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Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete for the BBC2 Masters Trophy
Derek Marshall (Yorkshire) v Bernard Warr (Yorkshire)

Marshall, twice winner of Yorkshire Champion of Champions, has formidable opposition in the British Parks Champion.

Introduced by Tony Gubba from the green of the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Gubba
Commentator:
Harry Rigby
Producer:
Ray Lakeland

In the past two years, 72,000 jobs have been lost in the British textile and clothing industry. Mills close every week. Yet this year, Britain is importing more textiles and garments than ever before. Can this country still afford 'Free-Trade'? John Swinfield reports.

Contributors

Reporter:
John Swinfield
Assistant Editor:
Paul Ellis
Editor:
John Dekker

Ian McNaught Davis presents a panel game featuring the identification of extraordinary inventions of the past and present. Using their powers of deduction and wit are resident experts Professor Eric Laithwaite, William Woollard and their guests Jann Howarth, Peter Fairley

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian McNaught Davis
Expert:
Professor Eric Laithwaite
Expert:
William Woollard
Guest:
Jann Howarth
Guest:
Peter Fairley
Series Producer:
John King
Director:
Colin Godman

SS Rotterdam sails into Nassau. Dizzy Gillespie joins in at the 'Drumbeat' and gives a concert for the ship's crew only.

Featuring Dave Brubeck with 'Two Generations of Brubeck', Paul Desmond, The Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Mercer Mercer Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Feather, Earl Hines, Carmen Macrae, The World's Greatest Jazz Band, Frank Berry.

Commentary, Peter Clayton

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Musician:
Dave Brubeck
Musician:
Paul Desmond
Musicians:
The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Musical Director (The Duke Ellington Orchestra):
Mercer Ellington
Musician:
Dizzy Gillespie
Musician:
Leonard Feather
Musician:
Earl Hines
Musician:
Carmen MacRae
Musician:
Frank Berry
Commenator:
Peter Clayton
Producer:
John Duncan

by Peter Prince
A play adapted from his own novel

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Peter Prince
Film Editor:
Ken Pearce
Film Cameraman:
Brian Tufano
Script Editor:
Louis Marks
Designer:
Moira Tait
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Stephen Frears
Playleader:
Jonathan Pryce
Tenby:
Nigel Hawthorne
Straker:
Colin Campbell
Art Riley:
Tony Haygarth
Frank:
Michael Elphick
Gordon:
null Heinz
Isobel:
Maureen Sweeney
Portia:
Lindsay Ingram
Alice:
Sandy Ratcliff
Harmon's uncle:
Mr Super Bad
Collins:
Billy Colville
Denis:
Keith Smith
Harmon:
Trevor Laird
Gloria's friend:
Margaret Leonard
Harmon's tart:
Stephanie Patterson

BBC Two England

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