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Comedy starring Frank Randle
At his birthday party, Grandpa tells how he once faced a crooked hypnotist.
Director John Baxter (1947 )
Black and white Subtitled ......................
* See Films: pp 52-58 *

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Randle
Director:
John Baxter

6.00 So It's Come to This
A compilation of classic clips.

At 6.20 Lisa the Beauty Queen
Homer enters Lisa in a pageant. With the voice of Bob Hope.

(Repeat)

Videoplus code for 6.00-6.20
Code for 6.20-6.45
Code for 6.00-6.45 (not PDC)

(Another double bill is on Friday at 6pm)

Contributors

[Voice] (Lisa the Beauty Queen):
Bob Hope

China's one-child policy to combat escalating population, combined with a cultural preference for sons, has resulted in abandoned baby girls. Pat Kenny sees how British families are choosing to adopt from China, resulting in a growing community of Chinese girls.
(Black and white) (Subtitled)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Reporter:
Pat Kenny
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

Adam Hart-Davis celebrates more pioneers of science, this week in Yorkshire and Lancashire, where he uncovers the steelmaking process that put Sheffield on the map, re-creates the first pollen count, and discovers a working 19th-century aeroplane.

Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
John Francas
Executive Producer:
Paul Bader
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

Jim White explores the islands of the Florida Keys, where the diversions include big-game fishing and a floating casino, while Fi Glover discovers a lively side to Vienna, home of Strauss waltzes, rococo architecture and chocolate cake.

(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)
Factsheet: send a cheque/PO for £1, payable to the BBC, with an A4 SAE and 50p stamp, to: [address removed]

Contributors

Reporter:
Jim White
Reporter:
Fi Glover
Series Producer:
Liz Molyneux

The team set off for Spain as "Operation Zorro" gets underway.

(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Dominic Anciano
Writer/Producer/Director:
Ray Burdis
Writer/Producer/Director:
Hugo Blick
DI Beach:
David Gillespie
Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
Strings:
John Beckett
Vladi:
Charles Verrall
DS Ash:
Ray Burdis
Sgt Dominic de Sade:
Dominic Anciano
Bones:
Perry Benson
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Hugo Crippin:
Hugo Buck

The Voice Box
Six short musical films, showing tonight and tomorrow, mixing vocal works with innovative direction. Presented by Michael Berkeley. See today's choices.
Something to Make You Sing
John Woolrich 's sung symphony follows a pedestrian into a surreal "voice factory". Director Tim Rolt
Market of the Dead.
Eleanor Alberga 's experimental sounds convey the ancestral voices of two Caribbean orphans who arrive in fifties England. Director Margaret Williams
SOS, Songs of Seduction. A yachtswoman's boat capsizes in Jenni Roditi 's blurring of hallucination and reality. Director Jane Thorburn
Sound on Film: Executive producer
Peter Maniura
* See Music: page 41

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Berkeley.
Unknown:
John Woolrich
Director:
Tim Rolt
Unknown:
Eleanor Alberga
Director:
Margaret Williams
Unknown:
Jenni Roditi
Director:
Jane Thorburn
Producer:
Peter Maniura

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Swedish Science in the 18th Century
(Subtitled)
1.00 Picturing the Genders
1.30 El Escorial

The Greats
2.00 Historical Figures

Languages
4.00 Buongiorno Italia 3-4; Famously Fluent
(Subtitled)

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Open University
5.45 Fontainbleau
6.10 Poetry and Landscape
6.35-7.00am Women in Science and Technology

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