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6.35 Fontainebleau: The
Changing Image of Kingship
7.00 Noise Pollution 7.25
Haydn's 'London' Symphony
7.50 Einstein's General
Relativity 8.15 Women and Organisations 8.40 Biology: Restoring the Balance 9.05
Social Science: Regions Apart?
9.55 Arts: Melodrama 10.20
Biology Form and Function: Shaping Up 10.45 Maths: Modelling Turkeys 11.10 What is Happening in the Countryside Now? 11.35 DNA: The Spice of Life

Introduced by Bob Wilson.
Provisional Timetable
1.00 Motor racing
2.30 Cricket/Tennis
Cricket: Fourth Test
England v West Indies This fourth day's play at Edgbaston could decide the destiny of the Cornhill Insurance Test series.
Commentary by Richie Benaud and Jack Bannister.
0 BBC VIDEO: 'Cricket - The 70s', L 10.2 from retailers.
Motor Racing
From Hockenheim.
Britain's last winner in the German Grand Prix was James Hunt 15 years ago, and today he joins Murray Walker in the commentary box. Can Nigel Mansell prevent Ayrton Senna 's fourth consecutive victory in Germany?
(Highlights tonight at 9.30pm) 0 BBC VIDEO: 'Supercharged - The Grand Prix Car 1924-39 from retailers.
Tennis
The USA are looking for a third successive victory, in the NEC Federation
Cup from Nottingham. Commentary by Dan Maskell , Virginia Wade and Ann Jones.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Wilson.
Commentary By:
Richie Benaud
Commentary By:
Jack Bannister.
Unknown:
James Hunt
Unknown:
Murray Walker
Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Unknown:
Ayrton Senna
Commentary By:
Dan Maskell
Commentary By:
Virginia Wade
Commentary By:
Ann Jones.

The BBCtv International
Sheepdog Championship. Phil Drabble introduces the three
English handlers competing in the Lake District. Commentary by Ray Ollerenshaw. Director Joy Corbett Producer Ian Smith
0 PHIL DRABBLE 'S KIND OF DAY: page 90

Contributors

Introduces:
Phil Drabble
Commentary By:
Ray Ollerenshaw.
Director:
Joy Corbett
Producer:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Phil Drabble

The fifth of Stuart Hall 's seven-part series exploring today's Caribbean.
World's Apart. When slavery ended in Trinidad and Guyana, British plantation owners needed new labour. Thousands of people were shipped from India as indentured workers.
But there is now tension between the two immigrant communities. Asians say they're exploited by blacks and cheated by political power. Yet one Indian girl bridges the divide by singing calypso. Director Chris Oxley
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv • TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Hall
Director:
Chris Oxley
Unknown:
Barraclough Carey

The last of six dramas, written by Jack Emery , about people who have defended their acts.
I Would Rather Die
Starring Edward Woodward On 28 July 1973, two Turkish diplomats were shot dead in California. Their assassin was
Gourgen Yanikian , an American of Armenian extraction, whose whole family had been massacred by the Turks 60 years before. On his release from prison, Yanikian remained unrepentant.
Executive producer Bill Shepherd Director Stuart Burge
An Oyster production for BBCtv
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Written By:
Jack Emery
Unknown:
Edward Woodward
Unknown:
Gourgen Yanikian
Director:
Stuart Burge

Highlights of the German
Grand Prix from Hockenheim.
The mix of 200mph straights and 50mph chicanes makes Hockenheim unique and unpopular with the drivers, who find concentration difficult on the long straights. But it is a good circuit for overtaking, so spectacular racing is assured. With commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

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

Alex Cox introduces another in the season of cult films.

Ken Russell's portrait of the composer Tchaikovsky, starring Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
Moscow 1873: Peter Tchaikovsky becomes the subject of a society scandal because of his homosexual involvement with Count Chiluvsky. Unable to fulfil his wife's sexual demands he becomes violently depressed and contemplates suicide.
The screenplay for this controversial film about the Russian composer was written by Melvyn Bragg.
Films: pages 27-32
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alex Cox
Director:
Ken Russell
Screenplay:
Melvyn Bragg
Tchaikovsky:
Richard Chamberlain
Antonina:
Glenda Jackson
Nicholas Rubinstein:
Max Adrian
Chiluvsky:
Christopher Gable
Madame Von Meck:
Izabella Telezynska
Modest Tchaikovsky:
Kenneth Colley
Sasha:
Sabina Maydell

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