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Chris Serle looks back on Sport and Achievement
There is another chance to see two great athletes, Jesse Owens and Lillian Board turning on the speed, Marty showing what it's like to be a football star, Torvill and Dean skating in the World
Championships, Pat Smythe and Flanagan galloping to victory and Scurlogue Champ, the winning greyhound.
Special guest is mountaineer and rock climber Joe Brown who talks about his climbs up the Old Man of Hoy and the Himalayas.
Director MIKE SEDDON
Producer BARBARA KINDRED Designer DON TAYLOR
Series producer ALBERT BARBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Jesse Owens
Unknown:
Pat Smythe
Unknown:
Joe Brown
Director:
Mike Seddon
Producer:
Barbara Kindred
Designer:
Don Taylor
Producer:
Albert Barber

The Five Nations Championship
England v Scotland
The Save and Prosper International
Wales v Ireland
The Lumley's International Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights of the weekend's internationals. England were over-run by Scotland last year, and needed to improve a lot to eliminate the memory of the 33-6 defeat. Wales beat Ireland after trailing by eight points thanks to the performance of Jonathan Davies - the key figure once again. After their 60-0 defeat of Romania, Ireland are cock-a-hoop.
Commentators at Twickenham BILL MCLAREN. BILL BEAUMONT Commentator at Cardiff NIGEL STARMER-SMITH Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Introduces:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Unknown:
Jonathan Davies

Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17 (Little Russian)
Tchaikovsky had used folk song from his early St
Petersburg days and now saw it as valid symphonic material. None of his other symphonies approach so closely the ideals of Rimsky-Korsakov and his friends. BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Yansons From the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. Introduced by Humphrey Burton and H. C. Robbins-Landon
(Symphony No 3 tonight at 8.35pm)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Mariss Yansons
Introduced By:
Humphrey Burton
Introduced By:
H. C. Robbins-Landon

Selling up and starting again in the Spanish sunshine is an attractive prospect, particularly if you're facing early retirement or redundancy. It's a dream which is attracting a growing number of older people.
Horace and Margaret Morley , Ron and Pat Yates and Len and Maureen Robertson are three Yorkshire couples who've moved to the Costa
Blanca. But they've found it's not all sun, sea and sangria. Narrator Keith Barron Film editor BRYAN JONES
Producer MARK T ROWLAND BBC North

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Morley
Unknown:
Pat Yates
Unknown:
Maureen Robertson
Narrator:
Keith Barron

featuring
The Men's Downhill and Men's Slalom from Wengen David Vine joins the elite of the world's ski-racers on one of Europe's most scenic railway journeys - he's off to the BBC commentary box, but they're bound for Kleine Scheidegg and the start of alpine sport's most demanding event.
The Lauberhorn downhill is the longest in the World Cup calendar and the most picturesque - the backdrop of the Eiger and the Bernese
Oberland and the high-speed competition of the BASF Ski World Cup combine in one of televised sport's most breathtaking spectacles. Television presentation by SRG, Switzerland
Producer JIM RESIDE

Sweet Water, Bitter Sea Written and narrated by Peter France
Part two of a wildlife exploration of the Holy Land. There is a great wilderness in Israel, where the Judaean desert plunges hundreds of metres below the level of the Mediterranean and meets the shoreline of the Dead Sea.
In this cauldron of heat and sulphur smells, no fish swim in the bitter and imprisoned waters. But where springs bring sweet water from the rocks of the Judaean mountains, life flourishes.
At Ein Gedi oasis desert birds find shade and food. The high cliffs are the realm of the sure-footed ibex. Below, in the rocky wadis, live foxes, hyenas and the hyrax - a rabbit-sized relative of the elephant!
Photography RODGER JACKMAN and HUGH MAYNARD
Film editor colin CRADOCK Producer KEENAN SMART Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodger Jackman

Symphony No 3 in D major, Op 29
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Yansons From St David 's Hall, Cardiff Introduced by Humphrey Burton and H. C. Robbins-Landon , who says: 'This symphony, although not perhaps as perfect as those that preceded and those following it, is by no means a mean achievement. Certainly without this symphony, without the experience, the marvellous orchestral way in which he worked it out, without that - no four, five, six.'
(Symphony No 4 tomorrow at 9.50pm)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Mariss Yansons
Conducted By:
From St David
Introduced By:
Humphrey Burton
Introduced By:
H. C. Robbins-Landon

Screenplay by ADRIAN SHERGOLD
DAVID SNODIN starring
Joanne Whalley Tilly Vosburgh
Phil Daniels , lain Glen
Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years. She clings to an ideal: 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love, and to be loved.' 'Well you will.' 'Will I?' Reality can be harsh and unforgiving.
Original music
GORDON GILTRAP and KEN BOWLEY Film recordist GRAHAM ROSS Film editor IAN PITCH Designer JANE MARTIN
Photography STEVE SAUNDERSON Producer DAVID SNODIN
Director ADRIAN SHERGOLD
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Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Shergold
Unknown:
David Snodin
Unknown:
Joanne Whalley
Unknown:
Tilly Vosburgh
Unknown:
Phil Daniels
Unknown:
Gordon Giltrap
Unknown:
Ken Bowley
Unknown:
Graham Ross
Editor:
Ian Pitch
Designer:
Jane Martin
Unknown:
Photography Steve Saunderson
Producer:
David Snodin
Director:
Adrian Shergold
Jackie:
Joanne Whalley
Debbie:
Tilly Vosburgh
Sprint:
Phil Daniels
Sailor:
Iain Glen
Maggie:
Joanne Allen
John:
Peter Wight
Sam:
Peter Bayliss
Barry:
Richard Ireson
Beachcomber:
Sam Kelly
Louisa:
Suzan Crowley
Jackie (child):
Rebecca Sowden
Barman:
Ken Robertson
Policewoman on beach:
Jane Hilary
Policewoman in cell:
Beverley Sowden
Shirley:
Susan Singfield
Maggie's sons:
William Llewellyn
Maggie's sons:
Gavin Renshaw

The World Series Cup Australia v England from Brisbane
After their victories over
Australia in the Ashes Test Series and the Perth
Challenge, England will be in confident mood when they face their oldest rivals for the first time in the World Series competition.
Highlights are introduced by RICHIE BENAUD
Television presentation CHANNEL 9 Australia

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richie Benaud

The Embassy World
Professional Championship The preliminaries are over; we are now down to the last two 'stalwarts' who are going to contest on stage the final match in this nine-day tournament. The winner will receive E14,000 and the trophy that will make him Champion of the World. Will it be ERIC BRISTOW ?
If he wins he takes a second trophy outright having won the title six times. Is it time for JOHN LOWE to be on the winning end of a final again? Or will there be a brand new name on the trophy,
BOB ANDERSON perhaps? TONY GUBBA introduces highlights of the final of the most prestigious tournament in the darts year from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey. Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
Television presentation NICK HUNTER KEITH MACKENZIE , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Bristow
Unknown:
John Lowe
Unknown:
Bob Anderson
Introduces:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Sid Waddell
Unknown:
Nick Hunter
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

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