The Carpenters (R)
Children from 14,000 schools were involved in one of the biggest projects organised in the UK. What they discovered was interesting, exciting, and occasionally eccentric.
An exploration of this crucial invention.
A BBC/Open University production
Coping with a Cot Death
'I think I asked myself for at least a year afterwards, why? Did I do this wrong? Did I do that wrong?'
Clare and Desi Loughrey talk about the sudden death of their baby five years ago. Researcher DAMARIS PITCHER Series producer IAN WOOLF Director STACEY ADAMS (e)
For help or information contact:
Foundation for the Study of Infant
Deaths, [address removed]
A Californian Marriage
A husband and wife separate and come together again in a new sort of marriage in Silicon Valley.
Filmed for the Lovelaw series Producer ANGELA KAYE
The Last Great Race on Earth The 1,200 mile Alaska dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome
Narrator Ian Wooldridge
In 1979 the best dog mushers in Alaska - Indians, Eskimos and white trappers - raced the loneliest trail in the world, the Iditarod. The distance is greater than that from London to Rome, temperatures fall to 100 degrees below freezing, and gale force winds blow incessantly from the Arctic. Producer TONY SALMON Series producers
ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES
3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
Join Pamela and her studio audience for 30 minutes of conversation, topical issues and music.
Producer LOUIS ROBINSON
A series of six programmes in which Richard Blizzard makes a whole range of toys and models.
5: Miniature Worlds Director PAULA GILDER
Producer PETER RAMSDEN (R) (e) Book, £8.95 from booksellers
(Revised version of the programme shown yesterday at 7.15pm)
A season of mystery films starring
Sidney Toler as the philosophical detective Tonight also starring Marjorie Weaver Lionel Atwill
When an old friend from
Scotland Yard on the trail of a strangler is murdered in Honolulu, Chan joins a cruise to San Francisco - among the ten passengers is the murderer. As each victim is left with a bag of silver by their side, the wily detective suspects someone is bent on revenge....
Screenplay by ROBERTSON WHITE , LESTER ZIFFREN Based on Charlie Chan Carries On by EARL DERR BIGGERS
Produced by SOL M. WURTZEL Directed by EUGENE FORDE
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Richard Chamberlain narrates this cartoon version of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 'S poignant fairy tale of the mermaid who falls in love with a prince.
Directed by PETER SANDER (R)
Margaret Thatcher once called him a political thug but even his opponents recognise Denis Healey 's acumen and skill in public debate.
What would Britain be like under a Labour government? What should be done about NATO and British nuclear defences? On Open to
Question tonight Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Denis Healey faces an audience of young people from all over Britain chaired by John Nicolson.
Researcher MARK HAGEN Director LIZ SCOTT Producers
DAVID MARTIN. CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland
This programme celebrating English cathedrals and their music comes from Worcester Cathedral and reflects in music and pictures the Advent theme of a journey from darkness into light as the choir perform music sung in the cathedral through the centuries.
Barry Rose of the King's School, Canterbury, introduces pieces which range from the plainsong of the Worcester Fragments, through anthems by Thomas Tomkins and Edward Elgar to the contemporary work of the French composer,
Villette. In an interlude
Donald Hunt , the cathedral organist, and the choir illustrate their search for the 'Worcester sound'. Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting PETER WEBB Executive producer
STEPHEN WHITTLE. Producers
DAVID KREMER , ROGER HUTCHINGS
starring Phil Cool
Phil Cool , alias old rubber features, is back with more incredible impressions, oddball observations and menacing shirts.
On tonight's show Frank Sinatra says something stupid, Claire Rayner makes demands on a passive wimp, and Terry Wogan introduces his favourite guest - himself! Written by PHIL COOL , JASPER CARROTT Director DAVID WEIR
Producer STEVE WEDDLE BBC Pebble Mill
Comedy series about three divorcees who share a one-room apartment on the Upper East Side. One has a lisp, one has an accordion, and one has an affair with the script editor and most of the one-liners.
Starring Victoria Wood with Julie Walters and Celia Imrie
Duncan Preston , Susie Blake also PETER BLAKE
BETH BOYD. ROGER BRIERLEY
DEBORAH GRANT , MICHAEL GUNN
STEPHEN HANCOCK
KENNY IRELAND HOPE JACKMAN ,MEG JOHNSON
GERARD KELLY. LILL ROUGHLEY
CHRISTOPHER STRAULI Written by VICTORIA WOOD
Musical director DAVID FIRMAN
Make-up designer VANESSA POULTON Costume designer ANNA STUBLEY Lighting FRED WRIGHT Designer
ANDREW HOWE-DAVIES Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER
Troubled Minds
'I don't think anyone is exempt from mental illness - it could happen to anybody.' Vickie and Kevin Carey are registered mental nurses.
She works on an open ward in a hospital near Chester while he commutes to the Merseyside Regional
Secure Unit at Rainhill, near Liverpool.
'Empathy rather than sympathy' is what their very varied patients are offered;
Vickie dealing with harassed housewives while Kevin copes with murderers and arsonists. With all the patients, the aim is to help them back into the community and the nurses in these units spend more time walking the streets than the wards.
Sound recordist CHRIS ATKINSON Camera GRAHAM VEEVERS Producer PETER SYMES BBC Bristol
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with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Nick Worrall
And the day's news with Ian Smith
Nick Clarke , Gill Nevill and Chris Lowe
with Carlos Riera
Tonight the news from Madrid, broadcast on RTVE's first channel. Carlos helps with the language and the background while Peter Fiddick looks at what's going on at the Spanish end of the rapidly-changing European media scene.
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