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Hugh Scully experiences A Victorian Breakfast and discusses original menus with Mary Berry

Motor Cycles: Kenneth Cope, actor and motor-cycle devotee, revives such famous names as Trump, Bat and Porcupine in the company of collector John Griffith

Arthur Negus answers viewers' questions

(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugh Scully
Expert (A Victorian Breakfast):
Mary Berry
Reporter (Motor Cycles):
Kenneth Cope
Expert (Motor Cycles):
John Griffith
Expert:
Arthur Negus
Director:
Robin Drake
Director:
Paul Smith
Producer:
John King

Yehudi Menuhin works on Bach's Concerto in A minor with two young violinists, Monica Huggett and Hideko Udagawa.
The second of three Master-Classes which the great violinist held before an audience of music students.

(On 10 July: Mozart's Violin Concerto in G major - K 216)

Contributors

Presenter/Violinist:
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist:
Monica Huggett
Violinist:
Hideko Udagawa
Accompanist:
Martin Isepp
Sound:
Adrian Stocks
Director:
Rodney Greenberg

People with Unusual Enthusiasms

At Marple in Cheshire a group of helmeted and overalled individuals spend their weekends restoring the Peak Forest and Ashton Canal. But why bother restoring canals anyway? And what do the volunteers get out of their dirty weekend?

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Derek Smith
Producer:
John C. Miller

by Julian Mitchell
[Starring] Michele Dotrice, Ruth Dunning, Award Winner Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Dennis Waterman, Billie Whitelaw
Another chance to see this series of eight plays.

Maggie's father is the second most right-wing journalist in England! She is a young assistant lecturer. So, when she gets caught up in a student revolt the fireworks really begin!

"Highly exhilarating" (The Guardian)
"Sharp verbal fisticuffs" (Daily Mirror)

Contributors

Writer:
Julian Mitchell
Singing Sculpture:
Gilbert and George
Producer:
Roderick Graham
Director:
James Ferman
Maggie Firebrace:
Michele Dotrice
Simon Tesco:
John Steiner
Gallery proprietor:
Jonathan Cecil
James Hare:
Dennis Waterman
Betty Atherton:
Ruth Dunning
Max Firebrace:
Denholm Elliott
Sir Lionel Compton:
Richard Vernon
Vanessa Compton:
Pauline Jameson
Eileen Firebrace:
Billie Whitelaw

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