Raising Sons and Daughters
First of a 12-part series. In the Beginning. (Part 2 tomorrow at 8.1 5am)
The museum for bicycles.
Quiz with Paul Coia.
Comedy starring Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
The hapless duo are in charge of a passenger bus. Director Erie C Kenton
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Wyoming and Colorado.
Story of a couple stranded on a desert island.
Golfer Seve Ballesteros talks to Gordon Hewitt.
Cricket drama.
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Puppet fun.
Animation.
Magazine for the deaf.
Followed by Science and Society
Inland waterways in Holland.
The bard is crowned at the Royal National of Wales. (Further coverage on Thursday)
Spike Milligan explores his local history.
European languages.
Fourth of five drama documentaries examining the culture of Germany.
A visit to Bosvigo House,
Truro, and Sweet Pea Day festivities in Shropshire. Plant details on Ceefax page 617
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Starring
I Lana Turner
When Holly Parker is forced to leave her husband and young son, her grief leads her into a life of drink and degradation. Holly believes she has sacrificed everything for her family, but 20 years on she faces the ultimate test.
Director David Lowell Rich * FILMS: pages 27-32
Vintage American comedy starring Phil Silvers
Bilko's s Sharpshooter. Sergeant Bilko tries to promote a modern Annie Oakley.
First of a six-part series challenging black communities' positions on campaigning issues. Is Black Politics Dead?
Trevor Phillips asks whether a separate black political agenda is of any relevance to 1990s
Britain. With guests including Tottenham MP Bernie Grant , and Conservative One Nation
Forum member Joyce Sampson. Producer Stella Orakwue
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Last in the series about the Soviet Union's remotest and coldest frontiers.
Hands Across the Sea. At the Bering Straits, the Soviet
Union and the United States are less than 50 miles apart. After more than 40 years of Cold War antagonism, the efforts of a small-town Soviet mayor bring about a joyful reunion of Eskimo relatives who have been held apart since the late 1940s.
Director Shojun Hata
Producer Viviana Woodruff
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Another chance to see this three-part series on the untold story of the Soviet space programme in which, for the first time, cosmonauts and engineers reveal the real successes and failures that made the space age possible.
The extraordinary story of the man who created a mighty rocket empire which gave the Soviet Union its spectacular lead in the space race. Known only by the mysterious title 'chief designer', not until after his death was the name of Sergei Korolev revealed. Yet he took the technologically backward Soviet Union and led it into space.
A Windfall Films and Filmcentre production for BBCtv
Transcript: for a combined transcript of all three programmes send cheque for £3.50, payable to BSS, to [address removed]
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The background to the day's top news stories.
Annie Ross caused a sensation in the 1950s by inventing a singing style called vocalese in which lyrics are sung to fit a jazz instrumental solo. In tonight's session she teams up with Tony Kinsey , one of Britain's finest drummers.
Introduced by Slim Gaillard. Original material produced by Terry Henebery
Series producer Sharon Ali
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