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With JOHN DRYDEN , TINA HEATH JTLL SHAKESPEARE, GLEN STUART
There's a shoot-out at the Wobbly Tonsil Saloon, Mackintosh sends a Valentine card, and Teena completes the story of Joseph.
Assistant producer NORMAN STONE Producer DAVID BROWN
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dryden
Unknown:
Glen Stuart
Producer:
Norman Stone
Producer:
David Brown

A series of 20 programmes which aims to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.
9: Let's Go Swimming Presented by BRIAN RIX
Directed by ROSANNA HIBBERT
Series producer GORDON CROTON
Let's Go Notes for parents and teachers, 65p including postage, are available from [address removed],

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Rix
Directed By:
Rosanna Hibbert
Producer:
Gordon Croton

A combined television and radio course for beginners in Spanish, in ten parts, with on-the-spot documentary film and recording. 8: What's Possible, Where and When, with ISABEL SOTO
MIGUEL PENARANDA, CARLOS RIERA
Film director DAVID WILSON
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Complementary radio programme on Radio 4 VHF today, 3.0 pm, repeated on Tuesday, 11.0 pm
Books, records (or cassettes) and Notes for Teachers are available from bookshops or from BBC Publications,

Contributors

Director:
David Wilson

A 24-part French course for beginners on TV and radio. Programme 8: with CHRISTIAN BRUMELL as Michel and HENRI BON , LAURENT FACHARD
ALBERT MANAC , ANDR6 MARANNE CAROLLE ROUSSEAU , ELMA SOIRON
Scripts by JFAN-CLAUDE ARRAGON MIREILLE FLEMING , ANTOINE TUDAL Directed by TERRY DOYLE
Produced by TONY ROBERTS
Ensemble radio programme on Sundays at 2.30 pm and Wednesdays at 11.0 pm on Radio 4 VHF
Book (same title), £1.30, and records (or cassettes), from bookshops
Details of a special Ensemble correspondence course are available from the National Extension College, Cambridge. Information on other learner support schemes for Ensemble viewers from the Language Centre, Brighton Polytechnic,

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Bon
Unknown:
Laurent Fachard
Unknown:
Albert Manac
Unknown:
Maranne Carolle Rousseau
Unknown:
Jfan-Claude Arragon
Unknown:
Mireille Fleming
Unknown:
Antoine Tudal
Directed By:
Terry Doyle
Produced By:
Tony Roberts

A series of seven films for safety representatives and all those who are concerned with health and safety at work.
4: Dealing with Chemicals
If you suspect a chemical in your workplace might be hazardous, what do you do? There are standards which can be used, but what do they mean and how reliable are they?
This programme looks at the steps which a safety representative might take and some of the problems that might be encountered. Commentary spoken by DENNIS WATERMAN
Producer ROBERT CLAMP Director ROBERT ALBURY
For background notes to the series send sae (A4, 15p stamp) to: [address removed]

Contributors

Spoken By:
Dennis Waterman
Producer:
Robert Clamp
Director:
Robert Albury

A 15-part sociology series 7: Business as Usual
This programme looks at the national employment structure, with examples of the one-man concern, the family business and the large international company.
How have all three been affected by technological developments and the growth of organised labour? Narrated by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX
Script adviser MALCOLM DAVIES Producer TONY ROBERTS
Director LIBBY HALLIDAY
Background notes relating to the series and details of closely-related correspondence courses can be obtained by sending a large sae to: [address removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Unknown:
Malcolm Davies
Producer:
Tony Roberts
Director:
Libby Halliday

Times Change: People Don't
The first of three programmes in which PETER FIRTH looks at the modern implication of ancient stories.
How would the prophet Isaiah combine his political life with his spiritual vision today?
With BRIAN GEAR , PAT SMALL THE FAIRFIELD SINGERS
Director CHRISTOPHER MANN
Producer JOHN DOBSON. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Firth
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Director:
Christopher Mann
Producer:
John Dobson.

The first of three programmes
A reflection on the presence of God in Cleveland, led by BILL WRIGHT , senior industrial chaplain on Teesside.
Film editor PETER MARSH
Director CLAIRE WALMSLEY Producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wright
Editor:
Peter Marsh
Director:
Claire Walmsley
Producer:
Stephen Whittle

With DAVID RICHARDSON
JOHN CHERRINGTON , PHILIP WRIXON
Producer JOHN KENYON. BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers BILL GILES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Richardson
Unknown:
John Cherrington
Unknown:
Philip Wrixon
Producer:
John Kenyon.
Unknown:
Bill Giles

The return of one of the best-loved Western series, starring and Today: The Running Man

Contributors

Ben Cartwright:
Lome Greene
Hoss Cartwright:
Dan Blocker
Little Joe Cartwright:
Michael Landon
Calvin Butler:
Will Geer

A search for the most entertaining and talented town or city in Great Britain.
Introduced by Terry Wogan First Semi-final
Leeds v Morecambe
Team celebrity Team celebrity Eddie Waring Thora Hird
Presented before 25 judges in BBC studios throughout the British Isles.
Musical director BERNARD HERRMANN Designer CHRIS GEORGE
Associate producer GEOFF WILSON ProducerBARNEY COLEBAN BBC Manchester

Contributors

Introduced By:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Eddie Waring Thora Hird
Unknown:
British Isles.
Director:
Bernard Herrmann
Designer:
Chris George
Producer:
Geoff Wilson
Producer:
Barney Coleban

A series of six holiday trips, complete with four-footed pal.

Tin whistles and stepdancers, the Donkey Grand National, and a horse called Molly. John Noakes and Shep get taken for a ride along the lanes of south-west Ireland.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
John Noakes
Film Cameraman:
Robert Sleign
Sound Recordist:
Malcolm Hill
Film Editor:
Paul Green
Producer:
David Brown

by John Buchan, dramatised in six parts by Edward Boyd
with Paul Curran as Dickson McCunn, Peter Settelen as John Heritage, Jean Taylor-Smith as Mrs Morran, Andrew Faulds as James Loudon and Emma Jacobs as Saskia

Heritage and the Gorbals Diehards prepare the defences at Huntingtower against the expected attack by Loudon and the men from the sea. Dickson McCunn and Saskia have gone to enlist the help of a local landowner. While they are away, the mysterious motorcyclist reappears at Mrs Morran's cottage. Part 5
BBC Scotland

Contributors

Author:
John Buchan
Dramatised by:
Edward Boyd
Designer:
Walter Miller
Producer:
Pharic MacLaren
Director:
Bob Hird
Dickson McCunn:
Paul Curran
John Heritage:
Peter Settelen
Mrs Morran:
Jean Taylor-Smith
James Loudon:
Andrew Faulds
Saskia:
Emma Jacobs
Sir Archibald Roylance:
David Wood
McGuffog:
Victor Carin
Tinker:
Bill Armour
Tinker:
Jake D'Arcy
Tinker:
James Kennedy
Tinker:
Hans Mater
Napoleon:
Iain Stewart
Old Bill:
Neil Crossan
Dougal:
Iain Andrew
Dobson:
Liam O'Callaghan
Tammas Yownie:
John Keenan
Peter Paterson:
Alan Hunt
Wee Jaikie:
Eric Cullen
Carfrae:
Jim Byars
Sime:
Tom Watson
Spidel:
Tutte Lemkow
Leon:
Stanley Lebor
Alexis:
Shane Briant

from Barnsley, South Yorkshire
All the town's churches join Barnsley's Roman Catholics in their Church of the Holy Rood. Factory inspector GORDON DACK who chose a reading from the Old Testament, and miner TOM MCNICHOLAS who likes the hymn 'Soul of my Saviour' are just two of the people present who have been talking to MICHAEL BARRATT about life and faith.
Praise to the Holiest (Somervell): More about Jesus would I know: Soul of my Saviour (Anima Christi); The King of love (Dominus regit me); Fight the good fight (Duke Street); Abide with me (Eventide); AU creatures of our God and King (Easter Alleluya); Rejoice, 0 land (Wareham)
Conductor JOHN E. KENYON Organist KEN SHAW
Producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
Series producer ANDREW BARR

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Dack
Unknown:
Tom McNicholas
Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Conductor:
John E. Kenyon
Producer:
Stephen Whittle
Producer:
Andrew Barr

starring
Robert Shaw , Christopher Plummer Nigel Davenport , Michael Craig
The incredible story of the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro and 167 Spaniards. Based on Peter Shaffer 's internationally acclaimed play, the film charts the dramatic, deeply moving and ultimately fatal friendship between the Conquistador and his captive Inca King.
Screenplay by PHILIP YORDAN
Producers EUGENE FRENKE. PHILIP YORDAN Directed by IRVING LERNER. Films; p 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Shaw
Unknown:
Christopher Plummer
Unknown:
Nigel Davenport
Unknown:
Michael Craig
Unknown:
Francisco Pizarro
Unknown:
Peter Shaffer
Unknown:
Philip Yordan
Producers:
Eugene Frenke.
Producers:
Philip Yordan
Directed By:
Irving Lerner.
Pizarro:
Robert Shaw
Atahuallpa:
Christopher Plummer
De SotO:
Nigel Davenport
Estete:
Michael Craig
Young Martin:
Leonard Whiting
Valverde:
Andrew Keir
King Carlos V:
James Donald
Candia:
William Marlowe
Diego:
Percy Herbert
De Nizza:
Alexander Davion
Felipillo:
Sam Krauss

The Paperback Programme
Introduced by Ronald Harwood

Authors of the Week:
Winifred Foley, best-selling author of A Child in the Forest, with No Pipe Dreams for Father - more reminiscences of her life in the Forest of Dean.
Geoffrey Household, with his thriller Hostage: London - which Time Out says 'brings home as no other book has done the appalling possibilities of the nuclear bomb as a revolutionary weapon.'

Books of the Week chosen by Edna Healey, writer Simon Jenkins, Editor of the Evening Standard and Patti Boulaye, singer

Quiz of the Week set by Laurie Lee on C. Day Lewis

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ronald Harwood
Unknown:
Winifred Foley
Unknown:
Edna Healey
Unknown:
Simon Jenkins
Singer:
Patti Boulaye
Unknown:
Laurie Lee
Studio Director:
Bob Lockyer
Producer:
Julia Matheson

Six programmes telling the story of crime fiction from Poe to the present.
3: Private Eyes
Commentary by JULIAN SYMONS with Gavin Lyall , Ross MacDonald
How the ' hard-boiled' novels of Dashiell Hammett revolutionised the genre and ' gave back murder to people who commit it for reasons-not just to provide a corpse'; and how Raymond Chandler turned the ' private eye' into an almost mythical character.
Readings from Raymond Chandler by ED BISHOP
Director DOUGLAS ARGENT Producer BERNARD ADAMS

Contributors

Commentary By:
Julian Symons
Unknown:
Gavin Lyall
Unknown:
Ross MacDonald
Unknown:
Dashiell Hammett
Unknown:
Raymond Chandler
Unknown:
Raymond Chandler
Unknown:
Ed Bishop
Director:
Douglas Argent
Producer:
Bernard Adams

BBC One London

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