The Other Virtuosos
The Election 1929. In the spring of 1929, the nation went to the polls to decide between Baldwin's Conservatives,
MacDonald's Labour and Lloyd George's Liberals. (B/w. Rpt)
England v Pakistan
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the first day's play. ● STEREO
...But First This
With Philippa Forrester and Toby Anstis. ● STEREO
Cartoon adventures.
Today, Claire Quick investigates ambition.
The Tent Stop. ● STEREO
With Peter Simon. ● STEREO
Music news and the result of Wednesday's video vote. ● STEREO
Starring Jean Arthur, John Wayne
Rodeo performer Duke Hudkins falls into the lap of the delightful Mollie Truesdale, a holidaying New York office girl.
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Anne Gregg visits India's most popular tourist area, Rajasthan, including the cities of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur.
US entertainment magazine.
Animation for children.
Presented by Steve Rider.
Boxing
Semi-final action.
Equestrian
The qualifying phase of the individual show jumping.
Tennis
The first men's doubles finals.
Cricket: Fifth Test
Continued coverage. ● STEREO
Including at
The Chairing Ceremony Live from Aberystwyth.
Presented by Huw Edwards. Executive producer Brynmor Williams
The growing of prize-winning leeks is a Durham tradition.
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather
Cilia Black appeals on behalf of the charity Pod.
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With Andi Peters.
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Cartoon fun.
SpltMacPhee
Final part of the children's drama set in Australia.
In court, the Trees and the Arbuckles argue their cases for the adoption of Spit MacPhee. 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
The news for children.
8: Nicola discovers the truth about Paul.
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Adam's long-lost sister, Gaby, arrives from Japan and soon goes into action to sort out the family's problems. Joe and Todd witness some mysterious behaviour which could have sinister overtones.
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Introduced by Desmond Lynam from Barcelona.
Athletics
6.30 Men's 4 100m, semi-finals
7.00 Men's 4 x 400m, semi-finals A busy evening in the Montjuic Stadium beg ins with the semi-finals in the relay events, with both British squads looking for an impressive passage into tomorrow's finals. And three field events enter their concluding rounds, with the finals of the pole vault, the women's long jump and the women's shot put. Triple world champion Sergei Bubka , now competing for his native
Ukraine, so dominates the pole-vaulting scene that he should have no problem defending his Olympic title.
He has turned breaking world records into an art form, raising the height of the bar by the smallest of margins each time. But can he set his 31 st world record? In the long jump, reigning champion
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) will take on her two greatest rivals - the in-form German Heike
Drechsler and the Unified
Team's Larisa Brezhnaya.
An inside view of management and industry.
The Borderless World
Successful companies in the 21stcenturywillbeunlike anything ever seen. Bosses will have to change their mentalities, break out of national boundaries, and think and operate on a new global scale. This is the business revolution predicted by Kenichi Ohmae , the best-known business guru in Japan. David Lomax talks to him in Tokyo about how the companies of the future can help themselves to bring it about.
Producer Brian Davies
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The series on Asian affairs.
Who Cares? Growing numbers of elderly Asian parents who expected to be cared for by their children are finding themselves alone or in homes.
Having come to this country to improve their children's prospects, many discover that their offspring abandon the traditional Asian sense of duty towards "elders". Tonight's film asks whether in Britain the stereotype of the caring extended Asian family is becoming a thing of the past. Producer Christopher Mitchell Series producer Charles Bruce A Tartan production for BBCtv * STEREO
Developments and stories from the world of gardening, with practical advice and information from Geoff Hamilton at Barnsdale.
Series producer Rosemary Forgan Executive producer Tony Laryea
A Catalyst Television production for BBCtv 0 BBC GARDENERS' WORLD MAGAZINE: £1.45 from newsagents. ● GARDENING: page 11
Another episode from the winner of this year's Bafta
Award for Best Factual Series.
Four Million Dollars Is Cheap An inside view of the secretive tribal society of top Hollywood agents as they steal clients from each other, turn their aikido instructors into major movie stars and cut multi-million dollar deals using their favoured weapon, the phone. Series producer Nicolas Kent
Executive producers Michael Jackson and John Whiston
The showcase for short films by new film-makers.
Touching Humanity. A documentary portrait by Stephen and Caroline Horn that looks at the agony and ecstasy of granite sculpting, with visionary artist Ronald Rae. Series producer Colin Rose
With James Cox.
A review of the week's press with Godfrey Hodgson. Producer Bnan Armstrong
A Granada production for BBCtv
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Highlights of the second day. * STEREO
A classic blend of comedy and horror starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas
A group of stranded travellers are forced to seek refuge with the sinister Femm family.
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