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BBC Two
on BBC Two England

7.40 Foundation Maths: Codes

8.5 Action

8.30 Pure Maths: Algebra

8.55 Mining Villages

9.20 Computers: Operating Systems

9.45 Ecology

10.10 Curriculum Design and Development

10.35 Maths: Matrix Transformations

11.0 Urban Education: Metro Curriculum Issues

11.25 The Resistance

11.50 Properties of Water

12.15 The Golan Heights

12.40 Teletext

1.5 The Novel and TV

1.30 Genes and Development

1.55 Porphyry Copper Deposits

Source: Radio Times
BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The first of three films starring Ronald Reagan
Also starring Diana Lynn
with Walter Slezak, Jesse White
and introducing Bonzo

In this light-hearted comedy Ronald Reagan plays a professor who adopts a five-year-old chimpanzee to prove his sociological theories.

Films: page 12
(Storm Warning, tonight at 11.10)

Contributors

Director:
Frederick-De Cordova
Prof Peter Boyd:
Ronald Reagan
Jane:
Diana Lynn
Prof Hans Neumann:
Walter Slezak
Valerie Tillinghast:
Lucille Barkley
Babcock:
Jesse White
Dean Tillinghast:
Herbert Heyes
Bonzo:
null Bonzo
Source: Radio Times
BBC Two
on BBC Two England

by Muriel Spark
The BBC2 Serial dramatised in three parts by Ken Taylor

In London 1945, when a world and a war were winding up with a bang, all the nice people were poor-especially the girls of the May of Teck Club, fighting it out to the last clothing coupon.

Contributors

Author:
Muriel Spark
Dramatised by:
Ken Taylor
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Narrator:
Marjorie Westbury
Jill:
Tina Heath
Tricia:
Kate Atkinson
Jane Wright:
Miriam Margolyes
Dorothy Markham:
Sarah Nash
Selina Redwood:
Mary Tamm
Warden:
Janet Burnell
Judy Redwood:
Jane Cussons
Anne Baberton:
Patricia Hodge
Joanna Childe:
Rosalind Shanks
Nancy Riddle:
Marilyn Finlay
Dormitory girls:
Marion Bailey
Dormitory girls:
Juliet Mander
Greggie:
Madeleine Christie
Nigel:
David Neville
Nicholas Farringdon:
James Laurenson
Ernest Claymore:
Anthony Milian
Miss Harper:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Jarvie:
Valerie Lush
Collie:
Rosamund Greenwood
RAF type:
David Rowlands
Pauline Fox:
Judith Paris
Pippa:
Anne Louise Wakefield
Rudi Bittesch:
Jack Shepherd
George:
Jeffrey Segal
Tilly:
Anna Sharkey
Source: Radio Times
BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A series of outstanding and memorable programmes to mark 40 years of BBC TV

An opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier
From the story by Herman Melville

Perhaps the most famous of all studio opera productions, Billy Budd is a story of innocence and evil, set aboard a British man o' war in the 1790s.

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Contributors

Composer:
Benjamin Britten
Librettist:
E.M. Forster
Librettist:
Eric Crozier
From the story by:
Herman Melville
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Chorus:
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Leader (London Symphony Orchestra):
John Georgiadis
Associate Conductor:
David Lloyd-Jones
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Repetiteur:
John Constable
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Producer:
Cedric Messina
Director:
Basil Coleman
Edward Fairfax Vere, Captain of HMS Indomitable:
Peter Pears
Billy Budd, foretopman:
Peter Glossop
John Claggart, Master-at-arms:
Michael Langdon
Mr Redburn, First Lieutenant:
John Shirley-Quirk
Mr Flint, Sailing master:
Bryan Drake
Lieutenant Ratcliffe:
David Kelly
Red Whiskers, an impressed man:
Kenneth MacDonald
Donald, a sailor:
David Bowman
Dansker, an old seaman:
Dennis Wicks
The Novice:
Robert Tear
Squeak, a ship's corporal:
Robert Bowman
Bosun:
Delme Bryn-Jones
First Mate:
Eric Garrett
Second Mate:
Norman Lumsden
Maintop:
Nigel Rogers
The Novice's friend:
Benjamin Luxon
Arthur Jones, an impressed man:
Keith Raggett
Midshipmen:
Phillip Wait
Midshipmen:
Richard Jones
Midshipmen:
Alan Wolstencroft
Midshipmen:
William Winder
Cabin boy (spoken):
Bernard Franeli
Source: Radio Times
BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Highlights of the final day's play in the £50,000 Colgate European Open Women's Invitation from Sunningdale

The Davis Cup: Great Britain v Italy
Highlights of today's two singles matches at Wimbledon.

Contributors

Commentator (Golf):
Henry Longhurst
Commentator (Golf):
Peter Alliss
Commentator (Golf):
Mark McCormacK
Commentator (Golf):
Lewine Mair
Producer (Golf):
Richard Tilling
Editor (Golf):
A.P. Wilkinson
Commentator (Tennis):
Dan Maskell
Commentator (Tennis):
Bill Knight
Presented by (Tennis):
Johnnie Watherston
Source: Radio Times
BBC Two
on BBC Two England

The second of three films starring Ronald Reagan
Also starring Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, Steve Cochran

Ronald Reagan as a courageous District Attorney, determined to break the Ku Klux Klan's hold on a small town. Marsha Mitchell arrives to visit her married sister and almost immediately becomes the only witness to a cold-blooded murder.

Films: page 12
(One for the Book, Tuesday at 9.0)

Contributors

Director:
Stuart Heisler
Burt Rainey:
Ronald Reagan
Marsha Mitchell:
Ginger Rogers
Lucy Rice:
Doris Day
Hank Rice:
Steve Cochran
Charlie Barr:
Hugh Sanders
Rummel:
Lloyd Gough
Faulkner:
Raymond Greenleaf
George Athens:
Ned Glass
Hauser:
Paul E. Burns
Bledsoe:
Walter Baldwin
Cora Athens:
Lynn Whitney
Walters:
Stuart Rantall
Source: Radio Times

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