Mrs Cluckabuddy Saves the Day Written by STEPHEN WEAVER
Guest storyteller Percy Edwards Presenters this week
Carol Leader, Don Spencer

A feature film starring
William Powell , Myrna Loy with Luise Rainer , Fannie Brice
A spectacular musical entertainment based on the life and loves of America's greatest showman.
Director ROBERT Z. LEONARD
. Films: page 9

The Silver in the Furrow
A dazzling exhibition of gold and silver, The Wealth of the Roman World opened -last week at the British Museum.
One of the ' stars' of the exhibition is a silver treasure found in this country only two years ago. Known as the Water Newton hoard, it was found near Peter-borough by an amateur archaeologist and pop singer Alan Holmes. Magnus Magnusson investigates this story of the Silver in the Furrow', the earliest Christian sacramental plate, now restored to its former glory.
Producers DAVID COLLISON , PAUL JORDAN and RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series editor BRUCE NORMAN

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

A series of ten films about the history and playing of the game presented by two of its leading personalities.

"There's no doubt at all that cricket has been a moral influence and an influence in countless other ways; formative physically, mentally and perhaps even psychologically." (John Arlott)

by W. H. CANAWAY
A BBC film made in Aberpergwm Colliery about the relationship between a miner and his pit horse.
Dan Morgan works as a collier in one of today's drift mines in Wales. But when one of the men working with the pit horses is taken ill Dan, against his will, is put to work with a horse called Badger. The horse turns out to mean more to Dan than he had ever suspected.
Music composed by DAVID FANSHAWE
Photography GODFREY JOHNSON
Film editor MICHAEL APPELT
Designer MARJORIE PRATT
Producer DAVID COBHAM

by JULIAN MITCHELL from A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY
The Cotswolds 1928. Fourteen-year-old Winnie is nervous about her new job as maid-of-all-work to an unpredictable old lady of 90. Abide With Me won the Critics Prize and the UNDA Award at the 1977 Monte Carlo Festival
Outstanding drama (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Breathtaking performances
(SUNDAY TIMES)
Producer mark SHIVAS
Director moira ARMSTRONG

with subtitles for the hard-ofheairing, followed by Weather on 2

An English version of the French comedy which opened at a West End cinema last week. Starring Pierre Richard , Jane Birkin
Pierre Durois is a maths professor with a talent for writing saucy magazine articles, quite unsuspected by his class of teenage girls or his father, the mayor. When his pupils discover his sideline, Pierre's efforts to protect his family's reputation cause widespread havoc. Getting involved with a Royal film star is not the best way to avoid publicity.
Director CLAUDE ZIDI. Films: page 9

The zany humour of Mike Harding combines with the musical talent of Fivepenny Piece at the Poco-a-Poco Club, Stockport.
Songs from the popular contemporary group include I King Cotton', They Tell us Owt' and the gentle Watercolour Morning.' MIKE HARDING recalls ' Napoleon's Retreat from Wigan,' and tells of Salford's part in the birth of The Blues. Sundry other bits and pieces are thrown in by the man once known as The Rochdale Cowboy.
Sound ALAN FOX
Lighting JOHN CROWTHER Producer BARRY BEVINS BBC Manchester

Derek Jacobi reads
For I Will Consider my Cal
Jeoffry by CHRISTOPHER SMART
(Derek Jacobi won the 1976 BAFTA award for the Best TV Actor)