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with Janet Ellis , Mark Curry and Caron Keating
Don't miss your chance to catch up with the Monday and Thursday editions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Janet Ellis
Presenter:
Mark Curry
Presenter:
Caron Keating
Assistant Editor:
Lewis Bronze
Editor:
Biddy Baxter

This week Chris Serle takes to the air with Flight.

There's a smooth take-off from The Bird that Beat the US Navy, a successful mid-air refuelling from Newsnight and a bumpy landing from Diamonds in the Sky. Discover what insect Arthur Askey sings about and why a bicycle helped Michael Hordern to fly.

The special guest is writer and broadcaster Raymond Baxter, who talks of his association with planes from the Spitfire to Concorde and the Harrier.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Serle
Guest:
Raymond Baxter
Designer:
Don Taylor
Producer:
Mike Seddon
Series Producer:
Albert Barber

Deep and crisp and even, so - why not? What with the weather and everything - it's easy to get miserable, even round the fireside.

So, No Limits is briefly back to warm up the winter Sundays with it's own high-speed selection of videos, films and chart news guaranteed to outshine the worst of Jack Frost.

Plus the latest news of the search for two new stars for the next series.
Jenny Powell and Tony Baker are on hand for an update on the nationwide auditions to find additional presenters for the world's fastest TV rockshow.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenny Powell
Presenter:
Tony Baker
Production Assistant:
Rosemary Hack
Production:
Peter Hamilton

Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith

Wasps were runners-up in the Cup last year, but their visit to Rugby is by no means an easy fixture, with the home team having the crowd and a number of first-class players determined to provide the shock of the round.

Highlights of this match, and from a Schweppes Welsh Cup third-round match.

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Series Producer:
Huw Jones

continues the BBCtv tribute to Cary Grant who died last year. Today with Ingrid Bergman

It's a case of instant attraction when internationally famous actress Anna Kalman is introduced to charming American diplomat Philip Adams. Though Philip tells Anna he is married she is not in the least deterred...

Films: page 18

Contributors

Screenplay/From his play "Kind Sir":
Norman Krasna
Producer/Director:
Stanley Donen
Philip Adams:
Cary Grant
Anna Kalman:
Ingrid Bergman
Alfred Munson:
Cecil Parker
Margaret Munson:
Phyllis Calvert
Carl Banks:
David Kossoff
Doris Banks:
Megs Jenkins
Mr Fingleigh:
Oliver Johnston

The last of this set of three quartets is perhaps the most extraordinary. Over its triumphant final movement Beethoven scribbled the words: 'Let your deafness be no secret, not even in art.'

The Lindsay Quartet: Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola) Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), plays the Quartet in C, Op 59 No 3

BBC Scotland

Contributors

Violinist (The Lindsay Quartet):
Peter Cropper
Violinist (The Lindsay Quartet):
Ronald Birks
Violaist (The Lindsay Quartet):
Roger Bigley
Cellist (The Lindsay Quartet):
Bernard Gregor-Smith
Sound:
Stuart Stevenson
Lighting:
John Black
Producer:
Mike Newman
Series Editor:
Keith Alexander

Who can we trust to defend our rights: our politicians or our judges?

This week Michael Ignatieff and his guests Neal Ascherson, writer and columnist for the Observer, Simon Lee, law lecturer, King's College, London, Anthony Lester, QC, barrister, Michael Zander, Professor of Law, LSE ask: Do we need a Bill of Rights?

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Ignatieff
Panellist:
Neal Ascherson
Panellist:
Simon Lee
Panellist:
Anthony Lester
Panellist:
Michael Zander
Researcher:
Hilary Hodgson
Studio Director:
Mark Harrison
Producer:
Amanda Theunissen

featuring the Men's Downhill and Men's Slalom from Kitzbuehel

It's festival time here in the Austrian Tyrol as this fashionable resort hosts ski racing's most dramatic and spectacular event - the Hahnenkamm. For the spectator it's an exhilarating experience, but for the ski racer it's the ultimate test of skill, stamina and, above all, nerve. The 'Streif downhill course is the most unforgiving piste on the World Cup circuit, so the satisfaction of survival is the simple ambition of most - only the brave dare to hope for more.

David Vine describes the memorable moments of this downhill and slalom weekend; David Goldstrom reports from Switzerland on preparations for next week's World Alpine Championships at Crans-Montana.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Reporter:
David Goldstrom
TV Presentation:
null ORF
Producer:
Jim Reside

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme. With Paul Burden, James Hogg, Mark Rogerson and Francine Stock reporting from home and abroad on your money - and other people's.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Widlake
Presenter:
Valerie Singleton
Reporter:
Paul Burden
Reporter:
James Hogg
Reporter:
Mark Rogerson
Reporter:
Francine Stock
Editor:
Jonathan Crane

Ever since Dracula, bats have had a bad press and been falsely accused of spreading disease, fouling our lofts and catching in ladies' hair. This film, to celebrate the end of National Bat Year, shows how, in truth, all British bats are soft, warm, harmless and intelligent little mammals with the friendly habit of consuming millions of insect pests every night. Stunning photography reveals how bats navigate in the dark, bring up their young, catch moths in acrobatic flight and survive the rigours of winter, and why, when a new estate was built in a Yorkshire village, the local bats moved straight in. With numbers still declining rapidly, well-known 'batman'

Bob Stebbings shows how new research and elaborate conservation measures might just save our much-maligned bats for the future.

BBC Bristol
Feature: page 14
Info, page 77 and Woddis On: page 81

Contributors

Presenter:
Bob Stebbings
Narrator:
Andrew Sachs
Photography:
Peter Smithson
Photography:
Andrew Dunn
Photography:
Jim Saunders
Film Editor:
Colin Cradock
Writer/Producer:
Mike Salisbury
Series Editor:
Peter Jones

Cliff Thorburn, ranked No 2, is the current title-holder. He also won the Masters in 1985, so this year he will be trying to make it three in a row.

His opponent is Rex Williams, ranked No 16, who recently came very close to winning the Grand Prix.

David Icke introduces coverage of this best-of-nine-frames match from the Wembley Conference Centre.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Icke
Snooker player:
Cliff Thorburn
Snooker player:
Rex Williams
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Commentator:
Jack Karnehm
Commentator:
Clive Everton
Summariser:
John Spencer
Summariser:
John Virgo
Summariser:
Jim Meadowcroft
Television Presentation:
Alan Griffiths
Television Presentation:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Mackenzie

Ludovic Kennedy presents his selection of the week's TV and reviews three programmes with his studio guests.

And from croquet to clay-pigeon shooting, via Sumo wrestling and synchronised swimming, armchair athletes are offered an ever-increasing range of television games. Jimmy Mulville investigates.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Reporter:
Jimmy Mulville
Producer:
Charles Miller

A film by Simon Gray

Starring Bob Peck as James, Miranda Richardson as Penny, Barry Foster as Derek
with Gary Waldhom and Mary Miller

'What's happened to Pilkington, our vanishing Don?'
The exciting rediscovery of a childhood sweetheart draws James into a tangle of misunderstanding, intrigue and murder.

Films: page 18 and Feature: page 82
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Simon Gray
Designer:
Graeme Thomson
Film Editor:
Dan Rae
Photography:
Andrew Dunn
Producer:
Kenith Trodd
Director:
Christopher Morahan
James:
Bob Peck
Penny:
Miranda Richardson
Derek:
Barry Foster
Amanda:
Reina James
Boris:
Gary Waldhorn
Young Penny:
Sarah Butler
Young James:
Richard Grant
Wilkins:
Richard Brenner
Deidre Pilkington:
Mary Miller
Pilkington:
Derek Ware
Doctor:
Nigel Nevinson
Pottsy:
John Gill

BBC Two England

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