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Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
Group 2: Bruce Nicol and Ian Bruce (Scotland) v Sammy Allen and Jim Baker (Ireland)
Scotland's Indoor Pairs
Champions take on an Irish partnership that many believe could win the event.
Group 1: Robert Fairburn and Robert Stephenson (England) v Willie Harkness and Frazer Muirhead (Scotland) England's Indoor Pairs
Champions play their first match against a Scottish team that mixes youth and experience.
Group 3: John Thomas and David Evans (Wales) v Rodney McCutcheon and David Hamilton (Ireland) DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage of the afternoon's matches, each best of three sets, seven ends per set, from the Bournemouth International Centre.

with subtitles; Weather

A Voyage to the North By barge and boat,
Pete Morgan navigates the ancient waterway used by the Romans to provision their northern garrisons. From Selby Abbey to Ripon Cathedral
On the final part of his voyage, Pete views the former medieval splendours of Cawood and the Palace of Bishopthorpe before reaching the legionary fortress of York itself. But beyond, as the river narrows, lies a little-known Roman civil settlement - and journey's end.
Film editor MARTIN HARRIS Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH

"Ferry is a professional of the highest order and his records are very clever jokes, his singing voice, the ultimate put-on, he should hang in the Tate with David Bowie." (Peter York, author of "Style Wars")
Back in 1972 Roxy Music exploded on to an unsuspecting music scene when they made their television debut on the Old Grey Whistle Test. The result was immediate recognition and a career founded on a blend of sartorial elegance and stylish songs including "Virginia Plain", "Do the strand", and "Avalon". In a rare interview Bryan Ferry talks to Richard Skinner about his career as a solo artist and why Roxy Music many never re-form.
(A new series of Whistle Test starts on Tuesday 29 April)

Midland Bank World Indoor
Pairs Championship
DAVID ICKE introduces further coverage from this afternoon's matches in the Bournemouth International Centre.

In the Community Interest? 'High on my list of causes of ill-health in Britain today is the Common Agricultural Policy,' says
Dr Michael O'Donnell in the first of a new series on the politics of food and health.
Over-production and over-protection have built up mountains of the very foods we should be eating less of. Ironically the existence of these stockpiles forces the marketing lobbies to persuade us to eat more of them.
Film editor PAUL RAPLEY Medical consultant
PROFESSOR PHILIP JAMES Producer JENNY STEVENS
0 FEATURE: page 15 and INFO: page 77

Take a return trip to this fairytale principality in the company of Russell Harty as he goes racing around the world-famous Grand Prix circuit with Jackie Stewart , joins Princess Caroline and guests at the fashionable Rose Ball, and talks to
Prince Ranier about his life with Princess Grace. Research PAT! MARR
Executive producer KEN STEPHINSON BBC Manchester (R)

The carnage at last month's Portuguese Rally in which four spectators died, exposed the need for tougher action from rally organisers to control the crowds. Top Gear asks what the sport can do to prevent it happening again. William Woollard tests the new Ford Escort and its anti-lock brake system. As Nissan prepare for assembly of the Bluebird at their Tyne and Wear factory, Frank Page looks at the shape of things to come. And Chris Goffey looks back to the spring of 1966 and the start of the Japanese invasion.
Producer BRIAN STRACHAN
Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS BBC Pebble Mill
* INFO: page 77

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
An England versus Australia contest is always competitive. and indoor bowls is no exception.
John Ottoway and John Bell (England) v Don Peoples and Kenny Williams (Australia) DAVID ICKE introduces highlights of this Group 2 match from the Bournemouth International Centre.
Commentators
DAVID RHYS-JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers
MAL HUGHES , DAVID MCGILL Producers
KEITH PHILLIPS , KEITH MACKENZIE Lighting DEREK FOWLER Executive producer NICK HUNTER

11.25 Weatherview

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship Jim Brankin and Billy Montgomery (Ireland) v Ray Hill and Jeff Wright (Wales)
DAVID ICKE introduces highlights of the Group 4 match, as the Irish Champions take on a new Welsh pair at the Bournemouth
International Centre.
12.5-12.35 am

How was a Renaissance bronze made? This film follows the technical process of lost wax bronze casting, as technicians from the Royal College of Art recreate the making of a bronze statuette by Giambologna. The film was made in conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition of Giambologna's works in October 1978.
(R)
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