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Gillette Cup: Semi-finals
Further coverage of both of today's matches.
Commentators PETER WEST
RICHIE BENAUD , JIM LAKER. and PETER WALKER
Television presentation by DAVID KENNING , BILL TAYLOR
Armchair Cricket, £1.25, from bookshops

Contributors

Commentators:
Peter West
Unknown:
Richie Benaud
Unknown:
Jim Laker.
Presentation By:
David Kenning

The second of five programmes 2: Making the Most of It - Yorkshire
'A Regional dish is a whole countryside'
Yorkshire has always been noted for the quality of its food; although in the old industrial West Riding the tradition - of necessity-has been to make the most of very little. Today, in more prosperous times, the tastes born of hardship still/persist.
A liking for tripe, elder, and black puddings; for home baked bread and Yorkshire pudding and, in some parts, even for the leaf of the sweet dock.
Introduced by DEREK COOPER
Producer ANDREW SNELL (Manchester)
An article linked with this programme will be printed in The Listener dated 21 August

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Andrew Snell

A personal view by J. Bronowski in 13 programmes
12: Generation upon Generation
Strangely, it is the sciences of mathematics and physics that have revolutionised biology in our own century and brought a new precision to our understanding of life. DR BRONOWSKI follows the story from the quiet experiments of Gregor Mendel to the awesome, and perhaps dangerous, power that our unravelling of the code of inheritance has given us. He argues that we should see sex as the gift that preserves the diversity of human individuality.
He is everything a professor should be ... informal, quite uripatronising, but often exalted ... (THE LISTENER) Producer DICK GILLING
Series editor ADRIAN MALONE
Book (same title), £5.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Bronowski
Unknown:
Gregor Mendel
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Editor:
Adrian Malone

(Les Rois Maudits)
A second chance to see this series in six episodes starring
Jean Piat , Helene Due
Louis Seigner. Georges Ser Jean Deschamps and Muriel Baptiste Episode 2:
The Strangled Queen
Although Louis X has assumed the throne after the death of Philippe the Fair, the real power in France rests with Charles of Valois. Determined to end the King's marriage to the unfaithful Marguerite, Charles does not shrink from the use of violence to achieve his aim.
English commentary spoken by DAVID KING
Director CLAUDE BARMA An ORTF production

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Piat
Unknown:
Georges Ser
Unknown:
Jean Deschamps
Spoken By:
David King
Director:
Claude Barma
Robert of Artois:
Jean Piat
Mahaut of Artois:
Helene Duc
Spinello Tolomei:
Louis Seigner
Louis X:
Georges Ser
Charles of Valois:
Jean Deschamps
Enguerrand de Marigny:
Andre Falcon
Marguerite of Burgundy:
Muriel Baptiste
Clementia of Hungary:
Moniqwe Lejeune

Gillette Cup: Semi-finals
PETER WEST introduces highlights of both of today's matches in this 60-over competition.
Television presentation by DAVID KENNING. BILL TAYLOR
Armchair Cricket, £1.25. from bookshops

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