Programme Index

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6.35 Klein's Unification of Geometry
7.00 Noise Pollution
7.25 Haydn's London Symphony
7.50 Einstein's General Relativity - at the Frontier
8.15 Women and Organisations
8.40 Elements of Music: Harmonic
Analysis
9.05 Oceanography: Rockall
9.30 Inner-City Story: What's the Problem?
9.55 Arts Foundation Course:
Melodrama
10.20 Biology: Feeding Mechanisms
10.45 Maths: Modelling Turkeys
11.10 Mental Handicap: Finding a Voice
11.35 DNA: the Spice of Life
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Unknown:
Milton Keynes

Christopher Jones presents the week's best speeches, most telling moments and wittiest asides.
Plus a look at the politicians at work in the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Committee Rooms. Editor Lydia Howard
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Then at 12.35pm how decisions made at Westminster will affect your part of the country.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Jones
Editor:
Lydia Howard

Introduced by Bob Wilson.
1.00 Motor racing
2.30 Swimming
3.00 Motor racing
3.30 Swimming
4.30 Eventing
Motor Racing
German Grand Prix live from
Hockenheim.
Commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt.
Plus the seventh round of the Esso British Touring Car Championship from Brands Hatch.
Eventing
World Equestrian Games from Stockholm.
The show-jumping phase completes the three-day event championship. Plus a report on the individual dressage competition. Commentary by Raymond Brooks-Ward .
Swimming
TSB National Championships from Crystal Palace, London.
Commentary by Hamilton Bland and Andy Jameson. Producer Martin Hopkins Editor John Philips

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Wilson.
Commentary By:
Murray Walker
Commentary By:
James Hunt.
Commentary By:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
Commentary By:
Hamilton Bland
Commentary By:
Andy Jameson.
Producer:
Martin Hopkins
Editor:
John Philips

As the trials for the BBCtv
International Sheepdog
Championship continue alongside the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, shepherds and their dogs strive for total mastery of the Swaledale sheep as they are released onto the running ground. Heat 3 - Scotland.
The competitors are
William Cormack with Ben, Pat McGettigan with Todd and Hamish MacLean with Lyn. Introduced by Phil Drabble with Eric Halsall. Director Joy Corbett Producer Ian Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
William CormacK
Unknown:
Pat McGettigan
Unknown:
Hamish MacLean
Introduced By:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Eric Halsall.
Producer:
Ian Smith

A compilation of highlights from the late-night arts and media programme. Tonight: how San Francisco reporter Paul Wynne has turned his own experience of Aids into a television diary of his illness; a profile of the 79-year-old American sculptor Louise Bourgeois ; singer, songwriter and record producer Nick Lowe reminisces; and architect Ron Herron who is finally seeing his work being built. Editors Michael Jackson and Roland Keating

Contributors

Reporter:
Paul Wynne
Singer:
Louise Bourgeois
Producer:
Nick Lowe
Unknown:
Ron Herron
Editors:
Michael Jackson
Editors:
Roland Keating

The first of six programmes about the vitality and relevance of myth. 1: The Hero's Adventure.
Joseph Campbell talks to Bill Moyers about the idea of the hero, relating it to our daily lives. 'We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known, we have only to follow the thread of the hero path.' Producer Roger Stott
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Contributors

Talks:
Joseph Campbell
Unknown:
Bill Moyers
Producer:
Roger Stott

Highlights from Hockenheim.
Alain Prost's victory in the British Grand Prix two weeks ago has left the World Championship wide open again. Despite Britain's
Nigel Mansell 's shock announcement of his retirement at the end of this year's championship, he will be racing as hard as ever still with hopes of the title.
Commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Commentary By:
Murray Walker
Commentary By:
James Hunt.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside

Alex Cox introduces another in the season of cult films.
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Yojimbo
Starring
Toshiro Mifune
In 19th-century Japan, a wandering samurai warrior drifts into a town terrorised by two rival factions. Hired as a bodyguard, he soon senses treachery and uses his deadly skills to destroy both gangs. Director Akira Kurosawa 's witty and violent 'entertainment' was the inspiration for the first spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars.
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Contributors

Introduces:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Toshiro Mifune
Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Sanjuro Kuwabatake:
Toshiro Mifune
Conji:
Eljiro Tono
Seibei:
Seizaburo Kawazu
Orin:
Isuzu Yamada
Yoichiro:
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Honma:
Susumu Fukita

Highlights from Stockholm of the climax of the show-jumping phase of the three-day event. Also news of the Grand Prix dressage which took place today. Introduced by Hugh Thomas , with commentary by Raymond Brooks-Ward .

Contributors

Introduced By:
Hugh Thomas
Commentary By:
Raymond Brooks-Ward

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