A Day in the Life
Second of two programmes. Perchance It Sleepeth
In 1935 the narrow gauge railway from Barnstaple to Lynton in North Devon was sold for scrap. Little now remains of the old line, yet its memory lives on. This film looks at some of the people keeping the spirit of the Lynton and Barnstaple alive. Written and narrated by Gwyn Richards
Producer ANDREW JOHNSTON BBC West (R)
How useful are computers to a designer? The answer may be found in the design of the Citroen AX and the new
Gatwick Airport terminal. Nigel Cross , head of the design discipline at the Open University investigates. Producer KEVIN NEWPORT A BBC OPEN UNIVERSITY Production (R)
Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia from Old Trafford. Second day.
Tony Lewis introduces live coverage of the whole of the morning's play. Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD
JACK BANNISTER
Summarisers RAY ILLINGWORTH
TOM GRAVENEY
Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. ALAN GRIFFITHS
Concorde Egypt
Bill Buckley catches
Concorde to view the most ancient of technical achievements, the pyramids. A supersonic weekend in which he travels at 23 miles a minute to go back 3,000 years. (R)
A See-Saw programme.
Written by John Cunliffe. (R)
Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia from Old Trafford. Second day.
Tony Lewis introduces live coverage of the afternoon's play.
Weather followed by Cricket and Racing
Fourth Test
Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia
Further coverage of the afternoon's play from Old Trafford.
Glorious Goodwood
2.30 Samsung Electronics Stakes (Handicap. 7f)
3.10 Extel Stakes (Handicap. 1m 2f)
Luca Cumani won this three years running, between 1984 and 1986. What will the Italian maestro conjure up this time?
3.40 Schroders Glorious Stakes (lm 4f)
4.10 Molecomb Stakes (5f) Introduced by Julian Wilson Commentator
PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
Producer (racing) BOB DUNCAN including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
continues a season of films starring Britain's most endearing film comedian. Also starring Kay Walsh. In this lively vehicle George plays a provincial photographer's assistant, who invents a camera so tiny that he can operate it from under his bow tie! Inevitably it leads to complications beginning when George becomes an ice-hockey referee!
Screenplay by ANTHONY KIMMINS and AUSTIN MELFORD
Produced by BASIL DEAN
Directed by ANTHONY KIMMINS
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The series where the public can make programmes under their own editorial control.
Make or Break
A young woman whose two daughters are being adopted against her wishes talks about her grief at losing them. A district nurse and grandmother, who spotted that her daughter-in-law needed help with her baby, approached the Social Services - she was devastated when the result was the child's adoption. The stories these people tell are subjective and powerful.
They are telling their side of an experience which is seldom given voice. Many of us might assume that a child in care who is adopted must have had parents who abused or neglected it.... and the Social Services had no choice.
That is not always the case. In the last ten years, compulsory adoption has risen sharply to 1,000 cases a year. That is three families a day separated for good despite parental objections.
The first of this new series of Open Space looks at how that can happen.
Cameraman MIKE ELEY Editor STEVE RONAY
Executive producer TONY LARYEA Producer LUCY PARKER
COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT
Over 40,000 premature and low-weight babies are born in Britain every year. Despite advances in medical science, many die because of a shortage of intensive care facilities and specialised nurses. At
Rush Green Hospital in Essex, they share the difficulties of the rest of the country but are trying a new approach to the problem, by inviting private industry to join them in saving lives. Reporter Penny Bustin Producer PATTI STEEPLES
BBC South and East - Norwich
with Geoff Hamilton
Roy Lancaster John Kelly from Barnsdale and Colchester.
'I use plants to paint the sky and ground - but the sky takes a little longer.' Chelsea gold-medal winner Beth Chatto has 'painted' with trees and plants a truly inspiring garden. Her eye for design, shape, colour and form have made her garden a feast for the eyes at almost any time of year. Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer MARK KERSHAW BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261
0 VIDEO: 'Organic Gardening - an Introduction available from retailers.
The Complete Story
Another opportunity to see Coppola's brilliant five-part adaptation of his two Oscar-winning films, inspired by Mario Puzo 's novel. Starring
1: Coppola's unforgettable portrait of a family, for whom love and loyalty exist alongside power at its most evil and corrupt, begins at the turn of the century in Sicily. A violent vendetta finds the young
Vito Corleone fleeing to New York where a life of petty crime will blood him for a career that will see him transformed into the most feared and powerful force in America's underworld.
Screenplay by MARIO PUZO and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Produced by ALBERT S. RUDDY and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Directed by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA (Part 2 shown next Friday) (R)
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with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick.
The Jack Benny Show starring the inimitable Jack Benny in The Alexander Hamilton Story
On falling asleep after reading an American history book, Jack dreams that he is
Alexander Hamilton , first Secretary of the Treasury.
Directed by FREDERICK DE CORDOVA (R)
11.45pm
Jackie Gleason In
The Honeymooners starring
Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden
Art Carney as Ed Norton Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden
Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton.
Better Living Through Television
Through the miracle of the cathode ray tube comes the smiling face of Ralph Kramden , purveyor of a new gadget that is destined to bring today's housewife into the 20th century. Written by MARVIN MARX and WALTER STONE Directed by FRANK SATENSTEIN
Comhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia from Old Trafford.
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the second day's play.
