12.15 Caring for Older People: Sharing a House

12.40 Planning a Happy Birth

1.05 The Changing Countryside: The Last Ditch

Presented by Valerie Vaz and Samantha Meah
Producer NARINDER MINHAS
Series producer NARENDHRA MORAR Executive producer JOHN WILCOX

David Robinson, film critic of the Times, introduces a controversial Soviet film.

Starring Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Kira Muratova

Kira Muratova 's third film, a lyrical love story, was shelved for 20 years by the Soviet authorities. Her trio of bohemian lovers contravened the conventions of the time. The film also marked the debut of Nina Ruslanova (who can be seen in tonight's Film Club in her latest film) and of Vladimir Vysotsky, the protest singer whose tragically early death left a nation in mourning.
Screenplay by KIRA MURATOVA and LEONID ZHUKOVITSKY
Directed by KIRA MURATOVA
(A Soviet film with English subtitles) (First showing on British television) (Black and white)
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starring
Robert Armstrong Helen Mack
After King Kong has wrecked New York, producer Carl Denham has to flee from his creditors. Back on Skull
Island, Denham and his band of treasure hunters rescue
Kong's son from a quicksand bog. Thereafter, Prince Kong becomes an ally in their search for a hoard of long-lost jewels guarded by age-old monsters.
Screenplay by RUTH ROSE
Produced by MERION C. COOPER
Directed by ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK (Blackandwhite)
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The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship Thirty-two bowlers set out today with the same ambition - to win the UK
Indoor Singles Championship. A total prize money of E34,000 is to be shared, with the champion receiving £8,000.
The title-holder is 27-year-old Welshman, STEPHEN REES and he begins his defence this afternoon against
ROD MCCUTCHEON from Ireland.
In this championship are four crown green bowlers, and TONY POOLE will be anxious to be the first of them to progress into the second round. DAVID ICKE introduces coverage of the opening matches from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Television presentation
MIKE ADLEY , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS BBC North West

Canberra World Bridge Tournament
Presented by Clare Harrison The Canberra continues its cruise of the Norwegian fjords, and the rubber bridge tournament is well under way. Four world-class players are competing for a cash prize and a top international trophy. They are:
TONY FORRESTER from Britain sami KEHELA from Canada
ZIA MAHMOOD from Pakistan p. o. SUNDELIN from Sweden
Bridge expert Jeremy Flint is the commentator, providing in-depth analysis of selected hands.
Problem 2
This week's problem is a bidding problem.
As South you hold the following hand:
What should you bid now? Jeremy Flint 's answer is in the next programme. Director LINDA MCCARTHY Producer DAVID MITCHELL BBCElstree

Christopher Jones reports on the week's proceedings in the House of Lords and questions Government Ministers and Opposition Peers.
Editor KAROLYN SHINDLER

with Moira Stuart
Christopher Morris reviews the week - with subtitles
Weather

The last in the present series Presented by Susan Hicks
Not so long ago, salmon and trout were strictly for high days and holidays. Now they are farmed and are cheap enough for everyday eating. And if you are economising at the moment, Denis Curtis shows you how to make a stylish fish dinner party for only E2.50 a head. Or perhaps you would prefer fresh pike braised in riesling?
Series producer RON BLOOMFLELD Produced by ANNE O'DWYER
* RECIPE TIMES: page 94
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The last of a series of five programmes specially recorded for television. Balanchine
A second chance to see the major two-part American biography of George Balanchine , founder of the New York City Ballet, the greatest classical choreographer to have worked in the States...
These much acclaimed films, made after Balanchine's death in 1983, include interviews with the great names of the dance world including Dame Ninette de Valois remembering the Diaghilev years; rare film of Balanchine dancing and rehearsing; sequences with the great Stravinsky; and excerpts from a long list of his most famous ballets:
Apollo, Serenade, Agon, Four Temperaments, Chaconne, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and many others.
Among the dancers performing are: Mikhail Baryshnikov ,
Jacques D'Amboise , Suzanne Farrell , Peter Martins ,
Patricia McBride , Violette Verdy.
And in the first showing on British television of a rare interview with Jerome Robbins , he talks about the man he worked with closely for almost 30 years.
Introduced by Robert Cohan Film narrated by Frank Langella
Producer JUDY KINBERG
Directed by MERRILL BROCKWAY
Presented for BBCtv by COLIN NEARS

by OLIVIA MANNING
Screenplay in seven parts by ALAN PLATER
3: June 1940. To Harriet's intense annoyance, Prince Yakimov has taken up permanent residence in the Pringle flat while they secretly shelter
Sasha Drucker , who is in hiding from the Iron Guard. France has fallen and Romania is forging an alliance with the Germans.
Producer BETTY WILLINGALE Director JAMES CELLAN JONES
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David Robinson introduces the last in a short season of controversial Soviet films.
Sign of Disaster starring
Nina Ruslanova Gennady Garbuk
For Stepanida and her husband, being occupied by German troops is only the last of a series of battles.
The brutality of forced collectivisation, and the cynical collaboration of local fascists have already strengthened Stepanida's dogged determination to stand up for herself. Based on a recently published, best-selling novel, Sign of Disaster presents a radical reassessment of a little-known period of modern history and can be regarded as a milestone in Soviet cinema.
Screenplay by YEVGENI GRIGORYEV and OSKAI NIKICH
From the novel by VASIL BYKOV Directed by MIKHAIL PTASHUK
(A Soviet film with English subtitles. First showing on British television) Television presentation by JUDY ALPE. GILLIAN GEERING
NICK JONES and DAVID THOMPSON
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