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Associate producer JOHN SHEARER Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

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Producer:
John Shearer
Producer:
Christopher Capron

From Normandy to Provence and back again ...
Johnny Morris explores some well-known and some lesser-known parts of the country.
1: Honfleur to the Loire Valley
From the Normandy resorts of Honfleur, Trouville and Deauville, Johnny moves on to Divessur-Mer. There he watches another sailing of Normans from the spot where William the Conqueror set out for England, visits Mont St Michel and travels south to see the chateaux of the Loire.
Producer BRIAN PATTEN (Bristol)

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Johnny Morris
Producer:
Brian Patten

Richard Thomas as John-Boy Michael Learned as Olivia Walton Ralph Waite as John Walton Will Geer as Grandpa Ellen Corby as Grandma The Ceremony
Based on EARL HAMNER jr's autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain Executive producer LEE RICH

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Richard Thomas
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John-Boy Michael Learned
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Olivia Walton
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Ralph Waite
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John Walton
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Will Geer
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Grandpa Ellen Corby

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir
Hilary Tindall , Robert Powell and Patrick Campbell
Dawn Addams, Lord Kearton Referee Robert Robinson
Call My Bluff devised by MARK GOODSON and BILL TODMAN Director MICHAEL GOODWIN Producer JOHNNY DOWNES

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Frank Muir
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Hilary Tindall
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Robert Powell
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Patrick Campbell
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Robert Robinson
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Mark Goodson
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Bill Todman
Director:
Michael Goodwin
Producer:
Johnny Downes

The First Signs of Washoe
All normal humans have language: no other living organisms do
This view is still maintained by many scientists: that one of the essential differences between man and other animals is our unique control of language.
But in 1966, two psychologists began an experiment that challenges this assumption. They took a chimpanzee called Washoe into their own home and brought her up almost as a human child - but using only sign language in her presence. Hoping that she would somehow pick it up, they recorded her progress on film. Their efforts did not go unrewarded. If Washoe really has acquired language, she will have confounded some of the world's leading scientists. Yet, as the programme goes on to show, Washoe is only the first such chimpanzee of many....
Narrator IAN HOLM
Produced for WGBH Boston by SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Presented by VERONICA-JANE birley Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Monkey business: page 4

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Simon Campbell-Jones
Editor:
Peter Goodchild

A season of new plays from Birmingham Sunday Tea by EDWIN PEARCE
Maple and Derry behave just like their parents and teatime at their place gives Adam a shock.
Script editor TARA PREM Designer ian ASHURST
Producer BARRY hanson Director LESLIE BLAIR

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Edwin Pearce
Editor:
Tara Prem
Designer:
Ian Ashurst
Producer:
Barry Hanson
Director:
Leslie Blair
Derry:
Mike Grady
Maple:
Sheila Kelley
Adam:
Kenneth Hadley

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