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Animal behaviour and survival.

Fighting between bull elephant seals is spectacular and sometimes bloody. Apart from this we know comparatively little about the behaviour of these colossal animals. Now zoologists have spent four months with a colony in Argentina recording the intimate details of the seals' social system.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Narrator:
Hugh Falkus
Scientific Editor:
Professor Niko Tinbergen
Presented by:
Christopher Parsons

Some quarter-of-a-million American troops are stationed in West Germany as part of the NATO forces for European security. But for many, the guest soldiers are unwelcome. Frankfurt television reports.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Producer:
Maryse Addison

by Guy de Maupassant
Dramatised in five parts by Robert Muller

Georges has decided to allow Madeleine to accept Vaudrec's legacy, provided that he himself receives half. Walter is throwing a large party to exhibit his newly acquired painting.

Contributors

Author:
Guy de Maupassant
Dramatised by:
Robert Muller
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
John Davies
Georges Duroy:
Robin Ellis
Madeleine:
Suzanne Neve
M. Walter:
John Bryans
Mme. Walter:
Margaret Courtenay
Suzanne:
Wendy Allnutt
Rose:
Penny Thomas
M. La roche-Mathieu:
Michael Gover
Norbert de Varenne:
Peter Sallis
Jacques Rival:
Garfield Morgan
Tattle:
Arthur Pentelow
Clotilde:
Elvi Hale
M. de Marelle:
Clifford Parrish
Marquis de Cazolles:
Peter Winslow-Wilson
Manservant:
Maurice Quick
Boisrenard:
Robert Sansom
Commissaire Delorme:
Charles Morgan
Bishop:
Arthur Blake

Coral in the Pacific is threatened by plagues of Crown of Thorns starfish. Why?
The destruction of the world's coral would mean the end of a valuable tourist industry and an unexploited source of new drugs. It also means upsetting the whole underwater balance of nature. After five years of patient detective work in the strange and beautiful underwater world of the Red Sea, a group of young British marine biologists have now uncovered many of the remarkable secrets of the mysterious Crown of Thorns.

(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Film Editor:
Christopher Woolley
Editor:
Bruce Norman
Producer:
Alec Nisbett

Traditional folk music, supplied at 240 volts by our most recent transatlantic musical export
Maddy Prior (vocals), Tim Hart (guitar/vocals), Bob Johnson (electric guitar/vocals), Peter Knight (electric violin/vocals), Rick Kemp (bass guitar/vocals)

Contributors

Singer:
Maddy Prior
Guitarist/Singer:
Tim Hart
Electric Guitarist/Singer:
Bob Johnson
Violinist/Singer:
Peter Knight
Bass guitarist/Singer:
Rick Kemp
Sound:
Len Shorey
Lighting:
Bill Millar
Design:
John Hurst
Producer:
Stanley Dorfman

by Snoo Wilson

When Pulsford, an ulcerated impresario, stages a competition to find a new pop-group, the only entrant is The Poetic Works. Their act is truly spectacular, too spectacular for Pulsford's own good.
(Getting The Act together: page 4)

Contributors

Writer:
Snoo Wilson
Script Editor:
Robert Buckler
Designer:
Peter Brachacki
Producer:
Anne Head
Director:
Ian MacNaughton
Pulsford:
Ed Devereaux
McNiece:
Bruce Bould
Vikki:
Fluff Joinson
Oscar:
Ted Richards
Wally:
Hugh Fraser
John:
Nicholas Bicat

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