05 January 1974

Saturday 05 January

1974-01-05

TV

 * BBC One
 * 7.35 pm Cilla The first of a new series starring Cilla Black with special guests Twiggy, Bernard Cribbins and one or two surprise items.
 * 8.20 pm World Cup Draw Live from Frankfurt. Sir Stanley Rous, President of FIFA, makes the draw for the final stages of the Tenth World Cup Tournament, to be staged in nine West German cities next June and July.
 * BBC Two
 * 8.00 pm 2nd House. An anthology for January highlighting some of the month's events in music, books, theatre, film and the visual arts. Introduced by Melvyn Bragg from Morley College in South London.
 * Tubular Bells. A studio performance of Mike Oldfield's rock music composition which has been acclaimed in the musical press as a unique achievement in popular music. In the 2nd House studio, Mike Oldfield leads a band which brings together some of the country's leading rock musicians, including Mick Taylor, Steve Hillage, Fred Frith and Ted Speight (guitars); Mike Ratledge, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson (keyboards); with Pierre de Strasbourg (percussion). Visually, the music is complemented by images from the tubular steel sculptures of William Pye, and sequences from his film Reflections.

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