Programme Index

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with JACK SHEPHERD The Driftway by PENELOPE LIVELY
Today: The First Message
Illustrations by STEPHEN CONNELLY
Adapted and directed by PAUL STONE
Produced by ANGELA BEECHING

Contributors

Illustrations By:
Stephen Connelly
Directed By:
Paul Stone
Produced By:
Angela Beeching

The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v New Zealand from Lord's
The morning's play on the final day.
Introduced by PETER WEST
Commentators RICHIE BENAUD and JIM LAKER
Television presentation by DAVID KENNING and BILL TAYLOR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter West
Commentators:
Richie Benaud
Presentation By:
David Kenning
Presentation By:
Bill Taylor

Michael Aspel introduces your requests from recent BBC television programmes.
With him in the studio this week: James Burke
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS
(Send your requests to: Ask Aspel, BBC Television, London W12 8QT)

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel
Unknown:
James Burke
Producer:
Philip Chilvers

with John Craven
The Island that Vanished
JOHN CRAVEN travels among the Greek Islands in search of the true story behind the legend of the lost people of Atlantis. Storyteller RAY SMITH
Illustrations JAN PARKER
Music BBC Radiophonic Workshop Producer MOLLY cox

Contributors

Unknown:
John Craven
Unknown:
John Craven
Unknown:
Ray Smith
Unknown:
Illustrations Jan Parker

Oddjob
A do-it-yourself programme for people who can't.
In this first selection from last year's series, Richard Stilgoe demonstrates how the oddjobber can have a go at everything from mending a fuse to unblocking a drain - and tries to show that even the most hopeless handyman can succeed.
Producer TOM GUTTERIDGE
The Oddjob book, 95p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Producer:
Tom Gutteridge

by MICHAEL J. BIRD
The last of eight episodes starring Jack Hedley
Betty Arvaniti , Takis Emmanuel The Daughters of Themis
Old gods exact their vengeance and Haldane fights his vendetta to its conclusion.
Cast in order of appearance
Music composed by YANNIS MARKOPOULOS Designer MYLES LANG
Producer WILLIAM SLATER
LP record (RED 315), or cassette (ZCF 315), from record shopt

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael J. Bird
Unknown:
Jack Hedley
Unknown:
Betty Arvaniti
Unknown:
Takis Emmanuel
Composed By:
Yannis Markopoulos
Designer:
Myles Lang
Producer:
William Slater
Elena Vassilakis:
Maria Sokali
Nikos Vassilakis:
Nikos Verlekis
Alexis Vassilakis:
Alexis Sergis
The Major:
Stefan Gryff
Alan Haldane:
Jack Hedley
Annika Zeferis:
Betty Arvaniti
Babis Spiradakis:
Neil McCarthy
Matheos Noukakis:
Takis Emmanuel
Katerina Matakis:
Patience Collier
Doctor:
Kevork Malikyan
Georgios Kaladis:
Lambros Kotstris
Maria Kaladis:
Anastasia Divoli

Live from Prague, the opening day of the XII European Championships, the most important athletics occasion outside the Olympic Games.
It's the beginning of six days of world-class competition for men and women featuring all the major European athletics nations including Great Britain, East Germany, West Germany, USSR and Finland.
Tonight's programme features two. track finals
Men's 10,000m
England's Commonwealth Games gold medallist BRENDAN FOSTER goes for his second major title in three weeks.
Women's 3000m
PAULA FUDGE , surprise winner of this event in the Commonwealth Games, faces formidable opposition from East Europe.
Commentators DAVID COLEMAN and RON PICKERING
Introduced by Frank Bough
TV presentation by the CZECH TV service Producers
MARTIN HOPKINS, JOHN SHREWSBURY Editor HAROLD ANDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Brendan Foster
Unknown:
Paula Fudge
Commentators:
David Coleman
Commentators:
Ron Pickering
Introduced By:
Frank Bough
Unknown:
John Shrewsbury
Editor:
Harold Anderson

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

by Mike Stott
How Mums and Dads feel when they have one.
"And I put my hands down and I felt this bump emerge, and it was just astonishing. Here he was. On his way. And before that I'd been saying 'Go back. I'm not interested. Go away.'" (A mother's response to 'natural' birth)
"This new play, a comedy - for which much thanks - was about a mouse turning into a lion through the miracle of birth. Bernard Blincoe was beautifully played by Bernard Hill." (THE LISTENER)
BBC Birmingham
Preview: page 15

Contributors

Writer:
Mike Stott
Producer:
David Rose
Director:
Pedr James
Bernard Blincoe:
Bernard Hill
Jan Blincoe:
Alison Steadman
Mr Smythe:
Richard Briers
Nurse Swain:
Diana Davies
Nuttall:
Anthony Milner
Nurse Johnson:
Dorrett Thompson
Sister Kapoor:
Jamila Massey
Keith Briggs:
John Price
Cheryl:
Kim Bennet
Simon:
Anthony Howden
Robin:
Martin Howells
Atkinson:
Bill McGuirk
Nurse Milburn:
Carolyn Barnes
Dr Keogh:
Caroline Hunt
Miss Bool:
Margaret Heery
Little girl:
Victoria Whittle

BBC One London

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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