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10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
When Cosmo and Jeni's pictures are spoilt, they find that they do mind. Dressing-up song: 'What would it be like to be a magical genie?'
Book: Ben's Gingerbread Man by Niki Daly
(R)

10.13 Pages from Ceefax

11.0 Words and Pictures: Frog and Toad are Friends
Frog sends Toad a letter to cheer him up.

11.16 Pages from Ceefax

11.40 Scene: Faulty Towers
(R)

12.0 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 pm Watch: The Romans: 5: Roman Builders
In the final Roman programme Louise Hall-Taylor goes for a walk along the Appian Way. She looks at Roman arches and the Circus Maximus, while James Earl Adair organises some epic chariot racing in Watch's Circus Minimus. Eat your heart out, Ben Hur!
(R)

2.18 Walrus - Work it Out: What Next?
Michael Rosen and the team are reading Losers Weepers by Jan Needle, but they start today by looking at another story - a true one.
(R)

2.40 Zig Zag: Topical Programme
An up-to-date report on the Domesday Videodisc and a look ahead to next month's
Commonwealth Games.

Contributors

Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Film Editor (You and Me):
David Painter
Producer (You and Me):
Nicci Crowther
Presenter (Watch):
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter (Watch):
James Earl Adair
Producer (Watch):
Tom Stanier
Presenter (Walrus):
Michael Rosen
Narrator (Walrus):
Pattie Coldwell
Assistant Producer (Walrus):
George Green
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy
Carol:
Jenny Luckraft
Tony:
Michael Shuttleworth
Dad:
Jack Carr
Mum:
Helen Barnaby
Curator:
Stuart Richman

Continuing the coverage from BBC1 of the second day of this traditional summer scene.
4.20 The Coronation Stakes (Old Mile). Sonic Lady seeks to emulate Katies and Albahatri by winning the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the Coronation in the same year. Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
Fashions described by MIRIAM FRANCOME

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Jimmy Lindley
Unknown:
John Hanmer
Unknown:
Miriam Francome

continues a season of classic comedy films, today starring Alec Guinness
Dennis Price
This film, one of the greatest of all British movies, and an unusually black Ealing comedy, is famous for Alec Guinness 's portrayal of eight contrasting characters. Equally memorable is Dennis Price as Louis - a lowly member of the noble D'Ascoyne family who decides to revenge himself for their treatment of his mother and rises to become the Duke of Chalfont. His plan is simple - to murder each member of the family who stands between him and the coveted title.
Screenplay by ROBERT HAMER and JOHN DIGHTON
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by ROBERT HAMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec Guinness
Unknown:
Alec Guinness
Unknown:
Robert Hamer
Unknown:
John Dighton
Produced By:
Michael Balcon
Directed By:
Robert Hamer
The Duke/The Banker/The Parson/The General/The Admiral/YoungAscoyne/Young Henry/Lady Agatha:
Alec Guinness
Louis:
Dennis Price
Edith:
Valerie Hobson
Sibella:
Joan Greenwood
Mamma:
Audrey Fildes
Hangman:
Miles Malleson
Prison governor:
Clive Morton
Lionel:
John Penrose

starring
Margaret Rutherford Stanley Holloway
As Pimlico swelters in a heatwave, a deafening explosion hurls the residents into a bewildering sequence of events. London's last bomb has not only blown a hole in their designated recreation ground but uncovered a vast treasure and a decree that Pimlico should be a part of France.
Ration books are torn up and licensing laws abandoned, but life is not all beer and boules in downtown Burgundy.
Screenplay by T. E. B. CLARKE Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by HENRY CORNELIUS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Rutherford
Unknown:
Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
T. E. B. Clarke
Produced By:
Michael Balcon
Directed By:
Henry Cornelius
Professor Hatton-Jones:
Margaret Rutherford
Arthur Pemberton:
Stanley Holloway
Connie Pemberton:
Betty Warren
Shirley:
Barbara Murray
Duke of Burgundy:
Paul Dupuis
Frank Huggins:
John Slater
Milly:
Jane Hylton
Mr Wix:
Raymond Huntley
Edie Randall:
Hermione Baddeley
Straker:
Naunton Wayne
Gregg:
Basil Radford
Bashford:
Michael Hordern

The last of a six-part series in which novelist and playwright Beryl Bainbridge , with help from families north and south, examines the concept of a nation divided. The Powells of Bentley
A retired stockbroker with two sons who followed him to Eton, on to university and then to jobs in the city. Photography JOHN WARWICK Film editor Liz THOYTS
Assistant producer marie THOMAS Producer JAMES DEWAR BBC West

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
John Warwick
Editor:
Liz Thoyts
Producer:
Marie Thomas
Producer:
James Dewar

starring with The Army-Navy Game
Hut! Hut! The 4077th's plans to listen in to a football game are interrupted when the roar of the crowd is replaced by the whistling of bombs overhead. Trapped by the attack, all they can do is wait and hope, but one missile lands in their backyard - unexploded and ticking away ... Written by SID DORFMAN
Directed by GENE REYNOLDS (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Sid Dorfman
Directed By:
Gene Reynolds
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher
Klinger:
Jamie Farr

An original serial in seven parts by ANDREW DAVIES
Starring Peter Davison with Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn, David Troughton, Amanda Hillwood, John Bird
Stephen and his colleagues have a crisis on their hands when an epidemic hits the campus. But trying to trace the source proves as difficult as keeping the news from the vice-chancellor.
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Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Davies
Music:
Dave Greenslade
Script Editor:
Devora Pope
Lighting:
Alec Robson
Designer:
Gavin Davies
Producer:
Ken Riddington
Director:
David Tucker
Jock McCannon:
Graham Crowden
Nun:
Sonia Hart
Nun:
Elaine Turrell
Ernest Hemmingway:
John Bird
Dorothy Hampton:
Frances White
Lyn Turtle:
Amanda Hillwood
Stephen Daker:
Peter Davison
Rose Marie:
Barbara Flynn
Bob Buzzard:
David Troughton
Daniela Theodoulou:
Madlena Nedeva
Jeannie MacAllister:
Geraldine Alexander
Interpreter:
Eiji Kusuhara
Student:
Kumall Grewal
Student:
Henrietta Voigts
Student:
Oliver Parker
Student:
Sarah London
Student:
Paul Cooke
Maureen Gahagan:
Lindy Whiteford

from the Silk Cut Festival Commentator David Allan serves up another helping of several different varieties of country goodies from this year's clam-bake at the Wembley Arena, including tonight:
Vernon Oxford Becky Hobbs
The Moody Brothers George Hamilton IV
Festival organiser MERVYN CONN Sound
PAUL CUNLIFFE , BARRIE HAWES Lighting JOHN Wiggins Designer COLIN GREEN Directors
DAVTD MITCHELL , STEVE MORRIS Producer DAVE PERROTTET

Contributors

Commentator:
David Allan
Unknown:
Paul Cunliffe
Unknown:
Barrie Hawes
Unknown:
John Wiggins
Designer:
Colin Green
Unknown:
Davtd Mitchell
Unknown:
Steve Morris
Producer:
Dave Perrottet

Arturo Sandoval
Cuban jazz is rarely heard over here. Tonight Arena redresses the balance with a performance by virtuoso trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval. Much admired by Dizzy Gillespie , he returns the compliment with 'Blues homage'; he then takes to the piano for a dynamic duet with bass player, Jorge Reyes , and finally is joined by brilliant new-wave singer, Donato Poveda.
Videotape editors
ROY DEMERY , PHIL SOUTHBY
Sound supervisor GRAHAM HAINES Assistant producer DIANA MANSFIELD
Director DAVID BUCKTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Arturo Sandoval
Unknown:
Arturo Sandoval.
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie
Unknown:
Jorge Reyes
Singer:
Donato Poveda.
Unknown:
Roy Demery
Unknown:
Graham Haines
Producer:
Diana Mansfield
Director:
David Buckton

12.10 Visual Music
The influence of music on architecture and painting from the Renaissance to the present day.
(R)

12.35 Buffon at Montbard
The life and style of Buffon, an elegant 18th-century gentleman and the most important natural historian of his time, as witnessed by his house and its surroundings.
(R)

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Contributors

Producer (Visual Music):
Paul Kafno
Producer (Buffon at Montbard):
Robert Philip

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