Today: 'Pybus and the Trumpet' by Hilary Hayton
(to 11.20)

featuring Derbyshire v. Sussex at Chesterfield
and reports on the other semi-final between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire at Scarborough
(to 18.45 app.)

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods
followed by The Weather
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A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Billie Jean - 'I Hate to Lose'
The Wimbledon crowds used to call Billie Jean King 'Little Miss Moffitt'. They laughed both with and at her as she snapped and snarled around the Centre Court.
But later the crowds turned sour. They thought the game was the thing and what they saw as 'gamesmanship' was bad sportsmanship. They objected loudly to her behaviour and tactics and suddenly they liked - even wanted - to see her beaten.
This year those who felt that way had their wish; plus a British victory into the bargain.
Now, the girl who hates to lose and goes to extraordinary lengths to win, is at a cross-roads. Her husband would like her to retire, but realises he's asking too much. She feels she should, but can't.
Man Alive was with Billie Jean King and her camp during the tension in the month before and up to the Wimbledon final and then afterwards when, tasting the bitterness of defeat, she tried to decide her future.
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BBC-2 Knockout Snooker Competition

John Spencer, present world snooker champion v. Jack Rae, Irish snooker champion for 20 years
The world champion with the eight-bob cue takes on the man who has monopolised the Irish table for the past two decades
Introduced by Keith Macklin
from the Midlands
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Rowan and Martin invite you to laugh-a-second-time at their Laugh-In
This week's star guest: Dick Gregory
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Dave Madden, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Dick Whittington, Jo Anne Worley, Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill and Chelsea Brown

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sings of the fragrance, love. sorrow, and humour of the Delta country
This week's guest, Donovan
Pan's People

Bobbie's guest this week is singer-poet Donovan, who sings solo a Scottish folk ballad. With Bobbie he sings 'There is a mountain,' his own composition; and to even the score they also sing together 'Bugs' - which Bobbie wrote.
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by L.N. Tolstoy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Alexander Baron
Starring Alan Dobie

Dmitri arranged for Maslova to have more congenial work in the prison hospital while he went to St. Petersburg to hasten her appeal. The appeal was rejected.
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The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
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