6.30 Computing: Overseas Containers

6.55 Argument on Television: 2

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The Embassy
World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Sixth day
A respite for the players this morning as the first and second rounds come together. KIRK STEVENS (4) is on the last leg of his first-round match, and in the first of the second-round matches played this afternoon, DOUG MOUNTJOY (15) and TONY KNOWLES (2) are seeded to play each other, over the best of 25 frames.
DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage.
Commentators
TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM
CUVE EVERTON

with subtitles, followed by Weather

starring
Robert Young
Randolph Scott
The year is 1861, and the Western Union are constructing the Omaha-Salt Lake City stretch of what is to be the first trans-continental telegraph system in the US. Opposition to the telegraph comes not only from Sioux
Indians, but also from a group of renegade Southerners.
Richard Blake. ROBERT YOUNG Vance Shaw. RANDOLPH SCOTT
Screenplay by ROBERT CARSON Associate producer HARRY JOE BROWN
Directed by FRITZ LANG
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'Music views and news events
Features of cultural accomplishments,
Reflections of society
Growing multi-culturally.' Mikey Dread's title music sets the mood, as Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert present the magazine which provides a voice for all that's happening in Britain's black community. This week, a look at the expanding market for black writers, featuring the work of prize-winning teenager Jenneba Sie Jalloh.
Plus the Manchester United cheerleaders, and music from one of Britain's top rap bands, City Limits and the Mutant Rockets.
Producer ROY CHAPMAN
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX

Introduced by Ian Hamilton Claire Tomalin looks at
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 'S life, with the help of her biographers Robert Gittings and Jo Manton.
Stratis Haviaras describes his novel The Heroic Age as the biography of those sacrificed in the Greek Civil War he explains his reasons for commemorating it.
Also Bookmark talks to the people who make Esperanto, the invented language, live. Producer JENNY COWAN
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM

Title holder STEVE DAVIS (1) should be in action this evening in the second round, with No 16 seed
DAVID 'SILVER FOX' TAYLOR.
CUFF THORBURN (3) completes his first-round match.
Introduced by DAVID VINE

by CHARLES DICKENS
Dramatised in eight episodes by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT starring Diana Rigg Denholm Elliott
2: The mysterious law-writer Nemo has been found dead in his lodgings; Lady Dedlock has taken an interest in his identity and her lawyer,
Tulkinghorn, is investigating. Esther has been entrusted with the running of Bleak House by her guardian, John Jarndyce.
Music GEOFFREY BURGON
Costume designer MICHAEL BURDLE Film editor DAVE KING
Photography KENNETH MACMILLAN Designer TIM HARVEY Executive producer JONATHAN POWELL
Producers JOHN HARRIS BETTY WILUNGALE
Directed by ROSS DEVENISH *CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Bleak House
The wretched inhabitants of Dickens's story struggle to live amid the slums and brutality of Victorian times - for the tenants of Bleak
House Estate, Burnley, little seems to have changed.
'My doctor said it were like Siberia-me health visitor said men in prison are better off than we are with the children.'
(JEAN FALLOWS , tenant)
With no money to modernise, and no clear idea of what else to do, the council want the estate off their hands with a quick sale. But many of the tenants have lived there for 30 years or more - no matter how bad things are, their roots are there.
'They'll not get rid of me for an apple, an orange, and a bloody lucky-bag.'
(RICHARD WIGNAL, tenant)
Photography DAVID SWAN Film editor ROGER DACIER Producer PAUL PIERROT

11.20 Weatherview

11.30 Electronics: Frequency Analysis

11.55 Biology: The Rod Cell

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