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6.50 Maths: Catastrophe Theory
7.15 Social Problems and Social
Welfare: Why Care?
7.40 Money Grows on Trees?
8.05 Statistics: Testing for Telepathy
8.30 The Nervous System
8.55 The American Political
Process
9.20 Physics: Magnetism
9.45 Education: Aspects of Effectiveness
10.10 Discovering Chemistry
10.35 From Coal to Colour
11.00 The History of Mathematics
11.25 The 19th-century Novel: What Maisie Knew
11.50 Design or Decline
12.15 Behind the Annual Report
12.40 Nuclear Weapons: Capability
1.05 Sociology: Caste and Class
1.30 Modern Art: Matisse
1.55 Scenes from Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
2.20 Third World Studies: The
Plough and the Hoe

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe

In India this 91-part epic drama is cult viewing for 115 million viewers who watch it on garlanded television sets. Based on an epic poem, this tale of love, war and good triumphing over evil is 15 times longer than the Bible.
8: King Pandu marries Kunti, then sets out to strengthen the House of Kuru and the kingdom of Hastinapur by conquering the surrounding kingdoms.
(In Hindi with English subtitles.
Repeated tomorrow at 12. 10am on BBCI)

Contributors

Madri:
Roma Manik
Bishma:
Mukesh Khanna
Vyas:
Rajesh Vivek
Dhritharashtra:
Girija Shankar
Gandhari:
Renuka Israni
King Shantanu:
Rishabh Shukla
Satyavati:
Debashree Roy
Ganga:
Kiran Juneja
King Bharat:
Raj Babbar

Starring
Richard Widmark
Trevor Howard
Jane Greer
Internationally famous novelist
Mike Latimer has opted out of the rat race and found peace in a remote Mexican town.
On a flight to Acapulco, his plane crash-lands in the jungle and he and journalist Katy Connors find themselves captives of a trio of ex-Nazi war criminals.
Director Roy Boulting
0 FILMS: pages 20-26

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Widmark
Unknown:
Trevor Howard
Unknown:
Jane Greer
Unknown:
Mike Latimer
Unknown:
Katy Connors
Director:
Roy Boulting
Mike Latimer:
Richard Widmark
Browne:
Trevor Howard
Katy Connors:
Jane Greer
Van Anders:
Peter Van Eyck
Jan:
Carlos Henning
Fernandez:
Juan Garcia
Hotel proprietor:
Margarito Luna

Featuring the Dubai Eventers' Special from Hickstead.
Competitors include double
Olympic champion Mark Todd , Virginia Leng and Ian Stark. Introduced by David Vine. Producer Wendy Sheppard

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Todd
Unknown:
Virginia Leng
Unknown:
Ian Stark.
Introduced By:
David Vine.
Producer:
Wendy Sheppard

The season of programmes from - Czechoslovakia continues with an evening of music and film.
My Country
A performance of Smetana's symphonic poem, My Country, recorded at the opening concert of this year's Prague Spring Festival. The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Rafael Kubelik , who returns to his native country for the first time since 1948. Producer Simon Broughton
0 SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST: with Radio 3.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Producer:
Simon Broughton

Jan Svankmajer 's animations have earned him international acclaim, despite the fact that his work is only now being given proper recognition in his native country. The BBC commissioned
Svankmajer to make an animation telling his personal view of Czech history since the Second World
War. The result, a nine-minute film, The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia, can be seen on BBC2 tomorrow at
7.55pm.
Director James Marsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Svankmajer
Director:
James Marsh

Czechoslovakian new-wave films such as Closely Observed Trains dominated international festivals and awards in the 1960s.
At the heart of this success was the Prague film academy, Famu. Its most illustrious graduates include Jiri Menzel , Milan Kundera,
Jan Nemec , Vera Chytilova and Milos Forman whose gentle, realistic comedies Peter and Paula and A Blonde in Love won much critical acclaim.
The Soviet invasion in 1968 spelt the end of independently-minded film-making in Czechoslovakia.
Forman went to America, where he continued making films, including One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus (being shown tomorrow at 10.05pm), which both won Oscars.
Many of his former colleagues, however, spent the next 20 years in obscurity. Those who stayed on had to walk an almost impossible tightrope between opportunism and preserving their artistic integrity. Director Paul Pawlikowski

Contributors

Unknown:
Jiri Menzel
Unknown:
Jan Nemec
Unknown:
Vera Chytilova
Unknown:
Milos Forman
Director:
Paul Pawlikowski

First showing on network television. An innocuous picnic in the woods on an idyllic summer's day is taken over by a gang of smiling bullies. The urbane host wants only to make his bewildered guests happy - or so he says. They, however, will only make him happy by accepting his hospitality on his terms. This biting political allegory features director Evald Schorm as 1 the guest who refuses to conform.
Schorm's own representation of the political upheavals of the 1960s, Seventh Day, Eighth Night, will be shown next Saturday.
Director Jan Nemec
(In Czech with English subtitles. Black and white) 0 FILMS: pages 20-26

Contributors

Director:
Evald Schorm
Director:
Jan Nemec
Host:
Ivan Vyskocil
Rudolf:
Jan Klusak
Josef:
Jan Nemec
Eva:
Zdenka Skvorecka
Frantiiek:
Pavel Bosek
Maria:
Helen Peskova
Karel:
Karel Mares
Wife:
Jana Pracharova
Husband:
Evald Schorm

England v West Germany
With the 1990 World Cup just round the corner, here's a timely reminder of the day England ruled the football world: 30 July 1966 was the date, Wembley Stadium the venue, the scene of Geoff Hurst 's controversial 'over the line' goal, West Germany's last-gasp equaliser, Nobby Stiles 's famous victory jig and, of course 'they think it's all over ... it is now!' Re-live the drama in a re-run of the whole match. Commentator: Kenneth Wolstenholme.
(R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hurst
Unknown:
Nobby Stiles
Commentator:
Kenneth Wolstenholme.

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