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A series of eight programmes on how to grow your own vegetables presented by Geoffrey Smith
3: The Seed is Eager to Grow
Why not sow peas, onions, parsnips and cauliflowers this weekend? As GEOFFREY SMITH says: All you've got to do is prepare the soil, sow the seed, let it happen and enjoy the end product. It's so much nicer than anything you can buy in the shop.'
Producer PETER RIDING
Director BRIAN DAVIES
Book (same title), 60p, from bookshops

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Director:
Brian Davies

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinions on events and issues of the day. With Richard Kershaw
Newsreader Richard Whitmore
Editor JOHN TISDALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Richard Kershaw
Unknown:
Newsreader Richard Whitmore
Editor:
John Tisdall

A celebratory series of 13 programmes for Jubilee year about craftsmen in Britain 3: Tapestry Weaver
- I just like the idea of something that becomes much more permanent; tapestry is very, very hardy; it lasts a long time.'
Archie Brennan is the Director of the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. His work is that of a craftsmanartist. He and his studio create large-scale tapestries, often based on the work of well-known modern artists, for universities, churches, town halls, and other modern patrons of the fine arts.
Film editor JESSE PALMER
Film cameraman YOUSUF AZIZ Series producer JOHN READ Producer NIGEL WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Archie Brennan
Editor:
Jesse Palmer
Producer:
Nigel Williams

A series of eight programmes presented by Barbara Myers
Many parents are failing to have their children vaccinated. They fear that the risks, especially from whooping cough vaccine, are greater than those of the diseases themselves. Have parents been misled by irresponsible publicity and the uncertainty of Government?
Executive producer KARL SABBAGH Producer robin BRIGHTWELL

Contributors

Presented By:
Barbara Myers
Producer:
Karl Sabbagh
Producer:
Robin Brightwell

A helicopter breaks down and leaves the film crew stranded in Lapland-but not before CLIVE GAMMON becomes the unwilling subject of a classic Irish joke. Written and narrated by IAN WOOLDRIDGE
Producer MICHAEL BEGG

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Gammon
Unknown:
Ian Wooldridge
Producer:
Michael Begg

A six-part dramatised documentary series David Collings as William Wilberforce
Gareth Thomas as Thomas Clarkson
Ronald Pickup as William Pitt Ronald Lacey as Charles James Fox 4: Tight Packers and Loose Packers
Written and introduced by EVAN JONES
In 1787 two Yorkshiremen, William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson , dedicated their lives to the task of abolishing the slave trade. Their efforts brought them close to the point of death, Music
JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Film cameraman TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS
Producer CHRISTOPHER RALLING
Book (same title), 13.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
David Collings
Unknown:
William Wilberforce
Unknown:
Gareth Thomas
Unknown:
Thomas Clarkson
Unknown:
Ronald Pickup
Unknown:
William Pitt
Unknown:
Ronald Lacey
Unknown:
Charles James Fox
Introduced By:
Evan Jones
Unknown:
William Wilberforce
Unknown:
Thomas Clarkson
Unknown:
Joseph Horovitz
Alexander Falconbridge:
Donald Sumpter
Captain Crow:
Aubrey Morris
Dundas:
Robert James
Equiano:
Louis Mahoney
Counsel:
Richard Warner
Isaac Parker:
John Hartley
Admiral Lord Rodney:
Robert Hartley
Irishman:
Patrick McAlinney
Kimber:
Leslie Schofield
Grosvenor:
Richard Hampton
Drake:
David Webb
Tod:
Alan Gerrard

This month includes:
Family Pieces
Philip Sutton is perhaps best known as a portrait painter; his principal subject is his family-his wife, Heather, son, and three daughters. Tonight's film looks at the way he has recorded them and at the way they have recorded him ...
Both Sides of the Line
In April 1917, the poet Edward Thomas was killed by a shell in his dug-out at Arras, France.
Behind the German lines was a young artist, Helmut Weissenborn. Now 79, and living in England, WEISSENBORN shows Arena how he recently illustrated with wood engravings the hitherto unpublished war diary of EDWARD THOMAS. The Divine and the Fantastic
A look at a superb collection of Gothic art from Cologne.
Plus our Commercial Break
Directors NIGEL WILLIAMS , CAROL BELL Assistant producer DIANA LASHMORE Producer LESLIE MEGAHEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Sutton
Unknown:
Edward Thomas
Artist:
Helmut Weissenborn.
Unknown:
Edward Thomas.
Directors:
Nigel Williams
Directors:
Carol Bell
Producer:
Diana Lashmore
Producer:
Leslie Megahey

A series of five programmes 1: The Postmistress
A short story by JOHN ELLIOT Read by June Barrie
Cast: NOEL DYSON , SUSAN TEMBY
NIGEL BRADSHAW , MICHAEL TURNER
Director JOHN ELLIOT
Producer ROBIN DRAKE. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Story By:
John Elliot
Unknown:
Noel Dyson
Unknown:
Susan Temby
Unknown:
Nigel Bradshaw
Unknown:
Michael Turner
Director:
John Elliot
Producer:
Robin Drake.

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