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29 April WEDNESDAY TV 29 April WEDNESDAY TV Henry Weldon .JEREMY SINDEN 57 Mother in tea shop sse ANNE MAXWELL David BRUCE KNIGHT Susan VERITY LAWSON Mrs Morecambe ANGELA MORANT Rosie Pollock .ANGELA HUGHES Coroner ROGER OSTIME 8.0 pm Dr Fenchurch BRIAN HA WKSLEY Ballerina Salcombe Hardy ...ARTHUR COX Written and presented by Antoine MICHAEL HEATH Natalia Makarova Cherie TRUDIE GOODWIN Handing on the Torch Gaffer Trewin In the last programme of her ARTHUR HEWLETT series, Natalia Makarova Landlord Lundy looks both to the past and the GORDON SALKILLD future. As she says 'tradition Mrs Lundy ....BRENDA COWLING is essential in classical ballet'. Farmer Goodrich The series shows BRIAN OSBORNE performances by three young Music composed and arranged by JOSEPH HOROVITZ dancers who Makarova Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD believes could be the great Producer MICHAEL CHAPMAN ballerinas of tomorrow - the Director CHRISTOPHER HODSON next links in the chain - (Shown again next Saturday) Cecilia Kerche from Rio de * CEEFAX SUBTITLES Janeiro, Mette Bodtcher from Copenhagen and Sylvie 10.20 Secret Society Guillem from Paris. Four programmes with Fernando Bujones with Duncan Campbell Eric Vu An, Elisabetta 2:In Time of Crisis Terabust, Peter Schaufuss Q: What happens to Britain in _Janette Mulligan a time of crisis or war? and Artists of A: The country will be run London Festival Ballet under emergency laws. also appearing Q: What are the emergency Frederick Ashton, Maurice laws? Bejart, Alexandra Danilova A: That's for the government Alicia Markova, Antony Tudor of the day to decide. Music played by the That is the official position; Orchestra of the Royal Opera the facts are somewhat House, Covent Garden different. The emergency conductor David Garforth laws are already written, but Programme consultant CLEMENT CRIP they're not available to the Film editor FIONA GILLESPIE public. So Parliament and the Associate producer DINA MAKAROV A people have no chance to Producers DEREK BAILEY and JULIA MATHESON discuss the legislation now, Director DEREK BAILEY before a crisis looms. And when there is an emergency, there may not be time for discussion. Duncan Campbell 9.0 World Snooker reveals what's in the draft The World Professional Emergency Powers Bill - Snooker Championship hospitals, roads, fuel and Quarter-finals conscripted civilian labour Tonight sees the concluding would be handed over to US_ session of the quarter finals. military forces, for instance. Introduced by DAVID VINE He asks why Britain, unlike most of its NATO allies, keeps the plans confidential when it's the British people 9.25 who'll be most affected. Director DENNIS COSGROVE A Dorothy Sayers Producer BRIAN BARR l. BBC Scotland Mystery: • FEATURE:page 13 Have His Carcase * CEEFAX SUBTITLES Dramatised in four parts by ROSEMARY ANNE SISSON 10.50 A Party Political starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey Broadcast and Harriet Walter (For details seeBBC] at 9.0pm) as Harriet Vane with Richard Morant 10.55 Newsnight Rowena Cooper with Peter Snow, Donald and Ray Armstrong MacCormick, Adam Raphael 3: The police intensify their International reports by search for witnesses in the David Sells, Charles Wheeler case of the murdered gigolo, found with his throat cut on a 11.40 Weatherview rock in Cornwall. 11.45-12.40 am Alexis _SIMON CUFF Inspector Trethowan Open University RAY ARMSTRONG 11.45 Maths: Complex Integration Old Pollock JOHN CATER The mathematical technique of integration takes on a very different PC Ormonde aspect when applied to functions of a MICHAEL TROUGHTON complex variable. Mrs Lefranc BARBARA YOUNG Producer ROBERT CLAMP (Black and white. R) • Perkins PETER BENSON 12.10 More Than Meets the Eye Bright.. COLIN HIGGINS Japanese television manufacturers Bunter RICHARD MORANT are involved in making television sets and also in new ideas of quality Mrs Sterne ROSAL YN ELVIN and attitudes to work. Mrs Weldon ROWENA COOPER Producer ANDREW MILLINGTON (R).
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