Gingerbread: a self-help association of one-parent families

Starring Ricardo Montalban, Jose Ferrer, Leslie Nielsen, Kate Woodville.

The vast frontiers of the dark, deep-sea underworld. Luis Delgado, a brilliant, far-seeing scientist, knows that this is a territory which must be explored if man is to survive on earth ...

(Colour)

An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur, Carol Chell, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton and this week's guest Jeremy Irons
Brian and company play away with music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
"The Bold Bad Bus," stories in verse from Play Away, £1.60, from bookshops

A Western film series
starring Andrew Duggan as Murdoch, James Stacy as Johnny, Wayne Maunder as Scott
with guest stars Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Val Avery

Summer Holidays

The End of the Pier Show presents a special early evening version of their late show.
Tonight the company: John Wells, John Fortune, Carl Davis, Madeline Smith and special guest John Bird, perform the musical comedy: Queens' Rhapsody

Weather

by Satellite
from Sydney
First day
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of today's play.
Presented in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission

BBC2 Snooker Championship for the 1975 Pot Black Trophy
Featuring: Eddie Charlton, Rex Williams, Ray Reardon, Fred Davis, John Spencer, John Pulman, Graham Miles, Dennis Taylor

Tonight: Ray Reardon, the 1974 World Snooker Champion against Graham Miles, the defending Pot Black Champion
(Birmingham)

Dramatised in four parts by Simon Raven
Randall has left home to pursue Emma's secretary, Lindsay. Mildred, who is determined to get Hugh, has encouraged Felix to declare his love to Ann.
Part 2

A documentary entertainment in England's forgotten language dialect performed in the accent of those for whom Barth will always be Bath and Coventry will never be Cuventry.
Written and introduced by Melvyn Bragg

"There are sentimentalists who are anxious that dialect should be preserved. But for other people to talk... Not for themselves..." says Professor Harold Orton, the man responsible for the revival of dialect studies.
"Every blooming bird is an Oxford cuckoo nowadays," says D.H. Lawrence, one of the few English writers to have used dialect effectively in their work. Notably in: The Daughter in Law (extract) with Kathleen Michael as Mrs Gascoigne, Pat Heywood as Mrs Purdy and Simon Rouse as Joe.

"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him..." says Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady... and dialect consultant Stanley Ellis of Leeds University's Institute of Dialect Studies has powers of classification and linguistic detection which put Professor Higgins to shame.

"I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockeny." From the current Stratford production of Twelfth Night, Ron Pember's cockney interpretation of Feste's song.

We shifted up t't new estate
Me Mam ran off wit coalman's mate
An me Dad got dun fa missin' t'rates
So we all got purrin t'omes ...
The verse of Dominic Wiles of Bradford, one of over a thousand viewers who sent in dialect contributions to the programme. A selection of these poems, performed by the poets themselves, will be included in the programme; others have been set to music by Peter Skellern. Also Fred Reed of Northumberland, England's leading contemporary dialect poet.

"...Michelle's got a posh voice"
Children from Mile End School, Grimethorpe, talk about their accents and read their work, and Joan Bakewell remembers the time she tried to acquire a posh voice. Sybil Marshall, educationist and author of Fenland Chronicle, discusses the pressures on children to talk 'posh.'

Joseph Cooper as questionmaster invites you to match your musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Bernard Levin and Robin Ray
Guest musician Colin Davis

The 1974 Lions Tour of South Africa established British rugby supremacy throughout the world. Can this supremacy be maintained in 1975? Will Ireland, celebrating her centenary, have to rebuild her championship side? Can the introduction of John Dawes and John Burgess bring new coaching success to Wales and England; will the strength of the Scottish pack bring them that elusive Championship?
Nigel Starmer-Smith previews the international season with W. J. McBride, Syd Miller and other members of the Ballymena Club.

Weather

Starring Paul Newman

A much-decorated hero of the Korean War is court-martialled for collaborating with the enemy. Did he defect and, if so, what happened during his two-and-a-half years in a prisoner-of-war camp to make him turn traitor?
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