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Four plays by John Peacock based on the characters in Toulouse-Lautrec's posters. 1:
MayBelfort Bonnie Langford plays
May Belfort, the girl from Ireland who relied more on her beauty than her voice.
With Emma Gregory , Terence Edmond , Peter Penry Jones , and Bertie the dog.
Music by Stephen Warbeck. Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peacock
Unknown:
Maybelfort Bonnie Langford
Unknown:
Emma Gregory
Unknown:
Terence Edmond
Unknown:
Peter Penry Jones
Music By:
Stephen Warbeck.
Director:
Jane Morgan.
May Milton:
Jane Whittenshaw
Michael Donovan:
Charles Simpson
Footitt:
Dermot Crowley
Angel:
Alice Arnold
MmeBaron:
Irene Sutcliffe
Pujol:
Eric Allan

The return of the series focusing on children's literature. Today, Michael Rosen talks to novelist Gillian Cross , winner of the Carnegie medal for children's fiction.
Producer Jill Burridge

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Gillian Cross
Producer:
Jill Burridge

Mark Steyn 's guests include film directors Mel Brooks and Roger Corman ; new films under review are Trustand Stepping Out with Liza Minnelli ; and film composer Simon Boswell plays his Kaleidoscope commission.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Directors:
Mel Brooks
Directors:
Roger Corman
Unknown:
Liza Minnelli
Unknown:
Simon Boswell
Producer:
John Goudie.

The Giant
Set in rural Ireland in the 50s, Brian Friel 's tale is of a curious but touching friendship between three patients in a local hospital. Read by Ian McElhinney. Producer Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Friel
Read By:
Ian McElhinney.
Producer:
Pam Brighton

On the borders of Zimbabwe's national parks, there's no love lost between the local people and the wild animals that destroy crops and lives. Operation Campfire is an attempt to improve this relationship and benefit both man and beast. But the way the wildlife is 'utilised' raises practical difficulties, as well as provoking heated moral debate. Producer Mick Webb

Contributors

Producer:
Mick Webb

Daddy Breaks
Studies of the strain on working women are now looking at the stress on working men. Should men follow a work pattern which demands long hours away from their family, particularly when their children are young? And who is going to pay for it? Producer Colin Wilde

Contributors

Producer:
Colin Wilde

Six programmes in which journalists remember the first faltering steps they took in their careers.
1: Better than Working
On vacation from university, Obseroereditor Donald
Trelford sees an advert in a window for a reporter on his local paper. Within a month he is Chief Reporter, wondering how to explain that he has to return to college after the 'vac' ... Producer Caroline Adams

Contributors

Unknown:
Obseroereditor Donald
Producer:
Caroline Adams

The Revolution That
Was Caused by Sheep Seven thousand years before Christ, in Greece, Europeans saw a very strange sight for the first time - sheep. Also, wheat and barley and goats. In the second of five programmes,
Peter France traces the first arrival of farming and follows its progress from Greece to the Orkneys. Producer Mary Colwell

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter France
Producer:
Mary Colwell

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