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The National Hunt Festival The final day
2.15 Daily Express
Triumph Hurdle (2m)
2 50 Christie's Foxhunter Steeplechase Challenge Cup (3m 2f)
3.30 Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup (3m 2f)
Can Diamond Edge, trained by Fulke Walwyn , hold off the Irish challenge of Jack of Trumps and Tied Cottage, who fell at the last whilst leading last year?
4.5 National Hunt Handicap Steeplechase (3m If)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentator PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Producers
RICHARD TILLING , JOHN MCNICHOLAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Fulke Walwyn
Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Commentator:
Richard Pitman
Unknown:
Richard Tilling
Unknown:
John McNicholas

The 50-year-old ' Bolshoi Puppet Theatre of Leningrad ' visited London recently for the first time and from their programme we present, The Fairy Story of Emilio.
WILLIAM RUSHTON narrates this Russian fairytale.
Recorded at the Sadlers Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London
Film cameraman ALAN BENDIG Film recordist GORDON EVERET Film editor CHARLES DAVIES Producer DON SAYER

Contributors

Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Alan Bendig
Editor:
Charles Davies
Producer:
Don Sayer

Two Nations?
With the economy threatened with recession, and unemployment rising, how severe are the divisions in British society?
Newsweek looks at the political, economic and social facts that separate us - north from south. Have we become ' two nations '? David Jessel reports.
Producer PETER KENYATTA
Deputy editor PETER CERESOLE Editor PETER IBBOTSON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Producer:
Peter Kenyatta

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A series of ten films
9: ' I'll probably collapse when the exam comes.'
James Eadie is hoping to go to Cambridge. His friend, Rupert Gather , is hoping to go to Oxford. To stand much chance, both need good grades in their A-levels.
Their five years at Radley College are ending in a fever of last-minute revision and question-spotting. They yearn for it to be over ... except that the summer holidays will bring the buff envelope that contains the results, the sheet of paper that could be a visa or a rejection slip.
Film cameramen DAVID SOUTH, DAVID FEIG Film recordist CIIRIS KING
Film editor ANDREW WILLSMORE
Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Producer RICHARD DENTON. See Lettert

Contributors

Unknown:
James Eadie
Unknown:
Rupert Gather
Producer:
Richard Denton.

Investigates, Discovers, Questions This week: Doctors' Code
Should parents of a girl of 15 be told that she asked to be put on the pill? Should a criminal who seeks help from a doctor be reported to the police? Should a severely-handicapped baby be allowed to die? Should employers be shown the medical records of employees? Every day doctors, nurses and administrators have to make difficult ethical decisions and have often jealously maintained that they are the only people qualified to make these judgments. But now the British Medical Association has published an ' ethical-handbook ' available to patients, and has invited Man Alive to debate these dilemmas with those who face them, and those who are affected by them. Nick Ross questions members of the profession and Harold Williamson talks to patients and their families,
Producer LOUISE PANTON Editor TIM SLESSOR
(Postponed from 24 January)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Ross
Talks:
Harold Williamson
Producer:
Louise Panton
Editor:
Tim Slessor

featuring Richard Digance
Digance, East Ham's modern equivalent of the music-hall artist, enjoys an astonishing mutual love affair with his audience. He taunts and scolds them and even walks off the stage mid-song while they continue to sing his music - the lovable rogue of the folk scene.
Recorded at Cherry Hinton Hall , Cambridge. Festival organiser KEN WOOLLARD Lighting JOHN STERLING. Sound ALAN FOX Producer DON SAYER

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Digance
Unknown:
Hinton Hall
Producer:
Don Sayer

Highlights of last month's Benson and Hedges Masters final between Terry Griffiths and Alex ' Hurricane ' Higgins, played at the Wembley Conference Centre.
Producer richard TILLING

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Griffiths

The Southend East by-election, seen as an important test of public opinion at this time. PETER SNOW and JOHN TUSA will be in the studio with leading politicians, and the outside broadcast cameras at Southend will bring the result as soon as it is known; it is expected at around 12.30 am.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa

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