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Simon Potter with a whole Sunday morning of entertainment, starting with:

Laurel and Hardy: Monster Bash
On the way to a Hallowe'en party, Stan and Ollie take the wrong road and end up at someone else's party. (R)

Contributors

Presenter ("Now on Two'):
Simon Potter

Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith with Chris Rea Wales v USA
The first full international against the USA should provide an early-season test for the Welsh against a side who gained valuable experience at the World Cup. Commentator in Cardiff
MARTYN WILLIAMS and The Courage English Leagues Division 1
Orrell v Sale
The north-west derby match at Orrell always provides lots of entertainment and with championship points at stake an important result.
Analysis and comment on the action and talking points of the week.
Producer dewi GRIFFITHS
Series producer HUW JONES
BBC videos: '1985 Rugby League
Challenge Cup Final, WiganvHull
BBCV4068, £9.99; '1982 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, Hull v Widnes' BBCV4067, £9.99; '1978 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, Leeds v St
Helens BBeV 4066 £9.99; '1971 Rugby LeagueChallengeCupFinal,Leighv Leeds' BBCV 4065. £9.99, from retailers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Unknown:
Martyn Williams
Producer:
Dewi Griffiths
Producer:
Huw Jones

The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship Following eight days and 30 matches, two players have emerged to contest the final of the UK Singles Indoor
Championship. The number of sets has increased to nine, the price of a seat at the Guild Hall has risen, but your armchair is the same as on day one.
This afternoon, the first four sets are played, with the remainder this evening
Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Guild Hall, Preston

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke

Ashkenazy Plays Schumann For a quarter of a century now, Vladimir Ashkenazy has combined several careers - as concert pianist, recording artist and more recently, as conductor. Today he appears as recitalist, in a programme of music by Schumann, including the Sonata No 1, in F sharp minor, dedicated to Clara Wieck.
Sound BOB GILLIES
Lighting ALAN HENDERSON Producer HILARY BOULDING
A BBCtv production in association with HARRISON PARROTT
PRODUCTIONS and POLYPHON FILM UNDFERNSEBGMBH

Contributors

Unknown:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Bob Gillies
Unknown:
Alan Henderson
Producer:
Hilary Boulding
Unknown:
Harrison Parrott

The arts and media magazine including
Copyrights and Copycats As the new Copyright Bill begins its passage through Parliament, Robert Sandall asks whether the revolution in recording technology will take popular music back to the people.
Man behind the Masks
Stasys Eidrigevicius is a Lithuanian folk surrealist living in Warsaw who this year has won international competitions for posters and children's illustration in Paris and Barcelona, with exhibitions in Japan and New York.
Visionary Designer
Eileen Gray was a pioneering designer and architect. Peter Adam , her biographer, reveals the complex sides to this private woman, expressed in her exquisite lacquer collector's items, the furniture and fittings she made for herself and her two houses in the south of France, much admired by Le Corbusier.
Directors JULIAN BIRKETT ROSEMARY BOWEN-JONES PAUL PAWLIKOWSKI
Producer JOHN WHISTON Editor JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Eileen Gray
Unknown:
Peter Adam
Directors:
Julian Birkett
Directors:
Rosemary Bowen-Jones
Directors:
Paul Pawlikowski
Producer:
John Whiston
Editor:
John Archer

The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship The Final
Further coverage of the first four sets of the final from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE Commentators
DAVID RHYS JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers MAL HUGHES DAVID MCGILL , JOHN BELL
Television presentation MIKE ADLEY PETER HAYWARD
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS BBC North West

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke
Unknown:
David Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Jimmy Davidson
Unknown:
Mal Hughes
Unknown:
David McGill
Unknown:
Mike Adley
Unknown:
Peter Hayward
Producer:
Keith Phillips

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme Allo, 'Allo
Europe's decision to introduce a new generation of cellular telephones should be a major opportunity for European electronics companies. But can they fend off the competition from Japan and America?
Francine Stock reports
Producer GERALDINE MCCLELLAND Editor JONATHAN CRANE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Unknown:
Valerie Singleton
Unknown:
Francine Stock
Producer:
Geraldine McClelland
Editor:
Jonathan Crane

Six programmes of essential facts on popular continental holiday areas. 1: Corfu
Presented by Paul Heiney with John Kettley and Matthew Collins
The brochures for next summer's holidays are now out. The hard selling is beginning. How can you be sure of picking the right resort? The Travel Show Guide gives you the facts. What the beaches are like; which resorts are noisy; how many British go there; is there so much development that it's like a building site. Plus general information on the area - what time it gets dark; when it normally rains; what the local drink is, and how much it costs; what the airport duty-free is like.
All you need to choose your holiday in the sun.
Film editor CHRISTINE ROYLE Studio director SUE LOCHEAD Producer JULIE BRADSHAW
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON
For script send crossed cheque or PO, for £1.50 payable to BBC, to [address removed]
* INFO: page 91

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
John Kettley
Unknown:
Matthew Collins
Editor:
Christine Royle
Producer:
Julie Bradshaw
Producer:
Alan Dobson

Introduced by Michael Berkeley
The second programme of BBC2's festival
'I dedicated Lady Macbeth to my bride, my future wife, so naturally the opera is about love too, but not only love.
It's also about how love could have been if the world weren't full of vile things.'
Shostakovich

A recording of the exciting, highly acclaimed production by English National Opera of Shostakovich's original version, which brought him into official disfavour in the Stalinist Russia of the 1930s. The opera is performed in the English translation by David Pountney.

Including at 10.50-11.05* Interval
From Lady Macbeth to Katerina and Back Again
Under personal pressure from Stalin himself, Lady Macbeth was suppressed and then rewritten 20 years later under the title Katerina Ismailova.
In the interval Michael Berkeley talks to David Pountney, Mark Elder and Edward Downes about the chequered history of the work.

(A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away.
Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative)

Contributors

Presenter/Interviewer:
Michael Berkeley
Translator/Interviewee/Producer for the stage:
David Pountney
Interviewee:
Edward Downes
Singers:
English National Opera Chorus
Chorus master:
David Drummond
Chorus master:
Martin Handley
Musicians:
English National Opera Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Raymond Ovens
Conductor/Interviewee:
Mark Elder
Director (Interval Talk):
Kriss Rusmanis
Stage Lighting:
Paul Pyant
Designer:
Stefanos Lazaridis
Television Sound:
Graham Haines
Television Lighting:
Alan Woolford
Executive Producer:
Dennis Marks
Television Director:
Barrie Gavin
Katerina:
Josephine Barstow
Boris:
Willard White
Zinovy:
Stuart Kale
Millworker:
Malcolm Rivers
Sergei:
Jacque Trussel
Coachman:
Stephen Crook
Aksinya/Woman convict:
Maria Moll
Shabby peasant/Third foreman:
Alan Woodrow
Porter:
Christopher Ross
Steward:
John Kitchiner
First foreman:
Raymund Dring
Second foreman:
Antony Rich
Priest:
Arwel Huw Morgan
Chief of Police and Sergeant:
Dennis Wicks
Policeman:
Mark Richardson
Teacher:
Geoffrey Pogson
Drunken guest:
Wills Morgan
Old convict:
John Connell
Sentry:
Anthony Cunningham
Sonyetka:
Sally Burgess

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