6.5 Gibbon: The Ruins of Rome
6.30 Religion: The Roaring Silence
6.55 Cyanide, Crystals and Co-ordination
7.20 Contrasts in Musical Language
7.45 Microfossils
The musical film starring Alice Faye
Jack Oakie , John Payne
This musical drama is set in the early days of sound broadcasting. Songs, romance and comedy from Jack Oakie are combined in this engaging story of three struggling performers trying to make a success in radio.
Screenplay by DON ETTLINGER , EDWIN BLUM ROBERT ELLIS and HELEN LOGAN Directed by ARCHIE MAYO
Films: page 18
(Hello Frisco Hello, Thursday 3.40 pm)
with subtitles, followed by Weather
starring
Ray Milland , Mary Murphy
After gunman Wesley Steele comes upon the wreckage and dead victims of a stage hold-up, he kills a lawman in self-defence. While on the run he accidentally discovers who was responsible for the robbery and murder.
Screenplay by JOHN TUCKER BATTLE from a story by MORT BRISKIN Produced by HERBERT J. YATES Directed by RAY MILLAND Films: page 18
The Big Six by ARTHUR RANSOME dramatised in four parts by MICHAEL ROBSON
2: PC Tedder's suspicions grow when the 'Death and Glory' boys appear to have come into money. Dick, Dot and Tom seem to be the only people in Norfolk who believe the boys to be innocent.
Music composed and conducted by PAUL LEWIS. Photography ALEC CURTIS
Film sound COUN MARCH. Script editor MERVYN HAISMAN. Designer BRUCE MACADIE Producer JOE WATERS
Director ANDREW MORGAN
Karen Silkwood died mysteriously as she tried to draw attention to health hazards at the plutonium plant where she worked in Oklahoma. After a long suit, her family won damages of$10 million from her employers. This week a major Hollywood film opens in Britain, starring Meryl Streep as the woman who has become a martyr of the US anti-nuclear movement.
Panorama reporter Philip Tibenham and producer Chris Olgiati first investigated her death five years ago. Tonight they re-tell the extraordinary sequence of events which suggest her death was no accident.
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON
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William Woollard sets out to show how travelling on the Continent can be a pleasurable experience - even for first time drivers abroad. Sue Baker follows the story of one young couple who found that it really pays to take out adequate insurance. And Frank Page drives all the way from Calais to Nice -with his eyes closed!
Producer PHILIP FRANKLIN. Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS. BBC Pebble Mill
Introduced by Glyn Worsnip
Lionel Blair , Janet Brown , Leslie Phillips , Doris Hare and John Junkin reveal the funny, the embarrassing, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune they experienced on-stage.
Research PATRICIA MIFFUN
Director TONY WOLFE. Producer BILL JONES
by ANNE DEVLIN
'I want to look here at the tyranny of dreams, their power, in particular the power of dreams to cast a spell over a life.' Broderick, an internationally renowned professor of psychology, returns one night to his house on the shore of Belfast Lough, and finds a woman waiting ... with a story to tell.
Camera supervisor SAM WILSON. Lighting JOHN MASON. Designer JOHN ARMSTRONG Producer CHRIS PARR
Director SARAH PIA ANDERSON BBC Northern Ireland
A Chronicle Special
For perhaps the last time Korea's national treasures can be seen outside Korea. They reveal a unique civilisation which has flourished and survived for 5,000 years.
This programme marks an exhibition at the British Museum of some of the astonishing riches which have come from tombs and collections in Korea. The 12th century saw the flowering of Koryo Celadons , some of the finest ceramics ever made. Film of excavations shows gold funeral ornaments of kings and queens -found as they were buried 1,500 years ago.
Film editor DENISE PERRIN
Producer ROSEMARY BOWEN-JONES Editor BRUCE NORMAN
Terence Donovan
International fashion photographer Terence Donovan retains his sense of humour when he tackles a nude assignment high in the Lancashire Pen-nines in this re-run challenge from BBC2's photo assignment week.
(Repeat. Last programme tomorrow at 11.35)
12.10 The Poisson Process
Many things seem to happen 'at random'. But are there any rules for random events?
12.35 am The Nigerian Civil War - was widely reported in the West. How did this coverage reflect attitudes towards the Third World?
1.0 Sexual Identity
Having a clear idea of a sexual identity is different from being male or female. How liberated and constrained are we by the terms we use to describe ourselves?
