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by Roald Dahl
with Elaine Stritch

Charlie Bucket lived with his parents and grandparents in a small wooden house on the edge of town. They were very poor and life was very hard. But then Mr Willy Wonka announced that the five children who found the Golden Tickets would be allowed to visit his chocolate factory...
(Repeat)

Contributors

Storyteller:
Elaine Stritch
Author:
Roald Dahl

Why Don't You just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?
Your ideas, games and activities presented by the children of the Belfast Why Don't You ...? gang.
Producer PETER CHARLTON
Executive producer MOLLY COX
Please send your ideas to: Why Don't You?, [address removed]; but if you want a reply, please enclose a large stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Charlton
Producer:
Molly Cox

The first of five programmes
Johnny Ball invites you to sit down and says Water Way to Go! Each day Johnny takes an entertaining excursion into aspects of everyday life that you might take for granted.
Today he delves into the past, present and future of water and toilets. Did you know that in Great Britain we use about 66 gallons of water each day, and what do you call the smallest room?
Meanwhile, Think Again - how many gallons of water do you think it takes to make a car-11,000, 20, 2,500?*
Written by JOHNNY BALL
Producer ALBERT BARBER
(Think Again about books, tomorrow at
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Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Ball
Written By:
Johnny Ball
Producer:
Albert Barber

Six programmes in which John Noakes and Shep take a drive down the by-ways of Britain. 3: Downs and Rivers
John punts down the Thames, puts a leg on a chair, and goes up, up and away.
Producer DAVID BROWN Director CYRIL GATES
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
John Noakes
Producer:
David Brown
Director:
Cyril Gates

The Final
Sixteen families have fought and two have survived to battle for victory in the last match of the contest.
Robert Robinson is in the chair and Wales meets England for the last time when
THE GRIFFITHS FAMILY from Llandudno in Gwynedd meets
THE ALMOND FAMILY from Tilehurst, Reading
Who will emerge victorious?
Producer ROSALIND GOLD
Ask the Family 4. 60p from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson

are two cops who couldn't catch a cold let alone a crook - and wouldn't know what to do if they did. starringandwith
Tee-off for Two
Freebie and the Bean take up golf in their pursuit of a big-time society crook. They are no better on the fairway than they are on the highway-and that's saying something.
Written by RICK MITTLEMAN Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

Contributors

Written By:
Rick Mittleman
Directed By:
Arnold Laven
Freebie:
Tom Mason
the Bean:
Hector Elizondo
their boss, the DA:
William Daniels

The Islamic Bomb
After the Israeli raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor, Pakistan alone is developing the Islamic worlds first nuclear weapon. With millions of pounds from Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, the Pakistanis are using Western technology to build the 'Islamic Bomb'. Tonight Panorama takes its prize-winning investigation into the project a stage further.
Reporter Philip Tibenham and producer Christopher Olgiati , who won the 1981 Royal Television Society Award for Investigative Journalism, report on the latest moves in the Pakistan project. How near are the Pakistanis to their first explosion?
Film editor IAN CALLAWAY
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Editor ROGER BOLTON

Contributors

Reporter:
Philip Tibenham
Producer:
Christopher Olgiati
Editor:
Elwyn Parry
Editor:
Roger Bolton

starring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke

John and Spiros are inseparable friends living in an intense, private world, united by the fact that both are deaf-mutes. When Spiros is sent to a mental hospital his friend is desolated and decides to move to the small Southern town of Jefferson where he lives with the Kelly family ...
Carson McCullers's great novel introduced readers to her mysterious world of love and loneliness, and provides the basis for a lyrical and deeply moving film in which Alan Arkin gives probably his finest performance, a role which won him the New York Critics Award.

(Films: page 11)

Contributors

Author:
Carson McCullers
Writer/Producer:
Thomas C. Ryan
Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
Singer:
Alan Arkin
Mick:
Sondra Locke
Mrs Kelly:
Laurinda Barrett
Blount:
Stacy Keach Jr
Antonapoulos:
Chuck McCann
Mr Kelly:
Biff McGuire
Dr Copeland:
Percy Rodriguez
Portia:
Cicely Tyson

BBC One London

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