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Rock singer Eric Burdon discusses his heroes with Eric Robson. Not many pop singers of the 60s are still facing live audiences today. But Eric Burdon, lead singer with the legendary Animals, still tours the world, confident in a philosophy of survival influenced by heroes as diverse as Billy the Kid, Chuck Berry, Fidel Castro, Brigitte Bardot, and Picasso.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eric Robson
Guest:
Eric Burdon

starring
Wolf Cub
Jess and Daisy shelter a wounded Indian, Lame Wolf, at the ranch to prevent him falling victim to a ruthless scalphunter. However, they clash with an army captain after using one of his doctors to treat the youth, who happens to be the son of an Indian chief.
Written by RON BISHOP and WELLS ROOT
Directed by LESLEY SELANDER

Contributors

Written By:
Ron Bishop
Directed By:
Lesley Selander
Slim Sherman:
John Smith
Jess Harper:
Robert Fuller
Daisy Cooper:
Spring Byington
Mike Williams:
Dennis Holmes
Lame Wolf:
Robert Blake

Russell Grant, Adonis Aquarian, talks to Andy Kershaw, sensational Scorpion, about his star-spangled record collection. Surprisingly the Planet Suite is not among his favourites, but Alison Moyet, Abba, South Pacific, and Petula Clark are.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andy Kershaw
Guest:
Russell Grant
Director:
Kathryn West
Producer:
Ultan Guilfoyle

In the last of three profile concerts, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark play live to an audience in steel city.
Of the 15 singles OMD have released, 11 have been chart successes - and yet they re still called the bank clerk band. Paul and Andy talk frankly to Peter Powell about fortune, success, and letting the music be more famous than the faces. Peter also traces the electronic rise of the men from the far side of the Mersey.
Assistant Producer STEVE SMITH Production PETER HAMILTON An ORS presentation BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Powell
Producer:
Steve Smith
Unknown:
Peter Hamilton

Ray of Hope with Anthony Clare
The laser's popular image has always been as a death ray. But so far, in the real world, it has never achieved that fictional promise. Now, at last, fiction may become reality as the superpowers square up to set the laser on the warpath....
Series editor DAVID FILKIN producer JOHN ROSS
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Clare
Editor:
David Filkin
Producer:
John Ross

This week's programme has a Scottish flavour, as Malcolm McKeag takes part in the International Dragon Class Gold Cup from Granton,
Edinburgh. Debbie Rix visits Scotland's last paraffin-lit lighthouse, and there's a look at the Clyde Cruising Club on its 75th Anniversary Cruise along the West Coast.
Bob Langley stays south of the border for the National
Rowing Championships from Nottingham. Directors
MARK KERSHAW. CHRIS WRIGHT Producer TONY RAYNER BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm McKeag
Unknown:
Bob Langley
Unknown:
Mark Kershaw.
Unknown:
Chris Wright
Producer:
Tony Rayner

The Final
Robin Ray puts the questions to the four people who have reached this programme via quizzes, elimination bouts, and the heats of the series.
In this title contest, subjects they have chosen are:
The films of Richard Burton F. Scott Fitzgerald Claudette Colbert Clint Eastwood
Devised by ROBIN RAY Film editor/Researcher MALCOLM ILLINGWORTH Director PAUL LOOSLEY Producer JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester
Readers wishing to take part in next year's competition should write to
Film Buff of the Year, BBC, PO Box
27, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
Richard Burton
Unknown:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Claudette Colbert
Unknown:
Clint Eastwood
Unknown:
Robin Ray

by Harold Pinter
Two men, armed, in a windowless basement, suddenly receive orders for extraordinary foods from upstairs. A comedy of menace.

Feature: page 9
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Author:
Harold Pinter
Sound Supervisor:
Raymund Angel
Make-up Designer:
Eileen Mair
Designer:
Bruce MacAdie
Producer:
Rosemary Hill
Director:
Kenneth Ives
Ben:
Colin Blakely
Gus:
Kenneth Cranham

Contributors

Producer:
Howard Anderson
Producer:
Jana Bennett
Producer:
Mike Robinson
Director:
John Wilkinson
Director:
Chris Fox
Assignment Editor:
Nick Guthrie
Assignment Editor:
Tom Roberts
Deputy Editor:
John Mahoney
Editor:
Richard Tait

11.30 Mechanisms of Pain Relief
Research into the action of three types of pain killer - aspirin, local anaesthetics, and opiates.

11.55 Perceptions of the IMF
The International Monetary Fund - one of the most important institutions in international finance. What is its role in the development process?

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