Programme Index

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With Philippa Forrester and Toby Anstis. Phone in on [number removed] for a chance to play Maggot Moments.

Felix the Cat
Felix uses his imagination to outwit the professor.

Contributors

Presenter (Children's BBC):
Philippa Forrester
Presenter (Children's BBC):
Toby Anstis

Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
A series on the importance to western society of the values of traditional tribal peoples.
The Shock of the Other. David Maybury-Lewis visits the Xavante and the Mascho-Piro tribes of South America.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Maybury-Lewis

Comedy starring Peter Sellers
Pearly Gates, a leading light in the London underworld, is dismayed to find his lucrative business being disrupted by some audacious Australians.
Director Cliff Owen
(London Weekend: John Betjeman 's 's Metro-Land tonight at 7. 50pm) • SEE FILMS pages 35-40

Contributors

Director:
Cliff Owen
Unknown:
John Betjeman
Pearly Gates:
Peter Sellers
Inspector Parker:
Lionel Jeffries
Nervous O'Toole:
Bernard Cribbins
Trainer King:
Davy Kay
Valerie:
Nanette Newman
JackCoombes:
Bill Kerr
Bluey May:
Eddevereaux
RegDenton:
Reg Lye
Asst commissioner:
John Le Mesurier
Sid Cooper:
Graham Stark
Brassknuckles:
Arthur Mullard

Celebrating the earth's living treasures.

Echo is the gentle matriarch of a sprawling family of elephants that live in Amboseli, a Kenyan National Park in the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Filmed by Martyn Colbeck , this chronicle of 18 eventful months in Echo's life contains moments of high drama, touching humour, and heart-rending poignancy.
Narrated by David Attenborough and zoologist Cynthia Moss.
Highlights of the new season nature programmes
See feature page 28

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Narrator:
Cynthia Moss
Filmed by:
Martyn Colbeck
Producer:
Marion Zunz
Executive Producer:
John Sparks

The extraordinary story of Nigel Short , child prodigy and Britain's most successful chess player of the last 150 years. At the age of 6, Short discovered a passion for the game which has dominated his life. At 14 he became the youngest international master and now, aged 27, he is about to play the match of his life against Dutch grand-master Jan Timman in a bid to challenge the world champion. Tim Rice tells his story.

Contributors

Subject:
Nigel Short
Narrator:
Tim Rice
Director/Producer:
Annie Lewis

7.50pm Metro-land
First shown 20 years go, Sir
John Betjeman 's celebration of London's suburbia has become a television classic.
In this film, Sir John journeys to the desirable residential suburbs that were built up alongside the Metropolitan Railway, in search of the poetry and variety of its architecture and activities.
Producer Edward Mirzoeff
8.40pm
Only Fools and Horses
An early episode of the classic comedy by John Sullivan starring David Jason Nicholas Lyndhurst
Go West Young Man. When Del and Rodney make money on a car deal, they use it in a way that's not as "straight" as they intended. With Lennard Pearce.
Director Martin Shardlow ; Producer Ray Butt

Contributors

Unknown:
John Betjeman
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff
Comedy By:
John Sullivan
Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Unknown:
Lennard Pearce.
Director:
Martin Shardlow

Another chance to see this poignant drama, written by Stuart Urban, that blends tragedy and comedy, courage and confusion. Based on the real-life events of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, it stars Ian Richardson, Rosemary Leach, Bob Peck

1 April 1982: the Governor and a few dozen Royal Marines on the Falklands are informed that an Argentine invasion fleet is merely hours away. Some islanders think it is an April Fool prank, but the Governor prepares to make a stand.
Producer Bradley Adams Director Stuart Urban
A Union Pictures production for BBCtv

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Stuart Urban
Producer:
Bradley Adams
His Excellency the Governor Rex Hunt:
Ian Richardson
Mavis Hunt:
Rosemary Leach
Major Mike Norman:
Bob Peck
Dick Baker:
Ian McNeice
Major Garry Noott:
Hugh Ross
Vice commodore Hector Gilobert:
Antonio Valero
Simon Winchester:
Paul Geoffrey
Chief of Police Ronnie Lamb:
Alex Norton
Patrick Watts:
Mike Grady
Don Bonner:
James Warrior
Corporal Geordie Gill:
Ian Embleton
Des King:
Trevor Cooper

Highlights of the closing stages of Round 1 in the Embassy World Professional Darts championship. Commentary by Tony Green and Sid Waddell. Introduced by Dougie Donnelly.

Contributors

Commentary By:
Tony Green
Commentary By:
Sid Waddell.
Introduced By:
Dougie Donnelly.

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