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Expert cooking, gardening and do-it-yourself advice from Zena Skinner , Geoffrey Smith and Roy Day. Reporter Val Hudson will be following up viewers' own time-and money-saving ideas. Send your ideas to: Indoors Outdoors, [address removed]
Director ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer BRIAN DAVIES
(For a free information sheet covering items in this week's programme, send a large, stamped, addressed envelope to: [address removed]). Zena Skinner 's Cookbook. 85p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Reporter:
Val Hudson
Director:
Erica Griffiths
Producer:
Brian Davies
Unknown:
Zena Skinner

Dramatised by JAMES ANDREW HALL Birthday
The last we see of Francis Kilvert is at his 30th birthday dinner.
Lighting DENNIS CHANNON
Sound JOHN DRAKE. Designer CHRii FEMSEL Producer ROSEMARY HILL
Directed by PETER HAMMOND

Contributors

Dramatised By:
James Andrew
Unknown:
Francis Kilvert
Unknown:
Dennis Channon
Unknown:
John Drake.
Designer:
Chrii Femsel
Producer:
Rosemary Hill
Directed By:
Peter Hammond
Francis Kilvert:
Timothy Davies
Mrs Venables:
Rhoda Lewis
Mr Venables:
Hugh Latimer

Moving Target
'For Mr Stonehouse truth was a moving target.'
(DEPARTMENT OF TRADE REPORT ON
LONDON CAPITAL GROUP)
Truth was as elusive for the auditors when they examined that company's accounts. They failed to alert shareholders to the fraudulent dealings of John Stonehouse. But was it their responsibility to do so? Moyra Bremner investigates the role of auditors.
Editor PAUL ELLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Stonehouse
Unknown:
John Stonehouse.
Unknown:
Moyra Bremner
Editor:
Paul Ellis

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The eighth frame in the qualifying round for the 1978 Pot Black Trophy.
Tonight's game comes from Group 2. Featuring
Eddie Charlton the Australian Snooker Champion against
Cliff Thorburn the Canadian Snooker Champion
An international frame between the two best players from Canada and Australia. Thorburn, runner-up in the 1977 World Championship, has yet to win in this series. His opponent, Charlton, twice Pot Black Champion, won his first game against John Spencer. Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee SYDNEY LEE
Commentator TED LOWE
Director JIM DUMIGHAN Producer REG PERRIN BBC Birmingham
Book (same title), 70p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Charlton
Unknown:
Cliff Thorburn
Unknown:
John Spencer.
Introduced By:
Alan Weeks
Unknown:
Sydney Lee
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
Jim Dumighan
Producer:
Reg Perrin

Soul, Rock and Reggae from Clouds Nightclub, London featuring the live music of Billy Paul
The Real Thing
Desmond Dekker Hi Tension
Introduced by Greg Edwards
Musical director DEREK WARNE Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBE
Lighting BERT ROBINSON Designer PETER BLACKER
Production BRIAN WHITEHOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Paul
Unknown:
Desmond Dekker
Introduced By:
Greg Edwards
Director:
Derek Warne
Unknown:
Bert Robinson
Designer:
Peter Blacker
Unknown:
Brian Whitehouse

The Eddystone Lights by ALAN PLATER
The Eddystone Rocks are a notorious death-trap. Submerged at high tide, they lie in the path of vessels approaching Plymouth. Three hundred years ago, so many lives had been lost, it was decided the Rocks had to be marked with a lighthouse. They were ten miles from the nearest land, and no one had ever attempted such a project. But in 1699 Henry Winstanley , conjuror and theatre-owner, took up the challenge ...
Photography PETER SARGENT Film editor TED WALTER Designer DAVID SPODE Costume designer JUDY MOORCROFT Music by GEORGES DELERUE Editor
SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Director
CHRISTOPHER LA FONTAINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Henry Winstanley
Unknown:
Peter Sargent
Editor:
Ted Walter
Designer:
David Spode
Designer:
Judy Moorcroft
Music By:
Georges Delerue
Unknown:
Simon Campbell-Jones
Unknown:
Christopher La Fontaine
Winstanley:
Alan Badel
Smeaton:
Bryan Marshall
Rudyerd:
John Hallam
John:
Peter Schofield
Matthew:
Chris Harris
Whitfield:
Wensley Pithey
Louis XIV:
Andre Maranne
Lovett:
Brian Hayes
Lighthouse keeper:
Harry Webster
Weston:
Geoffrey Toone
Box:
Norman Mitchell

by THOMAS HARDY The Classic Serial
Dramatised by DENNIS POTTER in seven episodes Episode 5
Henchard is on the brink of ruin. His business is crumbling. He has been denounced as a wife-seller. When he finds Lucetta has married Farfrae, his humiliation is well-nigh complete.

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Dramatised By:
Dennis Potter

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