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A programme for children under 5 Today's story:
Secret of the Mountain by ROSEMARY GRAHAM Presenters Sarah Long Ben Bazell
Pianist PETER FONTZEN
Designer .JOHN ASBRIDGE
Graphic designer PAUL JOHNSON Written by JUDY WHITFIELD
Directed by MARGIE BARBOCR Produced by ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA Fr.t.GATB

Contributors

Pianist:
Peter Fontzen
Designer:
Paul Johnson
Written By:
Judy Whitfield
Directed By:
Margie Barbocr
Produced By:
Anne Gobey

The Mazda Cars Classic from the Royal Albert Hall
This afternoon's matches will decide which of these 16 great tennis players go through to the semi-finals from the four groups of four. Favourites to take the major slice of the 60,000-dollar prize money are ROD LAVER and KEN ROSEWALL. Commentators
PETER WEST, JOHN BARRETT and MARK cox producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Ken Rosewall.
Unknown:
John Barrett
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

The classic serial in 15 exciting episodes starring Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon 5: Boomerang
In which Flash Gordon and Dr Zarkov, armed with the Professor's paralyser gun, set out to rescue Dale Arden from the Clay people, but are attacked by one of Emperor Ming's space-bombers.
Directed by FORD BEEBE and ROBERT BILL (Black and white)
(.First shown on BBC1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Buster Crabbe
Unknown:
Dale Arden
Directed By:
Ford Beebe
Directed By:
Robert Bill

The Wightman Cup USA v Great Britain Live coverage by satellite from West Palm Beach,
Florida, as Great Britain, led by VIRGINIA WADE and SUE BARKER, begin the defence of the trophy they won so dramatically at the Royal Albert Hall last November. Once again they face the strongest side the Americans can muster, including CHRIS EVERT LLOYD and the youngest-ever US Open Champion, TRACEY AUSTIN.
Commentator in Florida
DAN MASKELL
Introduced by DAVID VINE Producer FRED VINER

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Chris Evert Lloyd
Introduced By:
David Vine
Producer:
Fred Viner

A series of 18 programmes presented by Angela Rippon who, with her special guests, introduces some of the people, places and events that have taken them out and about in the country.
This week Phil Drabble , the quarry without a close season, tries to elude a pack of enthusiastic bloodhounds.
With her other guests Elizabeth Eyden and Joe Henson , Angela takes a look at a model farm-singled out as a showpiece. Here wildlife has been actively encouraged and managed, to compete with the inevname pressures of modern farming techniques.
Director robin HELLIER Series producer PETER CRAWFORD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Angela Rippon
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Elizabeth Eyden
Unknown:
Joe Henson
Producer:
Peter Crawford

Gavin Millar talks pictures every month with the people who make them.
JOHN SCHLESINGER 'S Yanks opens this week, marking the screen debut of a talented American actress, Lisa Eichhorn , who fooled the director and the Yorkshire-born script writer COLIN WELLAND into thinking she was a Lancashire lass.
' There were so many chefs in the soup, making the picture, that what the actor does is the tip of the iceberg.' George Segal mixes metaphors on the Toronto location of Lost and Found.
Dark, tall-eyed Terry Jones , 18, of Camberwell, talks about the excitement of sharing the same name as the director of the Python team's new film, The Life of Brian...
Studio director JILL EVANS Research CARIN VON DREHLE Film editor NORMAN CARR Producer GAVIN MILLAR

Contributors

Talks:
Gavin Millar
Unknown:
John Schlesinger
Unknown:
Lisa Eichhorn
Unknown:
Colin Welland
Unknown:
George Segal
Unknown:
Terry Jones
Unknown:
Carin von Drehle
Editor:
Norman Carr
Producer:
Gavin Millar

from Florida, USA. and the Royal Albert Hall
The Wightman Cup
USA v Great Britain
DAN MASKELL reports by satellite on the first two singles matches being played tonight at the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club near Miami.
The Mazda Cars Classic
Highlights of tonight's two semi-finals.
Commentators PETER WEST
JOHN BARRETT , MARK COX
Introduced by DAVID VINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Commentators:
Peter West
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Mark Cox
Introduced By:
David Vine

Behind the walls of the Forbidden City in Peking lie the Hall of Complete Harmony, The Hall of Golden Bells, The Palace of Earthly Tranquillity - more than 10,000 rooms in an Imperial Palace that was first built by the Ming Emperors of the 15th century
This film from China shows some of the exquisite craftsmanship of the decorations and objects that were, part of the Emperors' daily lives and also reveals them as patrons of an astonishing religious art - 51,000 Buddhas carved in the living rock.
Narrator DAVID MARCH
Produced by the CENTRAL NEWSREEL AND DOCUMENTARY FILM UNIT, The People's Republic of China
English version written by DAVID WEIR Film editor MATT MCCARTHY Producer GAY ROBERTSON

Contributors

Written By:
David Weir
Editor:
Matt McCarthy

BBC Two England

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