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The Self-help Show
Presented by Maggie Pinhorn and lain Watkinson
People getting together to help themselves; sharing problems and finding answers.
Grapevine will be showing projects in action and matching problems to solutions. Plus Grapevine's regular Newsboard - exchanging and updating information.
Director MARILYN WHEATOROFT Producer MIKE BOLLAND
The Community Programme Unit

Contributors

Presented By:
Maggie Pinhorn
Director:
Marilyn Wheatoroft
Producer:
Mike Bolland

A series of three film reports by Trevor Philpott

If we include every man, woman and child, every teetotaller and every tiny tot, the British public spends on average £2 a week on alcoholic drink. Well over half of that goes on beer.
The jolly brewer and his good honest ale have been part of the British tradition for 300 years. But in the last generation momentous changes have taken place in the brewing industry. The national giants have been born. What is left now of the famous families who were known as the Beerage? What has happened to the beer they brewed? How much of the jollity and how much of the quality is left?

Contributors

Reporter/Writer/Producer:
Trevor Philpott
Film Cameraman:
Alan Stevens
Film Editor:
Keith Raven
Assistant Producer:
Michael Maber
Produced By:
Trevor Philpott

with Rene Cutforth
The first of three weekly films.
' They were on the wing - in flight from guilt. They flew on the wings of Peter Pan -they were determined not to grow up; on the wings of alcohol and cocaine - they were determined not to sober up; on the wings of speed, of sex, of the spirit of competition ... They never touched down until the final crash-landing in 1929.' Thus, in a highly personal account, RENE CUTFORTH sums up the spirit of The Twenties-the decade which began in the shadow of the first Great World War and ended with the stock-market crash which plunged us into the Depression. These hectic years saw the start of commercial aeroplanes, bobbed hair, Noel Coward , the BBC and the Picture Palace.
Written and narrated by RENE CUTFORTH
Additional readings TONY CHURCH
The week's most exhilarating programme ... stop everything and take a look at René Cutforth's brilliant summary. (SUNDAY TIMES) Film editor JONATHAN ORANE
Producer LORNA PEGRAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
Peter Pan
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Editor:
Jonathan Orane
Producer:
Lorna Pegram

BBC Two England

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