DAVID VINE continues his series of eight programmes about the art of fencing with BOB ANDERSON and KEN PEARSON 6: Sabre: basics
Director JOHN rickword
Producer JOHN DOBSON. BBC Bristol

Noel Edmonds opens up the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop for a nationwide exchange of news and views with the stars, the experts and you. Lines open at 9.30 on [number removed]

Swaporama with Keith Chegwin
(you think he's going to be on a football pitch, don't you!)

9.45* It's Droopy

Have You Studied the Magic Picture?
What does it do? You'll have a 'head' start if you keep it by you this morning when magician John Salisse (who has nothing up his sleeves except his arms) reveals the secrets of the Vanishing Head.

Don't Walk Away (as if you would) because Evita star Elaine Page will be in today singing her latest single.

News Swap with John Craven
Send your news to John and he may phone you for an exclusive interview.

11.0* Scooby Doo

Horses Galore!
Straight from the stables of Susan Knight, there's a chance to swap a horse or a pony. She's got them on plates, mugs and posters, so if you want to start horse trading, today's the day.

Swap of the Pops
Music from 10cc this morning, and a chance to chat and swap with Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman.

Noel's Top Ten Swaps
Phone in your swaps or send them on a postcard to: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, [address removed].

(Elaine Page is a guest in Crackerjack, Friday, 4.55)

Introduced by Frank Bough
12.35*
Football Focus
With BOB WILSON
1.0*
World Volleyball Championships from Rome; highlights of the final of this competition in which USSR, Poland, Japan and Cuba took part.
Commentator STUART STOREY
1.20; 1.50; 2.20*
Racing from Chepstow Grandstand outside broadcast cameras cover National Hunt Racing for the first time this season.
1.30 Double Diamond Handicap Hurdle (2}m)
2.0 Merc Benz H'cap 'Chase (3m)
2.30 Free H'Cap Hurdle (2m)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
JULIAN WILSON and RICHARD PITMAN
1.40*
Boxing from Aberavon
Alan Richardson v Les Pickett (Leeds) (Merthyr)
A return bout between the two Featherweights who provided Grandstand with one of its best-ever fights when they first met. Commentator HARRY CARPENTER
2.40; 3.25*
International
Motor Racing from Brands Hatch; the second exciting race to be held in this country with the USAC cars featuring the top American drivers. Commentator MURRAY WALKER
2.55*
Show Jumping from The Horse of the Year Show at Wembley Arena The Calor Gas Championship
Britain's top young riders compete for the £1,000 prize money against the European Qualifiers in the country's most prestigious championship for the under-23s. Commentator
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
3.50*
Rugby League from Central Park, Wigan
Forshaws Lancashire Cup Final Widnes v Workington
Commentator EDDIE WARING
4.40* Final Score
Today's timetable:
12.35 Football Focus: 1.4 Volleyball
1.20 Racing: 1.40 Boxing
1.50 Racing; 2.10 Sports Highlights
2.20 Racing: 2.40 Motor Racing
Z.55 Show Jumping; 3.25 Motor Racing
3.50 Rugby League; 4.40 Final Score
* Timings are subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus MIKE MURPHY Racing DAVID KENNING
Motor Racing richard TILLING Boxing TERRY LONG
Show Jumping FRED VINER Rugby NICK HUNTER
Volleyball ITALIAN television
Grandstand producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor HAROLD ANDERSON
Football and racing results on CEEFAX

with Richard Baker ; Weatherman
5.20 Sport/Regional News

Television's first DO-IT-YOURSELF entertainment. Join in by ringing Noel's Lucky Number [number removed] or have a 'phone-in' to your own home. Send your own Lucky Telephone Number to: Lucky Numbers, BBCtv Centre, London W12 8QT and NOEL might ring you, with a chance to win the Lucky Parcels. No phone? Don't panic!
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Find out when the Lucky Numbers lines open today at 5.25
Producers CRISPIN EVANS , CLIVE Doig Editor ROSEMARY GILL

starring Larry Grayson with Isla St Clair
Family couples from all over the country compete in a test of their general knowledge, skill and ingenuity.
Orchestra conducted by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Programme associate TONY HAWES Designer TONY BURROUGH Director MARCUS PLANTIN Producer ALAN BOYD
Executive producer ROBIN NASE

from the books by JAMES HERRIOT A serial in 14 episodes with Peter Davison and Carol Drinkwater
3: Fair Means and Fowl adapted by ANTHONY STEVEN
James, as locum to Ewan Ross , discovers that all sorts of men can become vets, and Ewan, whilst ostensibly unsuitable is, in fact, a practitioner of the highest quality. In the meantime, Tristan, treating a cow, is involved in an accident which threatens the practice with a lawsuit - that, plus Siegfried's economies, strains brotherly love to its limits ...
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON Film cameraman MIKE WILLIAMS Designer DAVID CROZIER Producer BILL SELLARS
Directed by ROBERT TRONSON BBC Birmingham

Starring Syd Little and Eddie Large
with Berni Flint
and Geoff Richer's Birds of a Feather

from the Wembley Arena
The 1978 Horse of the Year Show featuring
The Radio Rentals Championship (Holder EDDIE MACKEN with Boomerang)
The climax to the week of show jumping when riders contest this champion of champions ' event for the largest prize money of the show- £4,500.
Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS and RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
Producer FRED VINER

with Richard Baker ; Weather

Join Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week,
MUSIC BARRY STONEHAM Director IAN HAMILTON Producer JOHN FISHER