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David Attenborough in conversation with musicians. Tonight he talks to the outstandingly versatile tenor Robert Tear who has already arrived on the international scene.

Contributors

Interviewer:
David Attenborough
Interviewee:
Robert Tear
Director:
Roy Tipping
Producer:
Walter Todds

First shown early in 1972, this series shows four situations in which people try to communicate.

Unless there's an outbreak of violence, or scandal, or a wild experiment being tried, most schools are taken for granted. We all know what school is like. But for teachers, and for the pupils, it's a daily drama, no less difficult for being familiar. How can the teachers reach the 30 restless faces in front of them? How can the kids get through the day?
Maggie, the head of the English department at a large friendly comprehensive, tries different ways to approach her pupils. In the film she works with one fourth-year class - a lively, noisy bunch who secretly admit to wanting to learn.
The film-makers brought educational psychologist Dr Richard Suchman to talk to both teachers and pupils to see how differently they see the same class. The results surprised everyone.
A BBCtv/KCETtv production

Contributors

Interviewer:
Dr Richard Suchman
Film Cameraman:
Charles Stewart
Producer:
Roger Graef

Starring Hayley Mills
with Ian McShane

Seventeen-year-old Brydie White has grown up mentally retarded following a shotgun accident years before in which a little boy was killed. In the small Cotswold village where she lives, her only friends are small children and animals - until one night, Roibin, a handsome gypsy boy, saves her from drowning and a whole new world opens up for Brydie.

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Contributors

Screenplay:
Mary Hayley Bell
Screenplay:
John Prebble
Producer:
Jack Hanbury
Director:
John Mills
Brydie White:
Hayley Mills
Roibin:
Ian McShane
Edwin Dacres:
Laurence Naismith
Philip Moss:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Mrs White:
Annette Crosbie
Cheeseman:
Norman Bird
Bill Slim:
Hamilton Dyce
Mrs Moss:
Pauline Jameson
Grandmam:
Rachel Thomas
Mrs Rigby:
Judith Furse
Mrs Potts:
Anne Blake
Mrs Cheeseman:
June Ellis
Fred Strong:
Jack Bligh
Dusty Miller:
Len Jones

Six programmes on the civilisations of Turkey
Written and introduced by John Julius Norwich

The Harem of the Turkish sultans in Topkapi Palace has for centuries been a byword for splendour and decadence. From these dazzling rooms, recently restored and now shown on television for the first time, the Ottoman Empire was governed and misruled. Their capital, Constantinople, was transformed by buildings such as the Blue Mosque into the Istanbul of today.
In the final programme of the series Lord Norwich brings his survey of Turkish history right up to the present time.

Contributors

Writer/Presenter:
John Julius Norwich
Film Cameraman:
John Baker
Film Editor:
Anna Benson Gyles
Producer:
David Cheshire

BBC Two England

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