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The National Hunt Festival The second day
2.30 Lloyds Bank Champion Novices Hurdle (2 m and 200 yds)
3.5 The Arkle Challenge Trophy (Steeplechase) (2 m and a few yds)
3.40 The Champion Hurdle (2 m and 200 yds)
Britain's richest hurdle race brings together two of the outstanding hurdlers of recent years, Comedy of Errors and Lanzarote.
4.15 Lloyds Bank Hurdle (3 m) Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , CLIVE GRAHAM Reporter JULIAN WILSON
Outside broadcast presentation by BARRIE EDGAR and RICHARD TILLING Editor ALAN HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Clive Graham
Reporter:
Julian Wilson
Presentation By:
Barrie Edgar
Presentation By:
Richard Tilling
Editor:
Alan Hart

Pay Now - Live Later
Forty years on the shop floor and at 65 you get a gold watch and a State pension. Under the new Social Security Act a pension of two-thirds final salary is within the reach of everyone - but how? Introduced by BOB HOULTON
Producer BRYN BROOKS
Series producer JOHN TWITCHIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Houlton
Producer:
Bryn Brooks
Producer:
John Twitchin

starring Olsen and Johnson Martha Raye with Hugh Herbert , Mischa Auer Jane Frazee , Robert Paige
This classic crazy comedy, voted among the top 20 ' funniest films ever made,' features Olsen and Johnson as two well-meaning stagehands who try to help a young playwright with his romance and only succeed in wrecking the production of his'show.
The zany pair leave havoc in their wake, ably assisted by Martha Raye as an overgrown child vaudeville star.
Director H. c. POTTER
This Week's Films: page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Herbert
Unknown:
Mischa Auer
Unknown:
Jane Frazee
Unknown:
Robert Paige
Assisted By:
Martha Raye
Ole:
Ole Olsen
Chic:
Chic Johnson
Betty:
Martha Raye
Quimby:
Hugh Herbert
Kitty:
Jane Frazee
Jeff:
Robert Paige
Pepi:
Mischa Auer
Director:
Richard Lane
Woody:
Woody Howard
Mr Rand:
Clarence Kolb
Mrs Rand:
Nella Walker
Louis:
Shemp Howard
Selby:
Elisha Cook Jr
Messenger:
Frank Darien
Lena:
Katherine Johnson

Devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona
with John Kani as Styles and Buntu and Winston Ntshona as Sizwe Bansi

Two black South Africans discover what it means to lose a passbook, in a country where your passbook is your identity, in this funny and original play about an everyday tragedy in the land of apartheid.

Contributors

Devised by:
Athol Fugard
Devised by:
John Kani
Devised by:
Winston Ntshona
Script Editor:
Ann Scott
Designer:
Michael Edwards
Producer:
Graeme McDonald
Director:
John Davies
Styles and Buntu:
John Kani
Sizwe Bansi:
Winston Ntshona

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson present a round-up of what's going on in the film world, including a report from Southampton about a 16-day bad weather cruise for location shooting on Juggernaut with comments from Omar Sharif , who plays the ship's captain, David V. Picker , executive producer, and director Richard Lester
Producer BARRY BROWN
Philip Jenkinson : page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson
Unknown:
Omar Sharif
Unknown:
David V. Picker
Director:
Richard Lester
Producer:
Barry Brown
Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson

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