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Why farmers have to do what they do by Quentin Seddon , author of The Silent Revolution.
Why they shouldn't do it, by Geoffrey Lean of The Observer. Presented and produced by Tim Finney. BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Seddon
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lean
Produced By:
Tim Finney.

with John Humphrys and Gail Foley in London, and Peter Hobday in Paris for the bicentennial celebrations and the Economic Summit.
Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Gail Foley
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Editor:
Philip Harding

A history in eight reels. Reel 3: The Canterbury Tale
The England of director Michael PoweU and European writer Emeric Pressberger - including their films The Life and Death of Colonel
Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom and A Canterbury Tale. With the voices and opinions Of
ANNETTE ELDRED , DAVID MELLOR , IAN CHRISTIE , DEREK JARMAN , DAVID PIRIE,
MARTIN SCORSESE , MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBERGER. Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS
Script and narration by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo

Contributors

Director:
Michael Poweu
Unknown:
Emeric Pressberger
Unknown:
Annette Eldred
Unknown:
David Mellor
Unknown:
Ian Christie
Unknown:
Derek Jarman
Unknown:
Martin Scorsese
Unknown:
Michael Powell
Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Directed By:
John Powell

Richard Stilgoe visits the Marble Hall of the National Trust's Clandon Park in Surrey to sample life on the other side of the velvet ropes.
Reminding him to keep off the grass and not to feed the lions are
Charles Collingwood , Peter Blake , Belinda Lang and musical guest Kathryn Tickell.
Written by RICHARD STILGOE Producer NEIL CARGILL
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood
Unknown:
Peter Blake
Unknown:
Belinda Lang
Unknown:
Kathryn Tickell.
Written By:
Richard Stilgoe

The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke, MP, Sue Slipman, Gordon Brown, MP, and Sam Shuster.
Chair Sue MacGregor
and at 2.00pm Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Sue MacGregor with Any Questions? issues.
Producers JOHN HOLMES and CHRIS BURNS. BBC Bristol
LiNES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Clarke
Unknown:
Sue Slipman
Unknown:
Gordon Brown
Unknown:
Sam Shuster.
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Producers:
John Holmes
Producers:
Chris Burns.

by MICHAEL MCKNIGHT. With and Every year on 12 July
Orangemen world-wide, celebrate the glorious memory of a battle which changed the course of British history.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE and EOlN O'CALLAGHAN BBC Northern Ireland
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael McKnight.
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
Directed By:
Eoln O'Callaghan
William III:
Edward de Souza
James II:
Peter Woodthorpe

Barry Cunliffe presents the programme where the past speaks to the present. How are human bones discovered in a Welsh cave and a 19th-century struggle for parliamentary reform connected? Are these reforms, so hard won, being eroded? The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp, believes they are.
Researcher FELICITY GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Tony Benn
Unknown:
Felicity Goodall
Producers:
Kate McAll
Producers:
John Knight.

Call It a Canary by PETER TINNISWOOD. The 60s are limping listlessly to their close, Uncle Mort has canaries nesting on his allotment and Carter Brandon 's wife has left him. His second chance at a life of freedom has arrived.
Narrator CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood.
Unknown:
Carter Brandon
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Carter Brandon:
Philip Jackson
Pat:
Liz Goulding
Mr Brandon:
George A Cooper
Uncle Mort:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Brandon:
Shirley Dixon
Linda Preston:
Sally Baxter
Sid Skelhorn:
Colin Edwynn
Daniel:
Judy Bennett
Hazel Huskisson:
Anne Cunningham
Dorothy Fearnley:
Jane Hollowood
Nurse:
Sylvia Brayshay

The Newsreel Years
For more than 60 years the newsreels brought the world vividly to life down at the local cinema. Pathe, Movietone, Gaumont-
British, Paramount and Universal fought each other for the biggest stories. With the help of archive recordings and contributions from Bob Danvers-Walker ,
David Samuelson , Ronnie Noble , Paul Fox and others, Ian Christie chronicles this period of film history before television brought down the final curtain. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Danvers-Walker
Unknown:
David Samuelson
Unknown:
Ronnie Noble
Unknown:
Paul Fox
Unknown:
Ian Christie

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