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6.30 Data on Cars
6.55 A Golden Age of Work
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Today, sixth in the series of 'Sab Ras ' - a musical compilation of songs and dances -
Ravi sings a film song, Mehnaz a Punjabi geet, S.B. John a film song,
Mehdi Hasan a ghazal and the Delhi Sisters perform a dance duet.
An Asian Unit presentation BBC Pebble Mill
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Five programmes presented by Margaret Simonot
Decisions about jobs, health and housing all depend on face-to-face interviews; the outcome of these decisions will depend on how both sides play 'the interview game.' 2: Interview Training looks at documentary film of people on interview training courses, and reveals some of the hidden patterns that recur in most job interviews. Consultant CELIA ROBERTS
Produced by JULIAN STENHOUSE
The second of five films in celebration of the legendary actress's 80th birthday starring
Robert Taylor
Marguerite Gautier is known in Paris as the 'Lady of the Camellias' because of her love of the delicate blossoms. Beautiful and extravagant, Marguerite lives a gay life despite her delicate health, until one day she meets the handsome, young Armand Duval , who has worshipped her from afar.
So begins one of the world's great love stories in which Garbo gives a radiant performance.
Screenplay by ZOE ATKINS
FRANCES MARION and JAMES HILTON Based on the play and the novel by ALEXANDRE DUMAS. FILS
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR (Blackandwhite)
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Shamrock V
One of the remaining examples of the 'J' class yachts. She was originally commissioned by the millionaire
Sir Thomas Lipton in the early 1930s in his final attempt to win the America's Cup for Britain. Narrator Tom Salmon Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol (R)
Our humour baffles foreigners, our politics bother them, our traditions bemuse them. And as to our attitude toward sex - c'est hardly 'formidable'.
Tonight, and for the next five weeks, Derek Jameson looks at the way foreign television reports on us, the British.
Apparently, we don't wash, we don't know how to bring up our children, and we are morose and miserable even on holiday. On the other hand, we are always polite, we are kind to animals, and we would be great in a crisis - if we knew one when we saw one. Derek Jameson brings his own special wit to bear on the way they see us British. Research MARK ROGERS
Producer LAURENCE REES
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This weekend sees the opening of the largest boat show of its kind in the UK.
Paul Heiney with journalists Andrew Bray and Peter Lewin take a look at what we can expect to find at the exhibition, and the sailing scene in general.
Research MAGDA GULVIN Producer KEN GRIFFIN
A two-part documentary on design and how it shapes the world we live in. 2: From Wasteland to Wonderworld?
Because Britain didn't design the goods people wanted, the World shopped elsewhere. But there's not much wrong with our designers; some of the brightest have been hired by the foreign competition.
This programme investigates how a promising young British designer,
George Sowden , was snapped up by the successful Italian company, Olivetti. He's now one of the most acclaimed figures in the design world.
Meanwhile, many of our own companies go down for want of good design. The
Programme looks at some of the British firms who are trying to reverse the trend. There is, at last, a boom in the fashion and retail trade, whether on the fringe, like the BodyMap fashion team, or in the mainstream, like the Next chain of clothes shops. Even something as mundane as a truck cab becomes a design success story for Coventry's Motor Panels company. Now the government is pushing design as never before. All over the country, remodelled docklands, new offices, and a fresh approach to the look of shopping centres, begin to Point to a change in the British indifference to design. with BodyMap,
Sally Brampton , John Butcher , MP Jasper Conran , Rodney Fitch , Dr Patrick Nuttgens ,
Ettore Sottsass and Merrick Taylor. Film cameraman IAN PUNTER Film editors
ROBIN SALES. CATHERINE AREND Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN producer DAVID SWEETMAN
The Gateway Masters Bowls Tournament from Beach House Park, Worthing
David Bryant has won this coveted flat green bowling title four times.
Tonight's match is a repeat of the final two years ago when Bryant was beaten by the then little-known man from Hong Kong, George Souza. Commentators
DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
Including SDP Conference
Report - Donald MacCormick and Vincent Hanna from Torquay.
11.40 Introductory Electronics
Grouping electronic devices into a single system can be child's play when using an interface bus.
12.5 Biology: Plant Propagation
Propagation of pot plants and crop plants depends on an increased use of tissue culture techniques.
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