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England's Second Test Match starts today on the Perth Cricket Ground, Western Australia. This Test is a landmark in Australian cricket history -the first occasion on which a Test Match has been played in Perth.
Presented by David Kenning and Denis Kelly in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission

Contributors

Presented by:
David Kenning
Presented by:
Denis Kelly

Continuing his exploration of the North Sea, Dr David Bellamy looks at the part we all know well, the area between the tides. But until now, only professional scientists have been able to see the private lives of the exotic creatures living in the mud.
Natural history film from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr David Bellamy
Producer:
David Cordingley

A Television Literary Quiz

"All shod with steel,
We hiss along the polish'd ice in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures, the resounding horn,
The Pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew.
And not a voice was idle; with the din,
Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud,
The leafless trees, and every icy crag
Tinkled like iron, while the distant hills
Into the tumult sent an alien sound
Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars,
Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west
The orange sky of evening died away"

Who wrote it? Do you like it?
Alan Brien asks John Betjeman, David Cecil, Alison Lurie, Claire Tomalin

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Brien
Panellist:
John Betjeman
Panellist:
David Cecil
Panellist:
Alison Lurie
Panellist:
Claire Tomalin
Reader:
Peter Eyre
Devised by:
Brigid Brophy
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Julian Jebb

Tonight Europa presents the final edition of its three-part series on South America. With a Marxist President now installed by popular vote in Chile, what will be the immediate and long term future for this turbulent continent?
Europa tonight will investigate this question - with the aid of the cameras of European television.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Anthony Chivers

A King in the Country
featuring George Hamilton IV with The Hillsiders
and guests John D. Loudermilk, Johnny van Derrick, Brian Brocklehurst

John D. Loudermilk makes a welcome return to the series to sing two of his famous compositions: 'Tobacco Road' and 'Road Hog.'
Introduced by David Allan from the Nashville Rooms, London

Contributors

Presenter:
David Allan
Singer:
George Hamilton IV
Musicians:
The Hillsiders
Singer:
John D. Loudermilk
Violinist:
Johnny van Derrick
Bassist:
Brian Brocklehurst
Producer:
Philip Lewis

by Arden Winch
with Clive Swift as Inspector Waugh

In which Inspector Waugh Meets a Man Going to St. Ives 'There are clues sprinkled through the story for the viewers to try and spot. Waugh is a cerebral kind of detective who turns up at the scene and then works out the answer in his head.'

Contributors

Writer:
Arden Winch
Script Editor:
Derek Hoddinott
Designer:
Bernard Lloyd-Jones
Associate producer:
Anne Head
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Tristan de Vere Cole
Inspector Waugh:
Clive Swift
PC White:
Robin Chadwick
Nurse:
Annie Irving
Watkins:
John Comer
Barkworth:
Brian Spink
Mrs Mavis Hooper:
Dorothy Frere

Introduced by James Mossman

The Making of a Modern Opera Singer
The days when singers could look like the Rock of Gibraltar as long as they sang like angels are definitely over. Today they have to act and look their parts as well. Bruce Halliwell is a young South African who studies at the London Opera Centre. Review looks at the ingredients which go into his training, including fencing, acting, dialogue, and music lessons with Otakar Kraus.

The Postcard Mania
When picture postcards were first issued in Britain in 1894 over 75 million were sold in the first year alone. This week an exhibition of funny, weird, and attractive cards opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Review sets some of them to the music of their time. with the voices of Hetty King and Gracie Fields among others.

Contributors

Presenter/Editor:
James Mossman
Subject (The Making of a Modern Opera Singer):
Bruce Halliwell
Director (The Making of a Modern Opera Singer)/Producer:
Peter Adam
Producer:
Tony Staveacre

BBC Two England

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