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Today's story is 'The King's New Crown' by Sheila Archer
In the story chair William Mervyn
Presenters this week Carol Chell, Gordon Clyde

Even though it's still winter, flowers are blooming in Play School today: Carol makes some out of paper for her flower stall, and William Mervyn's story is about a king who finds the flowers in his garden not only beautiful but useful, too.

Contributors

Author (The King's New Crown):
Sheila Archer
Storyteller:
William Mervyn
Presenter:
Carol Chell
Presenter:
Gordon Clyde

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall,
Richard Whitmore and BBC News correspondents
and Weather

Contributors

Newsreader:
John Timpson
Newsreader:
Peter Woods
Reporter:
Martin Bell
Reporter:
Michael Blakey
Reporter:
Michael Clayton
Reporter:
Michael Sullivan
Reporter:
David Tindall
Reporter:
Richard Whitmore

Animal communication is a little-understood aspect of animal survival. There are a number of well-known reasons why animals survive; but how far does their ability to convey messages to one another help them keep their species alive?
This film was made in Kiev in the best Soviet nature film tradition. It contains no experts, only the communicators themselves - birds and bees, ants, fish, and baboons. Their communication systems were in use millions of years before Man evolved his own methods.
King Solomon's Garden is a world of odour, gesture, colour, cries of alarm, and various types of orientation signalling. It is a world that will be slow to give up its secrets, but which is beginning to give up a few of them in response to sensitive recording techniques and patient searches into the group behaviour of animals.

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Presented for television by:
Jo Marquand
Presented for television by:
Patrick Ducker

Written by Barry Humphries and Ian Davidson
A Thoroughly Nice Show starring Barry Humphries with his guests
and The Malcolm Clare Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Humphries
Writer:
Ian Davidson
Music:
Ken Jones
Choreography:
Malcolm Clare
Costumes:
Anne McKay
Make-up:
Sylvia James
Lighting:
Dennis Channon
Sound:
Alan Fogg
Designer:
Kenneth Sharp
Director:
David O'Clee
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson
Dancers:
The Malcolm Clare Dancers
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers

by Emile Zola
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by David Turner
After the death of many of the villagers at the mine the strike has collapsed. The Belgians have been withdrawn from the pits and the miners prepare to resume work.

Contributors

Author:
Emile Zola
Dramatised by:
David Turner

BBC Two England

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