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6.40 Milk Bottles
7.5 Peer Gynt
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The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships from Queen's Club, London. Live coverage of today's quarter-finals of this major men's championship. Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentators
DA.N MASKELL, JOHN BARRETT
4.50 Design for Infants
5.15 Maths: Lebesgue Convergence
5.40 1979 General Election
6.5 Upper Clyde Ship-builders
6.30 Telephone Switching (1)
with Peter Seabrook
A private garden laid out more than 40 years ago in Guisborough shows a great variety of shape and colour against a back-drop of the Cleveland Hills. Herbaceous borders flank a rose pergola with a curious history, and an unusual fern-house provides an ideal climate for a fascinating collection of plants.
Produced by raiur HICKS "BC Birmingham
including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2
with Robert Erskine
A series of 13 programmes about 25 centuries of coins.
9: An Art for the Merchant
In the late Middle Ages, splendid Gothic gold served the upsurge of European trade.
Directed by JOHN burrowes
Produced by BETTY white (Repeal)
David Holmes , BBC Political Editor, presents a weekly insight into the world of politics and outlines the conflicts and consequences.
Editor PAUL NORRIS
American entertainment television, transmitted coast-to-coast, is the product of a fierce battle for profits between the big three networks. How do these pressures operate, and how do they affect the programmes - and the audience? With Mike Dann, Herminio Traviesas, Norman Lear, George Gerbner, Don Roberts, Bob Liebert and two American families
Narrated by MICHAEL DEAN
Film editor FRANCO ROSSO
Director PAUL kriwaczek
Producer JOHN radcliffe
(Next Friday: the Truth Game)
From the books by James Herriot.
Adapted by Johnny Byrne.
A serial in 13 episodes.
James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but that routine is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson...
(BBC Birmingham)
(First shown on BBC1)
from Parkstone Golf Club, Dorset
The second programme of a new series in which Peter Alliss plays golf and talks with well-known people.
His guest this week is best-selling author Leslie Thomas who made his name with The Virgin Soldiers. He talks of some of the background to a life that has led him from a childhood in a Dr Barnardo's orphanage to tax-exile in Jersey.
Producers cavid kenning, 4. P. Wilkinson
Sixteen champion darts players compete for the BBC2 Bullseye Trophy
Featuring the Semi-finals
Colin Baker v Tony Sontag and Tim Stedman v Nick Virachkul
Three Englishmen and an American remain from the original field of 16. Baker and Sontag, fellow Londoners, meet in a match between two of England's youngest Internationals; while Stedman. the surprise packet of the tournament, takes on America's leading player, the inscrutable Virachkul, in what should be a fascinating contest. Introduced by Peter Purves Commentators Sid Waddell, Tony Green
BBC Manchester
Weather
from Queen's Club, London
Highlights of today's quarter-finals played on the magnificent grass courts of Queen's Club, so near to the centre of London.
Introduced by Barry Davies
LESLIE SANDS reads Poem by ROY FULLER