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The opening session live from Blackpool of the 119th Annual Congress, including the presidential address by Fred Jarvis , General
Secretary of the National Union of Teachers.
Commentators Vivian White and Nicholas Jones Editor PHILIP CAMPBELL
A See-Saw programme
Ready for a walk in the jungle? ...but keep a look out for wild animals!
With Chloe Ashcroft and Don Spencer
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Moto-cross 1965
'... It's Dave Bickers. ... it's Jeff Smith. ... it's Murray Walker with moto-cross.'
Series producer JEFF GOODARD (R)
The Future of the Unions in Britain
This is the key note debate for the week on the unions' role, shape and value in society.
Commentators Vivian White and Nicholas Jones including at
3.00 News and Weather and 4.00 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
Eric Robson introduces a selection of the best of BBC Newcastle's documentary film series.
Boys with the White Stuff
In 1964, a horse called Santa Claus won the Derby. It also won Tim Doody from
Limerick enough cash to buy a wagon and start painting white lines on our roads.
Written and produced by DAVID BEAN
Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK
Distracted
Tymes Roundhpads and Cavaliers lay siege to Lincoln Castle dunng a spectacular battle recreated by the English Civil War Society. With authentic costumes and real gunpowder, they spend their weekends living the life of the 17th century, but for some it's more than a hobby. Producer ROGER KEECH
Film editor STEPHEN TURNER (R)
opens a season featuring the famous sleuth, starring George Sanders Sally Gray
The suave
Simon Templar - alias 'the Saint' - is back on homeground in this lively London-based thriller.
Currency fraud, a couple of murders and much skulduggery keep Templar on his toes, until right triumphs and the gentlemanly detective can rest on his laurels.
Screenplay by LYNN ROOT and FRANK FONTON from the LESLIE CHARTERIS story The Million Pound Day
Produced by WILLIAM SISTROM
Directed hy JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS
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Canadian immigrants
Antanas and Anastasia Tamosaitis work hard to keep the folk art and legends of their native Lithuania alive in their paintings, tapestries, sculptures and dance. Every summer their home becomes a place of pilgrimage for young
Canadian-born Lithuanians. Written, produced and directed by RAMUNA MACDONALD (R)
The whole of tonight's concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London, in which composers from America, France, Russia, Denmark and Finland are represented in music full of vivid imagery. Concert suites from ballets by Shostakovich and Prokofiev underline the dance theme running through this year's Proms.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, led by Felix Kok, conducted by Simon Rattle with the celebrated Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom in evocative folk songs from the Auvergne and a rarely-heard setting by Sibelius of a fantastic Finnish legend. Introduced by Michael Berkeley
Gershwin Cuban Overture
Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne (selection)
Shostakovich The Age of Gold (suite)
Elisabeth Soderstrom - one of the greatest living operatic actresses, and a favourite with British audiences - talks to Michael Berkeley about her passionate commitment to opera and the concert hall.
Including excerpts from some of her memorable television performances.
Director KRISS RUSMANis
Subtitles by GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
Sound JOHN CAULFIELD (Television) MIKE LUCOCK (Radio 3)
Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER Executive producer KENNETH CORDEN
Directed by RODNEY GREENBERG
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
Screenplay by JOHN ELLIOT and MARTIN BOOTH with and When the tigers in the hills of Kumaon turn from their natural prey to taking human life, the villagers send for help to naturalist and big-game hunter Jim Corbett. Sickened by the slaughter for sport, Corbett has swapped his rifle for a cine camera and is faced with an agonising decision: to save the lives of Indian villagers he has grown up with, or to destroy the animals he has now dedicated his life to protecting.
Music TERRY OLDFIELD
Produced by RANI DUBE . PETER JONES Directed by ALEX KIRBY A Natural World Special
The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow, Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with reports from around Britain by Ian Smith
Chris Lowe and Nick Worrall.
King Cotton's Palace was Manchester's Victorian town hall, commissioned to portray the pride and ambition of this Victorian boom city. and paid for by wealth generated by the mills, canals and railways.
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