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Story: The Rare Spotted Birthday Party by MARGARET MAHY
Illustrated by BELINDA LYON Presenters
SARAH LONG , JOHNNY BALL
Pianist PETER PETTINGER Designer PHIL ROBERSON
Scriptwriter JEAN WATSON Director JUDY WHITFIELD Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Mahy
Illustrated By:
Belinda Lyon
Unknown:
Sarah Long
Pianist:
Johnny Ball
Pianist:
Peter Pettinger
Designer:
Phil Roberson
Scriptwriter:
Jean Watson
Director:
Judy Whitfield
Producer:
Anne Gobey
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

The Penfold PGA
Championship
Further coverage from Royal St George's GC, Sandwich
Commentators HARRY CARPENTER HENRY LONGHURST , PETER ALLISS and MARK MCCORMACK
Producers Richard TILLING and FRED VINER
Editor a. P. WILKINSON

Contributors

Commentators:
Harry Carpenter
Commentators:
Henry Longhurst
Commentators:
Peter Alliss
Commentators:
Mark McCormacK
Producers:
Richard Tilling
Producers:
Fred Viner
Editor:
A. P. Wilkinson

A series of 11 programmes 8: Blocking
DAVE SMITHSON is a successful but frustrated photographer.
Introduced by GAlE HOUSTON and IAN FALLOON with PAUL ARLINGTON ,SUSAN GLANVILLE
Director RON BLOOMFIELD Producer JOHN RADCLIFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Smithson
Introduced By:
Gale Houston
Unknown:
Ian Falloon
Unknown:
Paul Arlington
Unknown:
Susan Glanville
Director:
Ron Bloomfield
Producer:
John Radcliffe

Spring into Summer with Delia Smith
A series of 13 programmes 6: Brush Up Your Pastry
Lancaster Lemon Tart; Farmhouse Fruit Pie; John Tovey 's Rough Puff Pastry
Producer BETTY WHITE
Family Fare 3, 35p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Delia Smith
Unknown:
John Tovey

A Question of Survival with Magnus Magnusson
Three historical characters are adrift in a balloon, and only one is allowed to survive the flight Students from Universities and Colleges defend their favourite characters' right to win the game. The judges: Robert McKenzie Christine Eade
Director PETER MAssa Producer BILL WRIGHT Historical gas: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Robert McKenzie
Unknown:
Christine Eade
Director:
Peter Massa
Producer:
Bill Wright

The New Unemployed
With one million workers on short time or out of work what prospects are there for the new unemployed - the office workers, the middle managers and executives-whose jobs are threatened? Presented by ALAN WATSON
RICHARD WAKELY , JOHN SWINFIELD With ROBERT MCKENZIE
Assistant editor PAUL ELLIS Editor JOHN DEKKER
Postponed from 25 April

Contributors

Presented By:
Alan Watson
Presented By:
Richard Wakely
Presented By:
John Swinfield
Unknown:
Robert McKenzie
Editor:
Paul Ellis
Editor:
John Dekker

by William Trevor.
A series of six plays.
With Eric Porter as Charles Stewart Parnell, Geraldine McEwan as Katherine O'Shea.
The love affair of Charles Stewart Parnell 'the uncrowned king of Ireland' with a married woman, Katherine O'Shea, shook the political society of the 1880s to its foundations. On her deathbed in 1921, Katherine remembers...
An Irish affair: pages 64-67

Contributors

Writer:
William Trevor
Lighting:
John Dixon
Designer:
Don Homfray
Script Editor:
Frank Hatherley
Producer:
Rosemary Hill
Director:
Basil Coleman
Charles Stewart Parnell:
Eric Porter
Katherine O'Shea:
Geraldine McEwan
Capt Willie O'Shea:
Ronald Hines
Aunt Ben:
Susan Richards
Nurse Fogarty:
Pamela Duncan
McCarthy:
John Biggerstaff
Healy:
Wesley Murphy
Biggar:
Will Leighton
Sarah:
Barbara Berkery
Doctor:
Maurice Quick
Hughes:
Edward Evans
Archbishop:
David Kelly
Gladstone:
Lee Fox

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