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The fifth of six programmes

Education is a great leveller, enabling the poor to raise themselves by sheer hard work, giving them the same chances as the rich, so that everybody has equal opportunity in pursuit of the fruits of learning. This is the way we like to see it.

In this programme filmed in Ghana, Ceylon and the UK, John Percival argues that the kind of education that has been promoted throughout the world perpetuates the distinction between rich and poor; that it gives the children of the rich a flying start and sentences the children of the poor to unemployment, discontent, alienation from their parents, and false expectations of the kind of life they can possibly achieve.

Contributors

Presenter/Producer:
John Percival

Cliff Michelmore covers the world of motoring
With Barrie Gill, Maxwell Boyd and Michael Frostick

Tonight, from Greece, action and comment on the International Acropolis Rally.
Timo Makinen leads the British Ford team in the London to Monte Carlo Power Boat Race. Is this a new trend in motor sport?
Driving into the sea or a canal is a big hazard in Holland, and on riverside roads here. Dutch scientists report on what they have discovered about drivers' survival under water.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Barrie Gill
Reporter:
Maxwell Boyd
Reporter:
Michael Frostick
Rally driver:
Timo Makinen
Director:
Tony Salmon
Producer:
John Mills
Editor:
Brian Robins

by Beverley Cross
Angela Pleasence as Catherine
Starring Keith Michell as Henry VIII
with Patrick Troughton and Sheila Burrell

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Beverley Cross
Series based on an idea by:
Maurice Cowan
Designer:
Peter Seddon
Producer:
Ronald Travers
Producer:
Mark Shivas
Director:
Naomi Capon
Catherine:
Angela Pleasence
Henry VIII:
Keith Michell
Anne Carey:
Julia Cornelius
Lady Rochford:
Sheila Burrell
Duke of Norfolk:
Patrick Troughton
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk:
Catherine Lacey
Will Somers:
Howard Goorney
Surgeon:
John Richmond
Lady-in-Waiting:
Sue Bishop
Thomas Culpeper:
Ralph Bates
Ambassador:
Alberto Colzi
Francis Dereham:
Simon Prebble
Stanton:
Bill Riley

BBC Two England

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