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The best school orchestras in the country play their kind of music.
Elmwood Steel Band
Bedales Wind Quintet
Bexley-Erith Technical High School Dance Band
The choice of music is theirs, the assessment is ours
with John Dankworth, James Blades
Presented by Bernard Keeffe

Contributors

Musicians:
Elmwood Steel Band
Musicians:
Bedales Wind Quintet
Musicians:
Bexley-Erith Technical High School Dance Band
Judge:
John Dankworth
Judge:
James Blades
Presenter:
Bernard Keeffe
Sound:
Jack Sudic
Lighting:
John Farr
Designer:
Stuart Furber
Producer:
Des Sissons
Executive Producer:
Cecil Korer

by Geoffrey Case
A season of seven first plays by writers new to television.

1934. For two northern bus drivers determined to stay out of the mines there's no regular work within 100 miles. The dole has demoralised them, but there's still a hope: pedal-power.

Contributors

Writer:
Goeffrey Case
Film Cameraman:
John McGlashan
Film Editor:
Clare Douglas
Script Editor:
Alan Seymour
Designer:
Gloria Clayton
Producer:
Anne Head
Director:
Michael Simpson
Jim:
Johnnie Allan
Tom:
John Pickles
Eric:
Ashley Barker
Cora:
Lynne Perrie
Garage clerk:
Paul Shane
Penny man:
Peter Russell
Picket leader:
Roger Sloman

BBC2 Snooker Championship
Eddie Charlton v John Spencer
This is the last chance for them to qualify for the semi-finals.
Introduced by Alan Weeks

BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Weeks
Referee:
Sydney Lee
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
Jim Dumighan
Producer:
Reg Perrin

A series of outstanding and memorable programmes to mark 40 years of BBCtv

This programme, one of the most dramatic in the series, is about blindness and shows how by grafting a new cornea on to the eye sight can be restored. It includes a new interview with the patient who underwent the operation.

From the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

Professor Charles Fletcher on matters of life and death
Your Life in Their Hands, which ran from 1953 to 1964, took the Viewers inside hospitals - including, controversially, operating theatres - to watch surgeons, doctors and nurses at work. The programme's anchorman was Dr Charles Fletcher - now Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.

Professor Fletcher recalls: 'Our motive was to show that inside hospitals there were a lot of kind people trying to get patients well. It was a kind of PR job for the medical profession - but it raised a storm of protest at the beginning, attacked by the British Medical Journal for "making people's flesh creep", and the subject of a debate in the House of Commons. However, the fuss soon died down, and the programme proved a reassurance to many people. We showed a number of operations, including one on the heart and another for the removal of a gallstone, which had a touch of unintentional comedy. As the surgeon got the gallstone out of the gall-bladder, it flipped over his shoulder and fell on the floor.'

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Charles Fletcher
Producer:
Peter Bruce
Editor:
Bill Duncalf

Three plays by Fanny Galleymore
with Julia Foster, Polly James and Michael Kitchen

Laurence has ended his marriage to Linda by moving in with Gemma. But 'friendly arrangements' between husband and wife over visiting five-year-old Jason and splitting up the marital home don't suit Gemma. She plans to push Laurence into starting 'proper' divorce proceedings.

Contributors

Writer:
Fanny Galleymore
Theme song:
Lynsey de Paul
Lighting:
Sam Barclay
Designer:
Stuart Walker
Producer:
Frank Hatherley
Director:
Piers Haggard
Laurence:
Michael Kitchen
Gemma:
Polly James
Ellis:
Michael Fawkes
Rachel:
Maggie Wells
Linda:
Julia Foster
Jason:
Alan Cox
Hutson:
Clifford Rose
Squire:
Anthony Dutton

Tony Gubba introduces highlights from the third round of the Colgate European Open Women's Invitation from Sunningdale.

The Davis Cup: Great Britain v Italy
Highlights of today's doubles match from Wimbledon

Contributors

Presenter (Golf):
Tony Gubba

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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