Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,433 playable programmes from the BBC

Britain's best-selling writer Catherine Cookson is the first of eight people who have been asked to choose their heroes. In conversation with Eric Robson, she reveals why she admires an 18th-century nobleman, a film star of the 40s, a Methodist minister, an American nun, and the man who has been her 'life spring' for 43 years, husband Tom.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eric Robson
Guest:
Catherine Cookson
Director:
John Metherell

with Franciska Gaal
This engaging comedy finds Bing far from home, first in Paris, then in a small Balkan village. Life is problematic when he has to choose between an American steel heiress and a beautiful peasant girl named Manya. Songs include 'Funny old hills' and 'You're a sweet little headache'.
Count de Remi .GREGORY GAVE Screenplay by FRANK BUTLER and DON HARTMAN based on a story by ANGELA SHERWOOD
Produced by HARLAN THOMPSON Directed by FRANK TUTTLE
0 FILMS: page 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Franciska Gaal
Unknown:
Frank Butler
Unknown:
Don Hartman
Story By:
Angela Sherwood
Produced By:
Harlan Thompson
Directed By:
Frank Tuttle
Lucky Lawton:
Bing Crosby
Manya a:
Franciska Gaal
Peter Karloca:
Akim Tamiroff
Countess de Remi:
Shirley Ross
Ernest Figg:
Edward Everett Horton
Sitska:
Ben Blue

Tennis - Wimbledon 1977 For years the nation had willed Virginia Wade to win Wimbledon. In 1977 she duly obliged, but not before playing a truly great semi-final against Chris Evert.
Series producer JEFF GODDARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Virginia Wade
Unknown:
Chris Evert.
Producer:
Jeff Goddard

A Devon Walk with David Young
The last of six British walks. Walking with William, his labrador companion, allows writer and architect David Young to keep a lookout for unusual manmade additions to the north Devon landscape - an artificial hill, a derelict silver mine, and a gambler's fantasy alehouse are rich pickings for David's taste for country curiosities.
Photography KEVIN BAXENDALE Producer MIKE WEATHERLEY
A free leaflet, produced with the English Tourist Board, can be obtained by sending sae (220mm x 110mm) to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
David Young
Unknown:
David Young
Unknown:
Kevin Baxendale
Producer:
Mike Weatherley

Tom takes a backward glance at the trials and tribulations of the past and laughs at our technological attempts to get it right - with the help of some strange ideas from the folk of Britain.
Tom and his regular guests Derek Griffiths and Andrew Sachs are joined in their music and musings by Madeline Smith and Annabel Etkind.
This week's special guest is Australian songstress Jackie Love.
Designer ANDY DMOND
Production RICK GARDNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Griffiths
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
Madeline Smith
Unknown:
Annabel Etkind.
Songstress:
Jackie Love.
Unknown:
Rick Gardner

Join Paul Daniels as he attempts a sensational vanishing trick and introduces his special guests, showman illusionist Hans Moretti, featuring a death-defying escape on a burning rope, and his son Peter Moretti, presenting archery the like of which you have never seen before, with The Super Tells.
With Debbie McGee

Contributors

Presenter/Magician:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Hans Moretti
Unknown:
Peter Moretti
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Musical Director:
Ken Jones
Programme Associate:
Ali Bongo
Technical Consultant:
Gil Leaney
Director:
Geoff Miles
Producer:
John Fisher

Five stories of struggle

While Bience Gawanas was still at school - in South African-occupied Namibia - her beloved brother was murdered: she believes, by a white gang. She recounts the events that followed, and how she has survived - to struggle for her country's freedom.

Contributors

Subject:
Bience Gawanas
Producer:
Jenny Morgan

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More