Programme Index

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6.40 Technology: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow

7.05 Maths: Inverse Functions

7.30 Mental Handicap: Gwen - a Working Life

7.55 Oceanography: The Ocean Floor

8.20 Biology Form and Function: Is Seeing Believing?

8.45 Language and Literature

9.10 Linkage Mechanism

9.35 Earthquakes: Seismology at Work

10.00 Maarten van Heemskerck: Humanism and Painting

10.25 Computing: Top-Down Design

10.50 Humanity and the Scaffold

11.15 Society and Social Science: Lifestyles, Work and the Family

12.05pm Education: Curriculum and Learning

12.30 Social Problems and Welfare: Community Care

12.55 Modem Art: Musee d'Orsay

1.20 Genetics: Beyond the Double Helix

1.45 Learning for All: Under the Walnut Tree

2.10 Developing World: The Poverty Complex

2.35 The Enlightenment: Reason and Progress

Contributors

Unknown:
Maarten van Heemskerck

Five years ago at Kingcombe in Dorset, 600 acres of land rich in wild flowers and undisturbed by modem farming came under the auctioneer's hammer. Julian Pettifer returns to the valley to find out whether this unique natural heritage was saved.

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer

II Drama based on Herman Wouk 's bestseller, starring Natalie Wood Gene Kelly
Free of family and boyfriend, 18-year-old Marjorie spends a summer in search of romance but is torn between her morals and a passion she cannot contain.
Director Irving Rapper • SEE FILMS pages 41-44

Contributors

Unknown:
Herman Wouk
Unknown:
Natalie Wood
Unknown:
Gene Kelly
Marjorie:
Natalie Wood
Noel Airman:
Gene Kelly
Rose:
Claire Trevor
Marsha:
Carolyn Jones
Uncle Samson:
Ed Wynn
Arnold:
Everett Sloane
Wally:
Marty Milner

Vintage rock, pop and soul. Long Ago and Far Away. All through the 70s, programmes like In Concert and The Old
Grey Whistle Test gave a stage and a live audience to some of the best singer-songwriters in the business. Many of them featured in acoustic solo sets.
Tonight's performances are from Carole King, James Taylor , Neil Young , Randy Newman ,
Don McLean , Paul Simon , Janis Ian and Joan Armatrading. Producer Jeannie Clark
Series producer David Jeffcock
SEE PREVIEW page 10

Contributors

Unknown:
James Taylor
Unknown:
Neil Young
Unknown:
Randy Newman
Unknown:
Don McLean
Unknown:
Paul Simon
Unknown:
Janis Ian
Unknown:
Joan Armatrading.
Producer:
Jeannie Clark
Producer:
David Jeffcock

Feature-length documentaries by independent film-makers. To the Ends of the Earth - the Hunt for the Jackal. In writer David Yallop began a hunt for the world's most wanted man, Carlos the Jackal. This film follows Yallop from the beginning of his long and perilous quest to the climax of an eventual meeting with Carlos in the Middle East.
It uncovers collusion, conspiracy and terrorism to find the reality behind the myth. Director David Munro
Series editor Andre Singer
A Virginia production for BBCtv
SEE PREVIEW page 8

Contributors

Unknown:
David Yallop
Director:
David Munro

In the weekly cinema review, Spike Lee (director of Mo'
Better Blues, shown at 10.05pm) talks about his controversial new movie Malcolm X, explaining some of its most exhilarating sequences and revealing its debts to Scorsese and Spielberg. The programme also goes to Peking to meet top directors Chen Kaige (whose Big Parade is being shown at
12.10am) and Zhang Yimou , and takes the temperature of Chinese cinema four years after the events of Tiananmen Square. Presented by Howard Schuman. Series producer Saskia Baron
Series editor Paul Kerr A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv (Arena on Friday at 9.30pm features an interview with Zhang Yimou )

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Lee
Directors:
Chen Kaige
Directors:
Zhang Yimou
Presented By:
Howard Schuman.
Editor:
Paul Kerr
Unknown:
Barraclough Carey
Unknown:
Zhang Yimou

Moving Pictures presents Spike Lee 's gritty portrait of a man approaching a crisis, starring Denzel Washington Bleek Gilliam is an immensely talented but self-centred jazz trumpeter whose single-minded concentration on his music leaves the two women in his life - teacher Indigo and aspiring singer Clarke - battling for his attention.
●SEE FILMS pages 41-44

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Lee
Unknown:
Denzel Washington
Unknown:
Bleek Gilliam
Bleek Gilliam:
Denzel Washington
Giant:
Spike Lee
Shadow Henderson:
Wesley Snipes
Indigo Downes:
Joie Lee
Clarke Bentancourt:
Cynoa Williams
Ufthand Lacey:
Giancarlo Esposito
Moe Flatbush:
John Turturro
Josh Flatbush:
Nicholas Turturro
Bottom Hammer:
Bill Nunn
Butterbean Jones:
Robin Harris

I Tonight's second I Moving Pictures presentation is a powerful drama about a group of volunteers from the People's Liberation Army who embark on the gruelling training that could win them a place in China's National Day parade in Tiananmen Square.
Chen Kaige 's visually stunning film was strongly criticised by army leaders. A Chinese film with English subtitles.
Members of the Airborne Division of the People's Liberation Army
● SEE FILMS pages41-44

Contributors

Unknown:
Tiananmen Square.
Unknown:
Chen Kaige
Li Weicheng:
Wang Xueqi
Sun Fang:
Sun Chun
Jiang junbiao:
Lu Lei

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