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The hunting bow was the ancestor of an astonishing variety of instruments.
David Munrow recreates the music and myth of early instruments.

With Alan Lumsden and guests David Watkins and James Tyler

Contributors

Presenter/Writer/Musician:
David Munrow
Musician:
Alan Lumsden
Musician:
David Watkens
Musician:
James Tyler
Producer:
Victor Poole
Series devised by/Director:
Paul Kriwaczek

Starring Vince Hill and The Young Generation
with their guests Aimi Macdonald, Rod McKuen, The Three Degrees.

Contributors

Singer:
Vince Hill
Singers/Dancers:
The Young Generation
Singer:
Aimi Macdonald
Singer:
Rod McKuen
Singers:
The Three Degrees
Musicians:
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
Choreographer:
Nigel Lythgoe
Script:
Roy Tuvey
Script:
Mauruce Sellar
Producer:
Stewart Morris

Based on the novels of Anthony Trollope
The BBC2 Serial
Written for television in 22 parts by Simon Raven
Starring Susan Hampshire, Philip Latham
and Roland Curram as the Duke Of Omnium

Plantagenet is Chancellor of the Exchequer and Glencora busies herself as a political hostess. Phineas, rejected by Laura and in debt, has failed to make his first speech in the House.

Contributors

Writer:
Simon Raven
Based on the novels of:
Anthony Trollope
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
Hugh David
Glencora:
Susan Hampshire
Plantagenet:
Philip Latham
Lord Brentford:
Lockwood West
Phineas Finn:
Donal McCann
Violet Effingham:
Mel Martin
Laura Kennedy:
Anna Massey
Collingwood:
Maurice Quick
Mr Turnbull:
Edward Burnham
Mr Monk:
Bryan Pringle
Mr Mildmay:
Norman Shelley
Robert Kennedy:
Derek Godfrey
Dolly Longstaffe:
Donald Pickering
Barrington Erle:
Moray Watson
Mme Max Goesler:
Barbara Murray
Lawrence Fitzgibbon:
Neil Stacy
Lord Chiltern:
John Hallam
Quintus Slide:
Clifford Rose
Duke of Omnium:
Roland Culver
Mr Clarkson:
Sidney Bromley
Mrs Bunce:
Brenda Cowling
Aspasia Fitzgibbon:
Rosalind Knight
Mary Flood:
Maire Ni Ghrainne

'In a strange way it was a good day. We were able to share things. I read to Mark. I gave him his last bath. Then early in the evening he kissed me and said, " Let's call it quits, Pooh." And he died about half an hour later.'

Sandy, a pretty young widow, describing the last day of her husband, Mark. She had been warned some months earlier that he had no more than five months left to live. This programme tells her story, and the story of three other people who have been given a sentence of death by their doctors.

The way they cope with the knowledge is sometimes heartening, sometimes puzzling and sometimes horrifying, but it shows clearly how the way you face death reflects the way you have lived, and how important are human relationships and a sense of family continuity.

Contributors

Produced for WGBH Boston by:
Michael Romer
Executive Producer:
Michael Ambrosino
Series Editor:
Peter Goodchild

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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