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6.25 Physical Chemistry and Industry
6.50 Designing with Models
7.15 'Mr Galileo was Correct'
7.40 The Power of Speech
8.5 Psychosexual Differences: 1
8.30 Science: The Planet Earth
8.55 Social Sciences: Whose Account Counts?
9.20 Materials Processing: Brick by Brick
9.45 The Mackenzie Story
10.10 17th-Century England
10.35 Rome Under Augustus
11.0 Paris: La Belle Epoque
11.25 Psychology: Creating the System
11.50 Biology: Form and Function
12.15 The Earth's Physical Resources: Introduction
1.5 Chemistry: Of Metals and Man
1.30 Maths Methods: Direction Fields
1.55 Pages from Ceefax

The Schweppes Scottish Leagues
BILL MCLAREN commentates on one of the top fixtures in Division 1.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH introduces the programme, brings news and views of the rest of the weekend's rugby, and previews next week's matches in the International Championship.
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Introduces:
Nigel Starmer-Smith

Better Mind the Computer
Many of us will live to see computers that are a million times smarter than we are. Is it likely that they will want to remain our slaves? Scientists at the frontiers of artificial intelligence research make some startling predictions. Narrator Paul Vaughan
Lucid, enthralling documentary
(THE STANDARD)
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY
Written and produced by LAURIE JOHN

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Editor:
Graham Massey
Produced By:
Laurie John

Schubert's String Quintet in C
If Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet is one of the most popular chamber music works, the Quintet in c is surely one of the greatest.
The Lindsay String Quartet are joined by Douglas Cummings (cello) in Schubert String Quintet in c (D 956)
Sound STUART STEVENSON Lighting JAMES MAIDEN
Producer MIKE NEWMAN. BBC Scotland

Contributors

Cello:
Douglas Cummings
Unknown:
Stuart Stevenson
Producer:
Mike Newman.

Brian Widlake and Valerie Single ton with LUKE CASEY , NICK CLARKE
BILL KERR ELLIOTT , MARK ROGERSON
Including this week: Kerry Packer - a rare interview with the controversial and elusive Australian entrepreneur who took on the world's cricketing establishment and won, and who now controls an international business empire in energy, broadcasting - and cricket.
Director DON HARLEY
Deputy editor MICHAEL HOGAN Editor RICHARD TAIT

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Unknown:
Valerie Single
Unknown:
Luke Casey
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Bill Kerr Elliott
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Unknown:
Kerry Packer
Director:
Don Harley
Editor:
Michael Hogan

The television weekly review Presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses The Jewel in the Crown (Granada), The Garden of Inheritance (BBC2) and Arena: The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel (BBC2) with M.M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, The Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP and Colin MacCabe, director of the John Logie Baird Centre of Research in Television and Film. Plus Elaine Morgan, Ken Taylor and Professor Malcolm Bradbury on the problems and pleasures of adapting novels for television.
Assistant producer NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE Director KEVIN LOADER Producer JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Don Luis Bunuel
Unknown:
M. M. Kaye
Unknown:
Enoch Powell
Unknown:
Colin MacCabe
Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
Ken Taylor
Unknown:
Malcolm Bradbury
Producer:
Nicholas Shakespeare
Director:
Kevin Loader
Producer:
John Archer

A series of 13 programmes which tell the story of the theatre from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Written and presented by Ronald Harwood
3: Now Comes my Comedy
Why the need to laugh? The comic spirit is eternal but its theatrical origins began in ancient Greece and Rome with stock characters, human frailty and coarse humour as its ingredients.
Helped along by the special talents of Frankie Howerd in key scenes from The Haunted House by the comic Roman writer Plautus, and the modern American musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - itself a brilliant pastiche of Plautus -the programme shows that the comedy of ancient times not only survives but is extraordinarily apt and funny today.
Those taking part include:
Frankie Howerd , Peter Jones
Peter Woodthorpe , Ian Saynor Peter Gale and the Greek Art Theatre
Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL
Executive producer RICHARD CAWSTON Producer HARRY HASTINGS
Directed by KEITH CHEETHAM
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Presented By:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Frankie Howerd
Unknown:
Frankie Howerd
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Ian Saynor
Unknown:
Peter Gale
Editor:
Malcolm Daniel
Producer:
Richard Cawston
Producer:
Harry Hastings
Directed By:
Keith Cheetham

by ROSAMOND LEHMANN
Screenplay by JULIAN MITCHELL starring Michael York and Lisa Eichhorn with Joanna Lumley and Rosalind Ayres
Faith Brook, Isabel Dean
Several years have passed since Olivia Curtis last saw Rollo Spencer. It was at her first ball. Shy, nervous and overcome by the grandeur of her surroundings she none-the-less never quite forgot her hosts' handsome young son.
Now, ten years later, they meet by chance on a train leaving London; It is a chance encounter destined to have incalculable results.
Music composed by CARL DAVIS
Make-up designer JENNY SHIRCORE Costume designer AMY Roberts Designer DON HOMFRAY
Film editor ANGUS NEWTON Photography JOHN HOOPER Producer ALAN SHALLCROSS Director GAVIN MILLAR
0 FEATURE: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Michael York
Unknown:
Lisa Eichhorn
Unknown:
Joanna Lumley
Unknown:
Olivia Curtis
Unknown:
Rollo Spencer.
Composed By:
Carl Davis
Designer:
Jenny Shircore
Designer:
Amy Roberts
Designer:
Don Homfray
Editor:
Angus Newton
Unknown:
John Hooper
Producer:
Alan Shallcross
Director:
Gavin Millar
Rollo:
Michael York
Olivia:
Lisa Eichhorn
Kate:
Joanna Lumley
Etty:
Rosalind Ayres
Lady Spencer:
Faith Brook
Mrs Curtis:
Isabel Dean
Mr Curtis:
Sebastian Shaw
Marigold:
Holly de Jong
Ivor:
James Walker
Sir John:
Norman Pitt
Lady Blanche:
Janet Henfrey
Lady Mary:
Jane Myerson
Anna:
Merelina Kendall
Colin:
Max Hafler
Adrian:
Charles Grant
Kurt:
Marcus Gilbert
David Cooke:
Ian Fairbairn
Mr Tredeaven:
John Quarmby
Doctor:
Robin Parkinson
Woman in the inn:
Eileen Helsby
Train steward:
Charles Pemberton
Footman:
Keith Robinson
Jane:
Rosie Marcel
Christopher:
Alistair White
Polly:
Emily Nye

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