Starring Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker, Odile Versois, James Robertson Justice
with Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin

The hazards of an international motor race are even greater for a young Englishman who finds his co-driver is a dangerous fugitive.
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followed by The Weather
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Introduced by Cliff Morgan

A new captain - Lancastrian Richard Greenwood - six new caps, and the thirty-first cap for Budge Rogers of Bedford (equalling Sir Wavell Wakefield's forty-one-year-old record) form the nucleus of England's XV for this their first fixture of the current season against an Irish side which must have serious hopes of the championship title after their decisive victory over France.
Ireland field an unchanged side except for the return of Mike Gibson, former national and British Lions fly-half, who is brought in at centre for this match, thus maintaining the successful half-back pairing of Roger Young and the new fly-half, twenty-year-old Barry McGann.
Commentator, Bill McLaren at Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Television presentation by the Irish Television Service

by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dramatised in six parts by Hugh Leonard

Pyotr is continuing his efforts to involve Nikolay with his revolutionary group. Stepan, having been dismissed by Madame Stavrogin, has fallen ill.
(Repeated on Thursday at 10.20 p.m.)
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Hernan Cortes was the first and greatest of the Conquistadors of New Spain. His confrontation with Montezuma and the empire of the Aztecs in Mexico in 1519 was the moment when for the very first time, in all their power and might, the Old World and the New stood face to face. Cortes's achievement was extraordinary-no less than the defeat of an entire civilisation with only 400 soldiers at his command. But his victory would have been impossible but for one incredible fact-Montezuma believed that Cortes was his God, the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl.
John Julius Norwich recounts the extraordinary interplay of mythology and mounted warfare, of human sacrifice and brilliant strategy which led ultimately to the creation of Mexico.
Written and introduced by John Julius Norwich

See page 30
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Starring Julie Felix
with special guests, Madeline Bell, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick
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The weekly arts magazine

'H'
H is a new play by Charles Wood opening at the National Theatre, London. 'H' is General Havelock, hero of the Indian Mutiny, whose famous march to relieve Cawnpore and Lucknow marked its climax.
Release talks to Charles Wood, author of Dingo and the screenplay of The Charge of the Light Brigade, about the Mutiny and about his obsessive interest in soldiers and armies and war.

The Big Sound
To coincide with the opening concert of their first tour of this country Release presents the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band
With a line-up of internationally famous musicians featuring Kenny Clarke, the 'old master' of modern jazz drumming, the band presents a new concept of the big band sound rarely heard since the roaring Swing Era.

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Line-Up's Saturday diversion which this week features Bobby Hanna and The Art Movement
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Starring Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer

Fritz Lang's story of the West in which a cowboy, determined to avenge the death of his fiancee, searches for the trail that leads to Chuck-a-Luck.
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