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7.40 A Many-Splendoured Thing?: 2

8.5 Mechanics, Rotating Frames: 2

8.30 Romanticism

8.55 Classical Greece: Social Life

9.20 The Barber Years

9.45 The Art of Physick

10.10 Images of Protest

10.35 Maths Complex Analysis

11.0 Non-Linearities

11.25 The Paris Pantheon

11.50 Against the Public Interest

12.15 How Flowers Avoid Incest

12.40 Molecular Evolution

1.5 Visual Illusions: Now You See It

1.30 Voyager's Travels

Starring Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks, Hattie Jacques
The first of this afternoon's comedy double bill stars Monkhouse and Alfred Marks as two hard-up brothers. When they discover that their beautiful cousin Toni stands in the way of their inheriting a fortune they decide she must be married - or murdered.

Based on the play "We Must Kill Toni" by Ian Stuart Black.
(Black and white)
(Films: page 16)

and at 3.40
Meet Mr Lucifer
Starring Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Kay Kendall
To follow, a comedy with a difference - in the form of a satire on the demon influence of television. Mr Lucifer decides that television should make people sad not happy and sets about his task starting with the gentle Mr Pedelty ...

Based on a play by Arnold Ridley.
(Black and white)
(Films: page 16)

Contributors

Screenplay (She'll Have to Go):
John Waterhouse
Author (We Must Kill Toni):
Ian Stuart Black
Producer (She'll Have to Go):
Jack Asher
Producer/Director (She'll Have to Go):
Robert Asher
Writer/Producer (Meet Mr Lucifer):
Monja Danischewsky
Playwright:
Arnold Ridley
Director (Meet Mr Lucifer):
Anthony Pelissier
Francis Oberon:
Bob Monkhouse
Douglas Oberon:
Alfred Marks
Miss Richards:
Hattie Jacques
Toni:
Anna Karina
Gilbert:
Dennis Lotis
Arnold:
Graham Stark
Chemist:
Clive Dunn
MacDonald:
Hugh Lloyd
Doctor:
Peter Butterworth
Mr Hollingsworth/Mr Lucifer:
Stanley Holloway
Kitty:
Peggy Cummins
Jim:
Jack Watling
Patricia:
Barbara Murray
Mr Pedelty:
Joseph Tomelty
Arthur:
Humphrey Lestocq
Hector:
Gordon Jackson
Mrs Macdonald:
Jean Cadell
Lonely hearts singer:
Kay Kendall
Mr Elder:
Charles Victor
Mrs Stannard:
Olive Sloane
Mr Macdonald:
Ernest Thesiger
Principal boy:
Olga Gwynne
Fairy queen:
Joan Sims
Man Friday:
Ian Carmichael
Patterson:
Raymond Huntley
Mr Roberts:
Frank Pettingell
Lady with the dog:
Irene Handl
Lady in the bus:
Gladys Henson
Billings:
Roddy Hughes
Edwards:
Eliot Makeham
Band leader:
Bill Fraser
Mrs Clarke:
Dandy Nichols

Further coverage of this afternoon's cross-country stage of the 21st Burghley Championship. More than 70 competitors, including all the top German riders, tackle the 29-fence course spread over four-and-a-half miles of undulating countryside in Lincoln-shire. (Organised by the British Horse Society in association with the TI Group) Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
MICHAEL TUCKER and HUGH THOMAS
Producers FRED VINER and JIM RESIDE

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Brooks-Ward
Unknown:
Michael Tucker
Unknown:
Hugh Thomas
Producers:
Fred Viner

Football Association Coaching: Tactics, Skills
A series of 14 programmes
12: Defending from Free Kicks and CornersCoaches
DON HOWE , BILL TAYLOR
GRAHAM TAYLOR , CHARLES HUGHES Players
TREVOR BROOKING , VINCE HILAIRE
Supporting match action showing the close relationship between coaching, practice and performance.
Producer BOB ABRAHAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Howe
Unknown:
Bill Taylor
Unknown:
Graham Taylor
Unknown:
Trevor Brooking
Unknown:
Vince Hilaire
Producer:
Bob Abrahams

The European Championships from Split, Yugoslavia
The last five finals of the meeting and the end of a gruelling week for Britain's JUNE CROFT. The Wigan girl was selected for five events and makes her final medal bid in the 200m Freestyle. Men's 200m Backstroke Men's 1500m Freestyle
Women's 200m Freestyle
Women's 200m Backstroke
Men's 4 x 100m Medley relay Commentators
ALAN WEEKS and HAMILTON BLAND
TV presentation YUGOSLAVIAN TV service Producer JOHN PHILIPS i _

featuring
The Ladies' Singles Final DESMOND LYNAM introduces coverage of today's match at
Flushing Meadow, New York. In last year's final
Chris Evert Lloyd defeated the young Czech
Hana Mandlikova to regain the Championship, and beat her again in July to secure her third Wimbledon singles title. Also, news of today's semi-finals in the Men's Singles Championship. Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT and VIRGINIA WADE
TV presentation CBS Producers
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON and JOHN ROWLINSON

Contributors

Introduces:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Virginia Wade
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston
Unknown:
John Rowlinson

The Kodak Masters Bowls Tournament from
Beach House Park, Worthing
The first of seven nightly programmes featuring eight of the best flat green bowlers in the world.
The players are divided into two groups and play on a round robin basis with the top two in each group going through to the semi-finals.
Of those taking part the most famous is DAVID BRYANT, current World Champion and four times Commonwealth Gold Medallist. Also drawn in his group is former World Champion DOUG WATSON from South Africa. Today's match features the holder of the title, BILL MOSELEY, also from South Africa, who takes on former Welsh champion GWYN EVANS. Commentators
DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

by JOHN LE CARRE dramatised in seven parts by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT Also starring
(in order of appearance) Michael Jayston Anthony Bate Hywel Bennett
Thorley Walters George Sewell
2: 'Lacon sent me for you, George. It could be the road back.' George Smiley is told a story about spies and invited to go forward and to go backwards over some very old ground.
Music composed and conducted by GEOFFREY BURGON
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Director JOHN IRVIN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Arthur Hopcraft
Unknown:
Michael Jayston
Unknown:
Anthony Bate
Unknown:
Hywel Bennett
Unknown:
Thorley Walters
Unknown:
George Sewell
Unknown:
George Smiley
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
John Irvin
George Smiley:
Alec Guinness
Peter Guillam:
Michael Jayston
Lacon:
Anthony Bate
Ricki Tarr:
Hywel Bennett
Tufty Thessinger:
Thorley Walters
Mendel:
George Sewell
Irina:
Susan Kodicek
Boris:
Hilary Minster
Mrs Pope:
Pauline Letts
Norman:
Stephen Earle

starring
Van Heflin
Evelyn Keyes
A corrupt, ambitious policeman uses emotional blackmail on a lonely married woman and begins an affair which leads to murder ... Joseph Losey 's compelling study of the darker side of human relationships features a superb performance by Van Heflin as the unprincipled patrolman who first meets Susan Gilvray while making a routine check for a prowler she imagines is haunting her house.
Screenplay by HUGO BUTLER from a story by ROBERT TIIOEREN and HANS WILIIELM Produced by SAM SPIEGEL Directed by JOSEPH LOSEY Films: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Van Heflin
Unknown:
Evelyn Keyes
Unknown:
Joseph Losey
Unknown:
Van Heflin
Unknown:
Susan Gilvray
Unknown:
Hugo Butler
Story By:
Robert Tiioeren
Unknown:
Hans Wiliielm
Produced By:
Sam Spiegel
Directed By:
Joseph Losey
Webb Garwood:
Van Heflin
Susan Gilvray:
Evelyn Keyes
Bud Crocker:
John Maxwell
Mrs Crocker:
Katherine Warren
William Gilvray:
Emerson Treacy
Martha Gilvray:
Madge Blake
Dr James:
Wheaton Chambers
Coroner:
Robert Osterloh

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