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Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
2.30 The Golden Eagle Novices' 'Chase (21m)
3.0 The Keith Prowse Long Distance Hurdle (3m)
3.35 The Peregrine Handicap 'Chase (2½m)
With highlights of the recent Grand National meeting at Aintree.
Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Summariser BILL SMITH Producer BRIAN ROGERS including at
2.50 News and Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Wilson
Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Richard Pitman
Unknown:
Summariser Bill Smith
Producer:
Brian Rogers

Portrait of a Decade
Masters in the Colonies
How the colonial masters lived and ruled in their
African and Asian colonies and how the 'natives' lived. The exploitation and paternalism continued until Mahatma Gandhi , in India, trying to unite Hindu and Moslem, found a new way to fight for independence. Commentary spoken by David Swift
English language production by HENRY FOSTER
Written and produced by DIETER FRANCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Mahatma Gandhi
Spoken By:
David Swift
Production By:
Henry Foster
Produced By:
Dieter Franck

The popular game of musical knowledge with Frank Muir and John Amis challenging Denis Norden and Ian Wallace over questions set by Steve Race (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

Jill Neville and her guests review the pick of the latest paperbacks and hardbacks, and talk to novelist
A.S. Byatt about Sugar, her new collection of short stories. Researcher CHRIS Wilson Director PETER MANIURA
Producer ROLAND KEATING

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Neville
Unknown:
A.S. Byatt
Unknown:
Chris Wilson
Director:
Peter Maniura
Producer:
Roland Keating

continues a season of adventure films. Today starring Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
Lady Hamilton, wife of the British ambassador, captivates Neapolitan society with her beauty and wit. But an encounter with the famous Admiral Nelson, victorious man of the seas and scourge of Napoleon, eventually leads to a romance that shocks England.
FILMS: page 15

Contributors

Screenplay:
R.C. Sheriff
Screenplay:
Walter Reisch
Producer/Director:
Alexander Korda
Emma, Lady Hamilton:
Vivien Leigh
Lord Horatio Nelson:
Laurence Olivier
Captain Hardy:
Henry Wilcoxon
Lady Nelson:
Gladys Cooper
Sir William Hamilton:
Alan Mowbray
Mrs Cadogan-Lyon:
Sara Allgood

Written and presented by Natalia Makarova
1: Body and Soul
'Ballet is woman,' said the choreographer
George Balanchine , and it is true that for most of us the ballerina is at the heart of classical ballet. In this series of four films,
Natalia Makarova, one of the greatest ballerinas of today, explores what it means to be a ballerina. As she says, 'you must bring into an ideal balance the body of a superb athlete and the soul of an artist.' with Carla Fracci , Isabelle Guerin Sylvie Guillem Cynthia Harvey Susan Jaffe Lis Jeppesen
Virginia Johnson Antoinette Sibley
Royal Ballet School
Royal Danish Ballet School Paris Opera Ballet School School of American Ballet and Sir Frederick Ashton Maurice Bejart Kirsten Ralov
Jerome Robbins
Maya Plisetskaya
Music played by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conductor David Garforth Programme consultant CLEMENT CRISP
Photography PETER HALL JOHN ELSE. ELMER COSSEY Film editor CAROL OWENS
Associate producer DINA MAKAROVA Producers DEREK BAILEY and JULIA MATHESON
Director DEREK BAILEY
0 FEATURE: page 82

Contributors

Presented By:
Natalia Makarova
Unknown:
George Balanchine
Unknown:
Carla Fracci
Unknown:
Isabelle Guerin
Unknown:
Sylvie Guillem
Unknown:
Cynthia Harvey
Unknown:
Susan Jaffe
Unknown:
Sir Frederick Ashton
Unknown:
Maurice Bejart
Unknown:
Kirsten Ralov
Unknown:
Jerome Robbins
Unknown:
Maya Plisetskaya
Conductor:
David Garforth
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Elmer Cossey
Editor:
Carol Owens
Producer:
Dina Makarova
Producers:
Derek Bailey
Producers:
Julia Matheson
Director:
Derek Bailey

starring with There is Nothing Like a Nurse Before the question, 'Is Hotlips really Hermann Goering in drag?' can be answered, there comes the distressing news that the nurses must evacuate before a reported enemy attack. How will the good doctors of the 4077th cope, now that they are men without women? Written by Larry Gelbart
Directed by Hy Averback (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Larry Gelbart
Director:
Hy Averback
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
Captain Spalding:
Loudon Wainwright III

The last of three parts dramatised by PHILIP BROADLEY starring and with Margaretta Scott Richard Morant Clive Francis and David Quilter
The noose tightens - but around whose neck? Wimsey and Bunter see a crack of light which begins to reveal a near-perfect crime.
Music composed and arranged by JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD Producer MICHAEL CHAPMAN
Director CHRISTOPHER HODSON
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Contributors

Dramatised By:
Philip Broadley
Unknown:
Margaretta Scott
Unknown:
Richard Morant
Unknown:
Clive Francis
Unknown:
David Quilter
Arranged By:
Joseph Horovitz
Designer:
Barbara Gosnold
Producer:
Michael Chapman
Director:
Christopher Hodson
Lord Peter Wimsey:
Edward Petherbridge
Harriet Vane:
Harriet Walter
Newsvendor:
Martin Murphy
Chief Inspector Parker:
David Quilter
Miss Climpson:
Shirley Cain
Bunter:
Richard Morant
Freddy Arbuthnot:
Christopher Scoular
Blousy lady:
Brigid MacKay
Waitress:
Kate Somerby
Miss Booth:
Judy Cornwell
Mrs Wrayburn:
Jean Campbell-Dallas
Miss Murchison:
Norma Streader
Pond:
Timothy Bateson
Norman Urquhart:
Clive Francis
Sir Impey Biggs:
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Lawyer:
Davidcrosse
Dowager duchess:
Margaretta Scott
Retrial judge:
Cyril Conway
First reporter:
Bernard Martin
Second reporter:
Roger Davidson
CroftS:
Derek Ensor
Eiluned Price:
Alwyne Taylor
Sylvia Marriott:
Carol Frazer

Highlights from the first half of Pam's new one-woman show. Along with some poems old and new, Pam's conversational interludes include some hair-raising tales about her husband; let's hope he's not watching tonight.
Recorded at the Wilde Theatre, Bracknell Sound BRIAN ROBINSON Lighting JOHN MASON
Producer DAVE PERROTTET

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mason
Producer:
Dave Perrottet

Analysis by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With international reports by David Sells and Charles Wheeler

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Adam Raphael
Unknown:
David Sells
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler

12.5 Air Pollution: Dilute and Disperse
Drax Power Station has the tallest stack in the UK. What happens to the emissions? How diluted are they by the time they reach the ground?

12.30 Cheddar: Mapping the Mendip Anticline
What processes formed the Mendip Hills and the spectacular Cheddar Gorge? The answers come from a three-dimensional understanding of the geology of the area.
(R)

(to 1.00)

Contributors

Producer (Air Pollution:
Dilute and Disperse): Martin Wright
Producer (Cheddar:
Mapping the Mendip Anticline): Barrie Whatley

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