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Queen Sacrifice by Julian Richards.
Davey Trevellyan is a young, talented chess player.
Accompanied by his history teacher, he sets off from his Welsh mining town for
Bournemouth to compete in the British Championships, but problems arise when Davey meets Helen.
Editor MARK TALBOT-BUTLER Director JULIAN RICHARDS
Series producer ROGER TONGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Richards.
Unknown:
Davey Trevellyan
Editor:
Mark Talbot-Butler
Director:
Julian Richards
Producer:
Roger Tonge

What Big Teeth You Have, Grammar!
It isn't about being polite. It isn't about not making mistakes when you talk or write. It isn't about becoming a better speaker or writer. So what is it about?
Researcher PAMELA WOOD Producer PAUL ASHTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Wood
Producer:
Paul Ashton

Weather followed by You and Me
For 4- and 5-year-olds. (R)

Contributors

Wil Bevan:
Richard Davies
Davey:
Duane Phillips
Helen Worrell:
Lisa Climie
Pat Mullen:
Pat Cleary
Adjudicator:
Wally Driffield
Nigel Miles:
Matthew Grey
Grandmother:
Marjorie Bell
Davey's mum:
Jill Davies
Davey's dad:
Dewi Peters
Off licence owner:
Tim Davies
Davey's girl:
Rhoda Mogford
Assistant:
Stephen Barry

Introduced by David Icke. World Figure-Skating Championships
From Halifax, Nova Scotia. Men's Free Programme
The final and deciding section of the Men's Championship. Title holder Kurt Browning might need to land a quadruple jump to hold off the challenge of European champion, Viktor Petrenko. Commentators: Alan Weeks and Christopher Dean. Football
FA Cup Sixth Round
Trevor Brooking tips the four he fancies to emerge from this weekend's last eight. Rallying
Cartel International Rally
The first major rally in Britain this year, held over the forests of the North Yorkshire moors. Steve Rider reports. Television presentation: Skating CBC Canada Rallying BHP
Studio director MARK WILKIN Produced by PHILIP BERNIE
Including at
3.00pm News and Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Icke.
Unknown:
Kurt Browning
Unknown:
Viktor Petrenko.
Commentators:
Alan Weeks
Commentators:
Christopher Dean.
Unknown:
Trevor Brooking
Unknown:
Steve Rider
Director:
Mark Wilkin
Produced By:
Philip Bernie

Clean State goes to Czechoslovakia to meet the students who helped topple the Communist leadership. Now they want to change the country's education system.
John Prince is head teacher of a multi-cultural school in Hackney, London. He believes that teachers who moralise about racism can do more harm than good. How should schools combat racial harassment?

Contributors

Producer:
Jeremy Orlebar
Presenter:
Jackie Spreckley
Presenter:
Jill Cochrane
Series producer:
Bernard Adams

Starring Kenneth Connor Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.
When a Ministry of Education inspector and a noted child psychiatrist visit Maudlin Street Secondary Modern, the pupils embark on a programme of sabotage which will ensure their acting headmaster never leaves.
Directed by GERALD THOMAS
0 FILMS: pages 19-21

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Connor
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques.
Directed By:
Gerald Thomas
Gregory Adams:
Kenneth Connor
Edwin Milton:
Kenneth Williams
Grace Short:
Hattie Jacques
Michael Bean:
Charles Hawtrey
Alistair Grigg:
Leslie Phillips
Sarah Allcock:
Joan Sims
William Wakefield:
Ted Ray
Robin Stevens:
Richard O'Sullivan

Exploring local history. Milligan on Mud
Spike Milligan , author and comedian, has always had a secret passion for archaeology. He's been on digs all round the world.
Tonight he explores his own neighbourhood of East
Sussex. With new friends and old, he visits a Roman villa near Glynde, Winchelsea's medieval wine cellars and the wreck of an East Indiaman off
Hastings. But can he save the knapped flints in his own backyard?
Series producer DENIS MORIARTY Producer EMMA DE'ATH
BBC South and East - Elstree
0 REGIONAL PROGRAMME: for details of variations see panel below

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Producer:
Denis Moriarty

Making Fathers Pay Four out of five single mothers claiming state benefit receive no financial support from the absent father.
Taxpayers spend El.5 billion every year to make up for fathers who won't pay.
The Government is now drawing up plans to force more fathers to pay up.
Public Eye looks at what the new policy might be and the problems that could follow, with a special report from American states that have already got tough.
Presented by Peter Taylor with Clare Harrison. Producer GEOFF GRIFFITHS Editor NIGEL CHAPMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Taylor
Unknown:
Clare Harrison.
Producer:
Geoff Griffiths
Editor:
Nigel Chapman

A busy week for Anne Swithinbank. After troubleshooting for a householder whose rubber plant thinks it ought to be a tree, she takes another dip into the world of conservatories and visits green stringer, Sheila Gibbs who's turning her conservatory into an exotic living room. If you want to know how to feed your plants, watch out for the report on fertilisers and Geoff Hamilton has all the latest news from Barnsdale.
With Pippa Greenwood.
Series producer MARK KERSHAW Editor DENNIS ADAMS BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 617
● INFO-LINE: [number removed] (25p per minute off peak, 38p at other times).
0 GARDENING: page 85

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank.
Unknown:
Sheila Gibbs
Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood.
Editor:
Dennis Adams

Regional Variations (2)

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

BBC Two England

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Series 2

Episode 1

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Two England

Stephen and Hugh write each other a song to sum up what's been going on since the first series, Stephen takes up dancercise and a man tries to prove he's only a little mad. Show more

Fred Zinnemann ... a Director's Life
Fred Zinnemann , best known for the classic western High Noon, has had a career in movies spanning 65 years. In an exclusive interview with Arena, Zinnemann talks about his life from his early training in Paris, via Berlin, to his arrival in Hollywood in 1929. One of the great Hollywood mavericks, working both in and out of the studio system, he generated a body of work impressive in range and quality, as well as bringing to the screen for the first time such names as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift , Grace Kelly , Meryl
Streep and John Hurt.
With films like From Here to
Eternity, Oklahoma!, A Man for All Seasons, Day of the Jackal and Julia, Zinnemann became known as the director's director and talks disarmingly about his failures as well as his successes. Producer ALAN LEWENS
Series editors ANTHONY WALL and NIGEL FINCH
A Zenith production for BBCtv (Fred Zinnemann 's 'High Noon' at 11.20pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Zinnemann
Unknown:
Fred Zinnemann
Unknown:
Montgomery Clift
Unknown:
Grace Kelly
Unknown:
John Hurt.
Unknown:
Nigel Finch
Unknown:
Fred Zinnemann

Donald MacCormick and a team of BBC reporters with the day's top stories.
Reporters: David Coss Olenka Frenkiel
Peter Kellner , Wesley Kerr Peter Marshall
Julian O'Halloran
Rupert Segar , David Sells Sarah Spiller
Francine Stock
Janet Trewin and Charles Wheeler.
Deputy editors KEITH BOWERS and EAMONN MATTHEWS Editor TIM GARDAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Reporters:
David Coss
Reporters:
Olenka Frenkiel
Unknown:
Peter Kellner
Unknown:
Wesley Kerr
Unknown:
Peter Marshall
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Unknown:
Rupert Segar
Unknown:
David Sells
Unknown:
Sarah Spiller
Unknown:
Francine Stock
Unknown:
Janet Trewin
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler.
Editors:
Keith Bowers
Editors:
Eamonn Matthews
Editor:
Tim Gardam

Starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly.
On the day of his retirement. town marshal Kane of Hadleyville is marrying a Quaker girl, Amy. The celebrations are interrupted by the news that Kane's arch enemy, Miller, is arriving on the noon train and is seeking revenge.
This masterly western won Gary Cooper an Oscar.
Screenplay by Carl Foreman Produced by Stanley Kramer
* Films: pages 19-21

Contributors

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Screenwriter:
Carl Foreman
Producer:
Stanley Kramer
Will Kane:
Gary Cooper
Amy Kane:
Grace Kelly
Jonas Henderson:
Thomas Mitchell
Harvey Pell:
Lloyd Bridges
Helen Ramirez:
Katy Jarado
Percy Mettrick:
Otto Kruger
Martin:
Howe Lon Chaney
William Fuller:
Henry Morgan
Frank Miller:
Ian MacDonald
Mildred Fuller:
Eve McVeagh
Cooper:
Henry Shannon

BBC Two England

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