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: Play School
Story: First Day at School at Keble Memorial School, Hursley, Hampshire. PresentersLibby Murray , Stuart McGugan
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, £1.50. from bookshops ; Play On, record (REC 332), cassette (ZCM 332), Bang on a Drum, sonus from Play School and Play Away. record (REC 242) or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops
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: Cricket: Fourth Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test SeriesEngland v India
The last two hours' play from The Oval.
: Officer Class
Prince Andrew is following his father and his brother into the Royal Navy. His training starts this month.This film traces the fortunes of a recent intake of Dartmouth cadets, including an 18-year-old straight from comprehensive school, a rating with ten years' experience on the lower deck, and a young Wren carrying on a family tradition.
Reporter Jack Pizzey
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM
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: The Mid-Evening News
including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather: News 39
The Week into War 3 September 1939The last in a nightly series of modern television news bulletins which look at events of the week 40 years ago - the seven days leading up to the Declaration of War.
Newsreader TOM MANGOLD
Studio director ANN FREER Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
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: Happy as a Sandbag
The hit musical by KEN LEEAll the fun and music of the 40s brought lovingly back to life in all their glory featuring
David Ashton , Darlene Johnson Vincent Brimble , Trevor Jones Lesley Duff , Roy Macready
Martin Duncan , Robert Whelan
Yvonne Edgell , Geraldine Wright Nigel Hess
A million bubbles of fun and vitality.
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
Sheer escapist jun. (EVENING NEWS) A winner. (EVENING STANDARD) Based on the original West End stage production by ROGER CLIFFORD (for London Plays Ltd) and PETER FETTERMAN Theatre direction PHILIP HEDLEY Choreography PATRICIA ADAMS Musical directors
NIGEL HESS , JOHNNY COLEMAN
Producer ROBIN NASH
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: Best of Brass
For all enthusiasts of brass bands and those who just enjoy lazing within earshot in the park.Gerald Harrison introduces the BBC2 Brass Band knock-out competition from the Assembly Rooms, Derby.
Programme 7: The Final in which bands from the North and South battle it out for a first prize of £1,000. From Bristol,
West of England champions The Sunlife Stanshaw Band conducted by BRIAN HOWARD against
The Hammond Sauce Works Band from Bradford conducted by GEOFFREY WITHAM with guest supporters Gwyn Richards and Barney Colehan
Peter Skellern announces the name of the best soloist from the 14 or so instrumentalists competing for the Rose-Morris Award - a new instrument. Judges
Lt-Col Trevor L. Sharpe , mvo, OBE and Bill Relton
Sound DAVID HUGHES
Lighting JOHN ALLINSON
Designer TOM YARDLEY JONES
Production assistant SIMON BETTS Producer KEN GRIFFIN
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: The Right to Work
Offices where secretaries have been replaced by computerised work stations; factories where skilled workers have made way for numerically-controlled machines; hotels and shops where the human face of service has been replaced by micro-electronic efficiency ... is this to be the future of work?This is the first of three programmes in which Michael Rodd , Judith Hann and Peter Williams examine the impact on jobs of new technologies. Should Britain resist the march of the microprocessor and preserve The Right to Work? Or should we welcome the silicon chip? Tonight's programme speculates on a future in which Britain has come to terms with this new Industrial Revolution. A small minority of highly-skilled people holding down the few worthwhile jobs; leisure centres in which others attempt to come to terms with increased unemployment; the danger of a society split by the shortage of work - or a country prospering on its ability to make and market the new goods and services?
As union leader BARRIE SHERMAN states, if we get the answers wrong ' we shall be running this nation at bayonet point'.
Film directors
SOPHY ROBINSON , CHARLES HUFF Studio director JOHN GORMAN Editor MICHAEL BLAKSTAU
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: Return Call
to Brass TacksFit to be Born?
The experts have had their say.
Now Eric Robson reports what the Brass Tacks audience has been saying - on radio phone-ins and in their letters - about the issues raised by the spread of genetic counselling and screening in this country.
Research JUDY HILL
Director GEORGE GREEN
Producer BRIAN GIBSON. BBC Manchester
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: Cricket: Fourth Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v IndiaRICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the fourth day's play at The Oval.
Producer NICK HUNTER
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: Late News
Weather: Late Night Story
Declarations of WarSir John Mills reads Action
The first of five stories by LEN DEIGHTON
When an old hero looks back at his war, do his memories agree with the legend?
Producer TONY HARRISON BBC Manchester
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