11.25 Open Forum: OU Student Costs and Fees.
11.50 Sharing a House
12.15 Planning a Happy Birth
12.40 Cattle Fertility
starring Martin Landau, Jane Alexander
Broken by two years in a Vietcong prison, Johnny Bristol is released and sent back to an army hospital. Gradually he tries to reassemble his life - with the help of a nurse, whom he loves. His most important mission is to find his home town in Vermont - but it appears to have vanished from the face of the earth....
FILMS: page 31
(I soliti ignoti)
Starring Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale.
Ambitious small-time crooks plot the perfect robbery, but when they put their plan into operation, things go hilariously wrong. Mario Monicelli's affectionate spoof of the popular crime thriller became a classic in its own right and launched Vittorio Gassman as a comedy star.
(An Italian film with English subtitles. Black and white)
(Films: page 31)
The Nabisco Wightman Cup GB v USA from the Royal Albert Hall ,
London. The final day of this traditional team contest. VIRGINIA WADE has been a member of the British team for 19 years and, although only playing doubles this year, her enthusiasm as team captain should instil extra zest into her colleagues.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentator DAN MASKELL GERALD WILLIAMS , ANN JONES Producer JOHNME WATHERSTON
The story of the 1984 Observer/Europe 1
Singlehanded Transatlantic Race
Last June 90 yachtsmen set off from Plymouth for Newport, Rhode Island, including some of the fastest and most expensive multihulls in the world.
Thirteen entrants beat the solo Atlantic record, but many more dropped out. Grandstand covered the start, then the BBC newsroom in the south west kept watch as a former west country policeman took the lead. In the final days positions changed several times, even after the finish. Videotape editor MIKE FOREN Producer TONY BYERS
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Indoor Bowls Championship Highlights of the first semi-final played earlier this afternoon.
The winner has still to win the best of five sets with seven shots up per set.
Introduced by DAVID VINE from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Commentators
DAVID RHYS JONES
DAVID MCGILL Producers
KEITH PHILLIPS , KEITH MACKENZIE Executive producer NICK HUNTER
The fourth of 15 programmes of French for beginners
Hotel rooms, ice-creams and sandwiches, postcards and stamps.... CaroUe Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones show how to get exactly what you want.
Studio director MARY SPRENT Producer DAVID WILSON
(Programme 5 tomorrow on BBCl at
10.55. See also Radio 4 tomorrow and Wednesday)
Book, cassettes or records and teachers' notes available from booksellers
with Jan Leeming ; Weather
The Story of the Symphony Andre Previn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS 'If we look at Brahms's Fourth Symphony,' says
Previn, 'we can understand why composers persist in writing symphonies. Unlike many other musical disciplines, music composed on such an architectural scale cannot be faked. In an opera or a ballet the story, scenery, lighting and costumes can wilfully seduce and distract the audience. In a concerto the charisma of the soloist or the sheer brilliance of the playing can often get you out of trouble. But in a symphony the only thing to be judged is the quality of the composer himself and his ability to develop his musical ideas.' Vision mixer ANGELA WILSON
Videotape editor ROGER HARVEY Designer KEITH HARRIS
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Sound RAY ANGEL
Written and directed by HERBERT CHAPPELL
Book £13.95 (from 8 November) from booksellers
England v Australia
England have selected five new caps including the new captain NIGEL MELVILLE , in an attempt to improve upon their dismal record of one win in the last 11 matches. Australia, led by ANDY SLACK, hope to continue the fine form they showed in the summer series against New Zealand when they lost the deciding test 25-24.
Commentators
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
BILL BEAUMONT
Series producer HUW JONES
(Colpire al cuore) * starring
Jean-Louis Trintignant Laura Morante
A selection of the best new Italian films with contemporary themes begins with a family arama set against a background of urban terrorism. Emilio, a serious, conservative 15-year-old, has a close relationship with his father, a university professor, although he disapproves of Dario's radical politics. When he discovers that two of Dario's students are terrorists.
Emilio decides that moral principles are more important than family ties.
Dario .JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT
Intriguing ... excellent ... curiously bewitching (TIME OUT) Trintignant is faultless (THE TIMES) Impeccable (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Screenplay by GlANNI AMEUO and VINCENZO CERAMI
Produced by ENZO PORCELLI Directed by GIANNI AMELIO
(First showing on British television.
An Italian film with English subtitles)
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with Jan Leeming : Weather
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Indoor Bowls Championship The climax of this unique bowling tournament is now drawing near as the second semi-final is played this evening. From the Guild Hall, Preston.
Introduced by DAVID VINE
