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7.00 Managing Schools: Wroxham Primary
7.25 The Enlightenment: Freedom and Plenty
7.50 Learning Maths Together
8.15 Gravity and the Stars
8.40 The Changing
Experience of Women: Women Speaking
9.30 Images of the Third World
9.55 Social Problems and Welfare: Urban Development
10.20 Whose Countryside Tomorrow?
10.45 Perspectives in Health and Disease: Dirty Old Town?
11.10 Exploring Educational Issues: Making Readers for Life
11.35 The Planet Earth: A Scientific Model

Sue MacGregor presents the weekly political review for the south and east. With Kate Barker and Terry Dignan. Director Duncan Hess Editor Vincent Dowd
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Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Barker
Unknown:
Terry Dignan.
Director:
Duncan Hess
Editor:
Vincent Dowd

lain MacWhirter presents the liveliest parliamentary committee sessions and passes on news from the committee corridor.
Producer Marcus Herbert Editor Lydia Howard
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Contributors

Producer:
Marcus Herbert
Editor:
Lydia Howard

Elgar's Introduction and Allegro and Cello Concerto demonstrate fine writing for string instruments. Both works are performed in St David 's Hall, Cardiff, by the BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis , with Robert Cohen as concerto soloist.
Michael Berkeley discusses the music with the composer William Mathias.
Director Andrew Quick
Series producer Paul Islwyn Thomas

Contributors

Unknown:
St David
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis
Unknown:
Robert Cohen
Soloist:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
William Mathias.
Producer:
Paul Islwyn Thomas

Starring
Kirk Douglas
Robert Mitchum
Richard Widmark
Missouri, 1843: a wagon train sets off on the hazardous
Oregon trail, led by ruthless Senator Tadlock. The pioneers are mostly settlers but among them are young people in search of romance, something of which Tadlock strongly disapproves.
Director Andrew V McLaglen ● FILMS: pages 29-36

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirk Douglas
Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Unknown:
Richard Widmark
Director:
Andrew V McLaglen
Senator William:
Kirk Douglas
Tadlock:
Kirk Douglas
Dick Summers:
Robert Mitchum
Lije Evans:
Richard Widmark
Rebecca Evans:
Low Albright
Johnnie Mack:
Michael Witney
Brownie Evans:
Michael McGreevey
Mercy McBee:
Sally Field
Amanda Mack:
Katherine Justice
Sam Fairman:
Stubby Kaye
Preacher Weatherby:
Jack Elam
Mrs McBee:
Connie Sawyer
McBee:
Harry Carey Jr

Featuring
Scotland v Wales
Ireland v France
Hundreds of Welsh supporters make the pilgrimage to
Murrayfield for the Royal Bank international against
Scotland. But this year it is as underdogs. Plus the Digital international from Dublin.
Commentary by Bill McLaren , Nigel Starmer-Smith and Hugo MacNeill.
Introduced by Chris Rea.
Executive producer Johnnie Watherston 0 SPORT: page 15

Contributors

Commentary By:
Bill McLaren
Commentary By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentary By:
Hugo MacNeill.
Introduced By:
Chris Rea.
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

The World Championships from Saalbach, Austria.
The last medals are at stake today in the Men's Giant
Slalom with local and vocal support for defending champion Rudolf Nierlich. But Italy's double Olympic champion, the voluble Alberto Tomba , could spoil the host country's final celebrations, determined as he is to overcome injury and reclaim his superstar status.
Plus a reminder of the ups and downs of the last two weeks in the Austrian Alps with commentators David Vine and Julian Tutt.
Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudolf Nierlich.
Unknown:
Alberto Tomba
Commentators:
David Vine
Commentators:
Julian Tutt.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside

Portrait of the Planet
From coral reef to Caledonian pine forest, from gorillas to global warming, this film is both a celebration of the riches of the natural world and a hard look at the changes that face it. It reveals what is happening to nature today and what the consequences will be for us now and in the future.
Producer Neil Nightingale Editor Mike Salisbury
0 MAGAZINE: BBC Wildlife. £ 1.60. from newsagents. ● NATURE: page 8
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Contributors

Producer:
Neil Nightingale
Editor:
Mike Salisbury

A series of four documentaries picturing a nation at the turning point in its history.
2: The Break. After only a few months in power, friends become enemies. As the bogey of Communism recedes, Lech Walesa turns on the Prime
Minister,
Tadeusz Mazowiecki. There are many in Solidarity who suspect their chairman's motive. Is this his first move for presidential power? In a dramatic showdown on Midsummer's
Day, tempers flare as old ties are broken. Is Solidarity to be despatched into the dustbin of history?
(Part 3 next Saturday)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Lech Walesa
Unknown:
Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

Korczak
Starring
Wojtek Pszoniak
Polish director
Andrzej Wajda 's latest film tells the moving story of Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto under the Nazis, and the heroic sacrifice made by Janusz Korczak as he fought to save their lives.
Written by Agnieszka Holland
Executive producer David Thompson
0 BARRY NORMAN : page 29 0 PICTURE STORY: page 43

Contributors

Unknown:
Wojtek Pszoniak
Director:
Andrzej Wajda
Unknown:
Janusz Korczak
Written By:
Agnieszka Holland
Producer:
David Thompson
Unknown:
Barry Norman
Dr Korczak:
Wojtek Pszoniak
Stefa:
Ewa Dalkowska
Heniek:
Piotr Kozlowski
Estera:
Marzena Trybala
Szloma:
Wojcieh Klata
Abramek:
Adam Siemion
Natka:
Karolina Czernicka
Ewka:
Agnieszka Kruk

Starring
Jane Fonda
Michael Sarrazin
This powerful drama set in the early 30s depicts the madness and desperation of one of Hollywood's famous dance marathons. Jane Fonda excels as one of the principal contestants determined to stay the course against increasing odds.
This award-winning film was directed by Sydney Pollack , whose latest movie, Havana, opens in London this week.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Fonda
Unknown:
Michael Sarrazin
Unknown:
Jane Fonda
Directed By:
Sydney Pollack
Gloria Beatty:
Jane Fonda
Robert:
Michael Sarrazin
Alice:
Susannah York
Rocky:
Gig Young
Sailor:
Red Buttons
Ruby:
Bonnie Bedeua
Rollo:
Michael Conrad
James:
Bruce Dern
Turkey:
Al Lewis
Joel:
Robert Fields
Cecil:
Severn Darden
Shirl:
Allyn Ann McLerie

Antoine de Caunes with the cross-channel, fast-moving pop show. Including a feature on bluesman
Robert Cray , and a progress report on the Chunnel.
(Shown last Wednesday;

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Cray

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