11.25 Robotics: Making The Right Moves
How do robots work? The second programme takes the covers off some commonly-used robots to see how they are powered and controlled.
11.50 The Effective Manager: Meetings
12.15 Calculators in Primary Schools
Programme notes on Ceefax page 700, on the Micro Live Bulletin Board [number removed] and Broadcasting Support Services, [address removed]
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Starring Chips Rafferty, Daphne Campbell
1942: the Japanese invasion of northern Australia seem inevitable and a scorched earth policy is planned. But drover Dan McAlpine knows that a thousand head of cattle can help win the war and with a small band of helpers starts a trek across some of the toughest country in the world.
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Starring James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus.
Henry Tyroon, Texas tycoon and financial wheeler-dealer, is compelled to visit New York to raise funds when three oil wells prove dry. Things go smoothly until he meets Molly Thatcher, a Wall Street career girl on an extremely difficult assignment.
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The ninth of 15 programmes of French for beginners.
Whether it's le jogging or le rugby, Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones show how to talk about the sports you enjoy. And they follow the progress of the French team at the World Boules Championships.
Film director FRANK ASH Producer DAVID WILSON
Book £5.25, and teachers' notes
E2.50, from booksellers; cassettes and records from retailers
Poet P. J. Kavanagh offers his personal view of the play which tells the story of a good man whose patient acceptance of life's hostilities brings about his own redemption.
Director SALLY KIRKWOOD Producer VICTOR POOLE
(The play can be seen at 8.20 pm) W HELPLINES: page 93
with Jan Leeming
Weather
When the Australians run on to the pitch at Murrayfield this afternoon, there will be a quickening of the pulse in anticipation of good things to come.
Andrew Slack's Wallabies have reminded all who have watched them that rugby union is not a dull game played with the boot, but a sport of great skill in which the ball is moved from hand to hand at speed.
Can Scotland, champions of Europe, surpass the legerdemain of these very welcome guests from the Southern Hemisphere?
Bill McLaren commentates with Gareth Edwards, and Nigel Starmer-Smith brings news of the rest of the day's rugby.
(Organised by the SRU in association with the Royal Bank of Scotland)
by William Shakespeare
(Norman Rodway stars in Oxbridge Blues on Wednesday at 9.0 pm)
Book The BBC TV Shakespeare: Pericles £2.00 from booksellers
including at 9.58 Interval
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Shakespearean comedy about a good man who suffers the brunt of life's hostilities.When Pericles solves the terrible answer to Antioch's riddle, his life is thrust into turmoil. Show more
Second part of the Shakespearean comedy about a good man who suffers the brunt of life's hostilities.(This programme was broadcast with an interval; this is part two of two.)
Federico Fellini's triumphant homage to Rome brings the city to exuberant outrageous life, reflecting Fellini's own multi-faceted imagination in a brilliant mosaic of Roman images. A trip to the underground reveals a subterranean Roman villa; a fashion show becomes an ecclesiastical fancy dress parade-and an indignant spectator of the film unit at work complains to the director that his film is filled with homosexuals and enormous whores.
(An Italian film with English subtitles)
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