Starring
Rosalind Russell
Alexander Knox
The true life story of Elizabeth Kenny , a young Australian nurse whose pioneering treatment of infantile paralysis led her into conflict with the medical establishment. With
Deanjagger, Philip Merivale ,
Beulah Bondi , Charles Dingle , John Litel and Doreen McCann.
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Continuing the season of films starring
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Guy Holden is standing at the rail of a boat when a lady's garment floats into his hand. It has dropped from an aeroplane, is labelled "Mimi", and marks the beginning of a romance. Director Mark Sand rich
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This film is a reminder of the international conventions designed to protect the innocent victims of war. But they have all been broken in the past year - in Europe alone. With Peter Ustinov and the London Chamber Orchestra.
From Chester Cathedral.
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As a tribute to Sir Geraint
Evans - the Welsh opera singer who died in September this year - BBC2 repeats the series of masterclasses which he gave in 1981, offering guidance to young singers in the portrayal of operatic characters.
Today La Bohème, introduced by Richard Suart , currently performing in Princess Ida at
London's Coliseum, who recalls his memories of of this masterclass. With Helen Lawson , Gordon Christie ,
Jennifer Rhys-Davies , Martin Nelson , Keith Latham and Philip Guy-Bromley . Producer David Buckton
(Peter Grimes tomorrow at 1.50pm)
From Chepstow.
12.55 Philip Comes Novices' Hurdle (2m 4½f)
1.25 Finale Junior Hurdle (2m)
2.00 Coral Welsh National
(Handicap Chase. 3m 5½f)
2.35 Horse Racing Abroad Hurdle (2m).
Commentary by Peter O'Sullevan. Presented by Julian Wilson. Plus highlights from Leopardstown.
A series of five daily lectures by Professor Charles Stirling , FRS.
Man in the Mirror. A look at how humans are lop-sided, in the use of brains, eyes, ears, right down to fingerprints. Producers Richard Melman and William Woollard
An InCA Ltd production for BBCtv Event sponsored by Shell
Waiting to Work. This first programme in the series explores the hair-trigger world of the one-shot device, machines such as ejection seats that work once, perfectly.
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First showing on network television for this musical which was a directorial debut for its star, Barbra Streisand Poland, 1904: Yenti aims to defy tradition and become a Talmudic scholar. But she must disguise herself as a boy to get a place at school, or yeshiva.
Based on the novel by Nobel Prize -winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.
With Allan Corduner , Ruth Goring and David DeKeyser.
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Women Are So Variable
Ernest ponders the nature of love, women and his own considerable attractions.
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To mark the centenary of Tchaikovsky's ballet The
Nutcracker, a performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group of the American choreographer's "alternative" version. Morris and his librettist, cartoonist
Charles Burns , have set it in the American suburbia of the 1960s.
It's a sleek black-and-white world with the kids watching
TV while the Stahlbaums hold a cocktail party, where the adults drink and flirt in bellbottoms and bouffant hair-dos.
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As part of its first night in 1956, Granada Television broadcast a Tribute to the BBC. In the week that Granada begins its new franchise, the BBC belatedly returns the favour by transmitting an evening of programmes devoted to the oldest surviving independent TV company.
Executive producer John Whiston
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Coronation Street
A classic episode of Britain's longest-running TV serial.
Devised by Tony Warren, Coronation Street has boasted some of the finest dramatic writing on British television, words given life by characters such as Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Annie Walker, Ken Barlow and Hilda Ogden.
8.30pm From the North
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect. With contributions from
Jeremy Isaacs, Gus Macdonald, David Plowright, Michael Parkinson, Gerry Robinson and Sir Denis Forman.
Director David Thompson
9.30pm Pro-Celebrity University Challenge
In this special match, quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne pits some of the programme's most celebrated alumni (including comedian Stephen Fry and BBC's Foreign Affairs Editor John Simpson) against a team of current undergraduates.
Director Peter Mullings Producer Sally Angel
10.00pm Roll On Four O'Clock
A classic from Granada's drama archive by one of Britain's foremost playwrights.
Colin Welland 's witty 1970 play reveals life in a savage northern secondary-modern school.
Producer Kenith Trodd
Director Roy Battersey
11.00pm Northern Songs
From the Beatles to the Buzzcocks, from the Bay City Rollers to Joy Division, Granada has always been quick to bring new bands to the screen. This programme plunders the archive.
11.30pm Flat Caps and Ferrets
A celebration of the cultural heritage of the mythical land filled with pigeons, whippets and endless cups of tea. It draws on such Granada classics as Coronation Street, A Family at War and Nearest and Dearest to expose some of the myths about the north of England. Producer Caroline Wright
Roger Corman 's science-fiction classic starring Ray Milland
A scientist experiments to give himself x-ray vision. At first the results are incredible, but soon things begin to go wrong. With Diana Van der Vlis , Harold J Stone , John Hoyt , Don Rickles ,
John Dierkes , Lome Summers, Vicki Lee and Kathryn Hart.
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