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The Farmer's Groceriesby KATHY SQUIRES Presenters Sarah Long
Don Spencer
Pianist WILLIAM BLELARD Designer JOHN HOLLAND
Written and directed by MARTIN FISHER Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

6.10 The First Year of Life - All Yours

6.35 Countdown to the ou Programme 2

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

Brush up your reading and writing with I BRIAN REDHEAD and MADELINE BELL
WINDSOR DAVIES
DON ESTELLE
Script BARRY TOOK
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The news, the people, the issues in Britain and around the world presented by Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw with David Sells
Newsreader Peter Woods
Assistant editors
PETER IBBOTSON and GEORGE WALKER Editor DAVID WITHEROW

directed by Adrian Shepherd
The third of a series of four recitals of Renaissance and Baroque music to be given by Cantilena. Since their foundation in 1971, the group has become recognised as one of the finest and most exciting chamber ensembles in the country.
Each week their special guest Henryk Szeryng plays and directs one of The Four Seasons of Vivaldi. Handel Concerto Grosso No 9, in B flat
Brade Paduana-Galliard -Allmandi Bach Overture in B minor-
Badinerie Vivaldi Autumn (The Four Seasons)
Sound RON ALLAN
Lighting ALAN HENDERSON Designer GUTHRIE HUTTON Producer JAMES HUNTER BBC Scotland

The Mariners, with Captain Ian North and Stan Hugill What was it like to sail on the last of the four-masted barques? STAN HUGILL remembers life on board as hard and dangerous - ' being woken in the middle of the night to climb to the top rigging in a freezing gale to change the sails', CAPTAIN IAN NORTH, master of a container ship, today feels too isolated from the sea in the comfort of his air-conditioned bridge, 100ft above the ocean; his biggest worry - ' trying to keep up the speed to meet the schedules'.
Researcher CHERRY COLE Producer TONY SALMON

Sheepdog Championship Heat 4: Ireland
From Austwick in Yorkshire, Phil Drabble and Eric Halsall introduce three top Irish sheepdog men who are fighting for a place in the semi-finals. Competing are: HARFORD LOGAN with Jim LIONEL PENNEFATHER with Billy JOHN MCSWIGGAN with Chip
We join an Irish shepherd as he gathers his flocks and takes them to auction in a particularly unorthodox way.
Producer PHILIP s. GILBERT

Creators of modern philosophy
A series of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today.
With Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
What exactly is philosophy? Why does it matter? Why should we be interested in it? An internationally famous philosopher, in one of his rare appearances on television tries to give answers to these and similar questions.

Tonight's
Entertainment World Wide presents
The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico
Last summer Amalia Hernandez , the dynamic founder, director and choreographer of The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, brought her company to London's Royal Festival Hall for the first time since 1973. Tonight's programme features such evocative dances as The Chiapas from Mexico's southern-most state, and the imitative magic of the Deer Dance.
Introduced by Ray Moore from the Royal Festival Hall, London
By arrangement with the GREATER LONDON COUNCIL and VICTOR HOCHHAUSER
Television presentation KEN GRIFFIN

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DAVID MARKHAM reads
What Schoolmasters Say by MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH