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6.35 Culture and Belief in Europe 1450-1600 7.00 Energy from Waste 7.25 Introduction to Calculus:
Vectors 7.50 Looking at Heat: Medical Uses 8.15 Origin of the Solar System - a Theory
8.40 Music: Formal Analysis
9.05 Computing: Data about Data 9.30 Silicate Structures
9.55 Organic Chemistry: It's
Only Plastic 10.20 Designs for Living 10.45 Maths: Group
Theory 11.10 So You Want to Be a Better Manager? 11.35 From Snowdon to the Sea

Introduced by Bob Wilson.
Provisional Timetable
1.30 Motorcycling
2.00 Golf: Women's Open
2.50 Motorcycling
3.15 Golf: English Open
5.30 Motorcycling
Golf
NM English Open, live from the Belfry. Mark James seeks his third successive victory in the championship.
Commentary by Peter Alliss , Bruce Critchley ,
Clive Clark , Alex Hay and Mike Hughesdon.
Weetabix British
Women's Open from
Woburn. Sweden's Helen Alfredsson defends her title. With commentary by Peter Alliss. The reporter is Helen Rollason.
Motorcycling
ACU Shell Supercup British Championship from Oulton Park. The penultimate round of six. Commentary by Barry Nutley and Steve Parrish. Television presentation
John Shrewsbury (Golf) and Keith Mackenzie (Motorcycling)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Wilson.
Unknown:
Mark James
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Bruce Critchley
Commentary By:
Clive Clark
Unknown:
Alex Hay
Unknown:
Mike Hughesdon.
Unknown:
Helen Alfredsson
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss.
Unknown:
Helen Rollason.
Commentary By:
Barry Nutley
Commentary By:
Steve Parrish.
Unknown:
John Shrewsbury
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie

The BBCtv International
Sheepdog Championship. Phil Drabble introduces the second semi-final from Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, and the Brace Championship continues. With Ray Ollerenshaw. Director Joy Corbett Producer Ian Smith

Contributors

Introduces:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Ray Ollerenshaw.
Producer:
Ian Smith

The season of highlights from The Natural World series continues with the last in a three-part African odyssey. Breaking the Continent
The Ethiopian highlands - the largest area of high ground in the whole of Africa - have a landscape with unique wildlife, such as Simien jackals, giant mole rats and mountain nyala. This leads on to the Afar
Triangle, an active volcano area where three faults meet.
This part of the Rift Valley splits the African continent apart to form the growing Red Sea. Narrated by Andrew Sachs.
Producers Keith Scholey and Adrian Warren

Contributors

Unknown:
Rift Valley
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs.
Producers:
Keith Scholey
Producers:
Adrian Warren

Tenor Luciano Pavarotti returns to the Romolo Valli
Opera House in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he made his debut performance in 1961, for a gala evening to celebrate an outstanding singing career. He is joined by a star cast of some of the operatic world's foremost singers:
Raina Kabaivanska , Patrizia Pace , Shirley Verret ,
Guiseppe Sabbatini , Piero Cappuccilli , Paolo Coni ,
Giovanni Furlanetto and Enzo Dara.
Presented by Lesley Garrett. Director Christopher Swann
Producer Ascania Baldasseroni
A Raiuno production for BBCtv ● PICTURE STORY: page 38

Contributors

Tenor:
Luciano Pavarotti
Singers:
Raina Kabaivanska
Singers:
Patrizia Pace
Singers:
Shirley Verret
Unknown:
Guiseppe Sabbatini
Unknown:
Piero Cappuccilli
Unknown:
Paolo Coni
Unknown:
Giovanni Furlanetto
Unknown:
Enzo Dara.
Presented By:
Lesley Garrett.
Director:
Christopher Swann
Producer:
Ascania Baldasseroni

A series ofsix one-man plays written and performed by John Sessions, recorded at the Half Moon Theatre, London.
3:Neighbours and Lovers
The coupling of D H Lawrence and the inhabitants of Ramsay Street leads to extraordinary revelations about what really goes on behind the scenes of the Australian soap opera.
Director/Producer Geoff Posner

Contributors

Unknown:
H Lawrence
Producer:
Geoff Posner

Alex Cox introduces a double bill of cult films.
Hell's Angels on Wheels
Starring
Jack Nicholson
Poet is a drifter working in a gas station when a band of Hell's Angels roars into town spreading terror in their wake. He rides with them and joins in the orgies and fights but clashes with Buddy, leader of the gang and a dangerous man. Jack Nicholson stars as Poet two years before he shot to fame in Easy Rider.
Director Richard Rush
● FILMS pages 25-33
● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
And at 12.05am
Rumble Fish
Starring
Matt Dillon
Mickey Rourke
Rusty-James, who believes himself to be the toughest teenager around, is doomed to live in the shadow of his adored elder brother, the Motorcycle Boy. Director Francis Coppola 's stylised vision of alienated youth, based on the novel by cult writer S E Hinton, features an excellent cast and haunting black and white cinematography.
● FILMS: pages 25-33
* TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Introduces:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Jack Nicholson
Unknown:
Jack Nicholson
Director:
Richard Rush
Unknown:
Matt Dillon
Unknown:
Mickey Rourke
Director:
Francis Coppola
Poet:
Jack Nicholson
Buddy:
Adam Roarke
Shill:
Sabina Scharf
Abilgale:
Jane Taylor
Jock:
John Garwood
Bull:
Richard Anders
Pearl:
Mimi MacHu
Gypsy:
James Oliver
Bingham:
Jack Starrett
Moley:
Gary Littlejohn
Rusty-James:
Matt Dillon
Motorcycle Boy:
Mickey Rourke
Patty:
Diane Lane
Father:
Dennis Hopper
Cassandra:
Diane Scarwid
Steve:
Vincent Spano
Smokey:
Nicolas Cage
BJ Jackson:
Christopher Penn
Midget:
Larry Fishburne
Patterson the Cop:
William Smith
Benny:
Tom Waits

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