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The opening session of this year's Trades Union
Congress, presented by Vivian White and Ian Smith. The trade movement meets in the wake of a summer of industrial discontent, the emergence of a new-look Labour Party and worries about recent overheating in the economy.
Unit manager PAULINE HEDGES OB producer NEIL ECCLES Deputy editor ALEX GERUS Editor JAMES HOGAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Vivian White
Presented By:
Ian Smith.
Unknown:
Pauline Hedges
Editor:
James Hogan

Weather followed by Trades Union
Congress 89
Vivian White and Ian Smith present a major debate on plans to increase women's representation on the TUC's ruling body and a discussion on the proposals for a new recruitment drive. Editor JAMES HOGAN including at
3.00pm News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivian White
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Editor:
James Hogan

starring with and Life gets complicated for secretary Smokey Allard when her new boss Ed Browne arrives on the wartime Washington scene. His less than orthodox working methods get results but stir up trouble for them both. It's up to Smokey to keep their enemies at bay - including her fiance!
Based on the play by ADELA ROGERS ST JOHN
Written, produced and directed by DUDLEY NICHOLS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Smokey Allard
Unknown:
Ed Browne
Play By:
Adela Rogers St John
Directed By:
Dudley Nichols
Smokey Allard:
Olivia de Havilland
Ed Browne:
Sonny Tufts
Mrs Wright:
Agnes Moorehead
Senator MacVickers:
Harry Davenport
May:
Anne Shirley
Dana:
Jess Barker
Sergeant Joe:
James Dunn
Branch:
Paul Stewart
Mrs Harris:
Una O'Connor
His Excellency:
Sig Ruman
Miss Trask:
Jane Darwell
Count Bodinski:
George Givot

Love and Money
Fans of Love and Money have always been aware of the band's enormous potential as multi-talented musicians. James Grant has been acclaimed as a songwriter of the first order but the group have not yet achieved the success which many music critics feel they deserve.
Tonight's concert from the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness confirms the band's ability to deliver an exciting live set. Executive producer DAVID MARTIN
Producer MAY MILLER BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Musicians:
James Grant
Producer:
David Martin

Highlights of the past five years of Open to Question.
Tonight: Cliff Richard.
In the transient world of show business, he has commanded the spotlight for more than 20 years, with songs in the Top 10 virtually every year since 1958.
So what is the secret of his success? And why is his religion so important?
Tonight Cliff Richard is under interrogation by a young audience.
Presenter: John Nicolson. Producers
DAVID MARTIN and CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Richard.
Unknown:
Cliff Richard
Presenter:
John Nicolson.
Unknown:
David Martin

Samuel Franklin Cody , cowboy, circus sharpshooter, showman and inventor, made the first successful powered aeroplane flight in Britain 80 years ago.
In the first of two programmes, David Lomax tells the story of the early years - of wild west shows, man-flying kites, airships and eventually aeroplanes. It's the story of one man's attempt to conquer the air against immense odds to become the nation's flying folk hero.
Producer JOHN COLEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Franklin Cody
Unknown:
David Lomax
Producer:
John Coleman

Adapted for Screen Two from the novel by Brian Moore. Starring and The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes , a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. When she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London, she has no suspicion of what she is letting herself in for.
A treat of a film.
THE INDEPENDENT
Produced by MARTIN THOMPSON
Directed by TRISTRAM POWELL (R)
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Contributors

Novel By:
Brian Moore.
Novel By:
Eileen Hughes
Produced By:
Martin Thompson
Directed By:
Tristram Powell
Bernard McAuley:
Jim Norton
Mona McAuley:
Angharad Rees
Eileen Hughes:
Ethna Roddy
Agnes Hughes:
Mary Duddy
Hotel manager:
John Carlin
Arthur Bateman:
John Pine
Hotel waiter:
Aiden Water
Caretaker:
Birdy Sweeney

This deeply ironic, prize-winning film from Poland exposes the macabre lie lived by the man who betrayed his Polish roots, thrived in the Third Reich and changed his allegiance yet again in 1945. Herman S. reached the pinnacle of his career when he was recruited to light the home fires for Goering and Hitler. Written and directed by LESZEK WOSIEWICZ
(In Polish with English subtitles)

Contributors

Unknown:
Herman S.
Directed By:
Leszek Wosiewicz

BBC Two England

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