6.40 Henry James
7.5 Kant and Causality
7.30 Children and Video
Story: "The North Wind and the Sun" written by La Fontaine, illustrated by Brian Wildsmith
from Trent Bridge Nottingham
The second day
A series of five programmes
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Flowers in tubs and hanging baskets have an attraction all of their own and can become a prime feature of the garden. By using plants in containers, Geoffrey Smith changes the cold concrete exterior of a house in Manchester to one which says 'welcome' to anyone who calls.
With Robin Day, Richard Kershaw and Richard Whitmore
the news and an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.
Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete for the BBC2 Masters Trophy
Dennis Mercer (Cheshire) v Fred Whitehead (Yorkshire)
Two of the most exciting players in the game compete for a place in the Final.
Introduced by Tony Gubba from Blackpool
BBC Manchester
One in three call themselves middle-class. They claim the virtues of thrift and self-reliance. How do they manage - or are they being taxed out of existence? Bill Kerr Elliott reports.
The BBC2 Snooker Championship
The third game in the 16-frame tournament featuring two of the challengers for the 1976 Pot Black Trophy.
Dennis Taylor (Blackburn), the 1975 losing finalist against Rex Williams, the World Billards Champion.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
Referee, Sydney Lee.
BBC Birmingham
Book (same title) 65p, from bookshops
This last programme in the series recaptures the high-spots of the previous five 'sessions' from the departure point of New York, through the Bermuda Triangle, and back to Pier 40, New York City.
BBC Manchester
A PINTOFF cartoon
A story of Flanders in eight parts by Gerard Walschap
Thijs Glorieus has been called up for military service in the Belgium of between the wars. He is assigned to a friendly Captain in the Army from his own country district. While his relations with the Captain grow into the friendship of an eager pupil and a philosophical master, his sense of justice and fair play bring him into open conflict with the Captain's family. His progress through life and of reaching equality with the love of his dreams, Rosa, is taking longer than expected.
With the English voices of [see below]
A co-production by AVRO (Holland) and BRT (Belgium).
Presented by Richard Whitmore; Weather
from Trent Bridge Nottingham.
Highlights of the second day's play.
Robert Powell reads "Swifts" by Ted Hughes
