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The second of ten programmes

Even if you didn't do too well on the healthometer last time, here's your regular chance to look good and feel good with Miriam Stoppard and Terry Wogan. Special feature -- the mystery of massage.

Contributors

Presenter:
Miriam Stoppard
Presenter:
Terry Wogan
Producer:
Ron Bloomfield
Producer:
Michael Garrod

'When he was four they bought him a toy violin. It was made of tin and when it screeched he just destroyed it...'

Today, Yehudi Menuhin is 60 and to celebrate the occasion he talks to David Attenborough about his life from the early years in America up to the present day. The programme also includes the recollections of members of his family and of his friends and ends with a performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto in G major (K 216).

With Diana Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin, Yaltah Menuhin, Krov Menuhin, Jeremy Menuhin, Alexander Fried, Jacqueline Gazelle, Stephane Grappelli, Sam Marantz, Gerald Moore, Paul Paray, Ravi Shankar, Kurt Weinhold

The Menuhin Festival Orchestra, leader Robert Masters

Contributors

Presenter:
David Attenborough
Subject:
Yehudi Menuhin
Interviewee:
Diana Menuhin
Interviewee:
Hephzibah Menuhin
Interviewee:
Yaltah Menuhin
Interviewee:
Krov Menuhin
Interviewee:
Jeremy Menuhin
Interviewee:
Alexander Fried
Interviewee:
Jacqueline Gazelle
Interviewee:
Stephane Grappelli
Interviewee:
Sam Marantz
Interviewee:
Gerald Moore
Interviewee:
Paul Paray
Interviewee:
Ravi Shankar
Interviewee:
Kurt Weinhold
Musicians:
The Menuhin Festival Orchestra
Ochestra leader:
Robert Masters
Graphics:
Pauline Talbot
Graphics:
Michael Graham-Smith
Designer:
Ken Sharp
Producer:
Patricia Foy

Investigates, Discovers, Questions
This week: On The Fiddle

The British people are on the fiddle to the tune of at least £1 million daily - according to a recent survey. Office workers pinch the stationery, supermarkets cheat their customers, even bus conductors and deckchair attendants iron out used tickets, reissue them, and pocket the profits. Some of us call it the perks of the trade: others say it's a symptom of a corrupt and immoral society. Certainly no job seems to be without its perks: fiddling extends from the workman pocketing his paintbrush to the managing director having his home painted by the firm's maintenance man.

Tonight we learn just who is on the fiddle - and how. And we ask if anything can be done about it.

Contributors

Producer:
David Filkin
Editor:
Michael Latham

Photographed and directed by Robin Lehman

In the heat of an African dawn, the animals, birds and insects start their daily ritual of life and death.

A gaudily-coloured chameleon stalks its prey-a grasshopper. A hippo wallows in a mud-bath. A battalion of ants attack and devour a fiddler crab. Lion cubs play while a pair of cheetahs hunt for food and a maribou stork duels with a scorpion.

This brilliantly-photographed film has just won the 1976 Academy Award for the Best Short Documentary.

Contributors

Director/Photography:
Robin Lehman

When the Birmingham pub bombs exploded on 21 November, 1974 it was not just the face of Britain's second city which was scarred. The lives of survivors and bereaved were irrevocably changed in a split second.

The wife of a railwayman is widowed and left with three children; a factory worker loses his leg and his fiancee is killed; a young girl is blinded and severely injured.

Three victims show how they have begun to adjust to a new life they did not want in the course of-just a year.

BBC Midlands

Contributors

Producer:
Derek Smith

BBC Two England

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