from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
starring
Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin in an entertainment of comedy, jokes and music with Nick Wilton , Gabrielle Glaister Matthew Devitt and Jonathan Cohen with the Play Away Band
Designer GWEN EVANS
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN
Producer JOHN SMrm. Series producer ANN REAY
The first film in the two-part Swedish epic starring
Liv Ullmann , Max Von Sydow
Jan Troell 's powerful and moving film is a grimly authentic account of the hardships and religious intolerance suffered by Swedish farmers in the mid-19th century which drove many to seek a new home in the vast continent of North America.
The Emigrants begins in Sweden and follows a group of such farmers, led by the Oskar family, on their arduous journey across the Atlantic.
Screenplay by JAN TROELL and BENGT FORSLUND from a novel by VILHELM MOBERG Produced by BENGT FORSLUND Directed by JAN TROELL
(First showing on British television) Christmas Films: page 15
The sequel: The New Land. tonight 11.0 pm
Last of a ten-part series in Modern Greek for beginners. With Chris Serle and Katia Dandoulaki
A look back at the language presented in the series, and a look forward to the impact of tourism - Greece's fastest-growing industry - on the traditional way of life.
For information about opportunities to learn Greek in your area contact: England and Wales: Broadcast Support Services [number removed]; Northern Ireland: Media Follow-up [number removed]; Scotland: Network [number removed].
Book (same title), cassettes and records, available from retailers
Aztec Camera
A second chance to see some of the Newsnight films shown in the last few months.
This month's edition introduced by John Tusa includes: Dublin Heroin
In the past four years heroin addiction in Dublin, which was virtually zero, has turned into an epidemic. Tom McGurk reports from Dublin on the scale of the problem and on the new Godfathers behind the trade.
with Jan Leeming ; Weather
In the last programme in this series, recorded at the Mann Auditorium in Tel-Aviv, five young conductors work on providing a precise accompaniment for violin soloist Rodica losub-Cohen in the first movement of Paganini's First Violin Concerto. Zubin Mehta keeps a watchful eye on their progress, and conducts a performance himself. with GISELE BUKA BEN-DOR
ISRAEL EDELSON, MARK GOODING
FELIX KRUGLIKOV , MOTTI MIRON
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Rubin Academy Orchestra of Tel-Aviv University
Narrator Bernard Keeffe
Videotape editor PETER FRANCIS. Executive producer RAM EVRON Producer RODNEY GREENBERO
A Jerusalem Music Centre production in auociation with BBCtv
opens a celebration for his forthcoming 80th birthday, with Alexis Smith , Mary Martin
The colourful life story of Cole Porter - composer of such famous hits as 'I've got you under my skin,' 'Just one of those things,' and 'Begin the Beguine.
Screenplay by CHARLES HOFFMAN. LEO TOWNSEND and WILLIAM BOWERS
Produced by ARTHUR SCHWARTZ Director MICHAEL CURTIZ
Christmas Films: page 15
The second film in the two-part Swedish epic starring Liv Ullmann
Max Von Sydow
Following directly from The Emigrants, the second part of Jan Troell 's epic about the 19th-century Swedish farmers who settled in North America deals with their struggle in a hostile country. As Karl and Kristina Oskar build a home and family while cultivating their land, Karl's brother Robert journeys to California in search of gold.
Screenplay by BENGT FORSLUND. JAN TROELL from a novel by VILHELM MOBERG Produced by BENGT PORSLUND Directed by JAN TROEIL
(First showing on British television) Christmas Films: page 15