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Introduced by Meryl O'Keeffe and Michael Reinhold
A weekly topical look at the health industry in Britain and abroad.

Nobody outside the family circle knows us as well as the doctor. But how much do we know about them?

Contributors

Presenter:
Meryl O'Keeffe
Presenter:
Michael Reinhold
Director:
Alan Hayling
Producer:
Karl Sabbagh

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Lynn Barber, Simon Ward and Patrick Campbell, Diana Coupland, Christopher Cazenove
Referee Robert Robinson

(Christopher Cazenove is in The Regiment: Friday 9.25 BBC1)

Contributors

Referee:
Robert Robinson
Team captain:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Lynn Barber
Panellist:
Simon Ward
Team captain:
Patrick Campbell
Panellist:
Diana Coupland
Panellist:
Christopher Cazenove
Call My Bluff devised by:
Mark Goodson
Call My Bluff devised by:
Bill Todman
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Johnny Downes

Starring Frankie Howerd
with June Whitfield, Norman Bird, Wolfe Morris, Pamela Cundell, Raymond Mason,
Tricia Newby, Jacqueline Stanbury, Ken Alexis

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Merriman
Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Writer:
Peter Robinson
Writer:
Chris Allen
Costume Designer:
Paula Bruce
Make-up:
Jackie Fitzmaurice
Sound:
Laurie Taylor
Lighting:
Peter Wesson
Design:
Valerie Warrender
Producer:
John Ammonds
Comedian:
Frankie Howerd
[Actress]:
June Whitfield
[Actor]:
Norman Bird
[Actor]:
Wolfe Morris
[Actress]:
Pamela Cundell
[Actor]:
Raymond Mason
[Actress]:
Tricia Newby
[Actress]:
Jacqueline Stanbury
[Actor]:
Ken Alexis

Allan Prior, in this series of highly personal films, concludes:
The real thing is always worse

Allan Prior is a writer of fiction - novels, films, TV plays -but he is probably best known for his scripts for Z Cars and Softly, Softly.
He portrayed policemen and criminals as he found them. Some people said his brand of truth was too harsh. He says that the real thing is always worse, that the professional criminal is on nobody's side but his own, that his only concern is to have a good time at somebody else's expense.

To illustrate his theme Prior has written two scenes of life in a criminal 'family,' contrasting fiction with fact. He also talks to victims of criminal greed and violence; and, ten years after his visit to write the original Z Cars scripts, returns to Kirkby 'Newtown' - where, most of all, he finds evidence that 'the real thing is always worse.'

Contributors

Presenter:
Allan Prior
Producer:
Malcolm Brown
Director:
Peter Robinson

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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