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BBC outside broadcast cameras are at Britain's most picturesque race-course to bring you the principal races of this popular and fashionable summer meeting.
2.15 The Tapestry Handicap (7f)
2.45 The Molecomb Stakes (5f)
3.25 The Spillers Stewards' Cup (Handicap. 6f)
BRIAN swift, who won last year's race with 50-1 Ahonoora, now seeks to complete the double with his Wokingham Stakes winner. Lord Rochford.
4.0 The Gordon Stakes (1½m) Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN ,
JIMMY LINDLEY , JOHN HANMER
Television presentation DENNIS MONGER Racing tips and result.; on Ceejax

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Commentators:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Jimmy Lindley
Unknown:
Dennis Monger

A series of five programmes This week:
Digging Up the Past
From her home in Somerset, 15-year-old Helen Oakes goes off to explore the countryside and to join young people interested in the past.
On her travels she discovers Roman soldiers in battle, people living in an Iron Age village, takes a trip on a steam train and joins up with a group of girls and boys on Exmoor trying to unravel the secrets of a deserted farm.
Film editor PHIL MUTTON
Producer BRIAN HAWKINS. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Oakes
Producer:
Brian Hawkins.

Television's most popular current affairs magazine, presented each weekday evening by Frank Bough, Sue Lawley, Hugh Scully, John Stapleton and Bob Wellings with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country.

From far and near, the programme's team of reporters, Luke Casey, Bernard Clark, Sue Cook, Kevin Cosgrove, Vera Gilbert, Diane Harron, John Hitchins, James Hogg, Bill Kerr-Elliott, Tony Wilkinson, Nicholas Woolley and Glyn Worsnip, bring you films and features which reflect the way life is Nationwide.

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Presenter:
Sue Lawley
Presenter:
Hugh Scully
Presenter:
John Stapleton
Presenter:
Bob Wellings
Reporter:
Luke Casey
Reporter:
Bernard Clark
Reporter:
Sue Cook
Reporter:
Kevin Cosgrove
Reporter:
Vera Gilbert
Reporter:
Diane Harron
Reporter:
John Hitchins
Reporter:
James Hogg
Reporter:
Bill Kerr-Elliott
Reporter:
Tony Wilkinson
Reporter:
Nicholas Woolley
Reporter:
Glyn Worsnip

The saga of a land and its people in 12 parts from the epic novel by JAMES A. MICHENER
11: The Winds of Death starring
The boom years of the Great War and the 20s make Mervin Wendell wealthy through his dubious land dealings with homesteaders. But the Depression is to exact a terrible toll from one such family. Meanwhile, octogenarian Charlotte
Lloyd battles for justice for the oppressed Mexican community.
Written by JERRY ZIEGMAN
Directed by BERNIE MCEVEETY
Produced by JOHN WILDER , MACK HARDING (Final episode next Sunday)

Contributors

Novel By:
James A. Michener
Unknown:
Mervin Wendell
Written By:
Jerry Ziegman
Directed By:
Bernie McEveety
Produced By:
John Wilder
Produced By:
MacK Harding
Charlotte:
Lynn Redgrave
Hans Brumbaugh:
Alex Karras
Jim Lloyd:
William Atherton
Mervin Wendell:
Anthony Zerbe
Maude Wendell:
Lois Nettleton
Alice Grebe:
Julie Sommars
Earl Grebe:
Claude Jarman
Beeley Garrett:
Alan Vint
Tranquilino:
A Martinez

Two films which tell how we have come to understand the body's astonishing ability to fight disease and what this means to a baby in the 1970s in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. 1: Undefended Children
JEREMY STYRON , DAVID CAMP and ALASDAIR WILKINSON were all born without the ability to fight infection. Their parents were faced with pabies who contracted illness after illness, each one potentially fatal.
Robert Reid follows the developments which explain the predicament of these babies and made it Possible for one of them to have the first-ever successful transplant ofbone marrow from his sister. Written and narrated by ROBERT REID
Film editor BOB HARVEY research OLIVER MORSE Producer
ROBIN PRIGHTWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Styron
Unknown:
Alasdair Wilkinson
Unknown:
Robert Reid
Unknown:
Robert Reid
Editor:
Bob Harvey
Unknown:
Oliver Morse
Unknown:
Robin Prightwell

A film by David Hare
With Kate Nelligan, Bill Paterson, Hugh Fraser and Clive Revill

Somewhere in England, 1941. Anna, from a sheltered home, is sent deep into the countryside to work in secret with Glaswegian journalist, Archie MacLean. She finds herself in a brutal and sinister new world.

"How often does a television programme leave one so alert and so wary?" (Sunday Times)
"'Licking Hitler' began with unnerving brilliance - impeccably in period and hypersensitive to feeling and mood." (The Times)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Writer/Director:
David Hare
Producer:
David Rose
Taneley:
Hugh Fraser
Archie:
Bill Paterson
Eileen:
Brenda Fricker
Allardvce:
Patrick Monckton
Lotterby:
Jonathan Coy
Anna:
Kate Nelligan
Fennel:
Clive Revill
Karl:
Michael Mellinger
Jungke:
George Herbert

Hippo Hunters of the Jade Sea Written by ANTHONY SMITH
The El Molo people live on the shores of Lake Turkana, which is situated in the scorching desert of northern Kenya. Survival is not easy. It takes skill and grit to hunt crocodiles and the occasional hippopotamus.
Filmed and produced by MOHAMED AMIN Film editor RON MARTIN
BBCtv presentation by mick RHOBES

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
El Molo
Produced By:
Mohamed Amin
Editor:
Ron Martin
Presentation By:
Mick Rhobes

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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