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David Cabot explores the country-side of Ireland and finds some unusual wildlife in a variety of places. Wagtails among Dublin's Christmas lights; wild geese on remote islands; choughs in ruined castles; rare plants and a peculiar slug in the Burren, the great limestone desert in the west.
He follows the coast from Achill Island where the huge basking sharks are caught to an island with the largest colony of roseate terns in Europe.
(from BBC South and West)
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A documentary film of the life and work of America's foremost musical interpreter of patriotism, the greatest master of the march form ever known.
The programme draws on rare archive material collected from all over the United States and features a reconstruction of the special sound and style of the famous Sousa Concert Band - the civilian showbiz outfit which Sousa conducted and with which he toured and captivated audiences around America and the world for nearly 40 years.
With the augmented Detroit Concert Band conducted by Dr Leonard Smith
and the help of Helen Sousa Abert, George Balanchine, Bill Bell, Paul Bierley, Sir Arthur Bliss, Gay Corrie, Leopold Stokowski, Lt-Col Sir Vivian Dunn, William Relton,
The Sousa Concert Band Fraternal Society and The US Marine Corps Band of which Sousa was musical director from 1880 to 1892
and with Anne Pashley (soprano), Jack Irons (tenor), pianist Sandy Blair
The voice of Sousa: Ben Lyon

A BBC/NET coproduction
(see page 14)
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Why, in an age when the Church seems to have less relevance and influence than ever, does a young man choose to be ordained a Curate in the Church of England?
A Year in the Life follows Nicholas Bury from theological college through ordination to his first year as Curate in the dock-land area of Liverpool. Will he learn to cope in a mainly Roman Catholic area? Will he continue in the Church after his probationary year?
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by Ewart Alexander
[Starring] Barbara Couper as Mrs Lovell with John Castle as Frank
'I stood before him a long long time before he looked up. Then he said "Mother!"'
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A new series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
This week's star guests Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Teresa Graves, Pamela Rodgers, Jeremy Lloyd, Byron Gilliam and Gary Owens

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A weekly look at the cinema
This week's guest Trevor Howard
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson

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