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MCC v Rest of the World from Lord's First day
TONY LEWIS introduces coverage of this morning's play.
Commentators RICHIE BENAUD RAY ILLINGWORTH
Summarisers TED DEXTER JACK BANNISTER

A See-Saw programme
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MCC v Rest of the World from Lord's TONY LEWIS introduces coverage of this afternoon's play.

The story of Scottish football The Game
What would the Scots be without football? 'Crackpots', 'a lost nation'? Today's programme explores the scope of the game, past and present, for the thousands of fans whose Saturdays pivot on their local club. If every dog has its day, so does virtually every club. Remember when St Mirren won the Scottish Cup? And how does Forfar survive with its policy of 'football for the community'? How much does it cost to keep Rangers' players on the park? And how does the Charlie Nicholas of tomorrow get his chance?
Interviewer Roddy Forsyth

Regional News and Weather

MCC v Rest of the World from Lord's First day

starring Robert Ryan Virginia Mayo Jeffrey Hunter
Flat Rock is a peaceful town until the arrival of Honest
John Barrett 's gambling saloon. Marshal Cass Silver is then faced with a tough task keeping law and order, made even more difficult by his own physical handicap and the mistrust of his new deputy.
Screenplay by EDMUND NORTH and JOSEPH PETRACCA from the novel by VERNE ATHANAS Produced by ROBERT L. JACKS Directed by ROBERT D. WEBB
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Two hundred years ago, freed slaves journeyed to the coast of West Africa and founded the colony of Freetown. In this special programme, Ebony returns to Sierra Leone to join in the bicentennial celebrations. Now independent from
Britain, the country faces a severe economic crisis with crippling debts owed to the IMF and soaring inflation. In a frank interview, President Joseph Saidu Momoh outlines his plans to end corruption and speed recovery. The programme also visits Fourah Bay
College, once the academic jewel in West Africa, now entering the world of commerce in an attempt to secure financial independence.
Producer ROSAMOND DA VIES
Series producer VASTIANA BELFON Executive producer JOHN WILCOX
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The first of two personal reports on the 1987 Edinburgh Festival. It's ten days since Edinburgh's 41st
International Festival of the Arts got underway, with all the attendant attractions of fringe, book, film and jazz events. Novelist Angela Carter , on her first visit to the Festival, has been sampling some of the highlights. This year they have a strong Russian flavour - from exhibitions and poetry to folk-dancing and Georgian puppets, with Leningrad's Gorky Theatre presenting works by Chekhov and Tolstoy. The World Theatre Season also includes the Raun Raun Theatre of New
Guinea, Dublin's Gateway Theatre and the Berliner
Ensemble. On the music front there's a visually stunning production of Mozart's Magic Flute from the Folkopera of Stockholm. Directors
ELEANOR AITKEN , JOHN SMITH Producer KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland
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Presented by Paul Heiney
The Resort Report - Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia.
Jackie Spreckley explores the area around this 'pearl of the Adriatic'.
Matthew Collins goes on Special Assignment to somewhere in Europe.
Weatherman John Kettley comments on the summer so far, and forecasts what's in store for the weekend.
And the sheer variety of Britain - viewers report on their own holidays.
Plus travel tips and the late availability bargains.
BBC North West
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by BRYAN SINCLAIR MORGAN A sticky summer night in central Texas. Suzy Varden picks up an English hitch-hiker, Dan Sheets , en route to Mexico. They check into a seedy motel, where, with the help of a bottle of cheap bourbon, Suzy's story unfolds.
Roach Motel was made by the Royal College of Art
Photography KLAUS WITTING Cameraman PHILIP SHOTTON
Sound recordist JEREMY GILPIN
Associate producer CHRIS SLEVERNICH Producer BRIDGET BLAKE WILSON Executive producers
STEPHEN WOOLEY. CHRIS BROWN. NICK POWELL Written and directed by BRYAN SINCLAIR MORGAN

with Chris Denham
Teddy Bears' Picnic: the big surprise is that some of these sailors are only four years old. Whatever happened to John Noakes ? Waterfront tracks him down in the Med.
Lifelines: a 999 call that can launch not just a lifeboat but a group of weekend volunteers - the Solent Gaflrs. One for the Pot: a day in the life of a Cromer crabber. Film editor MIKE BOW
Assistant producer DEBORAH DONLIN Producer RONA CHRISTIE BBC Plymouth

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

MCC v Rest of the World from Lord's
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the first day's play.
Producer KEITH MACKENZIE

A preview of weekend programmes from the Open University.
A BBC/Open University production

This programme looks at the Soviet view of the nuclear debate.
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