11.0 Open Forum: AD 2000 Technology Conference
11.25 Software Engineering
11.50 Widowhood
12.15 Understanding Pregnancy: Birth

starring
Jean Harlow
Marie Dressier
John Barrymore Wallace Beery
Lionel Barrymore
The lives and loves of a group of New Yorkers come together in a series of dramatic events as they prepare for a society dinner. MGM's boast of having
'more stars than there are in heaven' is borne out by the dazzling cast which includes Jean Harlow as the self-seeking wife of an unscrupulous millionaire.
Screenplay by FRANCES MARION and HERMAN J. MANKIEWlCZ based on the play by GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and EDNA FERBER
Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK Directed by GEORGE CUKOR
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starring
Martine Carol Peter Ustinov
Anton Walbrook Oskar Wemer Max OphUls 's glittering picture of the notorious Lola Montes is shown as a tribute to Oskar Werner , the distinguished
Austrian actor who died on 23 October. Reduced to exhibiting herself in a circus ring, Lola re-enacts her scandalous career as a femme fatale.
Written by MAX OPHULS , JACQUES NATANSON. ANNETTE WADEMANT and FRANZ GEIGER. Produced by RALPH BAUM and ALBERT CARACO Directed by MAX ophuls
(A French film with English subtitles)
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The sixth of 15 programmes of French for beginners. Times, timetables and tickets - Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones show how to sort them out in French. They also look at the typical working day in France and the not-so-typical daily routine of a nuclear physicist. Studio director MARY SPRENT Producer DAVID WILSON
(Programme 7 tomorrow on BBC1 at 10.55. See also Radio 4 tomorrow and Wednesday)
Book, £5.25, 2 cassettes or 3 records and teachers' notes availabk from booksellers

with Moira Stuart Weather

The Story of the Symphony Andre Previn with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS In this final programme
Andre Previn looks at the way many 20th-century composers, each from a different standpoint, have persistently turned to large-scale symphonic writing, although working at a time when the very vocabulary of music has continually outstripped its audience.
To Shostakovich (whose
Fifth Symphony concludes this series) there was the added threat that his music incurred Stalin's official displeasure when terror raged across Russia and 'difficult' composers disappeared overnight.
Shostakovich was certain he would be arrested. He always kept a small suitcase packed and ready.
But Stalin was too clever to eliminate Shostakovich; like many dictators Stalin appreciated the propaganda potential of art. Yet, when this Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich eventually appeared, it was the composer, not the politician, who ultimately triumphed. 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 booksellers

The Schweppes Scottish Leagues: Division 1 Gala v Selkirk
Scottish 'Grand Slam' players PETER DODDS , DAVID LESLIE and captain
JIM AITKEN of Gala, and JOHN RUTHERFORD and IAIN PAXTON of Selkirk will be determined to show the selectors that they are still on top form, and ready to play against the Australians in three weeks' time.
BILL MCLAREN commentates on the day's top
Scottish match, and NIGEL STARMER-SMITH brings news of the rest of the day's rugby, including the match played in Ireland between MUNSTER and the AUSTRALIANS.
Series producer HUW JONES

(Gli occhi, la bocca) starring
Fading film star Giovanni returns home for his brother's funeral and is promptly drawn into a tangle of deceit and love as he tries to reconcile conflicting loyalties.
Marco Bellocchio caused a furore in Italy with his first film Fists in the Pocket, which was seen as a scurrilous if stylish attack on family life. Its star, Lou Castel , is reunited with Bellocchio in Those Eyes, That Mouth, an ironic, partly autobiographical, reappraisal of the constricting ties of the family and of the past.
Written by MARCO BELLOCCHIO and VINCENZO CERAMI
Directed by MARCO BELLOCCHIO (An Italian film with English subtitles. First showing on British TV) • FILMS: page 31

with Moira Stuart ; Weather

You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.... The Man in the Bottle starring Luther Adler as Arthur Castle
What seems to be a worthless purchase by an impoverished pawnbroker turns out to be the most valuable he could imagine or the most dangerous.... Written by ROD SERLING
Directed by DON MEDFORD