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Tvand Radio By Tom Castro Saturday
Tvand Radio By Tom Castro
Tv And Radio
TV and Radio by Tom Castro
SATURDAY
Larry the Lamb (Granada, 9.55 am). A golden image of Larry isso this moment being fashioned by London goldsmiths to hang over the doors of the new Herald offices, How he will grace them too! This week's adventure is called: 'The Mayor's Sea Voyage.' Ziegfried Follies (BBC2, 3.35 pm).
In 1944 this sort of spectacle took our minds of V-2s. The cast includes Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Lucille Ball.
High Sierra (88C2 8.30 pm) The only other BI3C film worth watching this week stars Humphrey Bogart as an ageing gangster.
SUNDAY
Lenten Meditation (ITV, 10 am). Father Michael Hollings tells how he lost the Faith during the War. -I was a soldier. Gdd faded. So much became irrelevant. I was living, existing, fighting, facing cold, sleeplessness and possible death." Poor thing.
Songs of Praise (BBC', 6.40 pm).
From St Wulfram's Church, Grantham. When Ruskin saw the church's West front, he fainted, and a Father Stanton used to make his fellow passengers stand and raise their hats when the train passed by.
The World About Us (BBC2, 7.45 pm). All about acacias, not in avenues, but in Africa, with fire, giraffes, elephants and bruchid beetles to feed upon -them.
MONDAY
l'anorama (88C1, 8.10 pm). If the bomb drops on Britain, what then? The Government has just told us to be careful to turn our televisions off before the big bang. I don't really think we need worry.
Horizon (BBC2, 9,30 pm), Did you know that Jupiter is one and a half thousand times bigger than the Earth? Even if this comes as no surprise, today's programme takes a fascinating poke at fat old planet Jove.
'FUESDA
The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC2,11.30 pm). Featuring John,
Cooper Clarke, the punk poet who is rather rude.
Omnibus (BBC', 10.15 pm). A film portrait of Graham Sutherland, prepared over a long period and very well done,
THURSDAY
Question Time (BBC1, 10.45 pm). Dear old Robin Day has a day off, so we got Bob McKenzie instead, naked without his swingometer. Another blow is Dr Rhodes Boyson, who has already figured on Sunday's 'Controversialists'. Dr Boyson the last of the piggy Whigs is now controversial only for the fatness of his mutton-chop whiskers, Radio Feur
Something Must Be Done (Saturday, 4.02 pm) Amid the huge rubbish dumps of Cairo hundreds of pigs and people root around for sustenance.
Radio Three Xerxes (Sunday, 2.30 pm) Handel's opera.
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