Story: "Bod's Dream" by Michael and Joanne Cole
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Brian Cant
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
Played at Muirfield Golf Club, the home of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.
Defending champion Lee Trevino
(Can Jacklin hold off the us threat?: cover story, pages 50-53)
with Peter Woods; Weather
Denis Tuohy talks to Frank Lindley
For nearly half a century Frank Lindley worked at a snuff factory in Sheffield. But by the time he signed on there at the age of 20 he reckons he had seen enough of the outside world to last a lifetime. During the Great War he served first in Egypt and later at the Somme. He enlisted again in 1918 for the almost forgotten north Russian campaign in which British forces were allied with the doomed White Russian cause.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
Men may go to sea for adventure and romance but the appeal doesn't usually last very long and the shipping world is worried about the wastage. One out of three merchant seamen leave the life within the first year and nine out of ten return ashore, for good, before they have served ten years. For some men, life at sea represents an escape from the rat race of shore life, or from domestic responsibility. And, behind a man's decision to leave shipping and return home, there is usually a wife.
At sea on two very different ships - an old passenger boat and a new container ship - seamen talk, to Harold Williamson and a Man Alive team, about their love - and hate - of life on board. And, back home, the wives have their say.
BBC2 Snooker Competition
A League of Champions compete for the 1972 Pot Black Trophy
Tonight:
Two previous World Champions and winners of the Pot Black Trophy meet to determine a place in this year's Final.
John Spencer v Ray Reardon
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)
(Colour)
Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
with Celeste Holm, Anne Revere
Commissioned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism, a journalist decides to pose as a Jew, and experiences at first hand the petty insults and indignities caused by racial intolerance.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
Highlights of the first day's play including news of how Jack Nicklaus fared in his 'Grand Slam' bid, are introduced from Muirfield Golf Club, near Edinburgh, by Harry Carpenter.
(Cover story: pages 50-53)
(Radio Times Olympic Summer of Sport, available from newsagents: 25p)
and Weather
