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Today's story:
The Great Big Enormous Turnip Presenters this week
Sarah Long
Lionel Morton
Book: More Stories from Play School, 35p from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (REC 232) £1.79, or cassette (MRMC 045) £1. 95; Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away record (REC 242) £1.95, or cassette (MRMC 004) 11.95, from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Long
Unknown:
Lionel Morton

From the National
Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
Further coverage of today's quarter-finals.
Commentators TONY GUBBA
PETER WALKER and ALAN RANSOME
Television presentation by BOB DUNCAN and JOHN SHREWSBURY Editor PAUL LANG

Contributors

Commentators:
Tony Gubba
Unknown:
Peter Walker
Presentation By:
Bob Duncan
Presentation By:
John Shrewsbury
Editor:
Paul Lang

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion
Newsreader Kenneth Kendall
Editor JOHN TISDALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Kenneth Kendall
Editor:
John Tisdall

One year in Heddington, Wiltshire. A documentary serial in seven parts.

It's Heddington's Old Tyme Fair. It will raise £1,000 if the weather holds. There's widespread concern about the church and the organ - and the roof timbers are far worse than was thought. Heddington's 11-year-olds leave the village on their first step into the outside world - the comprehensive school in Calne. And in The Ivy, they celebrate the Harvest Festival.

Finally, the year comes full circle as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs goes into rehearsal - with the village writing in the camera crew as the Dwarfs.

Contributors

Director/Narrator:
David Pritchard
Film Editor:
John Barnes
Producer:
Mark Anderson

A special presentation of the film featuring Orson Welles with Oja Kodar , Elmyr de Hory Clifford Irving , Edith Irving Francois Reichenbach Truth is a lie (PICASSO)
ORSON WELLES'S fascinating film opens as an inquiry into the career of the forger, ELMYR DE HORY, who has deceived art dealers for more than 20 years with his brilliant post-impressionist forgeries. Welles looks at the phenomenon of fakes in general - including Clifford Irving's celebrated Howard Hughes manuscript - and involves the spectator in the question of what is truth and what illusion.
To Picasso's enigmatic statement, ' Truth is a lie', Welles adds, 'a lie which helps to understand reality '.
Easily the best thing Orson Welles has done as director and actor since his Citizen Kane. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Mischievous, enchanting legerdemain . -. The whole thing is irresistible.
(THE TIMES)
Orson Welles 's brilliantly edited jeu d'esprit on the nature of art and illusion t .. Wholly captivating.
(EVENING STANDARD)
An absolute joy ... ... (EVENING NEWS) God bless that great joker and self-confessed charlatan, Orson Welles. He is an oasis of civilised, witty sanity ... A magnificently funny film. (DAILY mail)
Producer FRANÇOIS REICHENBACH
Director ORSON WELLES. Films: page 11 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Oja Kodar
Unknown:
Clifford Irving
Unknown:
Edith Irving
Unknown:
Francois Reichenbach
Unknown:
Howard Hughes
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Orson Welles
Unknown:
Orson Welles.
Producer:
François Reichenbach
Director:
Orson Welles.

The colours are flamboyant, the production is slick, and all is put across with compelling force, emphasising the gaiety, the enthusiasm and sensual rhythms of South America.
Introduced by Jader de Oliviera
Recorded at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London
Producer DON SAYER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jader de Oliviera
Producer:
Don Sayer

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