6.55 North Uist: Where Sunday Survives

7.20 Weekend Outlook

(to 7.25)

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy lets loose unwelcome live-stock at a swell
Hollywood party in Movie Crazy; then, in The Kid
Brother, he takes on a rival suitor.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG (R)

A series in which Chris Serle discovers some of those glorious golden moments from the largest film and videotape library in the world. There's classic comedy with Del in Only Fools and Horses. From Tonight you can see what it's like in an underwater home.
Michael Crawford has a bit of trouble indoors with Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, and there's even a doll's house for dogs from Nationwide.
Guest Jan Francis discovers the Do-it-Yourself world of Barry Bucknell; and find out where home is for Andy Pandy and Teddy.
(R)

also starring Jane Wyman
Written and produced by Robert Riskin.

In the last of four films starring one of Hollywood's favourite leading men, he plays 'the guy with the dynamite heart', an opinion pollster who discovers a small town which is statistically representative of the USA - thereby causing trouble for the town's mild way of life.
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40 Years On
Written and narrated by Peter Adamson
In 1945 the world entered a new era - an era of unprecedented growth.
Five women - from Ethiopia, India, Spain, Ecuador and Indonesia - tell their stories. Film editor LOIS DRINKWATER
Producer PETER FLRSTBROOK (R)

The first in a series of festival visits to English Cathedrals. Each great church provides a magnificent setting for the sounds of a living choral tradition, prepared every day in the Song Room.
Barry Rose , formerly Master of the Choir at St Paul's Cathedral, starts in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Canterbury, the mother church of English
Christianity. He introduces the choir and the music specially written for them to sing in praise of God over the centuries.
The choir is conducted by the cathedral organist, DR ALLAN WICKS , and is accompanied by the assistant organist, DAVID FLOOD . Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting PETER WEBB
Producer DAVID KREMER Executive producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
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I The famous feature starring
Burt Lancaster
Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida
Tino Orsini , a brash young American trapeze artist, comes to 'Cirque Bougione ' with only one ambition - to learn the dangerous aerial somersault from an old 'master', Mike Ribble ...
Screenplay by JAMES R. WEBB Produced by JAMES HILL Directed by CAROL REED
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Red Rum, 1977
'Rummy' had won both the 1973 and 1974 Grand
Nationals. He finished second in the following two years. So to 1977 with a new jockey for company - Tommy Stack.

Coot Club by ARTHUR RANSOME dramatised by MICHAEL ROBSON
Norfolk 1932. A peaceful holiday in Norfolk becomes an exciting adventure when Dick and Dot go sailing with Mrs Barrable and the Coot
Club. The dreaded
Hullabaloos pursue them all over the Broads and when they finally corner them, there seems to be no escape.
Producer JOE WATERS
Director ANDREW MORGAN (R)

from Barnsdale
Presented by Geoff Hamilton and John Kelly
Easter is the time of year when most gardeners make a real effort in the garden. In tonight's programme Geoff Hamilton makes a lawn in the Bolt-on Garden, looks at the virtues of seed and of laying turf. John Kelly talks to the man who believes that he is getting the slug problem really taped: Dr Peter Newell from London University is a slug expert and his advice can save you pounds.
Nurseryman Tris Thacker joins Geoff and John to demonstrate how to prune roses correctly and shows off some of the new rose varieties which are available this year.
Executive director JOHN KENYON Production assistant
CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer DENIS w GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261

Presented by Anneka Rice
The fifth of eight programmes in which well known personalities take up the sport of their choice. Starting this week
Trevor McDonald takes up tennis under the keen eye of Virginia Wade. 'I've played the game before but I've never had a coaching lesson in my life.'
Stan Boardman plumbs the depths with his first scuba-dive in the sea.
Brian Blessed enters his first field archery competition:
'General Patton once said "I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who loses and smiles". Well that didn't apply to us. We hardly stopped laughing all day.' Anneka Rice visits
Brian Blessed in his home to chat about his field archery. Film editor PATRICK FLEMING
Assistant producer VICKI MOORE Producer PETER RAMSDEN

The film version of Dennis Potter 's acclaimed musical fantasy starring
Steve Martin
Bernadette Peters
Christopher Walken Chicago , 1934, the Depression. Sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker , frustrated by his prudish wife and unfulfilled ambition to run his own shop, wants 'to live in a world where the songs come true'.
But his amorous involvement with a timid schoolteacher and presence at the scene of a murder all go to prove that life is rarely 'a bowl of cherries'.
This lavish version of the BBC series brilliantly recreates the period and pays homage to a host of Hollywood musicals as well as many classic songs.
Screenplay by DENNIS POTTER Based on his television series Produced by NORA KAYE and HERBERT ROSS
Directed by HERBERT ROSS
(First showing on British television)
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The Shadow of the Cross
The Living Among the Dead The church under the cross is the body of those already dead, those who are walking in a different way and a new quality of life.
Professor John Bowker , Dean of King's College, Cambridge. reflects on the implication of that first Good Friday.