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Follow the footprints in the snow Where will they lead us? Where do they go?
Today's story: "Winter Bird" by Alfred Olschewski.

Contributors

Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Johnny Ball
Author (Winter Bird):
Alfred Olschewski

The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Charles Taylor.

What place has modern technology made for itself in the musical World? Electronic instruments Produce bizarre, synthetic, and remarkably inventive music.
Professor Taylor discusses the advances made by computers, synthesisers and the extraordinary 'Structures Sonores' as they produce our most exciting modern Music.
(Lecture 5: Thursday, 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Lecturer:
Professor Charles Taylor
Director:
Brian Johnson
Presented for Television by:
Alan Sleath

A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

A Man Alive team, invited by the Home Office, talked in Holloway prison for women, to the prisoners themselves about lives which are spent day by day, year after year, in the confines of a prison built 120 years ago.

'In its way a work of art' - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian.
'Man Alive's look at the prison was remarkable' Virginia Ironside, Daily Mail.
'A vivid, impressionistic view of prison society' Sylvia Clayton, Daily Telegraph.
'Splendidly directed by Jenny Barraclough and handled with consummate tact and sympathy by interviewer Harold Williamson' James Thomas, Daily Express.

Contributors

Reporter:
Harold Williamson
Director:
Jenny Barraclough
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

Tucked away down a Victorian back street in Durham City is an old factory whose outside looks would never betray the fact that it has built some of the world's greatest church and concert organs.
At the head of this 'organorganisation' is Cuthbert Temple Lane Harrison, third generation of a dynasty which always worked by hand to 'near perfection'.
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Subject:
Cuthbert Temple Lane Harrison
Executive Producer:
Bridget Winter
Writer/Director:
David Bean

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