Listings
: Open University
6.25 Your Own Optics Laboratory6.50 Kepler's War
7.15 Rome Under Augustus
7.40 Search and Rescue
8.5 Vienna: Stripping the Facade
8.30 The Planet Earth 855 Rules Rule, OK?
9.20 Maths: Symbols and Equations
9.45 Time, Money and Technology
10.10 The Hydraulic Ram
10.35 The Origin of the Earth
11.0 Going to Sea
11.25 ABC in Kansas City: 1
11.50 Insect Diversity
12.15 James Hutton. Geologist
12.40 Biology, Brain and Behaviour: Introduction
1.5 Making the Connections
1.30 Maths Methods: Population Modelling
Contributors
Unknown:
James
Hutton.
: International Rugby Special
Ireland v France Scotland v WalesNIGEL STARMERSMITH introduces highlights of the weekend's internationals. Triple Crown holders Ireland face their hardest match of the season against the French who, after victories over England and Scotland, have their sights on the Grand Slam.
Commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH Scotland, with narrow defeats by Ireland and France, face Wales who started the season with a disappointing draw with England. Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Television presentation: Ireland v France RTE
Scotland v Wales BILL MALCOLM Series producer Huw JONES
Contributors
Commentator:
Nigel
Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Huw
Jones
: Carnival in Rio
The Biggest Street Party in the WorldEvery February the streets of Rio de Janeiro explode with the festivities of Carnival. This programme looks at the last fortnight's preparations, carnival in the streets and clubs, and the climax -the Samba School Parade last Tuesday. with Anne Nightingale and Ivan Lessa
Producer TOM CORCORAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Anne
Nightingale
Unknown:
Ivan
Lessa
Producer:
Tom
Corcoran
: Horizon
Talking Turtle: States of Mind
The first of 15 programmes in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists - 15 people who contribute in very different ways to our understanding of the human mind.Professor George Miller , from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the importance of the Second World War to the study of human behaviour.
Designer COLIN LOWREY Production
PHILIP SPEIGHT , DAVID F. TURNBULL
Contributors
Talks:
Jonathan
Miller
Unknown:
Professor George
Miller
Designer:
Colin
Lowrey
Unknown:
Philip
Speight
Unknown:
David F.
Turnbull
: Newseries Grand Slam
The first of 13 programmes from Painswick House, GlosThe world's first televised bridge tournament returns, this time from a beautiful country house in Gloucestershire. The competition will be as fierce and the wit as sharp as ever, but this year the teams are battling for a spectacular purse of £8,000. Seventy-eight boards of bridge will be played over 13 weeks as the US team attempt to revenge their narrow defeat by the British team last year.
Presenter JEREMY JAMES
Commentator JEREMY FLINT , bridge correspondent of The Times The players
For the US: GAIL moss
JACQUI MITCHELL , NEIL SILVERMAN and MATTHEW GRANOVETTER For the UK: NICOLA GARDENER PAT DAVIES. TONY FRIDAY and CLAUDE RODRIGUE
Director LINDA MCCARTHY
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE
Contributors
Presenter:
Jeremy
James
Commentator:
Jeremy
Flint
Unknown:
Gail
Moss
Unknown:
Jacqui
Mitchell
Unknown:
Neil
Silverman
Unknown:
Matthew
Granovetter
Unknown:
Nicola
Gardener
Unknown:
Pat
Davies.
Unknown:
Claude
Rodrigue
Director:
Linda
McCarthy
Producer:
Peter
Bazalgette
: News Review
A digest of the news of the week, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. With Jan LeemingEditor FRED HOLTUM
Contributors
Unknown:
Jan
Leeming
Editor:
Fred
Holtum
: The Money Programme
Presented by Brian Wialake and Valerie SingletonWith NICK CLARKE , LUKE CASEY and MARK ROGERSON reporting in Britain and abroad on business, finance, your money and other peoples.
Featuring this week The Franchise Affair
Cleaning drains, beneath car bonnets, behind the hamburger counter, thousands of people are now working for themselves in the franchise game. They are putting up their own capital - often redundancy money - for the right to sell nationally advertised services and products. It costs them anywhere from about £6,000 for a mobile car-tuning agency, up to many times that for a big fast-food outlet. VALERIE SINGLETON reports on the booms and the pitfalls.
Plus Money Maker on how to make the best of your savings.
Producer DON HARLEY
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor JOHN REYNOLDS
Contributors
Presented By:
Brian
Wialake
Presented By:
Valerie
Singleton
Unknown:
With Nick
Clarke
Unknown:
Luke
Casey
Unknown:
Mark
Rogerson
Unknown:
Valerie
Singleton
Producer:
Don
Harley
Editor:
Andrew
Clayton
Editor:
John
Reynolds
: The World About Us
Forest in the SeaOff the coast of California, amid the towering fronds of the giant kelp - the largest and fastest growing seaweed in the world-sea-otters, urchins, fish, abalones and countless other colourful and bizarre marine creatures are engaged in a fight for existence. They struggle not only among themselves but with those who attempt to find a living there as fishermen.
When that forest of kelp began to disappear, urgent research began to reveal an intriguing natural history of a forest, essential for fisheries but also harvestable for algin, that essence of smoothness in our foods, toothpastes and paints, and which may be farmable in future for energy - methane gas sufficient for the whole of the United States.
Narrated and produced by BARRY PAINE
Photographed and directed by WOLFGANG BAYER
Film editor DAVID BARRETT Series editors
PETER JONES. ANTHONY ISAACS BBC Bristol
Contributors
Produced By:
Barry
Paine
Directed By:
Wolfgang
Bayer
Editor:
David
Barrett
Unknown:
Peter
Jones.
: Time with Betjeman
A series of seven programmes celebrating the work and the ways of the Poet Laureate, Sir John BetjemanPresented by Jonathan Stedall
2: A visit to Smithfield and some thoughts on the Barbican, Betjeman as a father, Sunday by the sea, poems for the poet, and a conversation with Barry Humphries about Australia, with an interruption from Sir Les Patterson. With extracts from Betjeman in Australia (1972), Discovering Britain (1955) and Thank God It's Sunday (1972).
Film editor eric BROWN
JONATHAN STEDALL
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir John
Betjeman
Presented By:
Jonathan
Stedall
Unknown:
Barry
Humphries
Unknown:
Sir Les
Patterson.
Editor:
Eric
Brown
Unknown:
Jonathan
Stedall
: Redundant! or The Wife's Revenge
A comedy by FAY WELDON The second of five plays Live from Pebble MillAlan has problems; his wife Esther wants a job, his daughter Hermes thinks she's a lesbian, and his affair with Hermes' bisexual girlfriend Val isn't going too well. Is a face-lift the answer?
Mr Khan , cosmetic surgeon, is struggling to choose between his brilliant brain-surgeon wife and Pony, the nubile but pregnant nurse. Both men have enjoyed the fruits of manhood; will Esther and Mrs Khan exact a just revenge? with Lighting BARRY HILL Sound MARK DECKER
Designer GAVIN DAVIES
Producer ROBIN MIDGLEY
Director JAMES CELLAN JONES BBC Pebble Mill
Contributors
Comedy By:
Fay
Weldon
Unknown:
Mr
Khan
Unknown:
Mrs
Khan
Designer:
Gavin
Davies
Producer:
Robin
Midgley
Director:
James
Cellan
Alan, a husband:
Leslie
Phillips
Esther, a wife:
Judy
Parfitt
Mr Khan, a cosmetic surgeon:
Zia
Mohycddln
Mrs Khan, a brain surgeon:
Connie
Booth
Val, a lover:
Nicola
Pagett
Hermes, a daughter:
Lucy
Gutteridge
Freddo, ani electrician:
Dermot
Crowley
Pony, a nurse:
Marsha
Fitzalan
: International Pro-Celebrity Golf
The first of ten programmesThis year the series returns to the beautiful Ailsa Course at Turnberry Hotel, Ayrshire, scene of the 1977 Open Championship.
Golfing superstars Lee Trevino and Severiano Ballesteros , who between them have won every major championship, lead their teams of celebrity partners as they challenge for the Marley Trophy.
This week's opening match features Grand Prix motor-racing stars, past and present, as Nigel Mansell (left) partners Lee Trevino and former world champion James Hunt teams up with Seve Ballesteros.
PETER ALLISS commentates and talks with the players in this match over nine selected holes.
Television presentation RICHARD TILLING and ALASTAIR SCOTT
Producer DAVID KENNING
Contributors
Unknown:
Lee
Trevino
Unknown:
Severiano
Ballesteros
Unknown:
Nigel
Mansell
Unknown:
Lee
Trevino
Unknown:
James
Hunt
Unknown:
Seve
Ballesteros.
Unknown:
Peter
Alliss
Unknown:
Richard
Tilling
Unknown:
Alastair
Scott
Producer:
David
Kenning
: Film of the Week: A Doll's House
starringClaire Bloom as Nora Anthony Hopkins as Torvald Ralph Richardson as Dr Rank Denholm Elliott as Krogstad Anna Massey as Kristine Edith Evans as Anne Marie
Hopeful that years of economising are over, Nora prepares a lavish Christmas to celebrate her husband's new position. Only one thing threatens her happiness-she is held to ' 'ransom" by Krogstad, who knows of an illegal transaction she has undertaken years before....
This finely acted version of Ibsen's play interweaves the themes of family loyalty, of love and betrayal and women's 'liberation', against a suspense-story drama. The movie version of his masterpiece opens a short season of adaptations of classic plays and novels.
Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
Adapted from the play by HENRIK IBSEN Produced by HILLARD ELKINS
Directed by PATRICK GARLAND. Films: p 15 (First showing on British television)
Contributors
Unknown:
Nora Anthony
Hopkins
Unknown:
Torvald Ralph
Richardson
Unknown:
Dr Rank Denholm
Elliott
Unknown:
Krogstad Anna
Massey
Unknown:
Kristine Edith
Evans
Unknown:
Anne
Marie
Unknown:
Christopher
Hampton
Play By:
Henrik
Ibsen
Produced By:
Hillard
Elkins
Directed By:
Patrick
Garland.
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