02 February 1981

Monday 02 February

1981-02-02

Events

 * Duran Duran release their debut single Planet Earth b/w Late Bar; Talking Heads release new single Once in a Lifetime, and edited version of the track taken from their 1980 album Remain in Light.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 11.10 pm Film 81 with Barry Norman. News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Marlon Brando received one million dollars a scene for his role in The Formula, a thriller in which he plays an oil tycoon with a war-time secret to hide. In a remake of The Jazz Singer, immortalised in the 20s by Al Jolson, recording star Neil Diamond takes on the musical role with Laurence Olivier as his sceptical Jewish father. Chicago is the setting for My Bodyguard, a dramatic comedy about a high-school dominated by Matt Dillon as its extortionist gang-leader, until the new boy, Chris Makepeace, finds a way to challenge him.
 * BBC Two
 * 6.55 pm Rock Goes To College Featuring the best of contemporary British and American rock bands. Each week's recording takes place on a college campus. This week: John Martyn from Chelsea College. Introduced by Pete Drummond.
 * 8.30 pm Grace Kennedy stars in her first television series and this week introduces her special guest star Bruce Forsyth.

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