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It is becoming clear that a computer is something more than just a powerful calculating machine for doing sums automatically. It has a very wide range of applications indeed and arithmetic is only a part of what it can do.
Introduced by Benedict Nixon.

Repeated next week For Schools

Contributors

Presenter:
Benedict Nixon
Producer:
Edward Goldwyn

by William Shakespeare.
Adapted by John Barton.
The Royal Shakespeare Company in Peter Hall's production broadcast in eleven parts.

(First shown on BBC-1)

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Adapted by/Director, for the Royal Shakespeare Company:
John Barton
Music, for the Royal Shakespeare Company:
Guy Woolfenden
Settings designed by:
John Bury
Costumes in collaboration with:
Ann Curtis
Director, for the Royal Shakespeare Company:
Peter Hall
Make-up for BBC Television:
Ann Henderson
Telerecording editor, for BBC Television:
Roy Clarke
Lighting, for BBC Television:
Robert Wright
Producer, for BBC Television:
Michael Barry
Director, for BBC Television:
Michael Hayes
Richmond:
Eric Porter
Bishop of Ely:
Michael Rose
Oxford:
Maurice Jones
King Richard III:
Ian Holm
Catesby:
Charles Thomas
Norfolk:
David Hargreaves
Derby:
John Hussey
Tyrrel:
Henry Knowles
Ratcliff:
John Corvin
Ghost of Prince Edward:
Alan Tucker
Ghost of Clarence:
Charles Kay
Ghost of Rivers:
Derek Waring
Ghost of Hastings:
Hugh Sullivan
Ghost of Edward V:
Fergus McClelland
Ghost of Duke of York:
Paul Martin
Ghost of Lady Anne:
Janet Suzman
Ghost of King Henry VI:
David Warner
Ghost of Buckingham:
William Squire
Exeter:
Donald Burton

On St. Patrick's Night - and who isn't?
Join Brendan O'Dowda. Patricia Cahill, Aine Smith, Teresa Clifford, Sean Maguire and The Dubliners.
with The Anna McCoy Dancers, The Ulster Singers

See page 44

Contributors

Tenor:
Brendan O'Dowda
Singer:
Patricia Cahill
Performer:
Aine Smith
Soprano:
Teresa Clifford
Fiddler:
Sean Maguire
Band:
The Dubliners
Dancers:
The Anna McCoy Dancers
Singers:
The Ulster Singers
Music directed and special arrangements by:
James Moody
Designer:
John Armstrong
Producer:
John Whitehorn
Producer:
David Pat Walker

A topical magazine of the arts.
This edition includes:
Who is Edmund Blunden?
The newly-elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
Filmed in Suffolk, where he now lives.
The film includes comment from four other poets: C. Day Lewis, Zhulfikar Ghose,
William Plomer, Peter Porter.

See page 44

Contributors

Subject (Who is Edmund Blunden?):
Edmund Blunden
Speaker (Who is Edmund Blunden?):
C. Day Lewis
Speaker (Who is Edmund Blunden?):
Zhulfikar Ghose
Speaker (Who is Edmund Blunden?):
William Plomer
Speaker (Who is Edmund Blunden?):
Peter Porter
Director:
Leo Aylen
Director:
Tristram Powell
Producer:
Melvyn Bragg

A Polish film with English sub-titles.
Starring Czeslaw Wollejko, Teresa Szmigielowna

A newly-married couple discover a rusting tank where their council house is supposed to stand. Their efforts to get rid of it result in numerous extraordinary and amusing adventures.

Contributors

Director:
Halina Bielinska
Director:
Wloozimierz Haute
Tony:
Czeslaw Wollejko
Julia:
Teresa Szmigielowna
Neighbour:
Kazimierz Opalinski
Lawyer:
Leon Niemczyk
His wife:
Edyta Wojtczak

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