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with Janet Ellis, Mark Curry and Caron Keating

Catch up with the Monday and Thursday editions and relive the moment when Mark and Caron got the New Year off to a bracing start, when they joined the Serpentine Swimming Club for a freezing cold dip! There's all the latest Sight Saver Appeal news and a herd of Father David's deer!

Contributors

Presenter:
Janet Ellis
Presenter:
Mark Curry
Presenter:
Caron Keating
Assistant Editor:
Lewis Bronze
Editor:
Biddy Baxter

This week's delve into the archives resounds with melody as Chris Serle tunes in to music of sundry kinds. There's the unexpected
Pairing of Stephane Grappelli and Nigel Kennedy in a duet from Lady be Good, a comic duet from Victor Borge and Leonid Hambro , as well as Elgar from Jacqueline du Pre and guest Ken Russell , with a little Andrew Lloyd Webber thrown in for good measure.
Director MIKE SEDDON Producer NEL ROMANO
Series producer ALBERT BARBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Nigel Kennedy
Unknown:
Victor Borge
Unknown:
Leonid Hambro
Unknown:
Ken Russell
Unknown:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Director:
Mike Seddon
Producer:
Albert Barber

Leicester v Gloucester Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith Both Leicester , who dominated English rugby at the start of the 80s, and Gloucester, who won last year's Merit Tables, are working very hard to return to that sort of form, with Leicester's commitment to open rugby well-matched by the power-play of Gloucester. Highlights of this match, plus a look forward to the International Championship. Series producer Huw JONES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Introduced By:
Both Leicester
Producer:
Huw Jones

The Embassy World
Professional Championship The stage is set for an interesting tussle between two of the top eight players in the world.
BOB ANDERSON (4), recent winner of the World Masters title takes on Welsh No 1, PETER LOCKE.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Anderson
Unknown:
Peter Locke.

with Betsy Drake, Franchot Tone

In this rarely-seen romantic comedy Grant stars as an eligible bachelor doctor who becomes the object of a shop assistant's ambition. Unfortunately for her the store manager has some romantic ideas of his own so complications soon abound...
Films: page 19

Contributors

Screenplay:
Stephen Morehouse Avery
Screenplay/Produced and directed by:
Don Hartman
Dr Madison Brown:
Cary Grant
Anabel Sims:
Betsy Drake
Roger Sanford:
Franchot Tone
Julie Hudson:
Diana Lynn
Mr Spitzer:
Alan Mowbray
Mary Nolan:
Elisabeth Risdon
Sam McNutt:
Richard Gaines
Gogarty:
Harry Hayden
Soda clerk:
Chick Chandler
Violinist:
Leon Belasco
Pierre:
Fred Essler

The Rasumovsky Quartets
Continuing the series of great quartets Beethoven wrote for Count Rasumovsky.
Of the second movement, a friend wrote: The composer conceived the idea of this movement one night as he gazed up at the stars contemplating the spheres. The Lindsay Quartet Peter Cropper (violin) Ronald Birks (violin) Roger Bigley (viola)
Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello) play the String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2
Sound STUART STEVENSON Lighting JOHN BLACK
Producer MIKE NEWMAN
Series editor KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland

Contributors

Violin:
Peter Cropper
Violin:
Ronald Birks
Viola:
Roger Bigley
Cello:
Bernard Gregor-Smith
Unknown:
Stuart Stevenson
Producer:
Mike Newman
Editor:
Keith Alexander

'A little learning is a dang'rous thing.'
This week Michael Ignatieff and his guests
Digby Anderson , head of the Social Affairs Unit
Anne Corbett , educational journalist
The Baroness Cox,
Conservative peer with a special interest in education Chris Searle , advisor to Sheffield Education Department, ask:
Education: What's the Point? Researcher MARY HOCKADAY
Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Digby Anderson
Unknown:
Anne Corbett
Unknown:
Chris Searle
Unknown:
Mary Hockaday
Director:
Mark Harrison

featuring
The Men's Downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen
In 1979 a 20-year-old downhiller gained his first World Cup victory here on the Kandahar course, but this weekend PETER WIRNSBERGER returns to Bavaria as reigning downhill champion.
DAVID VINE reports on the 'veteran' Austrian's progress eight years on from that first triumph while DAVID
GOLDSTROM follows the ladies to Mellau in the Austrian
Alps where they compete in both downhill and slalom. Television presentation by ZDF. West Germany and ORF. Austria Producer JIM RESIDE

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Wirnsberger
Unknown:
David Vine

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business progamme. With
PAUL BURDEN, MARK ROGERSON and FRANCINE STOCK Studio director KATHY GEE Editor JONATHAN CRANE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Unknown:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
Mark Rogerson

The Story of a Farm
A personal history in five parts by Tony Harman 2: As it Was
Tony Harman introduces a cast of characters who have been connected with his farm, The Grove, near
Chesham. Their memories together paint a picture of life in a small, isolated, rural community in the early years of this century.
Produced by LUCY PARKER (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Harman
Introduces:
Tony Harman
Produced By:
Lucy Parker

A Wilderness Like Eden Written and narrated by Peter France
Part one of a two-part wildlife exploration of the Holy Land. In Israel's Negev Desert and overcoming all its hostility, an abundance of life flourishes now as in the time of Abraham and Moses, when the Children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. Caracals, wolves and dorcas gazelles share the parched land with monitor lizards, sand vipers and scorpions. Majestic griffon vultures patrol the skies. Each year thousands of storks migrate over the desert, borne aloft on the shoulders of the warm air. In winter, rare downpours bring the precious water which is the source of all life. Flash floods quickly flow and as quickly vanish, but in a few days the Negev blooms and is transformed into a garden of wild flowers.
Photography RODGER JACKMAN and HUGH MAYNARD
Film editor colin CRADOCK Producer KEENAN SMART Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol
(Part 2 next week)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodger Jackman

The Embassy World
Professional Championship The first round continued this afternoon from the beautiful setting of the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green in Surrey. TONY GUBBA introduces coverage of the first-round matches being played today, which include No 2 seed JOHN LOWE and No 7 seed
CLIFF LAZARENKO .

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
John Lowe
Unknown:
Cliff Lazarenko

Ludovic Kennedy presents his selection of the week's television and discusses:
Day to Day (BBC1)
Entertainment USA (BBC2) and The Gourmet (Channel Four)
His studio guests are novelist Fay Weldon , American TV presenter Pat Mitchell , and pop publicist Magenta. Lisa Appignanesi discusses whether there should be programmes specially for women.
Film director
AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA
Studio director NICHOLAS BARKER Producer CHARLES MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Presenter:
Pat Mitchell
Unknown:
Lisa Appignanesi
Director:
Nicholas Barker
Producer:
Charles Miller

A screenplay by Robin Chapman
Starring Ian Richardson as Anthony Blunt, Anthony Hopkins as Guy Burgess, Michael Williams as Goronwy Rees

May 1951. Anthony Blunt, ex-MI5 officer and now trusted member of the Royal Household, has been a Soviet agent for 15 years. The Cambridge spy ring which he helped to found with Guy Burgess in the 1930s, is in deep crisis. Donald Maclean has come under MI5 suspicion and must be persuaded to defect to Moscow.
Feature: page 8 and Films: page 19
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Robin Chapman
Make-up Designer:
Caroline Noble
Costume Designer:
Collin Lavers
Designer:
Colin Shaw
Film Editor:
Jim Latham
Photography:
John McGlashan
Producer:
Martin Thompson
Director:
John Glenister
Anthony Blunt:
Ian Richardson
Guy Burgess:
Anthony Hopkins
Goronwy Rees:
Michael Williams
Margie Rees:
Rosie Kerslake
Rees children:
Emma Cottrell
Rees children:
Casey Doy
Guy Liddell:
Geoffrey Chater
Vasily:
Albert Welling
Donald Maclean:
Michael McStay
Postman:
John Rapley
Jimmy:
Graham Hoadly
Equerry:
Mark Elwes
Chauffeur:
Christopher Denham
Footman:
David Goodwin
Commissionaire:
Tony Scott
Club steward:
Frank Tregear

The Embassy World
Professional Championship
Further coverage of the first-round matches played earlier this evening.
It's still the best of five sets, five legs per set.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA from the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green in Surrey.
Commentators
SID WADDELL. TONY GREEN
Television presentation NICK HUNTER KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Sid Waddell.
Unknown:
Nick Hunter
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie.
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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