The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship Round One
Two more first-round matches finish this morning on either side of the dividing wall. Willie Thorne (seeded 8) and well-known for knocking in high breaks, is playing against Scotland's rising star Stephen Hendry.
On the other table it's
Terry Griffiths (seeded 10) against Jimy Wych.
DAVID ICKE introduces coverage of both matches from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

starring Dan Gibson Dan Gibson , a keen naturalist, adopts three goslings and raises them at his family home on a Canadian nature reserve. When the three tiny balls of fluff grow into fully-fledged geese, he trains them to fly using a radio-controlled model plane. This award-winning nature film features the entire
Gibson family and contains some spectacular wildlife photography.
Narrated by Lome Greene Written by MARTIN LAGER Produced by JERRY KEDEY Directed by ROBERT RYAN
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starring
Marcus Vinicius , victorious after the British wars, returns to claim his due in Rome. While waiting for
Emperor Nero's summons to enter the city, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, without knowing she has become a convert to a new religion - Christianity. Meanwhile, in Rome, the insane Nero dreams of burning down the Imperial City so that a new one, bearing his own name, can replace it. A cast of thousands, massive sets and dramatic action feature in this epic set in the early years of the Christian faith.
Screenplay by JOHN LEE MAHIN S.N. BEHRMAN and SONYA LEVIEN Produced by SAM ZIMBALIST Directed by MERVYN LE ROY
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The winner of the 1987 Academy Award in the best animated film category depicts the tragic end of an ancient temple that has bravely withstood the ravages of time.
Directed by NICOLE VAN GOETHEM

A Personal History
Written and presented by Michael Frayn
Set in the middle of an inhospitable desert and perched 3,000 feet in the air,
Jerusalem is a city with only one means of support. It has no minerals no agriculture, no real trade - just one invisible resource - holiness. For 3,000 years it has been the holiest city in the world - the only city holy to three different religions.
Playwright and journalist Michael Frayn visited
Jerusalem during the high season of holiness when
Passover tourists and Easter pilgrims arrive in search of the source of their faith, to trace the violent history of this strangest of all holy places.
Film editor HELEN COOK
Director DENNIS MARKS (R)

The World Professional Snooker Championship Round One
The match between
Kirk Stevens (seeded 9) and Steve Longworth finishes this afternoon.
On the other table, there should be lots of action as Jimmy White (seeded 6), having an excellent season, is starting his match against Dean Reynolds.
DAVID ICKE introduces coverage of both matches from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

starring Glenn Ford Jack Lemmon
Fed up with city life as a Chicago hotel clerk,
Frank Harris decides to head west for the life of a cowboy. He joins a cattle drive bound for Mexico, headed by the tough Tom Reece. Very soon Harris's romantic illusions of the 'idyllic' life of the cowboy are shattered....
This lively and often comical Western was handsomely photographed on location.
Screenplay by EDMUND H. NORTH Based on On the Trail by FRANK HARRIS
Produced by JULIAN BLAUSTEIN Directed by DEL.MER DAVES
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New Variety at the Hackney Empire
The Hackney Empire was opened on 9 December 1901 and closed, like many other variety theatres, in the late 50s to become a bingo hall. Last year - on its 85th birthday - it opened its doors again as a theatre.
To celebrate the occasion, Open Space recorded an evening of new variety there. Artists appearing were jugglers Mr Adams and Mr Dandridge , comedienne Jenny Lecoat , singing duo Skint Video, singer
Hope Augustus , the Vicious Boys, Terri Carol , pensioner and paper-tearer extraordinaire, and Otiz Cannelloni. Director GAVIN UUTTON Producer JANE OLIVER
Series producer PETER LEE-WRIGHT
Open Space is the programme where the public can make programmes under their own editorial control with help from the Community Programme Unit.

Tonight should see a close match between
Tony Knowles (seeded 5) and Mike Hallett. On the other table, Play is bound to be fast and furious as the controversial Alex Higgins (seeded 7) is
Playing the last session of his match against John Wright. david VINE introduces coverage from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

'Blue Moon Detective Agency. We'll solve your problems ... once we've solved ours.' starring with Poltergeist III - Dipesto Nothing
Call it an instinct, call it blind fear, but Maddie and David refuse to take on the case of a house on the hill that begins experiencing things that go bump in the night. Enter
Ms Dipesto and Mr Viola , who decide that the time is right to play ghostbusters ...
Written by KAREN HALL and CHARLES H. EGLEE
Directed by CHRIS HIBLER

Whistle Test Extra
In front of a capacity crowd at the Wembley Arena last
December Level 42 played to a wildly enthusiastic audience many of the songs that put them into the top of the charts and helped establish them as one of the top British bands of the moment.
Director STUART ORME
TV presentation MICHAEL APPLETON
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 1 Viewers with stereo Radio 1 may wish to turn off TV sound andposition their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
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The Embassy
World Professional
Snooker Championship
DAVID VINE introduces further coverage from Sheffield Commentators TED
LOWE JACK KARNEHM. CLIVE EVERTON Summarisers jim MEADOWCROFT
JOHN SPENCER
TV presentation KEITH PHILLIPS MIKE ADLEY , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
Executive producer NICK HUNTER