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Play School visits a farm in Wetherby, Yorkshire
Story: "Farmer Flinder's Hat" by Mabel Watts
Presenters: Julie Stevens, Jon Glover

Contributors

Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Jon Glover
Author (Farmer Flinder's Hat):
Mabel Watts

A series of ten programmes for people with impaired hearing, those who live and work with them, and for the plain curious...

Deaf not Daft... words from a recently deafened person. Frustration, shock and depression have all been associated with deafness, but a housewife, an engineer and a psychologist speak from personal experience to encourage others.

(The programmes will be captioned for those who cannot hear.)

Book (same title), 85p, from bookshops. Details of lip-reading exercises will be given in the programme

Contributors

Presenter:
Polly Elwes
Presenter:
Richard Baker
Director:
Brian Daubney
Producer:
David Allen

with Ludovic Kennedy, Richard Kershaw and Richard Baker

Every weekday evening brings you the News and a longer look at the important questions of our time with the men and women involved.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Presenter:
Richard Kershaw
Newsreader:
Richard Baker

from the University of Liverpool Botanic Gardens, Ness

George Forrest, plant collector extraordinary, gave his name to many of the hundreds of plants which he collected on expeditions abroad in the early 20th century. A magnificent specimen of Pieris formosa forrestii is one of the many glorious shrubs at which Peter Seabrook will be looking.

BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Seabrook
Producer:
Barrie Edgar

Six films.

This film shows many examples from different parts of the Islamic world of the co-operation of man with the forces of nature: the large dams built long before anything comparable in Europe; the system of underground canals upon which whole areas depend; the huge water-wheels of Syria; the means by which ice was supplied right through the summer many centuries ago; the earliest windmills in the world.

Contributors

Film Cameraman:
Derek Waterman
Film Editor:
Austin Martin
Film Editor:
Jeffrey Harvey
Producer:
Paul Keeler
Producer:
Stephen Cross

The second of nine programmes

A midweek diversion in which Julian Pettifer and his guests Bernard Price, Ted Moult and Phil Drabble describe, discuss or just guess at the sights and sounds of the countryside and the delights of country life.

BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Pettifer
Guest:
Bernard Price
Guest:
Ted Moult
Guest:
Phil Drabble
Producer:
Peter Crawford

by Terence Wheeler

Portsmouth, 1870: Josh's girl is pregnant, and he's determined not to sail on the troopship to India with the other men in the family. For his Uncle Troop, Josh's defiance is a betrayal of the clan's long tradition of regimental honour and duty...

Contributors

Writer:
Terence Wheeler
Choreography:
Sunita Golvala
Make-up:
Pam Meager
Costumes:
Michael Burdle
Lighting:
Nigel Wright
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Kenith Trodd
Director:
Herbert Wise
Troop Smitherman:
Peter Vaughan
Charlotte Smitherman:
Peggy Mount
Josh Taylor:
Martin Shaw
Jack Smitherman:
George Innes
Silas Smitherman:
Malcolm Terris
Maisie:
June Page
Win Taylor:
Margo Cunningham
Harry Read:
Ivor Roberts
Clem Smitherman:
Maryann Turner
Murphy:
Tony Doyle
Jip:
Peter Clough
Ettie Russell:
Julia McCarthy
Pen:
Maggie Wells
Liz:
Maggie Don
First soldier:
Michael Watkins
Musician:
John Kirkpatrick
Musician:
Mick Hennessy
Musician:
Steve Heap

BBC2 opts out for half-an-hour and RWT, Britain's smallest television network, opts in. Your host, Henry Woolf, introduces words and music for Eric Idle, Neil Innes, David Battley, Gwen Taylor.

Contributors

Writer/Comedian:
Eric Idle
Performer/Musician:
Neil Innes
Performer:
Henry Woolf
Performer:
David Battley
Performer:
Gwen Taylor
Producer:
Ian Keill

BBC Two England

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