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Ten programmes on the origins and growth of the Arab-Israeli dispute.
8: Nasser and Israel
The Six-Day War of 1967 ends Nasser's Pan-Arabist dream.
Production assistant CAROLINE PICK
Written and produced by ROGER owrt
(Shown last Tuesday on BBC1, not Wales)

Contributors

Produced By:
Roger Owrt

Ten programmes on hand-knitting and crochet.
Presented by Jan Leeming
With PAM DAWSON and MARGARET STUART
8: DM:gK nt Colour
Executive producer SHEILA INNES
Producer JENNY ROGERS

Contributors

Presented By:
Jan Leeming
Presented By:
Pam Dawson
Presented By:
Margaret Stuart
Producer:
Jenny Rogers

The nude lady canoeist who appears in tonight's episode was not hired by Clive Gammon to upset Terry Eustace, who likewise wishes to make clear that he did not pay the duck that swims off with Gammon's fish.
Written and narrated by Ian Wooldrige
(Repeat)

Contributors

Angler:
Clive Gammon
Angler:
Terry Eustace
Writer/Narrator:
Ian Wooldridge
Producer:
Michael Begg

A HM<or</ of the B!Mcs A series of nve films
4: The MouemeMts of ProftdeKce
As successive waves of black people left the South in search of the Promised Land, the blues took root in the cities of the North.
Written by Gin's OAEHiY
Produced by UABDALENA FAGiNtUN ! (First shou'tt on BBC1)
Boo)c (same title), £3.00, Jrom boohshop)

Contributors

Produced By:
Uabdalena Fagintun

Richard Stilgoe presents an optimists' guide to the news of the week-with the help of the Cambridge Buskers as musical guests and even an occasional extra Stilgoe or two.
Directors TOM GUTTERIDGE , DEREK TOWERS Producer KEN STEPHINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Directors:
Tom Gutteridge
Producer:
Ken Stephinson

Introduced by Robert Stenuit
In a violent storm on the night of 19 November 1724, the Dutch Merchant Ship Slot ter Hooge was driven full speed into the terrifying cliffs of Porto Santo Island in the Madeiras. Two hundred and twenty men died and her cargo of oil, wine, brandy, foodstuffs - and three and a half tons of bullion - was lost. In less than a year of the disaster an English diver, John Lethbridge, had performed amazing feats of salvage on the wreck to the pleasure and profit of his employers, the mighty Dutch East India Company. In all he recovered over three tons of the silver ingots and coins which the ship was carrying on route for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies.
Two hundred and fifty years later, the Belgian diver and marine archaeologist, Robert Stenuit, dived on that same wreck after a detective hunt through the archives of Europe. His patience was rewarded with a complete chest full of silver bars which his distant predecessor had missed or was unable to recover. But Stenuit was now preoccupied with one question - how had Lethbridge, so long ago, performed his operations? Using a newly discovered contemporary plan of the 'Diving Engine', Stenuit has reconstructed Lethbridge's hair-raising experiments.
The result is both an intriguing historical detective story and a new development in experimental archaeology - conducted for the first time underwater!
(Repeat)
Book (same title), an anthology of ten years, £5.75, from bookshops
(Next week: Italian Breakthrough, a look at the work of three men who began the Renaissance)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Stenuit
Producer:
Ray Sutcliffe
Editor:
Bruce Norman

Ricky Jay, America 's top contemporary comedy magic star, opens his cabinet of wonders to reveal a laughing card trick, the Creation of Life, and the case of the bird that could sing in five languages and imitate a banjo with its voice, as well as the incredible illusion skills of his fellow performers.
From Hollywood: the award-winning puppeteer, Bruce Schwartz
From Australia: ventriloquist Clifford Guest, with his World of Sounds
From Switzerland: special guest stars, Mummenschanz, the unique mime and mask theatre group
With guest appearances by Susan George and the World-Famous Song and Dance Pig

Contributors

Star/magician:
Ricky Jay
Puppeteer:
Bruce Schwartz
Ventriloquist:
Clifford Guest
Mime and mask group:
null Mummenschanz
Guest appearance:
Susan George
Music:
Ken Jones
Technical consultant:
Ali Bongo
Technical consultant:
Robert Swadling
Designer:
Ken Starkey
Director:
Stanley Appel
Producer:
John Fisher

Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Also appearing Sandra Richards, Stanley Mason
(Repeat)

Monty Python's Flying Circus, record (RM 73), cassette (REMC 73) from record shops

Contributors

Conceived, written and performed by:
Graham Chapman
Conceived, written and performed by:
John Cleese
Conceived, written and performed by:
Terry Gilliam
Conceived, written and performed by:
Eric Idle
Conceived, written and performed by:
Terry Jones
Conceived, written and performed by:
Michael Palin
[Actress]:
Sandra Richards
[Actor]:
Stanley Mason
Animations by:
Terry Gilliam
Designer:
Robert Berk
Produced by:
Ian MacNaughton

by Jonathan Miller
Why do physicians connect breathlessness with heart disease? How do the cells of the body use oxygen? Why does a thin atmosphere at high altitude endanger consciousness?
Our understanding of the body would make no real progress until the connection between the heart, the lungs and the blood had been appreciated. The Ancient Greeks thought of the heart as a furnace, we know the heart is a pump.
Repeating some of the classic 17th century experiments, Jonathan Miller reveals that breathing is like burning, but that fire is not in the heart.
(A printed version of this programme will be in "The Listener" dated 30 Nov)

Contributors

Writer/presenter:
Jonathan Miller
Film Editor:
Steve Newsham
Lighting Cameraman:
Ken Lowe
Executive Producer:
Karl Sabbagh
Producer:
Patrick Uden

In which Robert Robinson looks at books, talks to bookmen and examines the use and abuse of the English language. With Vicky Payne
Director MARTtN L. BELt. Producer AKTOKY Koust

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Vicky Payne
Director:
Marttn L. Belt.
Producer:
Aktoky Koust

Six programmes about the creative possibitities of stilt photography presented by BRYN CAMPBELL 4: Socta! Documentary
The way we live in Britain is illustrated in strongly contrasting styles through the photographs of two of Britain's leading photo-journalists !AN BERRY and DON MCCCLLIN.
Research assistant JOHN anooKE Producer PETER RixtNG

Contributors

Presented By:
Bryn Campbell
Unknown:
Don McCcllin.
Unknown:
John Anooke
Producer:
Peter Rixtng

This week Petfr Witson , Chairman of Sotheby's, talks about some of his favourite paintings. Tonight, Mr nod Mr.! Andrew's by GAINS-BOROCMH. reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London.

Contributors

Unknown:
Petfr Witson

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