Listings
Today's story:
The Willow Pattern
Presenters
SARAH LONG , STUART MCGUGAN
Clarinettist DAVE MOSES Pianist MICHAEL OMER
Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD Written by IRENE COCKROFT Director ALBERT BARBER Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Contributors
Unknown:
Sarah
Long
Unknown:
Stuart
McGugan
Pianist:
Clarinettist Dave
Moses
Pianist:
Michael
Omer
Designer:
Barbara
Gosnold
Written By:
Irene
Cockroft
Director:
Albert
Barber
Producer:
Anne
Gobey
Producer:
Cynthia
Felgate
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2
Brush up your reading and writing With BRIAN REDHEAD and JULIAN CHAGRIN
SHEILA FEARN
DENNIS WATERMAN
Script BARRY TOOK
Contributors
Unknown:
Julian
Chagrin
Unknown:
Sheila
Fearn
Unknown:
Dennis
Waterman
Script:
Barry
Took
Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion including every Thursday UK Report from BBC news correspondents in Britain
With Richard Kershaw , David Sells
Newsreader Kenneth Kendall
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Charlton
Unknown:
Charles
Wheeler
Unknown:
Richard
Kershaw
Unknown:
David
Sells
Unknown:
Kenneth
Kendall
Robert Robinson introduces a weekly guide to newly-published books-the authors and the readers; fact and fiction; best-sellers and remainders.
Studio director SUE MALLINSON
Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT
Contributors
Introduces:
Robert
Robinson
Director:
Sue
Mallinson
Producer:
Philip
Speight
Producer:
Will
Wyatt
with Derek Nimmo and his guests
This week Derek looks at forms of impermanent art-ice carving, sand sculpture and do-it-yourself wash-away painting.
Designer IAN ASHURST
Producer carets GWENLAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Derek
Nimmo
Designer:
Ian
Ashurst
A series of 12 programmes Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson
2: The Abraham Years
Was Abraham a nomad or a wealthy caravaneer? This was the burning question among Bible scholars 20 years ago. Abraham's famous journey from Ur in Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan (Genesis chapters 11 and 12) was confidently dated to 2,000 BC.
Today, scholars are asking a differ. ent question. Was Abraham, Father of the Hebrew people, an historical figure at all? Perhaps the answer to this and many other questions lies in Western Syria where Italian archaeologists have made a sensational discovery - clay tablets written in a language which is the direct ancestor of Biblical Hebrew and full of Biblical names-used over 1,000 years before they appear in the Bible!
Bible reader Eric Porter
Film cameramen PETER HALL
PETER CHAPMAN , JOHN HOOPER Film editor IAN PITCH
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Producer ANTONIA BENEDEK
Contributors
Presented By:
Magnus
Magnusson
Reader:
Eric
Porter
Unknown:
Peter
Hall
Unknown:
Peter
Chapman
Unknown:
John
Hooper
Producer:
David
Collison
Producer:
Antonia
Benedek
The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel Calder
The past year has seen a giant step forward along a line of discoveries that future generations will recognise as one of the glories of our age. The strong evidence for a quality called 'charm' helps to make sense of the cosmic forces that build stars and atoms and living things. Enigmatic 'black holes' in space are becoming more credible. And the searchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
"Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation holds the key to the universe in our hands: that perhaps in our lifetime we may be able to tell why this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable." (Steven Weinberg, Harvard University)
Commentary spoken by Eric Porter
Co-produced with Channel 11-WTTW Chicago
(Repeated next Sunday)
Book (same title) ã5.95, from bookshops
Contributors
Writer/Presenter:
Nigel
Calder
Commentary spoken by:
Eric
Porter
Music:
James Kenelm
Clarke
Film Cameraman:
David
Feig
Film editor:
Christopher
Woolley
Studio Lighting:
Peter
Booth
Graphic Design:
Alan
Jeapes
Studio Director:
John
Gorman
Producer:
Alec
Nisbett
MARTIN jARvis reads
Cat-Faith by ALASTAIR REID
Contributors
Unknown:
Martin
Jarvis
Unknown:
Alastair
Reid