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Old Navigational Instruments: the famous Arthur Frank collection of navigational aids goes to sea in an attempt to discover how early mariners coped with their navigational problems.

Pewter: Hugh Scully welcomes back to the studio Richard Mundey, the popular expert on this subject.

Arthur Negus answers questions
Introduced by Hugh Scully

(from Bristol)
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A series of three film reports by Trevor Philpott on The Mighty Mississippi

At each end of the Mississippi River there is a city. In the north, where winter means 40 degrees of frost, is Minneapolis; sophisticated Americans, with a mixture of contempt and envy, call it Swedesville. In the south, in the steaming basin of the Delta, is New Orleans, the most romantic city in the United States; a city that every American wants to see once before he dies.

by William Shakespeare
Starring Eileen Atkins as Titania, Ronnie Barker as Bottom, Lynn Redgrave as Helena, Robert Stephens as Oberon

A traditional treatment of Shakespeare's comedy of errors, updated to 1865 and filmed on location.

The play was recorded in the grounds of Scotney Castle, Kent

"Captured for TV... the magic which is so essential to the piece" (Daily Express)
(First shown on BBC1)
(Withdrawal pleasures: page 4)
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with John Edmunds; Weather