Listings
: Open University
(8.30-: The Saturday Musical: Li'l Abner
The wacky and wonderful comic strip world created by Al Capp starringPeter Palmer , Leslie Parrish Stubby Kaye , Howard St John Julie Newmar , Stella Stevens
The first in a series of Saturday afternoon musicals.
Director MELVIN FRANK
This Week's Films: page 11
Contributors
: Man Alive
Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: Look, Stranger
The Glass Animal ManBILL AXCELL can slice a window-pane, melt it in a flame, and twirl it into a dragon, or a daffodil or a carousel.
As a child he was hopelessly clumsy but glass, to his amazement, in his hands becomes a thing of magic.
Executive producer JENNIFER JEREMY Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT
Contributors
: News and Sport
Weather: Rugby Special
The Hawick Sevens Introduced by NIGEL STARMER-SMITHLeading Scottish clubs, with the guest side Loughborough Colleges, battle it out on a knock-out basis to find the 1974 champions.
Director ALAN MOUNCER
Series producer bill TAYLOR'
Contributors
: What's My Line?
Chairman David JacobsPanel: Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn and Nanette Newman
and a guest celebrity
Contributors
: The Pallisers
based on the novels of ANTHONY TROLLOPE written for television in 26 parts by SIM0N RAVEN: starringSusan Hampshire , Philip Latham and Roland Culver as The Duke of Omnium
The Eustace Diamonds have been stolen and Lizzie has told Lord George the truth. Lord Fawn has walked out on Lizzie and transferred his attentions to Marie. Part 14
For cast see Thursday at 8.30 pm
The Pallisers RADIO TIMES SPECIAL. an 84-page colour guide, is on sale at newsagents: price 30p
Contributors
: 2nd House
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg Country MusicCHARLIE GILLETT presents highlights from this year's Sixth International Festival of Country Music at Wembley - including a performance by TAMMY WYNETTE
- and talks about the origins of country music with BARRY RICHARDSON (vocalist with the group Bees Make Honey). Plus scenes from Red, White and Blue Grass, a film made by the outstanding American photographer ELLIOTT ERWITT about the communities of the deep South, where country music is a family tradition.
Byron's Letters
Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the death of the poet Lord Byron. Lady Caroline Lamb described him as ' Mad, bad and dangerous to know.'
MELVYN BRAGG talks about the Byron legend to one of his biographers, DORIS LANGLEY MOORE , and MIDGE MACKENZIE , the film director.
JEREMY BRETT reads extracts from Byron's letters and poems.
The New Review
IAN HAMLTON is the founder of one of the most controversial poetry magazines of the 60s, The Review. This month he launches The New Review.
2nd House looks at the birth of a new literary magazine with the help of A. ALVAREZ , ROBERT LOWELL , GEORGE STEINER and others. The film is narrated by MARK BOXER , the cartoonist, who has a long experience of magazine journalism.
Vortex
In 1914, for a few brief years, England was in the vanguard of European art. Painter and novelist Wyndham Lewis collected a group of fiery young artists in a studio in Great Ormond Street , and together they created a powerful abstract style to reflect the dynamism of the new century. This month the Hayward Gallery celebrates the work of these ' Vorticists ' with a retrospective exhibition.
Producers TONY CASH. KARL FRANCIS Assistant editor TONY STAVEACRE Editor BILL MORTON
More highlights from the Up Country Festival: Wednesday at 7 35 pm BBC2. Byron - The Years of Exile: Tuesday at
8.30 pm Radio 4 Inot Wales)
Contributors
: News on 2
Weather: The Best of Wheelbase
1964-1974Ten Years of Television Motoring Introduced by CLIFF MICHELMORE : from the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu
Over the past decade few things have changed more than the motor car. In 1964 London had its first parking meters, British Minis won the Monte Carlo Rally, and lawyer Ralph Nader started his car safety campaign against Detroit. In this petrol crisis year of 1974, the Greater London Council is pulling down parking meters, British Leyland is out of motor sport, and drivers the world over worry more about mileage than padded steering wheels.
Enjoy again in retrospect the outstanding motoring events of the past ten years as seen through the eyes of Wheelbase.
Director PETER CI.EAVER Producer TONY SALMON Editor Brian ROBINS
Contributors
: Midnight Movie: The Woman for Joe
starringDiane Cilento , George Baker
' The World's Smallest Man,' on show at a travelling fair, falls in love with a young barmaid -and sets in motion a train of events that ends in tragedy.
Director GEORGE MORE O'FERRALL This Week's Films: page 11
Contributors
About this project
This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.
We hope it helps you find information about that long forgotten BBC programme, research a particular person or browse your own involvement with the BBC.
Through the listings, you will also be able to use the Genome search function to find thousands of radio and TV programmes that are already available to view or listen to on the BBC website.
There are more than 5 million programme listings in Genome. This is a historical record of the planned output and the BBC services of any given time. It should be viewed in this context and with the understanding that it reflects the attitudes and standards of its time - not those of today.
To read scans of the Radio Times magazines from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, you can navigate by issue.
Welcome to BBC Genome
Genome is a digitised version of the Radio Times from 1923 to 2009 and is made available for internal research purposes only. You will need to obtain the relevant third party permissions for any use, including use in programmes, online etc.
This internal version of Genome, which includes all the magazine covers, images and articles as well as the programme listings from the Radio Times, is different to the version of BBC Genome that is available externally/to the public. It is only available inside the BBC network.
Your use of this version of Genome is covered by the BBC Acceptable Use of Information Systems Policy and these terms.