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Cornhill Insurance Test Match
England v Sri Lanka ,from Lord's
Further coverage of the afternoon's play.
Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD , JIM LAKER
TOM GRAVENEY , RAY ILLINGWORTH

Contributors

Unknown:
Richie Benaud
Unknown:
Jim Laker
Unknown:
Tom Graveney
Unknown:
Ray Illingworth

A Forty Minutes documentary film
Despite everything, the finishing school is alive and well and mainly to be found in Switzerland. Some 400 monuments to Swiss finishing skill exist in this Alpine paradise.
The most famous perhaps is the Institut Videmanette in Rougemont. For it was here that the future Princess of Wales completed her education. But high in esteem is the Institut Villa Pierrefeu that looks down on Montreux. Here some 24 young ladies are 'finished' at a cost to their parents of nearly E15,000 a year.
Finishing involves not only the learning of French, but also the mysteries of protocol, etiquette, floral art, precedence at table, haute cuisine, styles of furniture and decoration, couture, and all the skills necessary if a girl has the good fortune to 'marry someone who is someone'.
The finishing of three English girls, Sarah, Francesca and Natalie, is the subject of this documentary film.
Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Producer RICHARD DENTON

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Denton

Introduced by Ray Moore from Holmfirth High School
During the summer Ray Moore has visited some of the music centres, schools and colleges which provided some of the young musicians who appeared at the last season of Schools Proms.
This, the fourth and final programme, features the talented youngsters from The Holmfirth High School Choir The Guildhall School of Music Junior Brass Band The Gould Quintet
The Derbyshire County Youth Wind Band
Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra
Assistant producer STEVE MORRIS Producer KEN GRIFFIN
(Organised by Music for Youth in conjunction with Commercial Union Assurance and the Rank Organisation)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ray Moore
Unknown:
Ray Moore
Producer:
Steve Morris
Producer:
Ken Griffin

The Bat, the Blossom and the Biologist with Donna Howell
There is in Arizona a bat that flies thousands of miles each spring to feed on the flowers of a plant that blooms only once in 25 years - and then dies. Last summer Q.E.D went to the Sonoran Desert in pursuit of this curious but intimate relationship - for it is a trading of food for sex: the bat gets the food and the flower gets pollinated in exchange.
For more than a decade, biologist Donna Howell has been unravelling how two such unlikely partners make the most of each other.
Series editor MICK RHODES Producer DANA PURVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Donna Howell
Unknown:
Donna Howell
Editor:
Mick Rhodes
Producer:
Dana Purvis

For two weeks now Edinburgh has been celebrating its 38th International Festival of the Arts.
Five personal views highlight the diversity of this year's programme:
Frank Dunlop , the new Festival Director, is especially pleased with his drama line-up which boasts companies from New York, Berlin, Paris and Prague.
Singer Jill Gomez samples the chamber music.
Barney Simon, here with a new play performed by the Market Theatre,
Johannesburg, sniffs around the Fringe.
American group Sweet Honey in the Rock part of the massive Smithsonian event from Washington, sing a capella' and swing to the Jazz Festival. Film-writer Peter Wollen comments on images of America as seen at tne Film Festival. ,
And Edinburgh Labour Group Leader
Alex Wood , asks what the Festival achieves for the city.
Directors MIKE BARNES , HILARY BOULDlNG Producer KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Dunlop
Singer:
Jill Gomez
Unknown:
Peter Wollen
Leader:
Alex Wood
Directors:
Mike Barnes
Directors:
Hilary Bouldlng
Producer:
Keith Alexander

Tom takes a backward glance at the trials and tribulations of the past and laughs at our technologica attempts to get it right- with the help of some strange ideas and suggestions from the folk of Britain.
Tom and his regular guests Derek Griffiths and Andrew Sachs are joined in their music and musings by Madeline Smith and Annabel Etkind.
This week's special guest is Australian songstress Jackie Love
Sound supervisor DAVID THOMPSON
Lighting director BERT POSTLETHWAITE Designer ANDY DIMOND
Production RICK GARDNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Griffiths
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
Madeline Smith
Unknown:
Annabel Etkind.
Unknown:
David Thompson
Director:
Bert Postlethwaite
Designer:
Andy Dimond
Unknown:
Rick Gardner

Join Paul Daniels for the last show in the present series in which he brings a touch of slapstick to the Bunco Booth and introduces his international guests with their remarkable skills.
From Switzerland, the legendary musical comedian Alfredo
From Great Britain, the unusual inventor Rowland Emett with his amazing Golfing Machine
From Austria, the incredible trick cyclists The Klementis with DEBBIE MCGEE , AMANDA NEWMAN
Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Director JOHN BISHOP
Produced by JOHN FISHER
(A new series with Paul Daniels starts next Saturday on BBC1)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Rowland Emett
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Unknown:
Gil Leaney
Director:
John Bishop
Produced By:
John Fisher
Unknown:
Paul Daniels

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