The Coral United Kingdom Championship
TONY KNOWLES, the No 3 seed, and CLIFF THORBURN , seeded 4, are in action this morning as they begin their first-round matches. This year the tournament has gone 'open' and there will be coverage from two tables. Introduced by DAVID VINE Summariser
JIM MEADOWCROFT
TV presentation KEITH MACKENZIE MIKE ADLEY , PETER HAYWARD
Executive producer NICK HUNTER
11.50 Science: Moths and Flies
12.15 Be a Sumbody
12.40 Milking and Mastitis
1.5 Pages from Ceefax
starring
Dan Duryea
Gene Lockhart
Mike Callahan is a professional adventurer based in Singapore. Through his friendship with Julian March and his love for
March's wife, he becomes dangerously involved in a daring kidnap plot.
Screenplay by Lindsay HARDY Produced by ROBERT ALDRICH and BERNARD TABAKIN
Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH
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Reflection Nebulae
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Further coverage from Preston
The seventh of 15 programmes of French for beginners
Sir Peter Parker visits the ruins of Minster Lovell Hall to present his personal view of the play which he describes as a 'blood-curdling thriller about crooked kings and their baronial mafia'. Director SALLY KIRKWOOD Producer VICTOR POOLE
(The play can be seen at 8.30 pm)
with Jan Leeming ; Weather
Wales v Australia from Cardiff Arms Park Wales start this season as favourites to take the Home Championship title, and victory for the very exciting Australian team would be a tremendous achievement. However, under captain ANDY SLACK, the tourists hope to repeat their victory of 1966 as well as eliminate memories of their defeat earlier this season on the same ground by Cardiff.
BILL MCLAREN commentates
With GARETH EDWARDS , and NIGEL STARMER-SMITH brings news and views of the rest of the day's rugby. Director DEW! GRIFFITHS
Series producer HUW JONES
For the first time, comprehensive coverage of the Lombard RAC Rally, the biggest motor sport event in Britain, watched by up to two million spectators every year. This year's rally starts tomorrow in Chester and over five days it will cover 2,000 miles of England,
Scotland and Wales, 550 miles of it on rough forest tracks. Tonight William Woollard experiences the perils of rallying in Top Gear's entry driven by Malcolm Wilson , and gives a foretaste of Top Gear's daily coverage of the Lombard RAC Rally. Director BRIAN STRACHAN Producer PHILIP FRANKLIN BBC Pebble Mill
with Jan Leeming ; Weather
(Ricomincio da tre) starring
Massimo Troisi
Fiorenza Marchegiani Bored with his humdrum life, Gaetano determines to make a iresn start - from three, not from zero, because he has had one or two modest successes in life. Full of optimism, he sets out to hitch-hike from Naples to Florence. Cabaret star
Massimo Troisi 's first film brought him many prizes, both as actor and director.
Produced by FULVIO LUCISANO and MAURO BERARDI Written and directed by MASSIMO TROISI
An Italian film with English subtitles (First showing on British television)
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