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Live coverage from the final session of the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool
Including a speech by the Leader of the Conservative Party, Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP
Reporting team: Robin Day and Richard Wakely
12.15* Morning Report
A round-up of the debates
Outside broadcast producer KEN GRIFFIN
Producer COLIN HART
Editor MARGARET DOUGLAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown:
Richard Wakely
Producer:
Ken Griffin
Producer:
Colin Hart
Editor:
Margaret Douglas

12.55 Golf
Piccadilly World
Matchplay Championship
The Semi-finals from the West Course. Wentworth.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces coverage of this afternoon's two matches. Commentators HENRY LONGHURST
PETER ALLISS and MARK MCCORMACK
Producers RICHARD TILLING and PAUL LANG
Editor A. P. WILKINSON
1.45 Racing from Ascot
2.0 The Mitre Stakes (1¼m)
2.30 The Tankerville Nursery Stakes (Handicap) (7f)
3.5 The Wyndham Handicap (2m)
3.35 The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (6f)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY
JOHN HANMER
Television presentation BOB DUNCAN
3.45 Golf
Further coverage from the West Course, Wentworth

Contributors

Introduces:
Harry Carpenter
Commentators:
Henry Longhurst
Unknown:
Peter Alliss
Unknown:
Mark McCormacK
Producers:
Richard Tilling
Producers:
Paul Lang
Editor:
A. P. Wilkinson
Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Commentators:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Jimmy Lindley
Unknown:
John Hanmer
Unknown:
Bob Duncan

Ten programmes. 1: Soil
Geoffrey Smith will take away your last excuse for not knowing how to improve the garden! Let's start at the beginning: identify your soil type, then put it right. Mr Smith shows gardens made in far from ideal conditions.
Director BRIAN DAUBNEY
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Mr Smith
Director:
Brian Daubney
Producer:
David Cordingley

BBC2 Snooker Championship
Fred Davis against Rex Williams
The fourth frame in the 1975 tournament for the Pot Black Trophy.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee SYDNEY LEE
Commentator TED LOWE
Director JIM DUMIGHAN
Producer REG PERRIN (Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Davis
Unknown:
Rex Williams
Introduced By:
Alan Weeks
Unknown:
Sydney Lee
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
Jim Dumighan
Producer:
Reg Perrin

The Commodity Game
Hopes of cutting inflation rest on the Government's counter-inflation measures and on world food and raw material prices. Who controls these? While statesmen argue; next year's prices are being fixed now on the world commodity exchanges - especially London.
The Money Programme on the business of buying things that don't yet exist; things that will end up in the High Street shops.
Assistant editor PAUL BLLIS Editor JOHN DEKKER

Contributors

Editor:
Paul Bllis
Editor:
John Dekker

The last of four programmes
Colin Wilson introduces four cases of extrasensory perception.
The Vandy Case by ANNE OWEN starring
In 1933 a young inventor was drowned in mysterious circumstances. His two brothers, dissatisfied with the evidence at the inquest, visited various mediums in the hope of more information about the accident. The seances produced some of the most remarkable evidence ' in the history of Psychical Research - but what does the ' evidence ' prove? With PROFESSOR JOHN COHEN
DR ANITA GREGORY
DR ANTON STEPHENS
Designer CHRIS ROBILLARD Director COLIN CODMAN Producer ANNE OWEN
Series editor JOHN KING (Bristol)

Contributors

Introduces:
Colin Wilson
Unknown:
Professor John Cohen
Unknown:
Dr Anita Gregory
Unknown:
Dr Anton Stephens
Designer:
Chris Robillard
Director:
Colin Codman
Producer:
Anne Owen
Editor:
John King
Miss Bacon:
Constance Chapman
Miss Campbell:
Zienia Merton
Harold Vandy:
Chris Harris
George Vandy:
Alaric Cotter
Nelson Charters:
Tony Poole
Miss Jolivard:
Penny Brownjohn
Typist:
Mary Bacon

Six plays by Colin Welland

'If you want to do something constructive about your creeping senility then I'm with you all the way - but don't ask me to take a six-weeks' slimming bout seriously when it's just to ease your adolescent pride.' At 42, Mel thinks he has found the secret of eternal middle-age; but when his fragile maturity is mocked by an old rugby rival, he can't resist the challenge of one more match...

Contributors

Writer:
Colin Welland
Title Music:
Stanley Myers
Designer:
Mike Porter
Producer:
Kenith Trodd
Director:
Jim Goddard
Melvyn:
Brian Glover
Joan:
Juliet Cooke
Paddy:
Joe Lynch
Doctor:
Henry Livings
Baz:
Patrick Durkin
Jacky:
Peter Martin
Piggy:
Fred Feast
Ned:
Barry Hart
Harry:
Johnnie Allan
Chas:
Paul Luty
His mother:
Gwen Harris
Bert:
Peter Russell
Enid:
Madge Hindle
Nellie:
Pat Wallis
Arthur:
Tony Heath
Christine:
Jackie Mees
Russell:
Russell Cooke
Youth:
Geoff Dufton

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