The Flickering Light
Master of Ceremonies Heinz Wolff
Ladies, kindly remove your hats: the Egg Race teams are going to try to show a film.
To help them with this task of building a projector we have Doug and Anita Lear demonstrating how delightful moving pictures were produced in the last century.
Authentic piano accompaniment is by Richard McLaughlin Guest judge
Professor Ian Fells Producer CHARLES HUFF
Five Years of Top Sailing
In its five-year history Top Sailing has featured almost every kind of leisure sailing from Turkey to Tobermory, Sardinia's rocky shores to the English Channel mists.
Bob Fisher looks at the best of recent British sailing history and relives many a memorable moment. Film editor
NIGEL PARDOE-MATTHEWS Producer JEREMY PALLANT BBC Pebble Mill
with John Pitman
The last of a series going behind the scenes of places which have become part of the British way of life Waterloo Station
Today, like every other day, 180,000 people pass through Waterloo, Europe's busiest station.
For those who use it, there are joyful reunions and sad farewells. For those who work here there are the usual headaches.
A man tries to find his lost umbrella among the 1,000 others waiting to be claimed; a lady complains about the lavatories; in telephone enquiries they are trying to explain that they don't know about flights from Gatwick.
As the day wears on, there's a spot of trouble in the bar, while outside people gather under the clock. Waiting, searching.... and hoping.
Just another outstanding programme
(STANDARD)
The British at their nicest and nuttiest (DAILY MAIL) Director KEVIN LYGO
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Meets....
Jeffrey Archer
At 29 he was the youngest MP in the House of Commons. But five years later he was on the edge of bankruptcy after losing nearly half-a-million pounds in a massive fraud. Jeffrey Archer tells how he fought his way back, taking a sort of literary revenge with his first novel Not a Penny
More, Not a Penny Less, and building a hugely successful new career with a string of bestsellers.
Studio director JEM KIME Producer MIKE PURTON
starring George Maharis
Nehemiah Persoff Willi Koopman
Two American soldiers break out of a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. Walden is a cynic, concerned only with saving his neck; Parang is a dedicated patriot. Their destination is Mindanao.
Their objective - to deliver to the Allied forces a top secret coding device. But a long, hazardous journey through enemy territory separates them from Mindanao....
Screenplay by HAROLD UVINGSTONE from a story by ORVILLE H. HAMPTON
Produced by JACK LEEWOOD Directed by DON MCDOUGALL t FILMS: page 31
where the public sets the agenda
The Roots of Black Music
Black music has become one of the most potent forces in western culture, whether in the form of American blues, West Indian reggae or African music. In the first of two programmes celebrating this black musical heritage, Chicago bluesman
Julio Finn explores its meaning and significance with writers and musicians from Africa, America and the Caribbean. Among those taking part are author
James Baldwin , jazz-blues singer Gail Peters , the Eddie C. Campbell Blues Band,
Dennis Bovell and the Dub Band, Cameroonian writer and musician Francis Bebey , and Foday Musa Suso , a 'griot' from the Gambia. Director STEVE CONNELLY Producer GILES OAKLEY Made by the Community Programme Unit
The Battle for Santa's Software. This Christmas every high street will witness a battle of fantasy giants. Kong, Kokotoni Wilf , Zaxxon and Kentilla are part of the high-reward but high-risk computer games industry, suddenly worth £30 million a year.
Commercial Breaks follows two companies as they seek a Christmas top ten hit. The whiz-kids of Imagine believe in the all-new Megagame - for the programmers at Ocean, it has to be a new version of last year's hero, Hunchback. But there are many other invaders on the way....
Narrator HUGH SYKES
Executive producer JONATHAN CRANE
Producer PAUL ANDERSEN
Presented by Chris Kelly , with food specialist and cook Michael Barry , and drinks expert Jill Goolden. Food labelling grows ever more complicated - but do we really know what's good for us? Talking of healthy food -are our hospital meals anywhere near the standard of our medical care? And with Christmas almost upon us - what's the best tipple for the festive season?
Just three of the stories in this week's blend of the topical, the delicious and the best value in the world of food and drink.
Director JILL DAWSON
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE
It's fantasy week on Entertainment USA as Jonathan King visits the exotic island of Key West in the southernmost part of the USA, just 90 miles from Cuba. He witnesses the bizarre
'fantasy fest' celebrations, sees ageing hippies taking part in the obscure sundown ceremony and meets
Captain Tony, a hell-raising mercenary. Meanwhile, two radio stations battle it out for listeners in this
Caribbean-type refuge. Researcher COLIN MARCHANT
Executive producer MICHAEL HURLL Producer GORDON ELSBURY
... of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals Asylum
Since the 30s certain patients in the mental hospital at
Choroszcz near the Russian border in north-east Poland have been offered a choice.
They can either remain in the hospital or they can enter the households of local peasants as unpaid farm labourers. Most take advantage of this option, for even if the work is hard and repetitive, life in the open air close to a family seems preferable to a cramped ward in an overcrowded hospital. The system seems humane and sensible. The peasant is paid, and he has an extra pair of hands on the farm besides, while patients often remain in a household for years, becoming 'part of the family'.
But when a patient becomes ill or infirm, he can be returned to the hospital, the very thing he dreads above all else. It is at this point that the peasant shows himself as either a true brother of his fellow men or merely one who exploits.
In Poland, where the roots of religion go very deep,
'loving thy neighbour' has a very special meaning. For here man's inhumanity to man can take away from a helpless person what little he has.
Film cameraman JERZY ZIEUNSKI Film recordist KRZYSZTOF NAWROT Film editor STEFAN RONOWICZ
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Directed by WITOLD STARECKI
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In the last of the present series Karen dishes up another helping of her personal blend of song, dance and humour. Special guest is songwriter/singer
Gerard Kenny , who includes his own 'Son of a song and dance man' and demonstrates that there's a song for every occasion. Dancers POWERPACK
Vocal backing KAY GARNER SUE GLOVER , SUNNY LESLIE
Musical director EDDIE GRAY Choreographer CHRIS POWER Script associate JOHN JUNKIN
Additional material VICKY PILE Costume designer LINDA MARTIN Sound TONY PHILPOT Lighting ERIC WALLIS Designer DEREK EVANS
Produced and directed by DAVE PERROTTET
John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
The Effective Manager: Meetings Part 2 of a dramatised trilogy about the problems facing Lewis Jones in his first managerial job.
