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6.25 Engineering Product Design: Take a Seat
6.50 Potsdam 1: The Meeting
7.15 Images of the Third World
7.40 Measuring the Earth and the Moon
8.5 Motion and Newton's Laws
8.30 Argument on Television: 1
8.55 What is Combinatorics?
9.20 The Message of Starlight
9.45 Statistics: Fitting the Pattern
10.10 Psychology: It's a Matter of Opinion
10.35 Richard Hoggart : A Measured Life
11.0 James Hutton : Geologist
11.25 From Petroleum to Polyethylene
11.50 Freedom and Plenty
12.15 Philosophy: Body and Mind 12 40 Classical Greece: Land and Sea
1.5 Vienna: Stripping the Facade
1.30 Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure
1.55 Man's Religious Quest: Pilgrimage
2.20 Modem Art: Courbet
2.45 Henry IV Parts I and n: Workshop 1

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hoggart
Unknown:
James Hutton

starring
Katharine Hepburn Cary Grant
Following the death of her
French mother
- in Marseilles,
Sylvia and her father head for London, where they join forces with confidence trickster Jimmy Monkley.
When the group go on tour as a pierrot concert party, Sylvia cuts her hair and poses as a boy, causing some unusual romantic problems....
Screenplay by GLADYS UNGER
JOHN COLLIER and MORTIMER OFFNER
Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR and at 4.35-6.25
Strategic Air
Command starring
James Stewart June Allyson When baseball player 'Dutch'
Holland is called up by the Airforce
Reserve, he is dismayed at the interruption to his career and new marriage.
Then he discovers that even peacetime missions in the huge B36 bomber aircraft can be fraught with danger....
This film, which reunited the stars of The Glenn Miller Story, contains spectacular and exciting flying sequences underscored by Victor Young 's stirring musical score.
Screenplay by VALENTINE DAVIES and BEIRNE LAY JR
Produced by SAMUEL J. BRISKIN
Directed by ANTHONY MANN
FILMS: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Katharine Hepburn
Unknown:
Cary Grant
Unknown:
Jimmy Monkley.
Unknown:
Gladys Unger
Unknown:
John Collier
Unknown:
Mortimer Offner
Directed By:
George Cukor
Unknown:
James Stewart
Unknown:
June Allyson
Unknown:
Victor Young
Play By:
Valentine Davies
Unknown:
Beirne Lay Jr
Produced By:
Samuel J. Briskin
Directed By:
Anthony Mann
Sylvia Scarlett:
Katharine Hepburn
Monkley:
Cary Grant
Michael Fane:
Brian Aherne
Henry Scarlett:
Edmund Gwenn
Lily:
Natalie Paley
Maudie Tilt:
Dennie Moore
Drunk:
Lennox Pawle
Robert 'Dutch' Holland:
James Stewart
Sally Holland:
June Allyson
General Hawkes:
Frank Lovejoy
Lt Col 'Rocky' Samford:
Barry Sullivan
Capt Ike Knowland:
Alex Nicol
Maj Gen 'Rusty' Castle:
James Millican
Col Joe Espy:
Bruce Bennett
Tom Doyle:
Jay C Flippen
The Rev Thorne:
James Bell
Mrs Thorne:
Rosemary de Camp
Sgt Bible:
Henry Morgan

Colours of the Stars
The Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales is one of the largest and best telescopes in the world. With it, David Malin has been taking colour pictures of remote stars and star-systems which are not only the most beautiful ever taken but are of great scientific value. David Malin talks to Patrick Moore , explaining his new methods and showing a selection of his very latest photographs. Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Contributors

Unknown:
David Malin
Talks:
David Malin
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Producer:
Pieter Morpurgo

A series of five films on modern France which expand on some of the documentary themes from A vous la France! 1: Grenoble
At the turn of the century this town in the Alps was a quiet, provincial backwater, known only for glove-making and its mountain location.
By the mid-60s it had become the site for the 1968 Winter Olympics, and a blue-print for the city of the future. Film editor LUIS ESPANA
Producer FRANK ASH

Contributors

Editor:
Luis Espana
Producer:
Frank Ash

Wales v England France v Scotland
Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights of today's international.
Much-improved England drew with championship favourites France in their first match but will have to raise their game even more in Cardiff where they have not won since 1963.
Last year's Grand Slam champions Scotland, disappointed in their defeat by Ireland, face the French determined to eliminate memories of their poor showing at Twickenham. Commentator in Cardiff BILL MCLAREN with GARETH EDWARDS
Commentator in Paris NIGEL STARMER-SMITH with BILL BEAUMONT
Cardiff producer DEWI GRIFFITHS
Paris television presentation by FRENCH TELEVISION SERVICE
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McLaren
Unknown:
Gareth Edwards
Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Dewi Griffiths
Producer:
Huw Jones

This moving, often humorous, award-winning film from Hong Kong relates the friendship forged between a modern day 'Elephant Man',
Shum Leung-man , and an equally deformed 'Glass-Bone-Man', Wong Kwan-cheung . Based on real life incidents affecting the main characters, it highlights the problems each faces in being accepted in a world which sees them as freaks.
Screenplay by CHU PO SENG
Directed by RACHEL ZEN
Produced by MARIA WAN for RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG (A Cantonese Chinese programme with English subtitles)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shum Leung-Man
Unknown:
Wong Kwan-Cheung
Play By:
Chu Po Seng
Directed By:
Rachel Zen
Produced By:
Maria Wan

Out of the Question
After facing the interrogation of 80 Scottish teenagers in Open to Question,
Billy Connolly ad libbed with his audience on the roots of his humour and the kind of things which make him laugh.
The Big Yin goes Out of the Question tonight on school days, music lessons, parents and children, Glasgow bus passengers, gay nights at
Partick discos and a host of other topics, including why drummers in rock bands make rich husbands and good sources for fresh comedy. Producer DAVID ROSS
Executive DAVID MARTIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Connolly
Producer:
David Ross
Unknown:
David Martin

starring
Michael Redgrave Googie Withers
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of British cinema, this five-part film includes the famous
'ventriloquist' sequence among its stories of comedy, murder, horror and the unknown. Architect
Walter Craig goes to the home of a new client, but finds the house and its inhabitants strangely familiar. Each of the guests has a story to tell and gradually Craig realises that he is living a recurring nightmare....
Screenplay by JOHN V. RAINES and ANGUS MACPHALL
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON
Directed by CAVALCANTI ,
CHARLES CRICHTON , BASIL DEARDEN and ROBERT HAMER
FILMS: page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Redgrave
Unknown:
Googie Withers
Unknown:
Walter Craig
Unknown:
John V. Raines
Unknown:
Angus MacPhall
Produced By:
Michael Balcon
Directed By:
Cavalcanti
Directed By:
Charles Crichton
Directed By:
Basil Dearden
Directed By:
Robert Hamer
Maxwell Frere:
Michael Redgrave
Walter Craig:
Mervyn Johns
JoanCortland:
Googie Withers
George Parratt:
Basil Radford
Larry Potter:
Naunton Wayne
Sally O'Hara:
Sally Ann Howes
Eliot Foley:
Roland Culver
Dr Van Straaten:
Frederick Valk

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