Story: The Barber Who Thought He Could Sing by JEAN WATSON Presenters
CAROL CHELL and JON GLOVER

The Lawn Tennis Championships
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the eighth day's play featuring
The Quarter-finals of the Men's Singles
News and results from
HARRY CARPENTER

The Lawn Tennis Championships
A further visit for an uninterrupted view of the best of the action.
Match of the Day: BBC2 at 10.15 pm

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The first of three programmes in which
Thomas Hemsley works with young professional singers on some of the songs of great German composers. Tonight: Schumann JOHN KINGSLY SMITH sings a group of songs from Dichterliebe, and ANN MURRAY sings two songs from Liederkreis Op 39.
Hemsley, who has sung as principal baritone in most of the German opera houses, is also one of the world's best lieder singers.
Director ROY TIPPINC.
ProducerWALTER TODDS

In the countryside not far from New York a butterfly lays its eggs on a leaf, and days later a caterpillar emerges to eat its way in the world and meet the dangers of spider, mantis and children at play. Nature's miracle transforms grub to the fragile beauty of the butterfly, which heightens the perils of its transient life by fluttering into the untold terrors of town.
A film produced and directed by ROBIN LEHMAN

A stroll through what was once ' Wild Wales' in the footsteps of the Victorian author and traveller, George Borrow. Part 1: The Starting
John Seymour follows the quirky path of his fellow East Anglian who graphically recorded the Welsh people and countryside in the late summer of 1854. Photographed by KEN MACKAY
Producer SELWYN RODERICK (Wales)
Ring John Seymour on how to be sell-sufficient: Friday Call, 9.5 am Radio 4. Ramble-teazing : page 4

by SOPHOCLES translated by E. F. WATLING starring Ian Holm
Sheila Allen , Alan Webb
Anthony Bate , Sydney Tafler and George Coulouris
Oedipus' personal and political tragedies unfold together in this modern version of a Greek play.
As powerful and finely calculated a dramatic experience as I can recall on television recently. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Edge of the seat drama is so rare on TV that this new version, especially geared to the close-up demands of the small screen is something of an event.
(SUNDAY EXPRESS)
King Oedipus will be the play of the year ... (GUARDIAN)
Music composed and conducted by HERBERT CHAFPELL
Producer CEDRIC MESSINA Director ALAN BRIDGES

The Lawn Tennis Championships
Recorded highlights of today's outstanding match on the eighth day's play at the All England Club. DAN MASKELL comments on the action which is introduced by HARRY CARPENTER
Presented by JOHN VIGAR
Executive producer A. P. WILKINSON

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