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Six programmes in which Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for 15 minutes.
3: Ann Packer won a Gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 - but is it for her gold medal or for her romance with athlete
Robbie Brightwell that she is remembered?
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Mills
Unknown:
Ann Packer
Unknown:
Robbie Brightwell
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

The last of seven conversations with Rosemary Hartill.
A. N. Wilson : 'Somebody should have written a book in the Bible about boring, everyday life - the grind of routine - then, does religion mean anything?' Producer DAVID COOMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill.
Unknown:
A. N. Wilson
Producer:
David Coomes

The Nine Tailors by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in eight episodes by ALISTAIR BEA TON. With and 6: A Damnable Business Will
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK Producer MARTIN FISHER (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unknown:
Alistair Bea Ton.
Narrator:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Lord Peter:
Ian Carmichael
Supt Blundell:
Timothy Bateson
The Rev Theodore Venables:
Philip Latham
Nobby Cranton:
Stephen Greif
Thoday:
Keith Drinkel
Mary Thoday:
Clare Clifford

Telly Savalas.
Arthur Scargill , Paul Daniels ... Do men like these worry about baldness? Do women find it a turn-on? Karen Deco reports.
Presenter Helen Boaden

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Scargill
Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Karen Deco
Presenter:
Helen Boaden

by MAURICE BROWN
When a business is losing money one way of closing it is to burn it down. But what if it won't catch fire?
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Brown
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Terry:
Russell Dixon
Robin:
John Branwell
George:
John Jardine
Esme:
Joan Walker
Richie:
Robin Bowerman
Reg:
Christopher Quinn
Actor:
Ged Paulcodman
Sgt:
Malcolm Raeburn
Shaftiq:
Denis Conlon

devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON. John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race. Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason.
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden.
Unknown:
Steve Race.
Producer:
Pete Atkin

In 1939 Arnold Rowntree invited Paul Cadbury to revive the Friends Ambulance Unit, a small pacifist group from the First World War. Bernard Jackson tells the story of the FAU.
Featuring the song Chocolate Soldiers, specially composed and performed by Donald Swann and Sydney Carter.
(Stereo)
See David Gillard, left

Contributors

Presenter:
Bernard Jackson
Composer/Singer/Pianist:
Donald Swann
Composer/Singer:
Sydney Carter
Producer:
Michael Wakelin

by MORAG HOOD. With and The chronicles of an American Indian princess and Englishman John Smith.
Don Lawson (percussionist) Producer NED CHAlLLET Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Morag Hood.
Unknown:
John Smith.
Unknown:
Don Lawson
Captain John Smith:
Richard Griffiths
Pocahontas:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Chamberlain:
Michael Graham Cox
James I:
Joe Dunlop
Sir Thomas Dale:
David King
John Rolfe:
Jon Strickland

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