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The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v New Zealand from Lord's
PETER WEST introduces coverage of today's play. Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD , TONY LEWIS Summarisers
TED DEXTER , BOB WILLIS Producers NICK HUNTER and KEITH MACKENZIE

The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. Harold fall-guy joins the college football team in The Freshman; and he's out on a limb in a breath-taking sequence from Never Weaken. Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG (R)

continues a season of major films set in the American West. Tonight starring James Stewart
Richard Widmark Guthrie McCabe, a tough but easy-going Texas marshal, is summoned by the US cavalry for a special mission - to negotiate with the Comanches for the return of the white captives they hold. With Lt Gary, who is detailed to accompany him and who is part friend and part sparring partner, he rides into the Comanche camp to find that only four prisoners have survived ...
Screenplay by FRANK NUGENT Based on a novel by WILL COOK Produced by STAN SHPETNER Directed by JOHN FORD
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No Soft Option
It weighs slightly less than a cricket ball, and comes at you twice as fast.
The L5A4 baton round - the plastic bullet - is now available to every police force in the land. Every policeman is trained in the techniques and tactics of its use.
In Arms of the Law last week, the Chief Constable of the West Midlands,
Geoffrey Dear , told Brass Tacks what converted him to the need for these weapons, and the circumstances under which he would fire them.
Six years after the first inner city riots in St Paul's, Bristol, Britain seems to be arming its police against the collapse of inner city policies. Will the use of plastic bullets on our streets become a turning point in our policing we will live to regret?
Tonight Geoffrey Dear joins Peter Taylor and the Brass Tacks audience to confront the consequences of their use - for the police, for the public, and for the Queen's peace.
Studio director PAUL CAMPBELL Producer CHARLES BRUCE Executive producer COLIN CAMERON BBC Manchester

Presented by Paul Heiney
The weekly holiday magazine The Resort Report:
Kathy Rochford goes to the lake of Lucerne in the Swiss Alps. Weatherman Jim Bacon comments on the summer so far, and forecasts what's in store for the weekend.
Matthew Collins on special assignments.
And this week's British
Holiday - the Shaplands stay in a farmhouse near Brixham in Devon.
Plus traffic news, today's closing exchange rates and the late availability bargains. The Travel Show Information Line - [number removed]
Studio director MAGGIE SUTCLIFFE Executive producer ALAN DOBSON BBC Manchester

'Blue Moon Detective Agency. We'll solve your problems ... once we've solved ours.'
Starring with My Fair David
The case for the day is a kidnapped concert pianist and a stepmother who wants him back - providing Blue Moon can negotiate the lowest possible ransom!
Meanwhile, limbo-dancing in the office prompts Maddie to bet Addison that acting like an adult is beyond him. Will David accept the challenge of going a week with no singing, no dancing, no sexist wisecracks? Well, the prize is a tantalising one - Maddie's dignity....
Written by BRUCE FRANKLIN SINGER Directed by WILL MACKENZIE

Bob Langley ,
Malcolm McKeag and Sue King go south for water-ski action with champion Liz Hobbs ; Viyella Cup yachting from
Cowes; and, on the one day in the year when Devon's fishermen let down their hair instead of their nets, Trawler Race exuberance from Brixham.
You can also win a trip to the Channel Islands for a grandstand view of the Guernsey International Powerboat Week in the second part of the Making Waves competition. Director DIANE REID
Producer TONY RAYNER BBC Midlands

The Cornhill Insurance
Test Series
England v New Zealand
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the day's play. Executive producer NICK HUNTER
12.10 am Weekend Outlook helps you plan your weekend by previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open
University on Saturday and Sunday. Producer ANDREW BARKER
A BBC/Open University production

Since its establishment in 1944. the International Monetary Fund has been one of the most important institutions in the world of international finance. What is its role in the development process?
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