Listings
: Play School
Story: "Surprise in Silvester Street" by Cherry Pearce(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
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: Sixteen Plus: 5: A Matter of Skill...
A series for teachers in schools and colleges of further education.How far can traditional skills analysis be applied to the social skills?
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: Their World: 3: Elephants
A new film series about animal behaviour and survival.About a quarter of a million elephants are crowded into Africa's National Parks. To stay alive, each has to search for three or four hundred pounds of greenery daily. Is there enough to go round? Are there too many elephants?
Dr Harvey Crooze has been studying elephant behaviour at close quarters to try to find the answers.
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: Europa
Corsica - for tourists 'a sunlit jewel in the Mediterranean' - for many of the locals 'a last colony of France.' Derek Hart reports on the preparations for next week's French elections from an island where ballot boxes traditionally end up on the sea-bed.French television also reports on the electorate in a very different atmosphere, a Northern market town, and on the campaign of two extremist candidates.
Introduced by Derek Hart
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: Weir of Hermiston: Part 3
A serial in four parts based on the unfinished novel by Robert Louis StevensonDramatised by Tom Wright
Starring Tom Fleming as Lord Weir
with Edith McArthur, Leonard Maguire, David Rintoul, David Dundas and Virginia Stark
Archie's love for Christina has been discovered by his aunt and his guest Frank Innes. The affair has brought Archie, once again, into collision with his father.
BBC Scotland
(Repeated next Saturday evening)
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: Times Remembered by Proud Mums: 4: Vidal Sassoon's mother, Betty
Vidal Sassoon's rags-to-riches life-story reads like an old Hollywood film script. And guess what. 'Owes it all to his mum' - 72-year-old Betty Sassoon. Tonight she tells John Pitman just how her dream came true.Contributors
: Horizon: ...And Where Will the Children Play?
How do you make the future livable? In Vancouver, population one million, up to five million by 2025, housing land will run out by the year 2000. In Boulder, Colorado, the population has so mushroomed that people can enter some recreation areas by permit only. Alarmed for the future the citizens have cried: 'stop!' Stop economic and population growth and reallocate resources to improve our quality of life.But how? Will people give up their demand for more consumer goods? Will they voluntarily limit their personal freedoms? This film shows the unique attempt by two cities to solve their growth problems. Do we, in this country, care sufficiently about the future to learn from their example?
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: The Great Acrobile
by Roy MintonThe fourth in this season of short plays from Birmingham
There are only seven people in the village hall but the Great Acrobile is determined to reveal great roller-skating feats.
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: Buddy Rich and his Orchestra: In Concert
Saxophones Pat Labarbera, Brian Grivna, Jimmy Mosher, Don Englert, Joe CaloTrombones Bruce Paulson, Tony Dimaggio, John Heimkreiter
Trumpets Lin Biviano, Jeff Stout, Wayne Naus, John Deflon
Piano Robert Dogan
Bass Paul Kondziela
The man some say is the greatest drum technician alive drives his orchestra through their paces, including jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Thelonious Monk.
(Buddy Rich appears by arrangement with Harold Davison)
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: Real Time
A weekly round-up of issues concerning the world of television. Michael Dean surveys the week's output and invites others to assess its achievements and effect.(Colour)
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