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6.25 Ethology: Newts to Newborns
6.50 Beyond the Eye
7.15 Evolution: Origins
7.40 Sounds of Language
8.5 Unemployment in the 1930s
8.30 Science: Into the Earth
8.55 Social Science: Getting it Together
9.20 Maths: Trigonometric Formulas
9.45 Tanzania: Education for Self-reliance
10.10 Bath: 18th Century
10.35 Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition
11.0 Open Forum
11.25 The Moonies: Why Join? Why Stay?
11.50 Biology: Cell Structure
12.15 Chemistry: Why Build Models?
12.40 Poetry: Blake the Artist
1.5 Chemistry: What Makes a Reaction Go
1.30 Maths: Complex Exponentials
1.55 Psychosexual Differences. 2
2.20 Motion and Newton's Laws

Ireland v Scotland France v England
Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights of yesterday's games. Scotland have to win for their first Triple Crown since 1938. England have not lost in Paris since 1978 but the French are championship favourites.
Television presentation
RTE and the FRENCH TELEVISION SERVICE Series producer Huw JONES

Contributors

Introduces:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Huw Jones

from the Oxford Union
Donald MacCormick reports on the motion: That there is no moral difference between the foreign policies of the USA and the USSR. Mr E. P. Thompson v
Mr Caspar Weinberger , Defence Secretary, Government of the United States of America. Director GLEN DAVIS
Editor ELWYN PARRY-JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr E. P. Thompson
Unknown:
Mr Caspar Weinberger
Director:
Glen Davis
Editor:
Elwyn Parry-Jones

... a question of history
Six films in which Dai Smith presents a fresh analysis of the Welsh. 2: The Longest Journey
'The longest journey in the world' they say in America 'is across the Brooklyn Bridge.' But, for the people of Wales, it was from their rural past to a tumultuous industrial present. It happened at a time when only one country was absorbing immigrants at a faster rate than Wales-the USA.
Film editor JOHN BREWSER
Series producer SELWYN RODERICK

Contributors

Editor:
John Brewser
Producer:
Selwyn Roderick

Brian Widlake and Valerie Single ton with LUKE CASEY , NICK CLARKE , BILL KERR ELLIOTT , MARK ROGERSON Including this week:
Loved the Video, Shame about the Record: pop videos are not just promotion tools. They have become a big business in their own right. In the United States there is a cable television service supplying pop around the clock. But could it happen here? Director SUE MCMAHON. 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:
Michael Hogan.
Editor:
Richard Tait

For the Marley Trophy
The seventh match in the series played on the beautiful King's Course at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.
Two of the world's top professionals Tom Watson and Greg Norman lead teams of celebrity partners.
This week Tom is joined by BBC television's popular presenter Cliff Michelmore and they are opposed by Greg and Bruce Forsyth , whose enthusiasm for the game is undiminished. Peter Alliss commentates and talks to the players in this match over nine holes.
Assistant producer DEREK MARTIN Television presentation
RICHARD TILLING. ALASTAIR SCOTT
Executive producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Watson
Unknown:
Greg Norman
Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Presenter:
Bruce Forsyth
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Richard Tilling.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

Why do we work? Why are we made miserable by having to work, and even more miserable when we can't? What is work? Can work be called work when it's fun? Is the need to work inborn in man?
John Wells embarks on a serious investigation of this subject. Lacking a man from Mars with an innocent, impartial and uncorrupted view of human society, he enlists the help of Max, a chimpanzee.
Max proves a willing pupil in learning our language. With unashamed zest he sets out to answer the question 'Why work?', interviewing five learned humans who have already been grappling with the problem. Using valuable film archive material, Max presents his findings in the form of short monkey documentaries.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wells
Film Editor:
Peter Harris
Assistant Producer:
Wendy Sturgess
Series Producer:
Jonathan Stedall
Producer:
Robert Toner

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
6: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On What happened to the theatre after Shakespeare?
Far from being dead, two dazzling new theatres emerged: extravagant spectacles for the aristocratic establishment, based on the carnival plays of Renaissance Italy which the Medici princes had used to enhance their public prestige; and an alternative theatre obsessed with blood, morbid sex, madness, revenge and the double standards of the ruling class.
These two theatres, the court masques and what we now call Jacobean tragedy, existed side by side in 17th-century England-both were symptoms of a neurotic age. Those taking part include John Gielgud , Peter Hall
Michael Bryant , Daniel Massey
Film editor SUSAN SPIVEY
Executive producer RICHARD CAWSTON Producer HARRY HASTINGS
Directed by MISHA WILLIAMS

Contributors

Presented By:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Unknown:
Daniel Massey
Editor:
Susan Spivey
Producer:
Richard Cawston
Producer:
Harry Hastings
Directed By:
Misha Williams

The television weekly review presented by Russell Davies who this week discusses The Other Half (BBC1), Z for Zachariah (BBC1) and Just What is It? (Channel 4) with novelist William Cooper playwright Elaine Morgan and Patrick Kinmonth of Vogue magazine.
Plus TV producer, presenter and former mp Philip Whitehead on the TV coverage of the Chesterfield By-election.
Assistant producer KEVIN LOADER Director MICHAEL PARKER Producer JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
William Cooper
Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
Patrick Kinmonth
Unknown:
Philip Whitehead
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Director:
Michael Parker
Producer:
John Archer

continues a major season of films new to television. starring Arthur Dignam ,
Nick Tate and Simon Burke
Autumn 1953: a Catholic school for boys in Victoria, Australia. Tom is just 13, experiencing the problems of puberty and doubts about his religious 'vocation'.
This evocative and lyrical film-inspired by the director's own childhood - is one of the most personal and richly observed films in the Australian season.
Written, produced and directed by FRED SCHEPISI. Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Dignam
Unknown:
Nick Tate
Unknown:
Simon Burke
Directed By:
Fred Schepisi.
Br Francine:
Arthur Dignam
Br Victor:
Nick Tate
Tom Allen:
Simon Burke
Br Sebastian:
Charles McCallum
Br Delian:
John Frawley
Br Arnold:
Jonathan Hardy
Fr Hanrahan:
Gerry Duggan
Br James:
Peter Cox
Fitz:
John Diedrich
Fr Marshall:
Thomas Keneally
Mrs Sullivan:
Sheila Florance

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