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Today: "The Circus is Coming" by Peter Charlton

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Carol Chell
Presenter:
Rick Jones
Author (The Circus is Coming)/Script/Director:
Peter Charlton
Photographs:
James Matthews-Joyce
Graphics:
Laurence Henry
Pianist:
Harry Hayward
Designer:
Barbara Gosnold
Series Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

One hundred and eighty feet above the River Clyde, with a 1,000-foot centre span, the new bridge at Erskine is the latest of three crossings of the river.

Her Royal Highness is flying over by helicopter from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, and will literally be dropping in to meet some of the patients at Erskine Hospital for disabled ex-servicemen in the shadow of the new bridge.

Contributors

Commentary:
Raymond Baxter
Television Presentation:
Charles Clifford
Television Presentation:
John Coleman

Who Will Still Need You? ...when you're old and retired, that is. The answer seems to depend on the kind of society you live in. The cameras of three European television stations look at old age and its needs in four different societies in Russia, France, America and Czechoslovakia.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Editor:
Ronnie Noble

by Thomas Hardy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Harry Green

Grace has overcome her doubts about marriage and about Suke's visit to Fitzpiers's cottage. Grace and Fitzpiers are due to return from their honeymoon on the Continent.

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by:
Harry Green

by Peter Yeldham
Starring Richard Briers, Anne Rogers, Julia Lockwood
with Andre Maranne

Through no fault of their own, surprisingly enough, Charlie and the girls fall foul of the local police and have to make a hasty getaway.

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Yeldham
Signature Music:
Mike Sammes
Incidental Music:
Dennis Wilson
Designer:
Tony Snoaden
Producer:
Graeme Muir
Charlie:
Richard Briers
Elizabeth:
Anne Rogers
Samantha:
Julia Lockwood
Inspector Marais:
Andre Maranne
Bellboy:
Michael Bell

A blueprint for peace and cooperation on the shop floor? Or a set of pious hopes? The Government's proposed Code of Industrial Relations Practice explained and discussed.
Contributors:
The Rt Hon Robert Carr, MP, Secretary of State for Employment
Pat Lowry, Director of Industrial Relations, British Leyland Motor Corporation
George Wright, Birmingham District Secretary, Transport and General Workers Union
Dr W. E. J. McCarthy, Nuffield College, Oxford
Introduced by Graham Turner

Contributors

Panellist:
The Rt Hon Robert Carr
Panellist:
Pat Lowry
Panellist:
George Wright
Panellist:
Dr W. E. J. McCarthy
Presenter:
Graham Turner
Director:
John Twitchin
Producer:
Tony Matthews

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