6.25 Instruments Under Wraps
6.50 Talking Turtle: Computers in the Classroom
7.40 Mechanical Design in Lifts
8.05 Warfare and Welfare
8.30 Geology: Britain Before Man
8.55 Physics of White Dwarf Stars
9.20 Budgeting for Europe's Jobless
9.45 Biology, Brain and Behaviour
10.10 The Novel and Television (2)
10.35 The Piazza della Signoria
11.00 Attitudes - the Second Handicap
11.25 Music: Instrumentation
11.50 Education: Open Skies, Grass Roots (2)
12.15 Maths: Energy Through the Window
12.40 The Hole Design Story
1.05 The Changing Countryside
1.30 Modern Art: Duchamp
1.55 Oil - Where from Next?
2.20 Introductory Electronics
2.45 Head Start: Children of the Dream
Novelist Salman Rushdie talks about his work and reads extracts from his new book The Satanic Verses, due out this week.
Network East also investigates the growing problem of gang warfare among Asian youth in Birmingham. Plus an interview with Bombay sex symbol Mandakini.
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX Producer NARINDER MINHAS
Series producer NARENDHRA MORAR (Salman Rushdie appears on 'Angels and Devils Friday 7.30pm BBC2)
starring
John Clements
Ralph Richardson 'There's no place in England for a coward,' young
Harry Faversham is told.
Ten years later Harry and his three boyhood friends ready themselves to fight under Kitchener in Egypt. But
Harry believes he should stay and care for his wife and receives a white feather from each of his comrades. To prove them wrong he departs for the desert, in disguise ...
Screenplay by R.c . SHERIFF from the novel by A.E.W. MASON Produced by ALEXANDER KORDA Directed by ZOLTAN KORDA (Korda classic: 'The Scarlet
Pimpernel' Thursday 6.00pm BBC2) ● FILMS: page 42
First of two films
Into the Torture Chamber
WINSTON CHURCHILL dismissed television as 'a tuppenny Punch and Judy show';
HAROLD MACMILLAN thought that its studios were '20th-century torture chambers'. Tonight's film, shown at the height of the Party Conference season, documents some of the early faltering steps, sometimes hilarious sometimes tragic. Learn how Eden was rehearsed word-by-word for a 'spontaneous interview', and why HAROLD WILSON was told to puff a pipe on camera.
Reporter Michael Cockerell Totally absorbing programme. chock full of good anecdotes
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Fascinating, witty and illuminating
EVENING STANDARD
Producer SALLY DOGANIS (R)
with Moira Stuart
Laurie Mayer reviews the week with subtitles. Followed by Weather
Introduced by Beverly Sills Last month at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, an audience of 10,000 assembled to salute
America's grand old man of music, who began his studies at Tanglewood in 1940 and still returns every year to teach and conduct.
Television cameras were there to record some of the highlights of an epic evening. Among the guests were old friends from every branch of musical life including: Patty Austin Lauren Bacall
Victor Borge
Barbara Hendricks
Christa Ludwig
Yo Yo Ma, Midori Mstislav Rostropovich
Frederica von Stade
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL
CHORUS, director John Oliver
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductors SEIJI OZAWA ,
JOHN WILLIAMS , MICHAEL
TILSON THOMAS , JOHN MAUCERI Gala written and produced by HUMPHREY BURTON
TV director KIRK BROWNING Television production MICHAEL BRONSON
THOMAS P. SKINNER
An ITCC/UNITEL production
('Breast of Peacock.... Apple Pie' tomorrow 6.30pm BBC2; Bernstein's 'Candide' next Saturday with Radio
* FEATURE: page 7
World Beat 2
Rhythms of the World continues its survey of world music with 16 different performances ranging from South Africa to Chicago, Cuba to China and Spain to Senegal. The programme is introduced by David Byrne of Talking Heads, who throughout his career has collaborated with musicians from all over the world. The richness and diversity of traditional popular music across the globe is represented in tonight's programme by such artists as Arrow from Montserrat, Caetano from Brazil,
Abdullah Ibrahim from South Africa,
Juan Villar from Spain and Arturo Sandoval from Cuba.
Research FRANCIS HANLY Production KATE MEYNELL and TRISH STEPHENSON
Series editors NIGEL FINCH and ANTHONY WALL
('Africa Meets the Blues' tomorrow at
8.05pm)
Bike Boys
Film critic Neil Norman introduces the original controversial 50s biker movie, together with a stylish homage from the 80s.
The Wild One starring
Marlon Brando Lee Marvin
The Black Rebels are a gang of 40 leather-jacketed motorcyclists who are a law unto themselves. When they terrorise the small town of Wrightsville, their leader Johnny becomes interested in the strong-minded girl working behind the bar.
Based on a real incident, this film helped create the Brando legend and was banned in this country for 16 years.
Screenplay by JOHN PAXTON based on a story by FRANK ROONEY Produced by STANLEY KRAMER Directed by LASLO BENEDEK (Blackandwhite) and at 11.35pm
The Loveless starring
Willem Dafoe Robert Gordon
1959: Vance, lone motorcyclist, joins a group of bikers at a small-town diner where they kill time by making repairs in preparation for the Florida Races. But the locals resent their presence and are quite prepared to resort to violence.
This stylish tribute to the era of The Wild
One was co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow , maker of the recent vampire movie Near Dark.
Produced by GRAFTON NUNES and A. KITMAN HO
Written and directed by KATHRYN BIGELOW and MONTY MONTGOMERY
(First showing on British television)
* IN THE PICTURE: page 42
