6.20 Physics 6598841 6.45Floatingan Integral 7585179 7.10 The Cornflake Story 7883228 7.35 Children, Science and Common Sense
With Signing. Subtitled ....
Drama documentary about
Rudyard Kipling 's travels in Africa. Stereo ...
The first programme in a series that asks people to look back on marriages made duringthe stressful days of war.
Today: Geoffrey and Edith Holmes share their wedding day memories.
Part 2 will be shown next Monday
A visit to the less busy, western end of the Greek island of Crete.
Preparingfast and healthy food with cook Ian Parmenter
Second programme of the new series in which Amencan cartoonist Bruce Blitz teaches the skills of drawing cartoons. Today: how to make inanimate objects come to life.....................................
John Swinfield meets men of faith.
The Tinmen. American Catholic priest
Roberto Durette lives with the people of Siglo Veinte in Bolivia. Once the site of one of the biggest tin mines in the world, it is now a poverty-stricken community which, since the collapse of the tin market, has been hit by a range of serious diseases.....
Pathe News footage of events that made the headlines in 1955. B/W....
First of twelve consumer investigations into how successfully tourist attractions and holiday resorts caterfor people with disabilities. Today. Sue
Maynard Campbell visits the riverside Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire.............................
Shown last night
Live coverage of the 124th Open Golf
Championship. Steve Rider introduces the second day's play from St Andrews.
Further live coverage from St Andrews.
Including at 3.00 and 3.55 News Regional News; Weather
Live coverage from Ascot, continued from BBC 1, featuringthe race at 4.05pm.
Continued live coverage from St Andrews. Stereo.................................................
Another chance to review what was making the news and dominating the charts in a particular year of the decade when, for some, greed was good.
Among the headlines is the kidnapping of Terry Waite and the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Michael Ryan brings tragedy to Hungerford, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wins a third term in office and there is a spending boom. The combined effect of the hurricane and Black Monday make it an extraordinary October. There is music from the Mission, Whitney Houston, the Pet Shop Boys, Bananarama, New Order, U2 and the Proclaimers.
Live from the Albert Hall ,
James Naughtie introduces the centenary season of the BBC
Proms which opens with Mahler's
Eighth Symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand". Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, three choruses - the BBC Symphony Chorus, Philharmonia Chorus and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (CBSO) - and choristers of cathedral choirs from St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral.
Davis comments, "There certainly couldn't be a granderway of opening the season. But it isn't all grand and majestic - some moments are scored with the greatest delicacy." See today's choices. The soloists include:
Julia Varady (soprano)
Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano) Kim Begley (tenor)
Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone) Carsten Stabell (bass)
Director Barrie Gavin ; Series editor Peter Maniura
* SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST: with Radio 3
The series of classic comedies continues tonight with a show featuring the burglar bishop, the Foreign Secretary, and a special offer from the Book of the Month Club. Also, an arts programme previewing L.F. Dibley's Rear Window and Finian's Rainbow. Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam.
Radio Times Offer: page
Followed by African Summer: Video Nation Africa Shorts
Filmed by Africans from all over the continent, this series of short programmes offers surprising, funny and provocative snapshots of everyday life in modern Africa.
(Stereo)
Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.
The topical news analysis programme that debates the main news stories of the day and takes a look behind the headlines. Presented by Kirsty Wark.
Two celebrity teams join presenter Lisa I'Anson for a special celebrity edition of the black music quiz. The team captains are comedians Robbie Gee and Eddie Nestor from BBCtv's The Real McCoy. They are joined by Radio 1 DJ Steve Edwards, vocalists Omar and Dee C Lee, and singer-turned-television presenter David Grant. Plus music from dancehall trio Troi, and soul sister Beverley Knight. Last in the series.
Competition Line: [number removed]. Lines are open from 11.15pm tonight until 12 midnight on Sunday. Calls cost a maximum of 25p.
Highlights of today's play on the second day of the Open Golf
Championship from St Andrews.
Producer Sharon Lence Stereo
Luchino Visconti's film adaptation of the classic modernist novel by Thomas Mann, set to the music of Gustav Mahler and starring Dirk Bogarde
Turn of the century Venice: in need of a complete rest, famous composer Gustav von Aschenbach arrives at the Lido. He finds the city in the grip of disease, but soon becomes fascinated by Tadzio, a young boy whose exquisite beauty disturbs the composer and awakens in him passions that ultimately lead to tragedy.
Showing in widescreen format.
(1971) Film Reviews pages 53-59
