12.40 Dairy Cattle: The Vet by Appointment

1.5 The Changing Countryside: Spoiling the View

continues a season of films celebrating the 80th birthday of the British director Michael Powell, this afternoon starring Eric Portman, Godfrey Tearle

RAF bomber 'B for Bertie' fails to return from a raid on Stuttgart in Germany. Six of the crew manage to bale out over occupied Holland and this tense, finely-observed drama follows their hazardous progress to the Channel coast, hunted by the Nazis but aided by the Dutch people.

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starring David Farrar Kathleen Byron Jack Hawkins
In wartime Britain a new type of 'booby-trap' bomb dropped by the Germans causes army and civilian casualties.
Sammy Rice - a research specialist - is called in to help find out how the device works. Rice, a brilliant scientist, is an intense man driven to alcohol to escape physical pain and his feelings of inadequacy. In the nerve-racking climax to the film,
Rice confronts the bomb and his own destiny
Based on the novel by NIGEL BALCHIN
Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER
(I know Where I'm Going tomorrow at 3.0pm)
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On 9 September news cameraman Neil Davis was killed filming the attempted coup in Thailand. This programme, taken from a longer film by David Bradbury and shown as a tribute to Davis's skill and courage, includes the close-range film he shot in Vietnam that made him a legend among newsmen and brought the horrors of war home - literally - to millions.
Davis talks about working under fire and his belief that
'it's the cameraman's job to bring the truth to the people. No matter what happens.'
Produced and directed by DAVID BRADBURY (R)
(Postponed from 28 September)

The first in a 20-part series for beginners in German, shot entirely in West Germany and in Austria.
How to say who you are,where you're from and ask where something is. And a look at Duhnen, a popular holiday resort on the North Sea coast.
West German TV presenter Hanni Vanhaiden introduces the programme from Hamburg, her home town.
(R)
(The complementary Radio programme is on Radio 4 VHF/FM this afternoon at 4.30pm)
Book £5.95, three cassettes £3.75 each and notes for teachers £3.25 from booksellers or BBC Publications

by Brian Urquhart with Sally Hardcastle Brian Urquhart , Under
Secretary General for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations, has been with the UN since it was established 40 years ago this month.
Demobbed from the army in 1945, he found himself pitched into the early frantic days of the setting up of the new organisation. He became Personal Assistant to the first Secretary General, Trygve Lie. In the first of three programmes he talks to
Sally Hardcastle about the challenges the UN faced soon after it was established. Film cameraman TONY MAYNE Film sound CLIVE DERBYSHIRE Research MONA ADAMS Film editorJON KENT
Producer JOHN WALKER

with Moira Stuart
Weather

The magazine of the arts and media presented by Russell Warner and Tony Palmer
Theatre: Les Misérables, the new musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, is based on VICTOR HUGO 'S epic novel about lives of the poor in early 19th-century France. It was a great success in Paris and has been adapted and developed for this Royal Shakespeare Company production.
Cinema: Je vous salue Marie is JEAN-LUC GODARD'S contemporary version of the story of the Virgin Mary. The Pope has said 'it distorts and reviles the spiritual significance of the mother of Jesus'. How will it be received in Britain?
Architecture:
Jonathan Meades reports on the new generation of British architects - are we starting to get buildings we won't want to avoid?
Assistant producer ALEX MARENO Producer KEVIN LOADER
Director JONATHAN FULFORD Editor JOHN ARCHER

Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI
Libretto by FRANCOIS JOSEPH MERY and CAMILLE DU LOCLE after
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER 'S Don Carlos
An international cast perform one of Verdi's finest operas in the celebrated Royal Opera production by Luchino Visconti.
The forest of Fontainebleau, the lofty cloisters of San
Yuste and the royal palace in Madrid form the 16th-century backcloth to a political struggle in Spain which is mirrored by an intense personal drama.
Schiller's play was the basis for the opera: it may not be accurate history but it makes magnificent music-drama! The Royal Opera Chorus chorus-master PETER BURIAN
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House leaderJOHN BROWN conductor Bernard Haitink
Introduced by Humphrey Burton
The Forest of Fontainebleau Act 2
Scene 1: The cloisters of the Monastery of San Yuste
Scene 2: Outside the cloisters Act 3
Scene 1: The Queen's garden in Madrid Scene 2: An auto-da-fe
Act 4
Scene 1: The King's study in Scene 2: Carlo's prison Act 5
The cloisters of San Yuste Original production, scenery, costumes and lighting by LUCHINO VISCONTI
Assistants MAURIZJO CHLARI and FILIPPOSANJUST
Staged by CHRISTOPHER RENSHAW Sung in Italian with English subtitles by GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
Introductory feature directed by CAROLYN JOHNSON
SoundGRAHAM HAINES LightingJOHN ELFES
Directed for television by BRIAN LARGE

In which the native
Lancastrian finds himself at the court of Richard, Duke of York, and - with one eye on the weather - discovers the delights of the Yorkshire
Dales and the ups and downs of micro-lighting. Producer BILL LYONS Director JOHN ROONEY
Executive producer KEN STEPHINSON (Nextprogramme:tomorrowat8.5pm)