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Frankenstein's Quest:
The Development of Life by Professor Lewis Wolpert , FRS Lecture 3: The Right Stuff
The egg from which we grow is very dull compared with the nerve, muscle, bone and liver cells to which it gives rise. Why do some cells produce insulin - others blood? (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Lewis Wolpert

Introduced by Hugh Scully
A visit to Dunfermline where the experts find curiosities, including valuable porcelain plaques and a Japanese icon discovered in a junk shop. Director ROY CHAPMAN
Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS BBC Bristol (R)
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Hugh Scully
Director:
Roy Chapman
Producer:
Christopher Lewis

Portrait of a Decade
The Dawn of Tomorrow The supremacy of the western powers appears in the 1930s eternal. But in Asia and Africa there are already signs of a future 'Third World'. With European culture and administration superimposed on traditional societies, what will emerge? Commentary by David Swift English language production by HENRY FOSTER
Written and produced by DIETER FRANCK

Contributors

Commentary By:
David Swift
Production By:
Henry Foster
Produced By:
Dieter Franck

Starring Peter Graves as Jim Phelps, Leonard Nimoy as Paris, Greg Morris as Barney, Peter Lupus as Willy

Jim takes some artistic licence and the rest of the IMF become clock watchers when a nuclear reactor is transformed into a time bomb and threatens to trigger a global atomic war.
(R)

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Playdon
Director:
Murray Golden
Jim Phelps:
Peter Graves
Paris:
Leonard Nimoy
Barney:
Greg Morris
Willy:
Peter Lupus

In this week's match for the Whyte and Mackay Scotch Trophy, former England skipper Kevin Keegan teams up with Tony Jacklin , while Sean Connery joins Gary Player.
Both celebrities enjoy plenty of practice in the warm sunshine of Spain. Kevin
Keegan lives only a few miles from Tony's San Roque golf course, and Sean Connery 's home in Aloa virtually overlooks the fairways. He even has a hole - 'El 007' - named after him.
For today's match though, it's back to the Scottish coast where Peter Alliss describes the action over nine selected holes of the Ailsa Course at the Turnberry Hotel.
Assistant producer BARBARA SLATER Television presentation
FRED VINER. ALASTAIR SCOTT Producer HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Jacklin
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Fred Viner.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Harold Anderson

Between Frank Muir
Patricia Hodge , Tim Rice and Arthur Marshall Sheila Steafel
McDonald Hobley
Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Directed by BRUCE MILLAR Producer PAUL CIANI

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Patricia Hodge
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Mark Goodson
Directed By:
Bruce Millar
Producer:
Paul Ciani

The Million-Pound Grave
In the summer of 1939, three men from Suffolk made one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the British Isles - the discovery of a spectacular hoard of royal regalia buried in the midst of the ghost outline of a great wooden ship. The Sutton Hoo treasure is now one of the show pieces of the British Museum and has been the subject of 20 years of analysis and research. First shown in August 1965, tonight's film brought Sutton Hoo to an immense audience. It is the unchanging and fascinating story of that incredible discovery as told by the excavators themselves - a timeless story which loses nothing in its retelling. Introduced by Sir David Wilson
Dr Rupert Bruce Mitford Original 1965 narrator Nicholas Thomas
Original 1965 production: PAUL JOHNSTONE Revised version:
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sutton Hoo
Unknown:
Sutton Hoo
Introduced By:
Sir David Wilson
Introduced By:
Dr Rupert Bruce Mitford
Narrator:
Nicholas Thomas
Unknown:
Paul Johnstone
Producer:
Bruce Norman
Producer:
Ray Sutcliffe

Last in the series by BERNARD FARRELL and GRAHAM REID , starring
Dan Gordon , Colum Convey Hilary Reynolds Maeve Germaine in Distant Bells
Music by KEN HOWARD
Lighting director RON BRISTOW DesignerJIM GRANT
Produced and directed by SYDNEY LOTTERBY

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Farrell
Unknown:
Graham Reid
Unknown:
Dan Gordon
Music By:
Ken Howard
Director:
Ron Bristow
Designer:
Jim Grant
Directed By:
Sydney Lotterby
Tom:
Dan Gordon
Alex:
Colum Convey
Roisin:
Hilary Reynolds
Septa:
Maeve Germaine
Mrs Fogarty:
Eileen Colgan
Dermot:
Barry McGovern
Harry:
John Hewitt
Madge:
Trudy Kelly
Soup:
Louis Rolston
Elaine:
Catherine Brennan
Carol:
Tracey Lynch
Barman:
George Shane

A series of films about the way we live now. The Mighty Leek
Now spring is here, they're planting out championship leeks throughout Durham and Northumberland. It's a sport in which competition is keen and sabotage is a real threat.
And there is one event every leek man dreams of winning - The World Open Leek Championship.
Harry Bone , a retired shipbuilder, was last year's champion but he's a relative newcomer to leeks.
Can he and his wife Joan retain the title?
Joe Jones is 72, the grand old man of leek growing. Two years ago his crop failed. Will his old-fashioned methods help him regain the trophy? Bob Bell, once a pitman, has never won the show, but this year he expects great things from his WRSL (World
Record Super-Leek). While his wife Betty goes on holiday to Spain, Bob patiently watches his leek beds. Will this be Bob's big year? On the great day there are disasters and triumphs. And the drama does not end there....
Photography RICHARD RANKEN
Sound recordist JOHN STEPHENSON Film editor ROY SHARMAN Director JOHN ALEXANDER Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Bone
Unknown:
Richard Ranken
Unknown:
John Stephenson
Editor:
Roy Sharman
Director:
John Alexander
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

as Sergeant Bilko Mink Incorporated
With$100 missing from the treasury, Bilko schemes to get the money back with a pair of mink who are just bound to breed and breed ... Produced by NAT HIKEN Directed by AL DE CAPRIO (R)

Contributors

Produced By:
Nat Hiken
Directed By:
Al de Caprio

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , ADRIAN MILNE Producer DIANA MORTON
EAMONN MATTHEWS. NIGEL CHAPMAN Deputy editor PHILIP CAMPBELL Editor TOM ORCHARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Unknown:
Adrian Milne
Producer:
Diana Morton
Unknown:
Eamonn Matthews.
Unknown:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
Philip Campbell

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