Introduced by Heinz Wolff
The teams are presented with a selection of things that float, and things that don't, plus springs, wires and elastic bands. Using all this, can a craft be made to submerge in a tank of water, travel under an island, then resurface? Guest judge Stephen Salter
Small Boat Sailors are Alive and Well!
Each Olympic year brings a resurgence of interest in small boat sailing, and this year was no different. Since the boom in dinghy sailing in the 1960s, the gathering pace of costly technological development and the British recession have brought about a slow general decline, but among aficionados of the sport there's no lack of keenness or talent.
Bob Fisher surveyed
Britain's Olympic prospects and visited the mecca of club dinghy sailing, the west Lancashire 24-hour race at Southport. Film editor
NIGEL PARDOE-MATTHEWS Producer JEREMY PALLANT BBC Pebble Mill
A series of films going behind the scenes of places which have become part of the British way of life with John Pitman
The scene: Selfridges, the biggest shop in the West End of London. The players: 3,000 employees who are briefed to 'entertain the public, not just take their money'.
Maurice, the postman, is doing his Norman Wisdom act; Colin, the designer, is trying to get a camel to chew sideways; and Karen is waylaying unsuspecting men to spray them.
Backstage is Stan, the goods liftman, who says of customers: 'They're all right. I mean, we have to have them. It's as simple as that.'
"I loved every minute of it" (Daily Mail)
with subtitles, followed by Weather
He wrote the music for Bridge on the River Kwai in ten days - and won an Oscar for it! Northampton-born Malcolm Arnold decided on a musical career after hearing Louis Armstrong, and became principal trumpet with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. But if cinema buffs think of him as the composer of music for a string of successful films, it's his other work, including eight symphonies, which has assured him his place among leading English composers.
A True Story
The Abominable Snowman, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster - do they exist? In 'Boggy Creek', in the heart of Arkansas, there is another legendary creature, 'the Fouke Monster'. This feature film, shot on location, captures the mystery of the southern
American swampland and its famous-elusive-monster.
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Denise [text removed] is 20. She has spent 18 years in care. Three years ago she broke into Hampshire Social Services and stole the file they had kept on her since early childhood. Tonight, using these records and with the help of people who knew her, Denise tells her story - from the National Children's Home where she was placed at three months old, isolation in a secure unit, an adolescence spent in a Youth Treatment Centre, to the birth of her son [text removed] seven months ago.
Community Programme Unit
Bill Brodnax believes that there is more than £100 million-worth of gas lying under some Louisiana rice fields. The poor farmers who lease him the land hope this could be 'money from heaven'. For the investors who have financed the drill rig it's just another high-risk investment - but to Brodnax and his small oil company it's everything. Commercial Breaks follows the tense weeks of progress as he and his 'wildcatters' drill two and a half miles down in search of their dream...
Presented by Chris Kelly with food specialist and cook Michael Barry and drinks expert Jill Goolden Are our children taught more about good scones than good nutrition - have the schools got it right?
Which are the best fats and oils to cook in - and the cheapest? What is claimed to be the most drinkable wine in the world - and where does it come from? Director JILL DAWSON
Producer PETER BAZALGETIE
Jonathan King is back in his second home - New York, where he talks to young, dynamic record company boss, film and theatre producer David Geffen; Jeff Bridges, star of Tron, about his new movie Starman; and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Jonathan also looks at America's addiction to television, and visits an exclusive private club, a new video disco and the poor old Statue of Liberty.
[Forty Minutes] ...of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals.
The young male prostitute is no longer confined to an area around Piccadilly Circus. He is to be found today throughout Britain in all the large centres of population. No one can estimate how many of them there are, for they run the gauntlet of the police and operate under a cloak of anonymity. But few doubt that unemployment and poor home conditions have prompted many boys to go on to the streets to sell themselves. In this documentary film, which includes sequences shot secretly in the known pickup haunts of Manchester and Birmingham, rent boys talk frankly about their lives, their motives, the effect on them of contact with the 'gay' urban underground, and the physical and moral dangers that accompany their quest for 'easy money'.
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with special guest Vic Damone
Tonight Karen is joined by her guests Dobbin (the pantomime horse) and Wurzel (the scarecrow) for 'Travellin' life'.
Backing singers KAY GARNER , SUE GLOVER and SUNNY LESLIE are featured with Karen in 'Sometimes when we touch', but special guest honours go to one of the great American singing stars of the last two decades, Vic Damone , who includes a beautiful ballad by Lionel Richie -'Hello'. Dancers POWERPACK
Musical director EDDIE GRAY Choreographer CHRIS POWER
Additional material VICKY PILE Costume designer LINDA MARTIN Sound TONY PHILPOT Lighting RON BRISTOW Designer DEREK EVANS
Produced and directed by DAVE PERROTTET
Twenty programmes for beginners, presented by Lilly Lembo Lambert and Enrico Verdecchia
15: Sono stato a Film director SUSANNA CAPON
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
