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Presented by Tony Lewis FA Cup Final: Watford, inspired by pop-star
Chairman Elton John , make their first appearance in a Wembley final against an Everton side who made an unsuccessful visit in the Milk Cup Final earlier this season.
Meet some of the personalities involved and savour the build-up to one of the great sporting occasions of the calendar. Also look forward to the Scottish Cup Final when Aberdeen play Celtic at Hampden Park.
And another of TONY ADAMSON 's eyewitness reports on the build-up to the Los Angeles Olympics. Producer JOANNE WATSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Elton John
Unknown:
Tony Adamson
Producer:
Joanne Watson

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING , ROBIN DEWHURST and PATRICK STODDART , taking a practical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Robin Dewhurst
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart
Unknown:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

The antidote to panel games
A special edition from Down Under
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Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer defeat Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton but lose to Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist Colin Sell
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and Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer

(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

From Here to the Library by JIMMIE CHINN
Owing to a minor fracas
Beryl Tidy has temporarily left her job. Now a man comes knocking at her door who brings with him the possibility of an end to her lonely days.
Directed by GERRY JONES (Repeated: Tues 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmie Chinn
Unknown:
Beryl Tidy
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Beryl Tidy:
Brigit Forsyth
Mr Gostilow:
John Rowe
Dad:
George A Cooper

The weekly environment programme presented by Hugh Sykes
Among this week's items, a report on green belts.
They are designed to stop cities sprawling all over the countryside, but are they succeeding?
Producer GAYNOR shutte (Repeated: Tuesday
11.0 pm VHF)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Sykes

The Games of the XXIII Olympiad open in Los
Angeles on 28 July and in the weeks that follow more people than ever before will see, on worldwide television, the extension of the dream of the founder of the modern Olympic Games,
Baron Pierre de Coubertin. How is Los Angeles planning to cope with its second staging of the Games? And how far have the Californians set aside the ideals of the Frenchman? Liam Nolan reports.
Producer COLIN MORRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Unknown:
Liam Nolan
Producer:
Colin Morrison

What is your favourite music? Why does it move you and how did it sound to the listeners of its day? John Amis examines one of his favourite pieces - Mozart's Jupiter
Symphony (K 551): records Producer PATRICK LAMBERT

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

by Derek Kartun
with Emily Richard as Marie Duplessis, Simon Shepherd as Alexandre Dumas the Younger and Frances Jeater as Madame Doche (Marguerite Gautier), Brett Usher as Monsieur Fechter (Armand Duval)

In 1851 at the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris, Alexandre Dumas begins rehearsals for his latest play The Lady of the Camellias, based on his affair with Marie Duplessis, and so we get a fascinating study of how art may, or may not, mirror reality.

(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Derek Kartun
Fortepiano [player]:
Gordon Langford
Director:
David Johnston
Marie Duplessis:
Emily Richard
Alexandre Dumas the Younger:
Simon Shepherd
Madame Doche (Marguerite Gautier):
Frances Jeater
Monsieur Fechter (Armand Duval):
Brett Usher
Varville:
Colin Starkey
Nanine:
Hilda Schroder
Eugene Dejazet:
William Hope
Gustave:
Jon Strickland
Comte de Mauriac/Stage manager:
Clive Panto
Prudence:
Jane Wenham
Comte Debray:
David Sinclair
Monsieur de Casse/Auctioneer:
Arnold Diamond
Nichette/First woman:
Helena Breck
Clemence Prat:
Narissa Knights
Theophile Gautier:
Nigel Graham
Journalist:
Henry Stamper
Second woman:
Moir Leslie

After one of the driest
Aprils on record, Wynford Vaughan Thomas looks at its effects on the countryside in May. Also this month, the Downton Cuckoo Fair gives its traditional welcome to spring, while in the Lake District there's a story about the old lakeland craft of horn-carving.
Mollie Harris continues her walk along the Cotswold Way, and as 1984 is Heritage Year, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings has launched a campaign to restore old barns.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT (Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Horn-Carving:
Mollie Harris
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

Live! Live! Live! Live!
That's four lives on the line.....
Nick Wilton.
Helen Lederer , Steve Brown and Clive Mantle
Written by HUNTER and DOCHERTY, JAMES HENDRIE , TREVOR MCCALLUM MURRY , , RIX , WILTON ,ROGER PLANER , HELEN LEDERER , VICKY PILE and others
Music by STEVE BROWN Producer JAMIE RIX

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Wilton.
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Clive Mantle
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Trevor McCallum Murry
Unknown:
Rix Wilton
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Vicky Pile
Music By:
Steve Brown
Producer:
Jamie Rix

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