6.40 Transformer Core

7.5 The Exception and the Rule

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The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v India
Further play from The Oval

with Peter Seabrook
The Rookery Gardens at Preston Park in Brighton provide a big attraction for both residents and summer visitors. The three acres of rock garden were built by emptying hundreds of tons of Cheddar stone out of railway wagons down the side of a steep embankment.
Produced by PHILIP HICKS BBC Birmingham
Gardening Hints on Ceefax. page 252

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo for the first half of tonight's concert of Russian music, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY under its principal conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky play Rimsky-Korsakov's colourful Russian Easter Festival Overture and Victoria Postnikova is the soloist in the romantic Piano Concerto No 1 by Rachmaninov
The concert also includes the first British performance of Cantus to the memory of Benjamin Britten by the Estonian composer Arvo Part
Introduced by MICHAEL BERKELEY
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BERT OATEN
Executive producer RODNEY GREENBERG Director ROY TIPPING
For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.

The tenth of 18 excerpts, dramatised by JAMES ANDREW HALL Junkettings Producer
ROSEMARY HILL
Directed by PETER HAMMOND (Repeal)

The Week into War 31 August 1939
The fourth in a nightly series of modern television news bulletins which look at events of the week 40 years ago - the seven days leading up to the Declaration of War. Newsreader TOM MANGOLD
Studio director ANN FREER Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT

A new feature film starring
Maria Schell , Erland Josephson
31 August 1939. In the small
German town of Gleiwitz, close to the Polish frontier, the piontek family is preparing for a wedding. Although the town is teeming with soldiers, who have made their headquarters at the hotel where the reception is to be held,
Valeska Piontek is determined that nothing will spoil her daughters day.
Everything goes according to plan, but when Andreas slips outside for a private moment with his girifriend, they witness something very odd outside the radio station.
This handsome Bavarian television production of HORST BIENEK'S s novel combines the abrupt ending of a childhood, and an established social order, with the beginning of a world-wide political catastrophe.
Young Josel dances his first polka at the wedding, blissfully unaware that it will also be his last.
Screenplay by HELMUTTKRAPP
Directed by KLAUS with English-titles)
(A German film with English sub-titles)
(First showing on British television) Films: page 17

Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete in the BBC2 Masters Championship Second Semi-final
Brian Duncan (Lancashire) v Arthur Murray (Cheshire)
Arthur Murray had a walk-away win in his quarter-final, with some first-class bowling. Brian Duncan , however, had a difficult game and will have to produce his very best form to get through to the final.
Introduced by Colin Welland from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS. BBC Manchester

The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v India
RICHIE BENAUD introduces today's highlights.

Weather

GEORGINE ANDERSON reads
Summer Farm by NORMAN MCCAIG