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The State Express
World Challenge Cup Canada v Australia
Australia make their first appearance today as GARY OWEN , PADDY MORGAN and IAN ANDERSON take on Canadacaptained by CLIFF THORBURN.
DAVID VINE introduces highlights of this afternoon's play from Haden Hill Leisure Centre, Birmingham.
Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON Summariser JOHN PULMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Gary Owen
Unknown:
Paddy Morgan
Unknown:
Ian Anderson
Unknown:
Cliff Thorburn.
Commentators:
Ted Lowe
Unknown:
Jack Karnehm
Unknown:
Clive Everton
Unknown:
John Pulman

The Last Two Weeks in June
For nearly 100 years the 'Hoppings ' on Newcastle Town Moor has been the most important event in the travelling showman's calendar. This unique event began as a Temperance Festival but generations of Geordies have brought to it every year a wilder summer excitement.
David Pritchard , a young film-maker, sampled the delights of the ' Hoppings' a year ago and talked to two of its staunchest defenders, Bill Weeks and Bill Varley.
Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK Producer GEOFF WONFOR

Contributors

Unknown:
David Pritchard
Producer:
John Mapplebeck
Producer:
Geoff Wonfor

with Robert Robinson talking to authors about their craft and the rewards of fiction. Literary Prizes with three of the novelists short-listed for this year's Booker Prize Penelope Fitzgerald
Julian Rathbone and Fay Weldon
Director SUE MALLINSON Producer ANTONY ROUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Penelope Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Julian Rathbone
Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Director:
Sue Mallinson
Producer:
Antony Rouse

A series of ten programmes with Donald Sinden
2: After the Conquest
The decisive events of 1066 turned the trickle of continental influence, already felt at the court of Edward the Confessor, into a flood. In the decades that followed, the majority of our parish churches were established or rebuilt. The Normans thought big, and the use of the feudal system to deploy manpower and materials when and where needed, enabled them to achieve their ambitions. DONALD SINDEN visits the parish churches of Melbourne, Stewkley and Kilpeck.
Film cameraman KENNETH LOWE Film editor PETER ORTON Producer DICK FOSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Sinden
Unknown:
Donald Sinden
Unknown:
Kenneth Lowe
Editor:
Peter Orton
Producer:
Dick Foster

A new series of the comedy films starring
The Merchant of Korea
One of God's little acres costs B.J. dear. He borrows money from Major Winchester to buy a piece of land. And when it comes to getting his pound of flesh Winchester could certainly have taught Shylock a thing or two ...

Contributors

Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
B J Hunnicutt:
And Mike Farrell
with David:
Ogden Stiers
as Major:
Charles Winchester
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Colonel Potter:
Harry Morgan
Klinger:
Jamie Farr
as Father Mulcahy:
William Christopher

by ROBERT CRICHTON , dramatised in six parts by BILL CRAIG
5: Sam has won all the major events at the Pitmungo Games-the last before Lord Leitch closes the Sportin' Moor. As industrial unrest grows, the miners are laid off and Maggie introduces strict economies to protect the money in the ' kist It looks like being a bleak Christmas until Gillon, remembering his first adventure with Maggie, goes off to poach a salmon for the Cameron table.
Film cameraman STUART WYLD Film recordist CHARLES CLARK Film editor LOUIS MILLER Designer ALEX GOURLAY
Producer PHARIC MACLAREN Directed by PETER MOFFATT BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Crichton
Unknown:
Bill Craig
Unknown:
Stuart Wyld
Unknown:
Charles Clark
Editor:
Louis Miller
Designer:
Alex Gourlay
Producer:
Pharic MacLaren
Directed By:
Peter Moffatt
Maggie:
With Morag Hood
Gillon:
Malcolm Ingram
Henry Selkirk:
Graham Crowden
Brothcock:
Jack Watson
Walter Bone:
Roddy McMillan
Lord Leitch:
Cyril Luckham
Sandy Bone:
Jay Smith
Rob:
Iain Lauchlan
Andrew:
Gerard Kelly
James:
Joseph McKenna
Sam:
Ewan Stewart
Sarah:
Sharon Erskine
Emily:
Lesley Fitzsimons
Ian:
James Morrison
Japp:
Frank Wylie
Menzies:
Alec Heggie
Warrick:
Paul Young
Elphinstone:
David Bannerman
Calder:
Walter Carr
Macdonald:
John Shedden
Doctor:
Ian Stewart
Minister:
E J P MacE
Woman:
Katy Gardiner
Keir Hardie:
Finlay Welsh

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