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Peter Sissons interviews the week's news makers and reviews the papers.
Including at 8.15 and 9.00 News; plus weather forecasts.

An open-air celebration of I faith with songs and hymns for the summer. This week live from HMS Victory, Portsmouth. Introduced by KrissAkabusi. Stereo

Today: Uganda. With signing and subtitles. Stereo Subtitled

Drama set in Australia. A young boy tries to prove himself to his strict father. With Hardy Kruger and Greg Rowe.
Director Carl Shultz (1978)
FILM REVIEWS pages 37-41

Rural issues, with John Craven. Plus the week's weather at 12.25.

Moonlighting. Nancy's new job brings Harry a new friend - a chimpanzee.

The 21-Inch Sun
A writer dozes off and awakes to a finished script, mysteriously sitting in his typewriter. Stereo Subtitled

(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Comedy starring Tony Curtis
A journalist flies into a panic when his three stewardess girlfriends arrive in town at the same time. With Jerry Lewis. Director John Rich (1965)
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Barbara Cartland romance starring Hugh Grant , Lysette Anthony Lady Panthea Vyne must marry the lecherous Christian Drysdale - will the mysterious masked rider called the Silver Blade rescue her in time?
With Oliver Reed , Robert Morley , Gordon Jackson , Christopher Cazenove.
Written by Terence Feely and Peter Manley

With Huw Edwards.
Weather John Kettley

The return of a new series of musical celebrations. From a gospel convention by the sea to a jazz festival on the River Severn, from Tower Bridge to
Blackpool Tower, presenter David Matthew and actress/ singer Jumoke Fashola climb aboard their trusty Morris Minor for a six-week tour of Britain's festivals.
They start in Manchester where they join 1,000 singers assembled in the Castlefield
Arena for the YMCA's 150th birthday party to sing hymns such as Come On and Celebrate, We Are Marching, and Thine Be the Glory. Producer Maurice Maguire Editor Helen Alexander

A show which combines the observations of children with all the fun of a panel game.
Contestants have to predict the answer a child will give to a question or match an answer to a child. Hosted by Ronnie Corbett.
Producer Danny Greenstone Executive producer Alan Boyd
ARegGrundy production for BBCtv

Forty-somethings will probably remember a 1959 situation comedy called The Vital Spark. It starred Duncan Macrae as the skipper of a notoriously unreliable vessel. Younger viewers may recall the 70s versions, with Roddy McMillan in the starring role.

Now Gregor Fisher (probably best known as Rab C Nesbitt) takes over the helm in a new six-part comedy drama series about the crew of that famous Scottish puffer. This time the aim is to evoke the character and gentle humour of Neil Munro's original Para Handy Tales set in the 1930s, rather than playing it strictly for laughs.
Joining Fisher are several of his Rab C Nesbitt colleagues including Sean Scanlan, Andrew Fairlie and producer Colin Gilbert as well as Scotch and Wry comedian Rikki Fulton.

In this first episode - Para Handy, Master Mariner - the Vital Spark's cargo of coal, a double bed and a prize Highland bull cause trouble for the crew.

Gregor Fisher's Kind of Day: page

With Nicholas Witchell. Subtitled
Weather John Kettley

Last part of the psychological thriller by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine.
Paul ignores the demands of the kidnappers who are out to get the "princess", believing he can handle the situation.
Screenplay Jacqueline Holborough
Producer Phillippa Giles ; Director Tim Fywell

From Haddo House in Aberdeen. The subjects in the second semi-final are the life and Raj Quartet of Paul Scott ; the life and career of Heinz Guderian ; history of chemistry 1500-1870; and the life and works of James Joyce. With Magnus Magnusson. Director David Mitchell
Producer Penelope Cowell Doe

The seal trade enabled the Inuit people, the Eskimos, to hold on to their traditions. But pressure from the anti-fur trade lobby to stop the killing led to an international boycott supported by the Church of England but not the Bishop of the Arctic,
Christopher Williams. He believes his own colleagues are helping to destroy a way of life.
This programme profiles the lives of the Inuit and shows how the Bishop's personal beliefs have been transformed since he has been living with them. Director Joe Kennedy : Editor John Drury A Scorer production for BBCtv

Earlier this month, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted on Jupiter and was destroyed. Patrick Moore reports on the event with Drs Jim Scotti, Steven Miller and John Mason.
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I Crime comedy starring
George C Scott
A gang leader comes up with an unconventional plan to rob a bank. With Joanna Cassidy , Sorrell Brooke and Clifton James. Director Gower Champion (1974)
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