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This morning Harrogate sees the start of the 1988 Lombard RAC Rally. Over the next five days the 180 competitors will travel 2,000 miles around Britain.
William Woollard introduces live coverage of the third special stage from Rudding Park in Yorkshire with commentary from
BARRIE GILL and TONY MASON. (Highlights at 11.35pm)

Contributors

Introduces:
William Woollard
Unknown:
Barrie Gill
Unknown:
Tony Mason.

DEF Us current affairs magazine is updated this lunchtime with a fast and eclectic mix of news, issues, fashion, sport and music. Each week a live outside broadcast is featured with a phone poll that lets viewers decide on important issues. Executive producer
JANET STREET-PORTER BBC Manchester
(Revised repeat of last Wednesday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Street-Porter

A series of 13 programmes presented by Colin Blakemore
9: The Living Word
Professor Blakemore volunteers to have his brain scanned at the Hammersmith Hospital where researchers are trying to understand human language.
Executive editor (WNET) RICHARD HUTTON
Series producer MARTIN FREETH

Contributors

Presented By:
Colin Blakemore
Producer:
Martin Freeth

Mike Gibson
Gibson was capped 69 times by Ireland, and gained 12 more as a British Lion. This quiet, self-effacing man was said by one astute New Zealand critic to be the complete rugby player.
Certainly he had an uncanny perception of a game, and found opportunity where lesser mortals would have seen none.
And at 43, he was still fit enough to turn out for the odd club match.
Barry Davies talked to him at his Belfast home. Film editor DAVE GOOD
Producer JEFF GODDARD (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Gibson
Unknown:
Barry Davies

A Policewoman's Lot
This film tells the story of women police officers: Louise Ross , kicked unconscious by a gang;
Sheena Thomas , a sergeant at 27, who faces Chief
Constable Geoffrey Dear after holding the line during a tense demonstration;
Inspector Eileen Jones , the only woman in the firearms containment team; and Pamela Burrell , beat car driver in Handsworth. Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM
40 Minutes editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Ross
Unknown:
Sheena Thomas
Unknown:
Geoffrey Dear
Unknown:
Eileen Jones
Unknown:
Pamela Burrell
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff

starring
Susan Hampshire Nigel Davenport
When Elsa the lioness and her three cubs are left to survive in the wild, they begin attacking livestock and are about to be destroyed. Desperate to save their favourite animals and transfer them to the Serengeti National Park, Joy and George Adamson give up their time and jobs in an arduous race against time. A colourful sequel to Born Free.
Screenplay by MILLARD KAUFMAN
Based on the book by JOY ADAMSON Produced by PAUL RADIN
Directed by JACK COUFFER 0 FILMS: page 35

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hampshire
Unknown:
Nigel Davenport
Unknown:
George Adamson
Play By:
Millard Kaufman
Book By:
Joy Adamson
Produced By:
Paul Radin
Directed By:
Jack Couffer
Joy Adamson:
Susan Hampshire
George Adamson:
Nigel Davenport
Kendall:
Geoffrey Keen
Weaver:
Edward Judd
NUTU:
Peter Lukoye
Makedde:
Shane de Louvre
Collins:
Robert Beaumont
Bank manager:
Nobby Noble
Bank clerk:
Aludin Quershi
Herbert Baker:
Charles Hayes
Mrs Baker:
Jean Hayes

Pléiades
Two Americans, two Swedes and three Britons came together earlier this year during Percussion 88 to rehearse and perform one of the masterpieces of percussion music, Pléiades, by lannis Xenakis. For four days they worked to overcome the complex musical and logistical demands of the piece and Xenakis himself describes the background to one of the great landmarks of percussion repertoire.
Videotape editor LAIN HARKNESS Series editor KEITH ALEXANDER Producer HILARY BOULDING BBC Scotland

Contributors

Editor:
Keith Alexander
Producer:
Hilary Boulding

THE WALLABIES play SCOTLAND in the second international of their tour; BATH, current leaders of the Courage League, play host to ORRELL; and in Wales it's the minnows versus the whales in the Schweppes Cup - PYLE V CARDIFF.
Introduced by Chris Rea
Commentator BILL MCLAREN
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH and ALAN WILKINS Executive producer
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Rea
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Unknown:
Alan Wilkins
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston

A series of 13 programmes 5: Fish
Albert and Michel Roux join forces this week to argue about where the best fish comes from, why Michel is so much slower than Albert and why Michel should not interfere when Albert is trying to finish a recipe.
Director SARAH NOVELLO RUCKLEY Producer JILL MARSHALL
A HAWKSHEADIFRANCES WHITAKER production for BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Michel Roux
Director:
Sarah Novello
Producer:
Jill Marshall
Unknown:
Hawksheadifrances Whitaker

Cleaner Cars
Next week the EEC will set new limits for pollution from small cars. Some European governments are lining up to protect their domestic car industries from tough environmental regulations, for fear of losing position in this highly competitive market. Ian Smith reports on how a short-sighted view by European governments now may deliver the European car market into the hands of the Japanese and the Americans after 1992.
Producer JILL ROBINSON Editor DAVID NISSAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Smith
Producer:
Jill Robinson

In the week that marks the anniversary of President
Kennedy's death in Dallas 25 years ago, BBC2 presents the first of two remarkable documentaries which pioneered the techniques of cinéma-vérité to capture
Kennedy on film. In Primary, being shown for the first time on British television, the cameras of LEACOCK,
PENNEBAKER, and MAYSLES follow the young senator from Massachusetts through public meetings, winter landscapes and screaming crowds, as he runs for
President in the Wisconsin Primary Election against
SENATORHUBERTH. HUMPHREY Executive producer ROBERT DREW Cameramen RICHARD LEACOCK
D.A. PENNEBAKER, ALBERT MAYSLES (Tomorrow night at 11.20pm on BBC2: John F. Kennedy - Crisis') (This programme replaces 'The
Natural World' re/erred to in 'Catch This!' page 117)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Leacock
Unknown:
Albert Maysles
Unknown:
John F. Kennedy

Seventh of ten programmes introduced by Joan Bakewell
Another legendary figure reveals the private side to his public face. This week it is the American black activist Martin Luther King , who was assassinated in 1968. He was 32 at the time of the interview, but already a leader hugely admired - or hated - for demanding equality, justice and freedom for blacks.
Producer HUGH BURNETT (R) revised

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Martin Luther King
Producer:
Hugh Burnett

A series of eight films examining the way women's lives have changed in the 20th century. 7: Her Indoors
'It was stultifying. I had the feeling, is this it?'
A housewife in the 1950s recalls her anger at being expected to be content busying herself around the house all day.
Over the century families have become smaller and household gadgets more efficient. Women now question whether being a wife and mother is quite enough. As more and more women go out to work, how much has really changed at home?
Film editor CHRIS WOOLLEY
Producer OLIVIA LICHTENSTEIN
Series producer ANGELA HOLDSWORTH

Contributors

Editor:
Chris Woolley
Producer:
Olivia Lichtenstein
Producer:
Angela Holdsworth

Personal views on architecture and the environment
A Modernist View
Richard Rogers - designer of such buildings as Lloyds of London and the Pompidou
Centre in Paris believes that architecture should reflect the age in which it is built. He sees his architecture as part of a cultural and political movement that is progressive, optimistic and humane. He deplores how
Britain seems to have lost its nerve and is beginning to design buildings based on the traditions of the past, thereby obliterating the present.
He goes to Paris and looks at the confidence of their great new building schemes encouraged by President Mitterand and analyses his own work at the Pompidou Centre ten years after its opening. And in Florence he considers the classical inspiration behind much of his own work and that of Brunelleschi and the Italian Renaissance. Film cameraman JOHN GOODYER
Film editor ANDREW PAGE Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Producer JULIA CAVE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rogers
Unknown:
John Goodyer
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Producer:
Julia Cave

New directions from the latest generation of movie-makers.
Starring
Louise Lasser Reed Birney
As a car full of nuns races through Detroit, Vic Ajax awaits execution.
Proclaiming his innocence, Vie recalls the incredible events that led to Death Row; a giant rat, a pair of hired killers, a car chase and a damsel in distress. A surreal mix of 40s film noir and 80s black humour played at breathtaking speed from the director of The Evil Dead.
Screenplay by JOEL COEN
ETHAN COEN and SAM RAIMI Produced by ROBERT TAPERT Directed by SAM RAIMI
(First showing on British television)
0 FILMS: page 35
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Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Lasser
Unknown:
Reed Birney
Unknown:
Vic Ajax
Play By:
Joel Coen
Unknown:
Ethan Coen
Unknown:
Sam Raimi
Produced By:
Robert Tapert
Directed By:
Sam Raimi
Helene Trend:
Louise Lasser
Faron Crush:
Paul Smith
Arthur Coddish:
Brion James
Nancy:
Sheree J Wilson
Trend:
Edward R Pressman
Renaldo 'The Heel':
Bruce Campbell
ViC Ajax:
Reed Birney
Brennan:
Richard Bright
Blind man:
Antonio Fargas
Donald Odegard:
Hamid Dana
Mr Yarman:
John Hardy
Colonel Rodgers:
Emil Sitka
Jack Elroy:
Hal Youngblood

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