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The second day of the National Hunt Festival with coverage of four races on the Old Course. Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
2.15 The Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle Race (21/2m)
2.50 The Queen Mother Champion Steeplechase (2m)
Anaglog's Daughter bids to repeat her exciting all-the-way win at the Festival meeting 12 months ago.
3.30 The Coral Golden Hurdle Race Final (3m)
4.5 The Sun Alliance 'Chase (3m) Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , RICHARD PITMAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Richard Pitman

An international chess tournament presented by Jeremy James
Eleventh of 13 top-quality games Bent Larsen (DENMARK) v
Hein Donner (NETHERLANDS)
The Danish grandmaster tries to force a win and gives a great demonstration of end game play. Analysis by WILLIAM HARTSTON
Designer JOHN BONE
Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT Producer ROBERT TONER
All the moves of this game are published in THE LISTENER this week.
Book 2 (same title), £3.95, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Hein Donner
Unknown:
William Hartston
Designer:
John Bone
Director:
Sandra Wainwright
Producer:
Robert Toner

The programme in which the BBC hands over air time to the public.
Tonight:
Vicious Circle presented by Elephant Jobs Ltd
' In 1976 we were given a disused delousing centre near the Elephant and Castle. Our purpose? To try to do something about unemployment in this area through a job creation scheme. Our problem? Who do you choose to help - and how? Five years later ELEPHANT JOBS takes a critical look at itself.
Made with the he)p of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

Of The Elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water one or more is present in all art. But in this selection of masterpieces many paintings suggest that, by some superior power, they also guide the fortunes of man. Turner (1775-1851)
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, is first of all a masterly work in oil and a documentary record of an historic event in October 1834. But it is also an evocation of crisis and violence. Written and presented by Sir Hugh Casson
Director KENNETH CORDEN

Contributors

Presented By:
Sir Hugh Casson
Director:
Kenneth Corden

The Tall Ship
A week in the life of a novice crew on the Sail Training Association's schooner Sir Winston Churchill when they left home comforts behind to face March winds and heaving decks in the English Channel.
Film editor BARRIE JOHNSTON Producer JOHN COLEMAN

Contributors

Editor:
Barrie Johnston
Producer:
John Coleman

A series of eight films in which Malcolm Muggeridge looks back over his life. 4: 1945-1956
Correspondent in Washington, ' Punch' and' Panorama '
' I used to think of my places of call as Stations of the Cross, pausing at each-White House, State, Commerce, Treasury, Interior-to beat my breast, Mea Culpa - " Give us this day our daily story " - then on to the next....'
'The earliest of all jokes were about sex; and sex is really the most humorous aspect of human life, if you look upon humour - as I do - as an expression of the disparity between human aspiration and human performance ...' 'Panorama used to call itself a Window on the World; but it's always a strange thing to me that these studios have no windows. They're completely and utterly cut off, isolated from the world. I feel they are places of fantasy, not connected with life ... '
Film cameraman JOHN MCGLASHAN Sound recordist RICHARD BOULTER Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer JONATHAN STEDALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
John McGlashan
Unknown:
Richard Boulter
Editor:
David Lee
Producer:
Jonathan Stedall

starring
Rally Round the Flagg, Boys
The sinister Col Flagg is up to his snooping tricks again. This" time his target is Hawkeye - Communist spy if ever there was one....

Contributors

Unknown:
Col Flagg
Hawkcye:
Alan Alda
B Hunnicutt:
Mike Farrell
Col Potter:
Harry Morgan
David:
Ogden Stiers
Major:
Charles Winchester
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Col Flagg:
Ed Winter

A series in nine parts written by ELAINE MORGAN starring Philip Madoc
Lisabeth Miles and David Markham 3: He is Wise, and Merciful
Designer PAULINE HARRISON
Producer JOHN HEFIN , BBC Cymru/Wales

Contributors

Written By:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
David Markham
Designer:
Pauline Harrison
Producer:
John Hefin
David Lloyd George:
Philip Madoc
Richard Lloyd George:
Jac Wynne-Williams
Mair Lloyd George:
Donna Edwards
Mrs Richard Owen:
Rachel Thomas
Margaret Lloyd George:
Lisabeth Miles
Sara:
Elen Roger Jones
Dr Clifford:
William Squire
Tim Davies:
Gilbert Wynne
Lizzie Davies:
Ruth Madoc
Dr Williams:
John Prior
William George:
William Thomas
Sir Francis Hopwood:
Angus MacKay
Tom Bell:
David Garfield
LNER director:
Edward Judd
GWR director:
Michael Cunningham
Anita Williams:
Gillian Etjsa Thomas
Richard Lloyd:
Meredith Edwards
Winston Churchill:
William Hootkins
Megan Lloyd George:
Lisa Grug
Herbert Henry Asquith:
David Markham
Susan:
Maggie Henderson

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