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6.25 Maths: Complex Analysis

6.50 Poland

7.15 Floating an Integral

7.40 Science: The Dawn of Man

8.5 Atholdale: A Limestone Valley

8.30 Harris Tweed

8.55 Volunteers and Social Management

9.20 Muscle Contraction

9.45 Public Health: Noise

10.10 Calculus: Taylor Polynomials

10.35 Adult Literacy: Cape Verde: 1

11.0 Heat Through the Lithosphere

11.25 Water for Jordan

11.50 Architecture and Society

12.15 Women and Rock

12.40 Reading Development

1.5 The Nature of Chemistry

1.30 Digital Systems

1.55 Essen in the Third Reich

2.20 Return to Figurative Art

2.45 Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

3.10 History of Mathematics

3.35 Evaluating a Merger

4.0 Measure for Measure: 1

4.25 Christian Community in County Clare

4.50 Television Technology

Summer Sky
How do you find your way around the sky? It is not difficult; the constellation patterns are easy enough to make out.
Patrick Moore conducts what may be called a guided tour, explaining where to find the planets, the main stars, and the clusters and clouds of stars, as well as giving the latest news about astronomical events.
Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Producer:
Pieter Morpurgo

The Lawn Tennis Championships
BBC Outside Broadcast cameras bring live action from the Centre Court where today the Ladies' Singles
Final is the centre-piece and is followed by the Men's Doubles Final and the Ladies'Doubles Final.
Commentators DAN MASKELL. JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS
BARRY DAVIES , MARK COX
BILL THRELFALL, ANN JONES and VIRGINIA WADE Television presentation
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON. FRED VINER ALASTAIR SCOTT and HUW JONES Producer MARTIN HOPKINS Executive producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Commentators:
Dan Maskell.
Commentators:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Unknown:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston.
Unknown:
Fred Viner
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

on the Farne Islands and Bass Rock Tony Soper looks back on eight days of island birdwatching off the North
Sea coast, at the height of the seabird breeding season. with Peter Hawkey and Bryan Nelson Engineering manager GEOFF STAFFORD
Producer JOHN DOBSON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Soper
Unknown:
Peter Hawkey
Unknown:
Bryan Nelson
Unknown:
Geoff Stafford
Producer:
John Dobson

continues a season of films by the distinguished writer-director BRYAN FORBES starring
Malcolm McDowell Nanette Newman
On his brother's wedding day, Bruce Pritchard 's life as a healthy, irresponsible man of 24 is suddenly changed. For the rest of his life he is to be confined to a wheelchair.
However, what is seemingly a tragedy becomes a love story when he meets the beautiful, and similarly affected, Jill Mathews.
Screenplay by BRYAN FORBES Based on the novel by PETER MARSHALL
Produced by BRUCE COHN CURTIS Directed by BRYAN FORBES * FILMS: page 20

Contributors

Director:
Bryan Forbes
Unknown:
Malcolm McDowell
Unknown:
Nanette Newman
Unknown:
Bruce Pritchard
Unknown:
Jill Mathews.
Play By:
Bryan Forbes
Novel By:
Peter Marshall
Produced By:
Bruce Cohn
Directed By:
Bryan Forbes
Bruce Pritchard:
Malcolm McDowell
Jill Mathews:
Nanette Newman
Sarah Charles:
Georgia Brown
Bill Charles:
Barry Jackson
The Rev Corbett:
Gerald Sim
Clarence Marlow:
Michael Flanders
Matron:
Margery Mason

The journal of the arts and media presented by Russell Davies with discussion and comment from Marina Warner, Maria Couto and Shiva Naipaul.
Print: The House of the Spirits by ISABEL ALLENDE, a first novel in the magic realist tradition of South American family sagas.
Theatre: Bengal Lancer - a one-man play by WILLIAM AYOT , performed by Tim Piggot-Smith , based on the autobiography of Francis Yeats-Brown and set in Edwardian India. Film: Return to Oz, a new
Walt Disney production of a familiar story, based on the books of L. Frank Baum. Photography: Bert Hardy , who worked for Picture Post, talks about his life and pictures.
Dance: Rite Electrik, choreographed by TOM JOBE , a disco version of the Rite of Spring.
Cinema: As critical methods decline is 'New Barbarism' about to change the face of film theory?
Assistant producers
MICHAEL PARKER. JILL MARSHALL ROSEMARY BOWEN-JONES Producer KEVIN LOADER
Director JONATHAN FULFORD Editor JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Maria Couto
Unknown:
Shiva Naipaul.
Play By:
William Ayot
Unknown:
Tim Piggot-Smith
Unknown:
Francis Yeats-Brown
Unknown:
L. Frank Baum.
Unknown:
Bert Hardy
Unknown:
Tom Jobe
Unknown:
Michael Parker.
Unknown:
Jill Marshall
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Director:
Jonathan Fulford
Editor:
John Archer

One of America's greatest singers and his guests George Shearing Jon Hendricks
Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra
For over 40 years Mel Torme 's unique talent has brought him popular and critical acclaim and this show, footage from one of his 1982 concerts is interspersed with the man giving a fascinating insight into his technique and influences. Included among the songs he performs are classics such as 'Around midnight', 'Ella be good' and a stunning interpretation of Billy Joel 's 'New York state of mind'.
Executiver producer RONALD H. COWAN

Contributors

Unknown:
George Shearing
Unknown:
Jon Hendricks
Unknown:
Mel Lewis
Unknown:
Mel Torme
Unknown:
Billy Joel
Producer:
Ronald H. Cowan

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