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Introduced by NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Today's game features one of the matches in the Scottish Inter-District Championship.
The South meet Edinburgh at Jedburgh in what should be a real battle as both sides are joint holders of last season's title, as well as being joint leaders in this year's championship.
Glasgow, also joint holders of the 1975 championship, take on the enthusiastic North and Midland side at Hughenden.
Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Series producer BILL TAYLOR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Producer:
Bill Taylor

A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world. The interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. With Peter Woods
Editor BILL NORTUWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Woods

Experiences of joy, sorrow, bereavement, doubt - or inner moments of truth that may defy rational explanation.
In these programmes people are invited to give first-hand accounts of something that has real personal significance for them. To Shake Hands on the River Kwai
Dr William Allchin is a survivor of the ' Burma Death Railway' of World War II. He reflects on life in the prison camp and on his work towards dissolving the bitterness that still exists between old enemies.
' I feel myself to be under an obligation to justify my good fortune in having all that extra life given.'
Director MALCOLM STEWART
Series producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr William Allchin
Director:
Malcolm Stewart
Producer:
Shirley du Boulay

The Rice Paddies
An Irish Story - from Japan
' There was this Irishman ...'; actually there were 11 Irishmen and this isn't a funny story. Not really. But there were 11 Irishmen and they did go to Japan; they work for a Japanese company which has built a factory in County Mayo, an area with a strong salmon poaching tradition but little experience of modern industry. The Japanese thought that some of its new Irish staff should have a training course at their factory at the foot of Mount Fuji. This film is the story of their journey of discovery into Japan, not just as tourists to visit the Geisha and the Ginza, but as workers in one of the most successful industrial nations in the world.
What the Irish learned in Fuji was not just technical-they also learned about the Japanese workers' attitudes to their work which is very different from that usually found in the West. Through Irish eyes we see why traditional Japan is largely responsible for the difference.
Film cameraman KEN LOWE Film editor PAUL FOXALL Producer ANTHONY ISAACS
Editors MICHAEL ANDREWS , ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Producer:
Anthony Isaacs
Editors:
Michael Andrews
Editors:
Anthony Isaacs

Joseph Cooper as questionmaster invites you to match your musical wits against Joyce Grenfell , Richard Baker
David Attenborough Guest musician Andrew Davis
Viewers will be able to take part in a crossword competition.
Director PETER BUTLER Producer WALTER TODDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Cooper
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Richard Baker
Unknown:
David Attenborough
Musician:
Andrew Davis
Director:
Peter Butler
Producer:
Walter Todds

The Next Generation
A film about the National Choreographic Summer School 1976
Last July, a group of young choreographers, composers and dancers spent two intensive weeks at the University of Surrey, working with outstanding teachers and exploring the relationship between movement and sound.
The ideas of this new generation may be a long way from Swan Lake, but these are some of the people who will be shaping the future of the challenging and rapidly expanding world of dance.
Film cameraman PHILIP MEHEUX Sound recordist DICK MANTON
Executive producer JOHN DRUMMOND Producer BOB LOCKYER

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Meheux
Unknown:
Dick Manton
Producer:
John Drummond
Producer:
Bob Lockyer

The third of four programmes A Country Practice
Introduced by Rene Cutforth
' They've all become part of my life.' The patients, scattered over 300 square miles of the Lake District, enjoy a very individual kind of care from their GP and his District Nurse.
John Loudon and Dorothy James know personally each of their patients. They believe their job is to keep them within the community, and that care of people demands other things than pure medicine.
Executive producer JENNIFER JEREMY Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
John Loudon
Unknown:
Dorothy James
Producer:
Jennifer Jeremy
Director:
Sandra Wainwright

A series of new plays from Birmingham. Percy and Kenneth by MARY J. O'MALLEY
Two ageing bachelors meet on festive occasions to exchange presents and insults. Their Christmas celebrations are interrupted by an unexpected guest.
Script editor PEDR JAMES Designer STANLEY MORRIS Producer TARA PREM
Director ROBERT TRONSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary J. O'Malley
Editor:
Pedr James
Designer:
Stanley Morris
Director:
Robert Tronson
Percy Backhouse:
Herbert Ramskill
Kenneth Hardwick:
Joe Gladwin
Angel:
Colin Crompton

A film starring Henry Fonda
Vera Miles with Anthony Quayle
A musician, making a routine visit to an insurance firm, is identified by the staff as a man involved in a hold-up. On the strength of their accusations, he is arrested and a case of circumstantial evidence is constructed. Even his handwriting seems to prove him guilty ... Director
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Fonda
Unknown:
Vera Miles
Unknown:
Anthony Quayle
Unknown:
Alfred Hitchcock
Manny Balestrero:
Henry Fonda
Rose Balestrero:
Vera Miles
O'Conner:
Anthony Quayle
Lt Bowers:
Harold J Stone
Det Matthews:
Charles Cooper
Tomasini:
John Heldabrand
Manny's mother:
Esther Minciotti
Mrs Ann James:
Doreen Lang
Constance Willis:
Laurinda Barrett
Miss Betty Todd:
Norma Connolly
Gene Conforti:
Nehemiah Persoff
Olga Conforti:
Lola D'Annunzio

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