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Natural History Sale - billed as 'the Sale of the Century': Collector's World watched the hammer fall on over 700 lots. Michael Reinhold gives a personal view of the event.

Old Indoor Games: generations of people have derived much pleasure from indoor games-thanks to the prolific output and inventiveness of games makers. Hugh Scully talks to a leading expert and collector of old games.

Arthur Negus answers questions

Introduced by Hugh Scully

(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter/Interviewer (Old Indoor Games):
Hugh Scully
Reporter (Natural History Sale):
Michael Reinhold
Expert:
Arthur Negus
Director:
Robin Drake
Director:
Paul Smith
Producer:
John King

Cliff Michelmore introduces the last of three programmes.

Dick Tracey sends an all-action report from Paris on a British bid to win the Seine six-hour power boat race, fastest event of its kind in the world.
On a winter's day Bob Fisher goes dinghy racing off the South Coast to find out what attracts so many men - and women - to this freezing weekend sport.
And at the London Corinthian Sailing Club, yachtsmen reply to the crew of a Cornish lifeboat who claim they have to put to sea too often to rescue reckless amateur sailors.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Dick Tracey
Reporter:
Bob Fisher
Director:
Tony Salmon
Director:
Peter Cleaver
Editor:
Brian Robins

BBC2 Snooker Competition Tonight:
Two Pot Black Champions John Spencer, twice World Snooker Champion v
Eddie Charlton, the Australian Champion and winner of the 1972 Pot Black Trophy
Two 'giants' of snooker meet once again. Charlton has travelled 12,000 miles to defend his title as Pot Black Champion, which illustrates the task facing John Spencer.
Introduced by Alan Weeks

(from Birmingham)
(Colour)

Contributors

Snooker player:
John Spencer
Snooker player:
Eddie Charlton
Referee:
Sydney Lee
Presenter:
Alan Weeks
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
Jim Dumighan
Producer:
Reg Perrin

The third in a short season of television drama from abroad.
A one-man performance by Jack MacGowran as the Tramp
Adapted from the writings of Samuel Beckett

Irish actor Jack MacGowran, who died at the end of January, was a unique interpreter of Beckett's work. This virtuoso performance, recorded for Irish television, was first shown on BBC2 in 1967.

Contributors

Author:
Samuel Beckett
Director (for Telefis Eireann):
Chloe Gibson
The Tramp:
Jack MacGowran

Magnus Magnusson introduces some studio tests for extra-sensory perception with Linda Blandford and Gordon Snell and an audience of volunteers who will try to demonstrate telepathy and clairvoyance under hypnosis with Professor John Taylor and members of the Hypnotism Committee of the Society for Psychical Research.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Reporter:
Linda Blandford
Reporter:
Gordon Snell
Expert:
Professor John Taylor
Executive Producer:
John King
Producer:
Anne Owen
Director:
Colin Godman

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