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Midland Bank World Indoor
Pairs Championship
DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage of this afternoon's three matches from the Bournemouth International
Centre. Each match is best of three sets, seven ends per set. Group 3: John Thomas and David Evans (Wales) v David Bryant and Tony Allcock (England)
Group 4: Jim Brankin and Billy Montgomery (Ireland) v Willie Wood and David Gourlay (Scotland) David Gourlay 's record in team events (pairs, triples and fours) is unique, and if he and Willie Wood can find their form of a few years ago, they may be the dark horses in this event.
Group 2: Bruce Nicol and Ian Bruce (Scotland) v Don Peoples and Kenny Williams (Australia) (Further coverage at 11.45 pm)

with subtitles, followed by Weather

Swindon Off the Rails
Recently 1,000 men were made redundant at Swindon Railway Workshops. In a high-technology town can men with traditional skills adapt to new industries? And what about those older workers whose lives have been tied up with the railway? Peter Brown reports.
Film cameraman CLIVE NORTH Film editor BERNARD GOODSALL Director SARAH PITT
Producer JIM MCDOUGALL

Starring William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

On the planet Melkot nothing is as it seems: phasers have become Colt 45s and the Brothers Earp have a date at the O.K. Corral... (R)

Eight films about the pleasures of birdwatching presented by Tony Soper
6: A Life on the Ocean Wave Film editor AL GELL
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD (R) Book, £3.50 from booksellers
The following titles are also available as BBC records or cassettes:
Sound Guide to Waders in Britain on RECIZCM 545
Your Favourite Bird Songs on REC/ZCM 511
British Wild Birds in Stereo on REC/RMC 4008
Bird Spot on RECJZCM 438

Introduced by Gerald Harrison from The Assembly Rooms, Derby
Just four of the original 12 champion bands from all over the United Kingdom are left to battle it out for the title Best of Brass and a prize of £1,500.
First Semi-final
MIDLANDS V SCOTLAND:
The current Best of Brass champions
Desford Colliery Dowty Band conducted by Howard Snell v Scottish champions
The CWS (Glasgow) Band conducted by Anthony Swainson with special guest supporters Kay Alexander and Ken Bruce
Competing for the viewers' Sovereign Award, soloists: Steven Mead (euphonium) playing The Swan by Saint-Saens and Marcus Pope (cornet) playing Gershwin's 'Bess, you is my woman'
Lighting JOHN ALLINSON Sound NEIL MURRAY
Designer ANDY DIMOND Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Last of the series
Water-lilies
Most of Britain's flowering plants live on dry land, but water-lilies are exceptions - they have returned to ponds and lakes but retained their aerial flowers.
Michael Jordan reveals their reasons and the secrets of their success.
Video cameraman ALAN HAYWARD Producer SARA FORD
Executive producer JOHN SPARKS
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The monthly literary magazine presented by Ian Hamilton
Still Angry After All These Years?
The original Angry Young Men - Colin Wilson and John Osborne - were accorded the kind of celebrity now exclusively reserved for rock musicians and members of the royal family. They were front-page news - courted stars of the newly-established commercial television channel: everyone wanted to know how and why they lived and wrote as they did. Wilson is still writing, with a new book recently out, and Osborne is in rehearsal for a revival of The Entertainer. Ian Hamilton talks to them about the extraordinary spring of 1956 and interviews some of the people who helped to make them famous. Also in this month's programme: John Wain , himself a veteran of the Angry Young Men, whose new collection of autobiographical essays, Dear Shadows, is just out, talks to Hamilton about his life and work; plus a Bookmark profile exploring the comic and curious contrast in the working life of Dannie Abse , poet and doctor, who has just published his first collection of poetry for five years - Ask The Bloody Horse Directors
JILL EVANS. DONALD STURROCK
Senior producer ROGER THOMPSON Executive producer NIGEL Williams

Special guest Carl Wayne
In the last show of this series, Karen dishes out the treatment to Zola Budd and Julie Walters ; nor do the fellows get off lightly, in the form of David Attenborough , Max Boyce and Whistle Test's Andy Kershaw.
'Godfather' Steve Steen introduces four of Karen's favourite 60s singing stars, and Jim Sweeney turns punk. Songs include 'New York,
New York', and Carl Wayne joins Karen for 'Tonight I celebrate my love for you'. Dancers POWERPACK
Vocal backing KAY GARNER SUE GLOVER. SUNNY LESLIE Script associate COLIN EDMONDS Additional material
BRYAN BLACKBURN
KAREN KAY , ROGER PLANER Musical director EDDIE GRAY Choreographer CHRIS POWER
Make-up designer HELEN BARRETT Sound TONY PHILPOT Lighting ERIC WALLIS
Designer STEPHAN PACZAI Produced and directed by DAVE PERROTTET

1986 BAFTA Award Winner
The Last Day
Renee Feather and Bill Edmondson have spent all their working lives in the textile mills of north Lancashire - but today is their last day. 'I don't want to retire,' says Renee, 'but I've had to.'
Renee and Bill have seen many changes since they both began working at the age of 14. 'There are only two mills left in Nelson today, but when I started there was one on every corner.' 'When you hear of a mill being closed, you feel as though part of your body has been cut off.' Their lives have altered in other ways. There is now more unemployment, more violence in the streets. There are more Asian mill-workers, but fewer brass bands. As they face the new world of retirement, how do Renee,
Bill and their families see the future in their beloved Lancashire?
Narrator Lindsay Anderson Photography JIM PEIRSON
Sound recordist MICHAEL TURNER Film editor JIM LATHAM
Producer NORMAN SWALLOW Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Two international stars bidding for their first Pot
Black championship contest the second semi-final in BBC2's snooker tournament tonight, as the reigning World Champion Dennis Taylor (Northern Ireland) takes on Kirk Stevens
(Canada).
Commentator TED LOWE Referee JOHN WILLIAMS Presenter David Icke Director PETER HAYWARD Producer JOHN G. SMITH BBC Pebble Mill
The following BBC videos are available from retailers:
Snooker Century Breakers. memorable potting from Joe Davis ,
Fred Davis , Steve Davis , Alex Higgins and other snooker stars on BBCV/B 5022
1985 Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship. the complete final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor , right down to the last black in the last frame on BBCVB 5026

Including the latest news from today's by-election in Fulham.
Vincent Hanna reports from the count with the first predictions from the Newsnight exit poll.
(Coverage continues on BBCI at 11.55 pm)

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
The overseas challenge of Jones and Boettger (Canada). and Souza (Hong Kong) and Bransky (Israel) comes to a climax tonight as they play their last group matches. DAVID ICKE introduces highlights and results of both matches from the Bournemouth
International Centre. Commentators
DAVID RHYS-JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers
MAL HUGHES , DAVID MCGILL Producers
KEITH PHILLIPS , KEITH MACKENZIE Executive producer NICK HUNTER

Weekend Outlook helps you plan your weekend by previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open University on Saturday and Sunday. This week's selection includes Animal Physiology: The Sunbaskers and Social Sciences: Brian's Britain
A BBC/Open University production

Alan lives with friends, works every day, and wants to marry his girl Mary. What is unusual is that Mary, Alan and his friends are all mentally handicapped.
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