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6.00 Understanding Space and Time: The Universe Yesterday 1532300 6.25INSAT -Implicationsfora Nation
6.50 Computers: Operating Systems 5613774 7.15 The Export of Pollution 6627478 7.40 Rural Life: image and Reality 2094749 8.05 Science and Nuclear Waste 2242774 8.30 Schools:
Managing in the Marketplace
8.55 images of Disability
3839923 9.20 Social Scientists at Work 8533497 10.10 Cell Biology: Shaping Up 1779942 10.35 Developing World:
Mozambique Under Attack
11.00 Powers of the President: Foreign Policy -Carterand Reagan Subtitled
1523720 11.50 Living with Tourettes

Contributors

Unknown:
Carterand Reagan

Drama based on a true story, starring Dennis Weaver
Eloy Phil Casados
As a boy, Ishi watches as his native
American tribe is brutally massacred. But after years in the wilderness Ishi is driven by loneliness into the white man's world. Professor
Director Robert Ellis Miller (1978) * FILM REVIEWS pages 51-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Weaver
Unknown:
Eloy Phil Casados
Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
Benjamin Fuller:
Dennis Weaver
ELOY PHIL CASADOS:
Ishia Man
DEVON ERICSON:
Lushia Teenager
JOSEPH RUNNING FOX:
Ishia Teenager
GREGORY NORMAN CRUZ:
Timawia Teenager
Tad Fuller:
Dennis Dimster
Sheriff Lockhart:
Wayne Hefley

The Lost and Found season of films rarely (or never before) seen on television, or presented in restored versions, opens with this adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair - the first feature shot in full Technicolor.
Starring Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
The film focuses on the adventures of an ambitious young woman as she makes her way in Regency society. (1935)
The season continues with Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, tonight at 9.00pm
Barry Norman on Becky Sharp : page 48

Contributors

Director:
Rouben Mamoulian
Becky Sharp:
Miriam Hopkins
Amelia Sedley:
Frances Dee
Marquis of Steyne:
Cedric Hardwicke
Lady Bareacres:
Billie Burke
Miss Crawley:
Alison Skipworth
Joseph Sedley:
Nigel Bruce

Milo Shott - physicist and dissident from the former Czechoslovakia - revisits Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, for the first time since he left in 1968. He finds a legacy of neglect, pollution, industrial decay and rising unemployment - and a group of enthusiastic tutors and students who are trying to transform the country's business sector. They come from a newly established university offering management courses devised by the Open Business School at Milton Keynes. With 5,000 students so far, the college is run by Jan Morovic, who wants to "change the thinking of our society". But as British Government funding for the project comes to an end, how long can the dream survive?
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Milo Shott
Unknown:
Jan Morovic
Producer:
Simon Campbell-Jones
Executive Producer:
Richard Reisz Stereo

The first offourfilms exploring the issue of population and migration as part of the One World 94 season is a Palestinian drama set in the final days of the Israeli occupation.
The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels
Two adolescents fall in love, their story reflectingthe pain and fear of life under the occupation, and their dreams of escapingtoabetterfuture.
Written by Michel Khleifi ; Series producers
Peter Firstbrook. ParminderVir Subtitled .......893836

Contributors

Written By:
Michel Khleifi
Unknown:
Peter Firstbrook.
Yusef:
Mohammad Nahhai
Aida:
Hana' Ne'Meh
Salah:
Ghassan Abu Libda
Yusefs mother:
Bushra Qaraman
Suad:
Raida Adno
Abu Iman:
Makram Khouri
Aida's father:
Mohammad Bakri

r Live from the Royal Albert Hall , theseason'sfarewell concert starts majestically with the full orchestral arrangement by the Proms' founder, Henry Wood , of Bach's great Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan Williams is followed by Walton's choral masterpiece, Belshazzar's Feast.
The BBC Singers, this year celebrating their 70th anniversary, and the BBC
Symphony Chorus join forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis. Introduced by Richard Baker. Part 2 can be seen on BBC1 at 9.20pm. See today's choices. Director Brian Large ; Executive producer Jonathan Fulford ; SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST: with Radio 3 Stereo ............................................546774
♦ See This Week: page 43
As this concert is live, subsequent programmes may run late

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Henry Wood
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Conducted By:
Andrew Davis.
Introduced By:
Richard Baker.
Director:
Brian Large
Producer:
Jonathan Fulford

Musical drama continuing the Lost and Found season, starring Judy Garland, James Mason

Celebrated screen star Norman Maine is saved from drunkenly making a fool of himself in public by struggling young singer Esther Blodgett. Impressed by her talent, Maine encourages her to try the movies, little knowing that Esther's spectacular rise to stardom will mirror his own spectacular fall.

The film is presented in a restored version, never before seen on British network television.
(The Lost and Found season continues with The Ghost Ship at 12.35am)
(1954)
Film Reviews pages 51-56

Contributors

Director:
George Cukor
Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester:
Judy Garland
Norman Maine:
James Mason
Matt Libby:
Jack Carson
Oliver Niles:
Charles Bickford
Danny McGuire:
Tommy Noonan
Lola Lavery:
Lucy Marlow
Susan Ettinger:
Amanda Black
Graves:
Irving Bacon
Glenn Williams:
James Brown
Miss Markham:
Lotus Robb
Wallace:
Richard Webb

The cut and thrust of one of radio's most popular programmes transfers to television with the panel of interrogators cross-examining witnesses and subjectingthem to rigorous intellectual assault in front of the camera. Michael Buerk is in the chair each week as the team sinks its teeth into another topical dilemma. See today's choices. Direct orSteve Smith; Producer David Coomes
......................................................999652 * And the moral of the story is ... see page 30

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Producer:
David Coomes

The last of today's films in the Lost and Found season is a drama starring Richard Dix
Junior officer Tom Merriman is assigned to the cargo ship Altair. Initially impressed by the captain, Merriman begins to suspect his obsessive commanding officer of insanity. Their last voyage together becomes a nightmare.
The next film in the season, The Keep, can be seen tomorrow at 10.40pm.
Director Mark Robson (1943) B/W.......8683492 ♦ FILM REVIEWS pages 51-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Dix
Unknown:
Tom Merriman
Director:
Mark Robson
Captain Stone:
Richard Dix
Tom Merriman:
Russell Wade
Ellen Roberts:
Edith Barrett
Bowns:
Ben Bard
Jacob Winslow Sparks:
Edmund Glover
Finn:
Skelton Knaggs
Benson:
Tom Burton
Ausman:
Steve Winston

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