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6.50 Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton

7.40 Engineering Mechanics: Statics

8.5 The Gun Industry

8.30 Science and Belief: Lord Kelvin's Clock

8.55 Sociology: The Home - Castle or Cage?

9.20 The Making of the Open University

9.45 Neurophysiology

10.10 Stereochemistry: Configurations

10.35 The Madonna di San Biagio

11.0 Ethnic Minorities: Punjab to Britain

11.25 South Riding

11.50 Music: Cadences

12.15 Education: After the Act

12.40 The Shape of Things to Come

1.5 Cropping the Countryside

1.30 Modern Art: Seurat

Jeremy James introduces the last of the six Grand Masters in the OHRA Tournament - Lajos Portisch from Hungary meets his old sparring partner Viktor Korchnoi, with comments on the moves by Bill Hartston.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy James
Chess player:
Lajos Portisch
Chess player:
Viktor Korchnoi
Commentary:
Bill Hartston
Videotape Editor:
John Paroussi
Producer:
Wendy Sturgess

starring Bette Davis Charles Boyer Paris, 1849: the arrival of a young governess at the home of the Due and Duchesse de Praslin marks the beginning of a story which will include love, jealousy, suicide and murder.
Screenplay by CASEY ROBINSON
Based on the novel by RACHEL FIELD Directed by ANATOLE LITVAK
● FILMS: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Bette Davis
Unknown:
Casey Robinson
Novel By:
Rachel Field
Directed By:
Anatole Litvak
Henriette:
Bette Davis
Due de Praslin:
Charles Boyer
Henry Martyn Field:
Jeffrey Lynn
Duchesse de Praslin:
Barbara O'Neill
Louise:
Virginia Weidler
Mme LeMaire:
Helen Westley
Pasquier:
Walter Hampden
Broussais:
Henry Daniell
Pierre:
Harry Davenport

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
The first semi-final continues this afternoon. The holders DAVID BRYANT and TONY ALLCOCK should be on the mat, but their opponents are difficult to assess. Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Bournemouth International Centre. Commentators
DAVID RHYS-JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON Summarisers
MAL HUGHES ,DAVID MCGILL Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Bryant
Unknown:
Tony Allcock
Introduced By:
David Icke
Unknown:
David Rhys-Jones
Unknown:
Jimmy Davidson
Unknown:
Mal Hughes
Unknown:
David McGill
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie.
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

Michael Clark is by turns adulated and abominated - all in the name of dance. His latest production, No Fire Escape in Hell, was keenly awaited and has since gone on a successful world tour.
This film follows the build-up to opening night and features powerful scenes from the finished performance.
Photography GARRY MORRISON Film editor ROBERT BURNETT Producer KEITH ALEXANDER Director MIKE BARNES

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Clark
Unknown:
Garry Morrison
Editor:
Robert Burnett
Producer:
Keith Alexander
Director:
Mike Barnes

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
The second semi-final starts this evening and it's a wide open field. Will it be
PHIL SKOGLUND and PETER BELLISS , the experienced pair from
New Zealand, or the youngest pairing in the tournament, ANGUS BLAIR and RICHARD CORSIE ? Introduced by DAVID ICKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Skoglund
Unknown:
Peter Belliss
Unknown:
Angus Blair
Unknown:
Richard Corsie
Introduced By:
David Icke

The last programme in the series presented by Russell Davies
Film: David Lynch 's films are not normal. Since his directorial debut with Erazerhead, his films, including Elephant Man, have been much debated. His latest work Blue Velvet promises to arouse controversy. Is it a cult classic or a pornographic shocker?
Theatre: Barcelona is currently producing some of the most exciting theatre in Europe. The latest production from the La Cubana company is a version of The Tempest which will be arriving for the London International Festival of Theatre this summer.
Art: in the week that the new Clore extension opens at the Tate Gallery, Saturday Review also visits the Southampton City Art
Gallery to ask the museum attendants how they regard the art - and the audience - of which they are the keepers. Directors ANDREW EATON
ADAM GANZ. DAISY GOODWIN ProducerKEVIN LOADER Editor JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
David Lynch
Directors:
Andrew Eaton
Unknown:
Adam Ganz.
Unknown:
Daisy Goodwin
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Editor:
John Archer

Dramatised in three parts by Philip Broadley
Starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane
with Margaretta Scott and Richard Morant

The famous mystery writer Harriet Vane goes on trial for her life. Did she or did she not poison her lover, Philip Boyes ?
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Author:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dramatised by:
Philip Broadley
Producer:
Michael Chapman
Director:
Christopher Hodson
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Edward Petherbridge
Harriet Vane:
Harriet Walter
[Actress]:
Margaretta Scott
[Actor]:
Richard Morant

Derek Malcolm introduces an unusual and compelling thriller from leading Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni

Starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider
Stranded in a remote desert outpost in Chad, television reporter David Locke returns to his hotel and finds a fellow guest has died of a heart attack. Impulsively he changes identity with the man, leaving for London to follow 'Robertson's' itinerary. The complications of his new identity become more dangerous as Locke/Robertson moves slowly towards an inevitable fate.
This mesmerising film is one of Antonioni's later masterpieces.

Films: page 29

Contributors

Presenter (The Film Club):
Derek Malcolm
Screenplay:
Mark Peploe
Screenplay:
Peter Wollen
Screenplay/Director:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Producer:
Carlo Ponti
David Locke:
Jack Nicholson
Girl:
Maria Schneider
Rachel Locke:
Jenny Runacre
Martin Knight:
Ian Hendry
Stephen:
Stephen Berkoff
Achebe:
Ambrose Bia
Hotelkeeper:
Jose Maria Cafarel
Witch doctor:
James Campbell
German stranger:
Manfred Spies
Murderer:
Jean Baptiste Tiemele
Police inspector:
Angel Del Pozo
Robertson:
Claude Mulvehill

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