8.5 Energy: Closing the Gap

8.30 M101/30 Algebra

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The last in a series of four programmes featuring people who live and work in the New Forest. Fur and Feather .
Most people who live in the countryside have at some time or another awoken to find their beautifully manicured lawn ravaged by mole hills. Then they would call in Jack Sibley.
Jack spent most of his life killing moles, but now he's retired. Dennis Skillicorn visited Jack to talk about his job and about the folklore that surrounds moles.
Dennis also spent a day with Peter Murfin , a gamekeeper on the Beaulieu Estates. Peter came down to Beaulieu from Nottingham many years ago and has never wanted to return. A gamekeeper's life means working long hours every day; it's not a job for the nine-to-five man-as Dennis found out. But for Peter it's a way of life he wouldn't change for anything.
Film editor
ALAN KNIGHT Producer
JOHN COLEMAN

The feature film starring
Bing Crosby , Carole Lombard
Romance, comedy and songs all feature in this decidedly unusual Hollywood musical, which owes more than a little to The Admirable Crichton. Bing stars as a would-be architect, working on a palatial yacht. When the lazy owners are marooned on a desert island they turn to their ' sailor' companion for help. And Doris Worthington , their wealthy hostess, becomes increasingly fond of the singing sailor ... Burns and Allen supply comedy routines while Bing and Ethel Merman contribute most of the songs, including ' Love thy neighbour ', ' May I?' and ' She walks like you, she talks like you'.
Screenplay by HORACE JACKSON
FRANCIS MARTIN , GEORGE MARION JR Based on a story and produced by BENJAMIN GLAZER
Directed by NORMAN TAUROG Films: page 16

Midland Division v Australians from Leicester
' They are physical, fair and have brought a new dimension to back play'. The words of Jean-Pierre Rives about the Wallabies, who in one year have defeated both New Zealand and France in Test series. In this first match of their tour they face the Midland Division, who have four of England's current backs available and are themselves committed to playing open rugby.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH commentates, and brings news and highlights of the rest of the weekend's rugby.
Series producer huw jones
Sporting Themes (record REH 348, cassette zcr 348), from retailers

A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world; the interesting and the picturesque, the important and the dramatic, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. with Kenneth Kendall
Editor RICHARD GAMBLE

Presented by Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton Britain's most popular business and financial programme, reporting from far and near on money large and small. Featuring:
The Collapse of Norton Warburg
Last February, the investment management group Norton Warburg collapsed. The group's clients varied from the pop group Pink Floyd and the cricketer Mike Den -ness to hundreds of ordinary people many of whom invested, and lost, all they owned.
Paul Barry follows a financial trail leading from London to Hollywood.
Producer PETER MOLLOY
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor DAVID LLOYD

Secret Harvesters
Second of two programmes The Fruits of Summer
A Devon farm burgeons with crops of wheat and barley, but others plunder that bounty. Rooks and voles, skylarks and harvest-mice reap their own living along with many other creatures. Must the farmer share his land with a wildlife that respects no boundaries? Narrated by JOHN HEDGES
Photographed and directed by MIKE HERD Film editors BETTY BLOCK, LIZ THOYTS Producer PETER JONES
Series editors PETER JONES, ANTHONY ISAACS BBC Bristol

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

In the first week of August, the seaside town of Sidmouth is invaded by all-singing, all-dancing hordes from all over Britain, and from overseas. The occasion is the International Folklore Festival: after 27 years well-established as the Mecca for morris-men, clog-dancers, ceilidh callers and melodeon menders.
In 1981, the Bristol Arts Unit moved to Sidmouth for the week of the festival to taste the flavour of the entertainment, and to witness the effect of this 'friendly invasion' on a tidy, unspoilt corner of Devon.
Among those 'caught in the act' were the Kasava dancers from Czechoslovakia, the Louga Folk Ensemble from Senegal, the Czup-Lak Ukrainian dancers from Nottingham, Ekome from Bristol, Packie Byrne, Somerville Gentlemen's Band, Great Western Morris, The Shropshire Bedlams, Ginger's Street Theatre, and Scaramouche.
Technical co-ordinator GEOFF STAFFORD Sound PETER ROSE, MIKE SMYTHE Videotape editor NIGEL PERRY Assistant producer DAVID HUTT
Producer TONY STAVEACRE. BBC Bristol

featuring Les Dawson , with Benny Green and Posy Simmonds Presented by Laurie Taylor
His mother-in-law has provided Les Dawson and us with an endless supply of laughs. Les reveals why she is not only an inspirational source for his humour, but is necessary for the very continuation of life as we know it.
PROFESSOR LAURIE TAYLOR extends this look at a family stereotype by asking writer and broadcaster Benny Green and cartoonist Posy Simmonds of The Guardian why we need family figures for family fun.
Producer SUZANNE CAMPBELL-JONES
A BBC Open University production

Presenter Jeremy James Commentator JOHN BEARD
This first-ever televised Bridge tournament goes into its second round with the United Kingdom team having taken a small lead over the Americans. The players: Pat Davies and Nicola Gardener (UK) v Jackie Mitchell and Gail Moss (USA) Jeremy Flint and Claude Rodrigue (UK) v
Matthew Granovetter and Neil Silverman (USA)
Designer CHRIS ROBILLIARD Director JILL MARSHALL
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE

A serial in ten parts
Part 1 by JOHN PREBBLE
1492: The Pope dies. Rodrigo Borgia, in spite of his age and his many illegitimate children, sees a last chance for election to the Papal throne. He sets about achieving it by a mixture of bribery, blackmail and political cunning.
Music GEORGES DELERUE Producer MARK SHIVAS
Director BRIAN FARNHAM
*Ceefax subtitles on page 270

Also starring Mona Washbourne Trevor Howard , Alec McCowen
' I first thought of suicide when I was 8-the thought cheered me up enormously. One might not be able to rely on life but one could always rely on death.'
Witty, caustic and sad, Stevie Smith lived a life of seeming ordinariness in the London suburb of Palmers Green. Yet by the time of her death in 1971, she was one of Britain's most admired poets-awarded the Queen's Medal in 1969 - as well as a novelist, broadcaster and social celebrity. She rejected lovers and suitors, fashion-ability and the trappings of fame and dedicated herself to writing and to her aunt. In this memorable film, based on Hugh Whit more's play and the writings of Stevie Smith , Glenda Jackson gives one of her greatest performances - a portrayal equalled by that of Mona Washbourne.
Screenplay by HUGH WHITMORE
Produced and directed by ROBERT ENDERS Films : page 16