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: Open University
6.40 Curriculum Design and Development7.5 Blade Alloy and Process
7.30 Management in Crisis
: Play School
Story: The New, Blue Umbrella by CHRISTOPHER WALKER PresentersLibby Murray , Stuart McGugan
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: Cricket: Fourth Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test SeriesEngland v India
The last two hours' play from The Oval.
: The Mid-Evening News
including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather: The Ealing Comedy: The Lavender Hill Mob
starringAlec Guinness , Stanley Holloway Sidney James , Alfie Bass
The comic genius of Alec Guinness was first revealed in the unpretentious film comedies made with such spectacular success by Ealing Studios.
Behind the modest, respectable exterior of Mr Holland lurks a criminal mind of awe-inspiring ambition. Mr Holland 's job is supervising bullion deliveries at the bank and his immediate target is one million pounds in gold. When he meets Pendlebury, Mr Holland 's plans begin to take shape.
Screenplay by T. E. B. CLARKE Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by CHARLES CRICHTON
. Films: page 17
Alec Guinness stars in a seven-part dramatisation of John le Carry's Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy starting next Monday
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: Brass Tacks
The Worst Road Accident of All?Are we risking a generation's intelligence by continuing to add lead to our petrol in order to improve engine performance? While experts politely differ about whether or not low levels of lead damage children's minds, and government thinking is shrouded in secrecy, West Germany has declined to take risks and has dramatically reduced the amount of lead in its petrol.
Should we follow their example - and pay higher prices at the pump?
Film director BILL LYONS Producer DAVID GEEN
Editor ROGER LAUGHTON BBC Manchester
If you want to take part in the Brass Tacks debate, either phone a participating BBC radio station immediately after the programme (details on the air and on Local Radio pages of RADIO TIMES)
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: Rhoda
A comedy film series starring with What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? ... Rhoda's determination not to spend it alone makes it more like Hallowe'enWritten by PAT NARDO and GLORIA BANTA Directed hy TONY MORDENTE
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: Born to the Wind
The last of four parts starringNight Eyes
Painted Bear and his warriors find a boy/wolf - a human being raised by wolves and behaving like them.
Produced by i. c. RAPOPORT Directed by CHARLES DUBIN
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: The Right to Work
New technology, once the friend, is fast becoming the foe.In the second of three programmes, The Right to Work looks at the impact of technological change on one industry in one town. The town is St Helens; the industry, glassmaking. St Helens is dominated by one company - Pilkington Brothers, a highly-successful multinational giant acknowledged as the world's leading glassmaker. But that success brings problems in its wake. To keep ahead, Pilkington wishes to introduce new machinery that will cost 1,400 jobs over the next three years. Glass process workers, members of the million-strong General and Municipal Workers Union, will bear the brunt of that loss of jobs. And this time, they've decided to fight.
Their answer to the company's plans has been a demand for a shorter working week to share out what work there is. But the company are adamant. Peter Williams reports on a long summer of confrontation as the company - conscious that this is a test case - stands firm, while the union struggles to convince the company, and its own members, that a shorter working week is the only way to safeguard the future of a community at risk from the machines.
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: Cricket: Fourth Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test SeriesEngland v India
RICHIE BENAUD introduces he final day's highlights.
: Late News
Weather: Late Night Story
Declarations of War Sir John Mills readsBrent's Deus Ex Machina The second of five stories by LEN DEIGHTON
Sometimes the difference between being called a coward or a hero depends on an unimportant remark.
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