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6.00 The Location Problem

6.25 Group Theory

6.50 Care in the Community

7.15 Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Retreat to Romanticism

7.40 A Question of Balance

8.05 Holidays by the Sea

8.30 A Europe of the Regions?

9.20 Patterns in the Dust/Batteries Included
An examination of air pollution, followed by an insight into an electrically powered car.

10.10 Powers of the President - Nixon and Ford
(Subtitled)

11.00 Berlin - Unemployment and the Family

11.25 Global Sea-Level

11.50 Software Development - Channel for Communication

Live coverage from the Hungaroring of the qualifying session for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
(Live coverage of the race starts tomorrow at 12.45 on BBC1)

(Stereo)

Contributors

Commentary:
Murray Walker
Commentary:
Jonathan Palmer
Commentary:
Tony Jardine

Drama, the first in a Saturday Matinee double bill of films set during the Korean War and starring Robert Mitchum

Idealistic United Nations official Linda Day learns the grim truth about war when she falls in love with Colonel Janowski, an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians from Korea.
(1952) (Black and white)

See Films: pages 46-52 *

Contributors

Director:
Tay Garnett
Colonel Steve Janowksi:
Robert Mitchum
Linda Day:
Ann Blyth
Colonel Parker:
William Talman
Sgt Baker:
Charles McGraw
Mary Parker:
Margaret Sheridan
Captain Ralston:
Richard Egan
Gustav Engstrand:
Eduard Franz
Major Davis:
Robert Osterloh

War drama, concluding this afternoon's Saturday Matinee double bill of films starring Robert Mitchum
Also starring Robert Wagner

Korea, 1952. A group of US pilots are given the task of repelling attacks from North Korea. One of them is a hardened Second World War veteran who agrees to keep an eye on a younger frightened pilot. But then the young pilot is shot down behind enemy lines. (Showing in widescreen format)
(1958)

See Films: pages 46-52 ***

Contributors

Director:
Dick Powell
Major Cleve Saville:
Robert Mitchum
Lieutenant Ed Pell:
Robert Wagner
Colonel Dutch Imil:
Richard Egan
Kristina:
May Britt
Lieutenant Carl Abbott:
Lee Philips
Lieutenant Corona:
John Gabriel
Colonel Monkey Moncavage:
Stacy Harris
Korean farmer:
Victor Sen Yung
Casey Jones:
Leon Lontoc
Sergeant:
John Doucette
Captain Owynby:
Larry Thor
Gifford:
Ralph Manza
WAF lieutenant:
Nina Shipman
Mrs Mason:
Alena Murray
Major Dark:
Jay Jostyn
Jackson:
Robert Reed

Further live coverage from Headingley of action on the third day in the Second Test between England and Pakistan. Highlights are tonight at 11.30pm. TV presentation Alan Griffiths ; Executive
Producer Keith Mackenzie

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Griffiths
Producer:
Keith MacKenzie

Two of the most influential figures in British rock discuss the stresses and strains of running their music empires.

Vince Power, a former furniture dealer, runs the Mean Fiddler Organisation, which controls live music venues in London as well as staging the Reading, Phoenix and Fleadh festivals. Adhering to a principle of "buy good, sell easy", he has won admiration for risky undertakings that, he says, are akin to "betting two million quid on a horse".

Tony Hollingsworth's Tribute Group has now mounted six of the world's top television music extravaganzas, including Nelson Mandela's birthday celebration at Wembley. Once the organiser of community music events for Ken Livingstone's GLC, he compares the financial uncertainties of his business with producing a mid-priced feature film - except that his whole budget is consumed in a matter of hours.

Contributors

Subject:
Vince Power
Subject:
Tony Hollingsworth
Narrator:
John Walters
Producer:
Terry Kelleher
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

Actress Eddie Ladd introduces music and arts highlights from Wales's famous festival, held at Llandeilo near Carmarthen. Focal points include an interview with opera star Bryn Terfel during rehearsals for the festival's showpiece concert - Mendelssohn's Elijah - music from indie band Super Furry Animals, and a look at the winners of the principal poetry competitions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eddie Ladd
Interviewee:
Bryn Terfel
Musicians:
Super Furry Animals
Producers:
Steve Freer
Producer:
Suzanne Phillips

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, and in a simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain performs a programme of 20th-century classics. Opera star Sally Burgess joins the orchestra, conducted by Paul Daniel, to sing a selection of George Gershwin's best known tunes, including Someone to Watch over Me and Slap That Bass. The concert opens with Ameriques by Varese and ends with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, on the 25th anniversary of the composer's death. Introduced by Sarah Walker.
See today's choices.

(The second of four Proms recorded for BBCtv is on Wednesday at 10.50pm)
(Stereo)
(Simultaneous broadcast: with Radio 3)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Walker
Singer:
Sally Burgess
Musicians:
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Conductor:
Paul Daniel
Director:
Bob Coles
Series Editor:
Peter Maniura

Make It Funky. In the seventies, James Brown 's musical innovations earned him the sobriquet of the godfather of funk. The series on the story of rock music remembers the revolution he instigated, plus the work of other funk figureheads such as Sly and the Family Stone, Bootsy Collins and George Clinton. See today's choices. Director Yvonne Smith; Series producer Hugh Thomson
INFORMATION: about the series can be accessed on the Internet at [Web Address Removed] BBC BOOK: a book accompanying the series is available in hardback, price £17.99 from booksellers.

Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History
9.40pm BBC2
With the changing politics of the late sixties, the optimism of soul gave way to a harder urban sound: funk. James Brown reinvented the structure of pop music, subj ugating everything to the rhythm - and started a revolution.
Brown's rise to glory coincided with the civil rights movement and a new realism about black America that was reflected in the music. Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder spearheaded a socially-aware type of soul that gave a perfect snapshot of the times as well as making people want to dance. By the late seventies, it had mutated into disco: disposable, meaningless and utterly irresistible.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Brown
Unknown:
James Brown
Unknown:
Bootsy Collins
Unknown:
George Clinton.
Director:
Yvonne Smith
Producer:
Hugh Thomson

Continuing the comedy-drama series set in a psychiatric hospital.
Rainy Night in Georgia. Eddie's relationship with Francine starts to flourish in the wake of his accidental sales triumph at Twinview Windows and with professional radio taking an interest in his work. As their fragile relationship starts to strengthen, he asks her in gauche fashion to accompany him to the Lithuanian Club to impress his
Grandma's friends. Gradually gaining hertrust, Eddie finds Francine confiding in him about the awful train of events that orginally brought her to St Jude's. Campbell, meanwhile, is angry that the people who turn up for Angus's funeral were not concerned enough to pay him a visit during his stay in hospital.
Written by Donna Franceschild
Director David Blair ; Producer Chris Parr
Repeat Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Donna Franceschild
Director:
David Blair
Producer:
Chris Parr
Eddie:
Ken Stott
Grandma:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Francine:
Katy Murphy
Campbell:
David Tennant
Rosalie:
Ruth McCabe
Isabel:
Angela Bruce
Stuart:
Kenneth Bryans
Paula:
Arabella Weir
Mrs Prackauskas:
Margery Withers
Griffin:
Roy Hanlon
MacAteer:
Neil McKinven
Jane:
Caroline Paterson

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