Listings
: Play School
Story: Inch by InchWritten and illustrated by LEO LIONNI Presenters :
SAM WYSE, JOHNNY BALL
Book, More Stories from Play School, 35p, from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (No 232) £1.79, or cassette (No 045) £1.95, from record shops
: Racing from Ascot
2.0 The Bagshot Handicap Steeple Chase (3m)2.35 The Valley Gardens Opportunity Handicap Hurdle Race (2im)
3.5 The Embassy Premier Steeple Chase (Qualifier) (2Jm)
3.40 Dunkirk Handicap Steeple Chase (2m)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
RICHARD PITMAN
Television presentation DENNIS MONGER
Contributors
: News on 2 Headlines
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing; followed by Weather on 2: Simple Science
Ten programmes about science in and around the house, with some experiments you can try yourself. 3: You Gotta haveSoil ALAN HIBBERT shows how to persuade your soil to be nicer to your plants, and takes a worm's-eye view of its biology.
Director JUDY HARRIS
Producer MICHAEL GaRROD
Contributors
: Newsday
Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion on events and issues of the day. With Richard KershawNewsreader Peter Woods
Editor JOHN TISDALL
Contributors
: The Tribal Eye
Seven award-winning films in which David Attenborough relates the masterpieces of tribal art to the people and places that produced them.5: Woven Gardens
The beautiful glowing rugs made by the nomad women of the Orient have been admired by the outside world for centuries - the finest examples, with their subtle vegetable dyes and vigorous designs, are true works of art which rank with the greatest achievements of tribal imagination.
The Qashqa'i of Iran are one of the last great migrant groups left on earth and Qashqa'i women still make magnificent rugs - portable gardens with which to adorn their black tents.
Film cameraman NAT CROSBY Film editor PAM BOSWORTH
Producer DAVID COLLISON
Contributors
: Party Political Broadcast
(For details: see BBC1): Playhouse: The Mind Beyond
Stones by MALCOLM CHRISTOPHER' Stones and curses go together.' A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true. starring with Designer
DON TAYLOR
Film cameraman KEN WESTBURY
Music composed by JOSEPH HOROVITZ Producer IRENE SHUBIK Director GRAHAM EVANS
Contributors
: Arena: Art and Design
The IllustratorsThe work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham.
Every day of our lives, without entering an art gallery, we are subjected to a barrage of images created by hundreds of contemporary artists. Yet they themselves remain anonymous. They are the illustrators who draw and paint for advertisement hoardings, for magazines, newspapers, book jackets, record covers. Arena filmed two British illustrators working on their current projects. The Swish of the Curtain
Artist Chris Orr probes the dreadful truth behind the net curtains of suburbia.
Directors BOB BLAGDEN (The Illustrators) NIGEL FINCH (The Swish of the Curtain) Producer LESLIE MEGAHEY
Contributors
: I, Claudius: Part 6: Queen of Heaven
A second chance to see this BBC2 Serial in 12 parts: Late News on 2
Weather: Closedown
CYRIL CUSACK reads The Lady and the Bear by THEODORE ROETHKEContributors
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