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Swansea v The Maoris
SWANSEA are the strongest club side in Wales with powerful forwards and talented backs, and THE MAORIS will be stretched to repeat the victory of the ' All Blacks at St Helens in 1980. NIGEL STARMER-SMITH commentates and brings news, views and action from the rest of the weekend's rugby.
Director DEWI GRIFFITHS
Series producer HUW jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Director:
Dewi Griffiths
Producer:
Huw Jones

International Snooker
The State Express
World Team Classic from
The Hexagon, Reading
The Final
Last year in a dramatic final, with the scores level, STEVE DAVIS beat RAY REARDON in the tie-break frame to win the Team Title for England and deny Wales their hat-trick of victories. JIMMY WHITE and TONY KNOWLES have teamed up with Davis this year, while TERRY GRIF-FITHS and DOUG MOUNTJOY are once again Reardon's partners. Can England or Wales win again, or will another country win the title for the first time?
DAVID viNE introduces coverage of this afternoon's session -the first three matches of the final. Commentators
TED LOWE , JACK KARNEHM CLIVE EVERTON
Summarisers JOHN SPENCER , REX WILLIAMS Producer MIKE ADLEY
Executive producer NICK HUNTER
International Tennis
The 1982 Daihatsu Challenge from the Brighton Centre
On finals day last year the capacity crowd went wild as SUE BARKER won the title. With her current world ranking now having slipped to 30, she will have to play exceptionally well to repeat that performance with CHRIS LLOYD , expected to meet MARTINA NAVRATILOVA in this year's final.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentator
DAN MASKELL , ANN JONES VIRGINIA WADE
Producers
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON , ALASTAIR SCOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Davis
Unknown:
Ray Reardon
Unknown:
Jimmy White
Unknown:
Tony Knowles
Unknown:
Doug Mountjoy
Unknown:
Ted Lowe
Unknown:
Jack Karnehm
Unknown:
Clive Everton
Unknown:
Summarisers John Spencer
Producer:
Mike Adley
Unknown:
Chris Lloyd
Introduced By:
Barry Davies
Commentator:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston
Unknown:
Alastair Scott

Presented by Jeremy James
It's the second round of this exciting new tournament and strong nerves are needed for survival. Yasser Seirawan (USA) v Anatoly Karpov (USSR)
The players provide their own commentary to critical moves with further expert/analysis by WILLIAM HARTSTON
Director JILL DAWSON
Producer ROBERT TONER

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Yasser Seirawan
Unknown:
Anatoly Karpov
Unknown:
William Hartston
Director:
Jill Dawson
Producer:
Robert Toner

A Killing Rain
Europe is being poisoned by a blend of sulphur dioxide gas and dilute sulphuric and nitric acids, falling as acid rain. It kills fish, lakes and forests, damages crops, and is harmful to health. So why is Britain, as one of the major culprits, doing so little to stop it?
Horizon editor graham MASSEY

Contributors

Editor:
Graham Massey

Presented by Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton
PAUL BARRY , NICK CLARKE
MARK ROGERSON and LUKE CASEY with stories on business, finance. your money and other people's. Featuring this week
Pressing Button 4 .
It's 18 years since Britain had a new television channel. Next Tuesday Channel 4 will be born into a television world already in turmoil with video cassettes and the advent of both breakfast television and cable. Will it survive and make money? And for whom? MARK ROGERSON reports. producer MICHAEL DAVIDSON
Deputy editor ANDREW CLAYTON Editor JOHN REYNOLDS

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Widlake
Presented By:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
Paul Barry
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson
Producer:
Michael Davidson
Editor:
Andrew Clayton
Editor:
John Reynolds

A natural-history drama in six parts about our understanding of animals and their habits.

If bushes are beaten in winter would hibernating birds fly out? Could a mother hen fostering ducklings prevent them taking to water? Can birdsong be written as music? Were the wolves of Versailles more intelligent than the red deer they chased after?
The first steps towards answering such puzzles came from naturalists whose view of the world was inspired by the Bible.

John Ray, a 17th-century parson sought to describe and catalogue the 'treasures of the creation' from fenland marsh to the clamorous seabird colonies of the Fame Islands. The Rev Gilbert White celebrated his God in discovering new animals and habits within the parish of Selbourne. And the eccentric 'Squire' Waterton explored the jungles of South America and enquired whether God had 'bungled' the design of the sloth!

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Narrator:
Andrew Sachs
Original music composed by:
Edward Williams
Designer:
Sally Hulke
Film Editor:
Ron Martin
Photography:
Jim Saunders
Photography:
Hugh Miles
Photography:
Robert Brown
Photography:
David Haylock
Photography:
Richard Ganniclifft
Series Producer:
John Sparks
Producer:
Mike Salisbury
John Ray:
Brian Gear
John Ray (as a boy):
Jack Tomalin
Mrs Ray:
Angela Barlow
Mr Ray:
Bob Press
The Hon Francis Willughby:
Andrew Fell
The Rev Gilbert White:
Michael Cronin
The Hon Daines Barrington:
William Whymper
Harpsichord tuner:
Sandy MacKenzie
Charles Leroy:
Michael McKevitt
Charles Waterton:
Thane Bettany
Charles Darwin:
Edwin Brown

The Old Trouble and Strife
'Der alte Sturm/Die alte Mtth'...
(WOTAN, Act 2, Scene 1)
In this week's background feature Humphrey Burton provides a biographical sketch of Wagner's first marriage to the actress Minna Planer , and shows how his life and art are intertwined in the second act of The Valkyrie. Voice of Wagner Frederick Jaeger
Assistant producer HAZEL WRIGHT Producer PETER BUTLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Burton
Unknown:
Minna Planer
Unknown:
Wagner Frederick Jaeger
Producer:
Hazel Wright
Producer:
Peter Butler

Act 2
The third episode in the Bayreuth production of The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, divided into ten weekly parts.
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra conductor Pierre Boulez

Violence and despair are at the heart of this act. Wotan s plan to use his son Siegmund to win back the ring for him independently is thwarted - after a searing dispute - by his wife Fricka, the goddess of marriage. Wotan concedes that Siegmund must be punished for stealing a woman from her husband and so his earlier orders to Brunnhilde, the Valkyrie, are reversed and the war-maiden is despatched to prepare Siegmund for a hero's after-life in Valhalla.

Artistic supervision WOLFGANG WAGNER Production PATRICE CHEREAU Design RICHARD PEDUZZI Costumes
JACQUES SCHMIDT Sung in German with English subtitles by PETER BUTLER
A co-production of UNITEL, BAVARIAN TELEVISION and the BAYREUTH FESTIVAL Television director BRIAN LARGE

(For the best effect, viewers with stereo R3 should turn off tv sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative)
(The Valkyrie, Act 3 next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner
Conductor:
Pierre Boulez
Unknown:
Wolfgang Wagner
Unknown:
Patrice Chereau
Design:
Richard Peduzzi
Unknown:
Jacques Schmidt
Unknown:
Peter Butler
Fricka:
Hanna Schwarz
Wotan:
Donald McIntyre
Brunnhilde:
Gwyneth Jones
Siegmund:
Peter Hofmann
Sieglinde:
Jeannine Altmeyer
Hunding:
Matti Salminen

Who has won the World Team Classic? David Vine introduces the closing stages of The Final. Commentators Ted Lowe, Jack Karnehm, Clive Everton. Summarisers John Spencer, Rex Williams.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Commentator:
Jack Karnehm
Commentator:
Clive Everton
Summariser:
John Spencer
Summariser:
Rex Williams
Producer:
Mike Adley
Executive Producer:
Nick Hunter

BBC Two England

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