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A series of eight programmes presented by Geoffrey Smith 5: Problem Patch
Can you grow carrots on a clay soil? Is it possible to grow celery on a sandy soil? Is there a cure for the vegetable gardener's curse - carrot root fly? This week GEOFFREY SMITH tackles these and other problems in the vegetable garden.
Producer PETER RIDING
Director BRIAN DAVIES

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Smith
Director:
Brian Davies

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler with Richard Kershaw
Newsreader Richard Whitmore

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Charlton
Presented By:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Richard Kershaw
Unknown:
Newsreader Richard Whitmore

A celebratory "series of 13 programmes for Jubilee year about craftsmen in Britain. 5:
Rope Peter Annison took over a small rope-making firm from Tom Outh waite in a Yorkshire village, a firm which had been in the same family for over 80 years. During last summer's tourist period, 1,000 visitors a day visited this small rope works. What might have been a dying craft takes on new dimensions in the 70s.
Film editor ROGER GUERTIN
Film cameraman PHIL MEHEUX Series producer JOHN READ Producer ANNE JAMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Rope Peter Annison
Unknown:
Tom Outh
Editor:
Roger Guertin

Presented by Barbara Myers
Each week Inside Medicine examines the latest issues from the world of hospitals and doctors, diseases, cures, patients and policy.
Studio director JOHN GORMAN
Executive producer KARL SABBAGH Producer ROBIN BRIGHTWELL

Contributors

Presented By:
Barbara Myers
Director:
John Gorman
Producer:
Karl Sabbagh
Producer:
Robin Brightwell

A film series re-creating the successful feature film starring Alan AIda as Hawkeye and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John George
The Army hospital unit becomes involved in a sort of fairy story.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Aida
Unknown:
Wayne Rogers

A six-part dramatised documentary series David Collings as William Wilberforce
Bryan Marshall as William Knibb Patrick Barr as Colonel Lawson Stanley Irons as Daddy Sharp 6: Free Paper Come
Written and introduced by EVAN JONES
In 1832 a serious rebellion broke out on the island of Jamaica. It was led by a deacon of the Baptist Church called
Music JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Film cameraman TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS
Producer CHRISTOPHER RALLING

Contributors

Unknown:
David Collings
Unknown:
William Wilberforce
Unknown:
Bryan Marshall
Unknown:
William Knibb
Unknown:
Patrick Barr
Unknown:
Colonel Lawson Stanley Irons
Producer:
Christopher Ralling
Sharp. Daddy Grignon:
Malcolm Douglas
Manderson:
Keith Sasso
Philip:
Oliver Samuels
Deacon Swiney:
Leo Oakley
James Stephen:
Gary Hope
George Stephen:
Timothy Charlton
Mrs Wilberforce:
Joanna Wake
Mrs Knibb:
Jill Williams
Thompson:
Robert Kerr
Pessoa:
George Bond
Colonel Johnson:
Michael Everett
Grant:
Patrick Tenison
Mrs Graham:
Jane Harries

On 3 May, the lights will go on again at the Old Vic, giving a new home to Britain's most famous touring company - Prospect.
"Arena" talks to some of the stars Prospect Theatre Company has assembled for an ambitious and imposing season and watches them playing and in rehearsal: Eileen Atkins in "St Joan", Derek Jacobi and Barbara Jefford in "Hamlet", Dorothy Tutin and Alec McCowen in "Antony and Cleopatra", Timothy West and William Louther in a new musical adaptation of "The Iliad" by Christopher Logue.
Producer PETER ADAM

Contributors

Actress:
Eileen Atkins
Actor:
Derek Jacobi
Actress:
Barbara Jefford
Actress:
Dorothy Tutin
Actor:
Alec McCowen
Actor:
William Louther
Producer:
Peter Adam

seen by Marian Foster
Ulster's modern image is one of battle-scarred streets, wary soldiers, grim-faced citizens; yet the Province is gentle, very beautiful, and steeped in its own folk-culture. Last summer MARIAN FOSTER discovered three very different aspects of the Ulster few outsiders ever see - the vigorously non-partisan Folk Museum, the artistry of a portrait painter turned botanist, and the preparations for peace being made in the Ulster Lakeland by the Tourist Chief.
Producer DESMOND LAPSLEY Film editor GREG MILLER
BBC Birmingham.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Foster
Producer:
Desmond Lapsley
Editor:
Greg Miller

BBC Two England

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