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6.50 The Marriage of Figaro

7.15 Exmoor: A Self Portrait

7.40 Nuclear Weapons: Arms Control

8.5 Ceramics Under Stress

8.30 Graphs, Networks and Design

8.55 Culture and Community: Spain

9.20 Germinal by Emile Zola

9.45 English Romantic Poets in Italy

10.10 Organosilicon Compounds

10.35 Fountain and Grotto

11.0 Ethnic Minorities: To Bedford from Busso

11.25 Violent Galaxies

11.50 Einstein's General Relativity

12.15 Opening Doors

12.40 Learning from the Box

1.5 The Million Dollar Motor Car

1.30 Modern Art: Leger

1.55 Perceptions of the IMF

(to 14.20)

Thousands of teenagers applied to host the series. Hundreds asked for Jenny Powell and Tony Baker to be kept around, so they will be guiding 16 co-hosts through the next six months. Check out some of the brightest young faces in Britain, the greatest music in the world and No Limits inventor - J.K. himself.

BBC North West
Back Pages: 87

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenny Powell
Presenter:
Tony Baker
Associate Producer:
Jonathan King
Production:
Peter Hamilton

Starring Hugh Latimer, Patricia Cutts, John Penrose

The first of two BBC radio serial adaptations produced by Hammer in their early days. One night, on his regular London beat, Police Constable Archibald Berkeley Willoughby is witness to the robbery of a truck loaded with whisky and the shooting of a nightwatchman. In The Case of the Guardian Angel, PC49 is allowed by his superiors to don the mask of a dead villain and infiltrate the gang responsible...

Films: page 19

Contributors

Screenplay:
Alan Stranks
Screenplay:
Vernon Harris
Producer:
Anthony Hinds
Director:
Godfrey Grayson
PC49, Archibald Berkeley Willoughby:
Hugh Latimer
Joan:
Patricia Cutts
Barney:
John Penrose
Ma Brady:
Pat Nye
Carrots:
Annette Simmonds
Insp Wilson:
Arthur Brandler
Sgt Wright:
Eric Phillips
Skinny:
Martin Benson

Starring Don Stannard, George Ford, Jack Shaw

One of Hammer's first productions was this version of the classic radio serial, featuring the dauntless 'tec up against dastardly foreign agents. Barton, Jock and Snowey have their work cut out when the agents start placing germ-carrying bombs in Britain's water reservoirs.

Films: page 19

Contributors

Screenplay:
Alan Stranks
Screenplay:
Alfred Goulding
Producer:
Henry Halstead
Director:
Alfred Goulding
Dick Barton:
Don Stannard
Snowey White:
George Ford
Jock:
Jack Shaw
Jean Hunter:
Gillian Maude
Dr Caspar:
Geoffrey Wincott
Miss Horrock:
Beatrice Kane
Snub:
Ivor Danvers

danced by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Specially commissioned by BBC2 and shown on the eve of their first appearance at the Proms and season at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.

Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Sound score by John Cage

This new work, created specifically for television, is a brilliant addition to their collaborations. Tonight Cunningham dances in his own work and to introduce the programme he and Cage talk about the process of creation, from first rehearsals in New York to recording at Television Centre, London.

Dancers HELEN BARROW, MERCE CUNNINGHAM, VICTORIA FINLAYSON, ALAN GOOD, CATHERINE KERR, CHRIS KOMAR, DAVID KULICK, PATRICIA LENT, KAREN RADFORD, ROB REMLEY, KRISTY SANTIMYER, KEVIN SCHRODER, ROBERT SWINSTON, MEGAN WALKER, SUSAN QUINN YOUNG
Set designer BILL ANASTASI
Costume designer DOVE BRADSHAW
Television designer ERIC WALMSLEY
Camera supervisor RON GREEN
Sound supervisor BRENDAN SHORE
Lighting RON BRISTOW
Executive producer COLIN NEARS
Dance directed for television by MERCE CUNNINGHAM. ELLIOT CAPLAN
Producer BOB LOCKYER
0 FEATURE: page 85

Contributors

Choreography By:
Merce Cunningham
Unknown:
John Cage
Dancers:
Helen Barrow
Dancers:
Merce Cunningham
Dancers:
Victoria Finlayson
Unknown:
Alan Good
Unknown:
Catherine Kerr
Unknown:
Chris Komar
Unknown:
David Kulick
Unknown:
Patricia Lent
Unknown:
Karen Radford
Unknown:
Rob Remley
Unknown:
Kristy Santimyer
Unknown:
Kevin Schroder.
Unknown:
Robert Swinston
Unknown:
Megan Walker
Unknown:
Susan Quinn Young
Designer:
Bill Anastasi
Designer:
Dove Bradshaw
Designer:
Eric Walmsley
Unknown:
Ron Green
Unknown:
Brendan Shore
Unknown:
Ron Bristow
Producer:
Colin Nears
Television By:
Merce Cunningham.
Television By:
Elliot Caplan
Producer:
Bob Lockyer

Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Betty Grable

Song and dance man 'Bake' Baker joins the navy when his girlfriend, Sherry, walks out on him. But when the fleet's in port again he takes a few fancy steps to put things right and naturally all ends happily! Irving Berlin's classic songs include We saw the sea, Let yourself go, and Let's face the music and dance.

Films: page 19

Contributors

Screenplay:
Dwight Taylor
Screenplay:
Alan Scott
Based on the play "Shore Leave" by:
Hubert Osborne
Producer:
Pandro S. Berman
Director:
Mark Sandrich
'Bake' Baker:
Fred Astaire
Sherry:
Ginger Rogers
Bilge Smith:
Randolph Scott
Showgirl:
Betty Grable
Connie:
Harriet Nelson
Iris:
Astrid Allwyn
Captain Hickey:
Harry Beresford
Mr Nolan:
Russell Hicks
Sullivan:
Brooks Benedict

Amanda Barrie, Margaret Courtenay, Paul Eddington and Roy Hudd tell Glyn Worsnip about playing the Bard, treading the boards, and surviving theatrical digs - all part of a life On Stage

BBC Pebble Mill

Feature: page 15

Contributors

Presenter:
Glyn Worsnip
Interviewee:
Amanda Barrie
Interviewee:
Margaret Courtenay
Interviewee:
Paul Eddington
Interviewee:
Roy Hudd
Assistant Producer:
Patricia Mifflin
Assistant Producer:
Louis Robinson
Producer:
Juliet May

from Muirfield
Action from the third round of the Championship
Introduced by Harry Carpenter

Contributors

Introduced By:
Harry Carpenter
Commentator:
Peter Alliss
Commentator:
Clive Clark
Commentator:
Bruce Critchley
Commentator:
Alex Hay
Commentator:
Tony Jacklin
Commentator:
Mark McCormack

Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover

Professor Quatermass, hero of the popular 50s science-fiction TV series, is faced with a terrifying adversary of diabolic proportions. Building work on a London Underground extension unearths some unusual prehistoric remains and a strange rocket-like object that a bomb disposal expert deduces to be an unknown Nazi weapon. But Quatermass has other ideas about its origins...

Films: page 19

Contributors

Original story and screenplay:
Nigel Kneale
Producer:
Anthony Nelson
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Dr Roney:
James Donald
Quatermass:
Andrew Keir
Barbara Judd:
Barbara Shelley
Col Breen:
Julian Glover
Sladden:
Duncan Lamont
Capt Potter:
Bryan Marshall
Howell:
Peter Copley
Minister:
Edwin Richfield
Police Sgt Ellis:
Grant Taylor
Sgt Cleghorn:
Maurice Good
Watson:
Robert Morris
Journalist:
Sheila Steafel
Sapper West:
Hugh Futcher
Johnson:
Keith Marsh
Cpl Gibson:
James Culliford
Miss Dobson:
Bee Duffell

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