Story: "Desmond the Dusty Dinosaur" by Althea

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

'European studies' is one of the vaguest but fastest growing areas of secondary education. Have the present courses any real relevance to the lives and careers of our children?

with Percy Thrower from 'The Magnolias' in Shropshire
In the Greenhouse: sowing seeds of half-hardy annuals in preparation for the outdoor summer display. Pruning: winter-flowering jasmin and hardy fuchsias.
(from Birmingham)

The start of a new financial year - a good time to look at the financial system, and especially the biggest changes in 150 years -VAT and unified tax. The new tax structure is supposed to be easier to administer, comprehensive, flexible and just. But is it, and how is business coping with it?
Also reports on the week in industry, and the unions.
Presented by Brian Widlake
with Paul Griffiths, David Taylor and Robert McKenzie

Tony Bilbow presents a profile of the Czech actor and director and introduces the first film in the current World Cinema Season.

The first of two films directed by Jiri Menzel
Starring Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta

In occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II a young apprentice railway guard leads a quiet uneventful life in a small country station. Only the amorous exploits of the chief guard and his dreams of his own romantic conquests relieve his boredom.

In his first film as a director, Jiri Menzel displays the gentle humour and affection for his characters which distinguished that other Czech comic study of public servants, Milos Forman's The Firemen's Ball.

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson preview films for the Easter holidays including three musicals written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman - Tom Sawyer, Charlotte's Webb and Mary Poppins.
American character actor Warren Oates, who plays Muff Potter in Tom Sawyer , comments on his first singing role and talks about his forthcoming comedy The Thief Who Came to Dinner.

with David Tindall
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