6.40 Steel

7.5 Television and Politics (2)

7.30 Learned Income

With DONALD GEE
BOB HOSKINS iand NORMAN ROSSINGTON
MARTIN SHAW
NIGEL STOCK
Script BARRY TOOK

Weather BILL GILES

Told by Ray Brooks.

The first day of The Grand National Meeting
2.30 Topham Trophy Handicap 'Chase (2m 6f)
The day's main race, over many of the Grand National fences.
3.5 Sporting Chronicle Handicap 'Chase (21m)
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , JULIAN WILSON RICHARD PITMAN and JOHN HANMER

Story: Mr Backer 's Amazing Marching Band Written by DICK DUDLEY and BRUCE BAKER
Illustrated by ROSOLYN SCHANZER Presenters
FLOELLA BENJAMIN, FRED HARRIS

with David Garfield
The Claw of Mammon by MARTIN BOOTH
Today: The Innocent

with John Noakes
Peter Purves, Lesley Judd Halifax comes to the Blue Peter studio in full voice with their 150-strong choral society.
Assistant editors JOHN ADCOCK and ALAN RUSSELL
Editor BIDDY BAXTER

Richard Whitmore ; Weatherman

Presented this week by MICHAEL BARRATT , FRANK BOUGH
DILYS MORGAN , VALERIE SINGLETON and BOB WELLINGS
Editor JOHN GAU

[starring] James Garner

Jim finds that the female of the 'private eye' species is more tricky than the male although easier on the eye when he takes on a case with more twists and turns, not to mention thrills, than a roller coaster.

Narrated by Jack Pizzey

Catherine Lamour is a young French journalist who took a film crew on a dangerous mission. Without passports, visas, or permission they penetrated deep into the heart of the jungle in South East Asia - to the Golden Triangle, the area bounded by the borders of China, Burma, Thailand and Laos. The film crew travelled into Burma under the protection of the Shan Liberation Army in a region dominated by rebellion, rival private armies, guerrilla warfare and local chiefs trading in arms, rubies, and, above all, opium. There they succeeded in filming the opium harvest: a caravan carrying three tons of opium, and the closely guarded refineries. But, for Catherine, the real success of her mission came when they succeeded in getting into the forbidden camps of the Chinese nationalists - the Kuomintang - and interviewing their General Tuan, the first to do so in over ten years.

Richard Whitmore ; Weather

The highly successful US special, starring John Denver with Frank Sinatra also appearing COUNT BASIE
HARRY JAMES AND HIS ORCHESTRA
THE TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA
NELSON RIDDLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA and presenting the paintings of NORMAN ROCKWELL
Vocal routines and choral director RAY CHARLES. Director BILL DAVIS Producer GEORGE SCHLATTER
Executive producer JERRY WEINTRAUB

Introduced by Humphrey Burton Stan Tracey Original
' One of the most gifted jazz musicians Britain has ever produced ' (BENNY GREEN) ' The best jazz pianist in Britain and one of the best anywhere '
(MILES KINGTON)
' One of the finest jazz composers in the world '
(HUMPHREY LYTTELTON)
A small sample of the accolades heaped on Stan Tracey , who was born on 30 December 1926, in South London. He still lives there.
Fame in jazz circles has brought him no fortune.
An entirely self-taught musician, he joined ENSA as an accordionist on his 16th birthday. At 18 he fell in love with jazz, graduated to the piano and set about mastering the crafts of composer and arranger.
"Of the 150 Tracey compositions, the most steadily popular has been his Jazz Suite inspired by Dylan Thomas 's Under Milk Wood.
In this film STAN TRACEY tells his own story, plays solo piano, duets with MIKE OSBORNE , and leads his quartet and his octet. He also gives us a glimpse of his teaching methods.
Film editor PETER WEST
Executive producer BARRIE GAVIN Producer GEOFFREY HAYDON

JOHN TIMPSON and DENIS TUOHY with DONALD MACCORMICK and Tonight's reporters at home and abroad, look at the people and topics that provoke, entertain, worry or amuse us.
Every Thursday, Robin Day examines an important topical issue. Christopher Isherwood , on a rare visit to London, talks to Ludovic Kennedy about his life as a writer and his latest book Christopher and his Kind.
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