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Story: "The Little House" by Virginia Lee Burton
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Brian Cant

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author (The Little House):
Virginia Lee Burton
Presenter:
Miranda Connell
Presenter:
Brian Cant

Stanley Wilson expected that if anything in Saffron Walden were named after him it would be the public lavatory. A lifelong rebel, he fought for political causes because he cared deeply about people. At 50 Stanley married Kitty Edwards. His opponents hoped he would mellow and named an Old Folks Home after him.
But the real Wilson monument is their own home for children in care where they are bringing up the last of their unlimited family.

Contributors

Subject:
Stanley Wilson
Subject:
Kitty Edwards
Director:
Sandra Wainwright
Executive Producer:
Jennifer Jeremy

A Western adventure series starring Peter Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
Guest Stars, J.D. Cannon, Jane Merrow, Jane Wyatt

Gallant as always, Smith and Jones stop and help two nuns whose wagon has broken down. But our knights of the trail might just have kept on riding - at a gallop - if they had only known that this simple act of kindness was going to lead them into just the kind of trouble they had been trying to avoid...

(Colour)

Contributors

Smith:
Peter Duel
Jones:
Ben Murphy
[Actor]:
J.D. Cannon
[Actress]:
Jane Merrow
[Actress]:
Jane Wyatt

A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Janet Suzman, Paul Daneman and Frank Muir, Christianna Brand, James Maxwell
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Team captain:
Patrick Campbell
Panellist:
Janet Suzman
Panellist:
Paul Daneman
Team captain:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Christianna Brand
Panellist:
James Maxwell
Referee:
Robert Robinson
Call my Bluff devised by:
Mark Goodson
Call my Bluff devised by:
Bill Todman
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Johnny Downes

starring Dave Allen
with Jacqueline Clarke, Ronnie Brody, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Peter Hawkins, Robert East

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer/Comedian:
Dave Allen
Writer:
Austin Steele
Writer:
Peter Vincent
Designer:
Keith Cheetham
Producer:
Peter Whitmore
[Actress]:
Jacqueline Clarke
[Actor]:
Ronnie Brody
[Actor]:
Michael Sharvell-Martin
[Actor]:
Peter Hawkins
[Actor]:
Robert East

In this Chronicle film Robert Hardy tells the story of the Longbow - the simple yew stave which in the hands of the yeoman bowman became the dreaded war weapon of the English in the Middle Ages. He traces its origins from the late Stone Age to its devastating use at the Battle of Crecy in 1346. Not until the American Civil War, 500 years later, was a weapon devised to match its rate of fire.
The author makes his own longbows and has won competitions with them. He uses his vast knowledge to explain the legends which have grown up around a piece of wood which held Europe in fear for more than 100 years.

(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Robert Hardy
Director:
Roy Davies
Executive Producer:
Paul Johnstone
Film Cameraman:
John Wyatt
Film Editor:
Keith Raven

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