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They are two of a kind. Both grandmothers in their 80s. Both, unbelievably, still battling it out in the competitive male-dominated worlds of horses and dogs.
Back in the 60s Florence Nagle fought the Jockey Club and won women the right to train. This year she took on the Kennel Club in a battle to get them to accept women members.
Louie Dingwall has trained race-horses officially or unofficially most of her life - and still intends to win the Derby! She's also a qualified mechanic and was the first woman licensed to drive double-decker buses.
Still vigorous and undefeated in the autumn of their lives, what lessons have they learnt? What do they think about men, animals and the modern world? And what advice have they for us?
Film editor PETER HUNT Producer MIKE PURTC -

Contributors

Unknown:
Florence Nagle
Unknown:
Louie Dingwall
Editor:
Peter Hunt
Producer:
Mike Purtc

Yorkshire cameraman Sid Perou penetrates the mysterious world beneath the Pennines, and takes us where television has never been before. It's a world seen previously only by that exclusive and obsessive band of explorers - Britain's 20,000 cavers. Alum Pot
! Climbing mountains from the inside '. Three teams descend the awesome Alum Pot near Ingleborough to show the ancient history of the region, and its sporting possibilities. This film was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1978 International Caving Film Festival at Grenoble.
Film editor MARTIN WINTERTON
Executive producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH BBC North

Contributors

Unknown:
Sid Perou
Editor:
Martin Winterton
Producer:
Douglas B. Smith

God and Love and Wellesley Street by JAMES MITCHELL , with ' They say charity begins at home, Jessie. Well maybe it doesn', but it ought to.'
Producer ANDREW OSBORN
Director TERENCE WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Wellesley Street
Unknown:
James Mitchell
Producer:
Andrew Osborn
Director:
Terence Williams
Jack:
James Bolam
Jessie in:
Susan Jameson
Bill:
James Garbutt
Bella:
Jean Heywood
Billy:
Edward Wilson
Man patient:
Gordon Faith
Fr Courtnay:
Ralph Michael
Dr Stoker:
John Gabriel
Woman patient:
Evadne Stevens
Tom:
John Nightingale
Charlotte Courtnay:
Ginnette Clarke
Nellie:
Sheri Shepstone
Ashton:
Geoffrey Rose
Hotel porter:
Vernon Drake

On the eve of next week's European summit, Michael Charlton analyses the central issue now facing the EEC. Will the European leaders agree on steps to set up a common monetary system? Can they all afford to join the super-snake?
Producer PETER CERESOLE Editor PETER IBBOTSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Producer:
Peter Ceresole
Editor:
Peter Ibbotson

starring Greta Garbo with Melvyn Douglas , Ina Claire
The film in which Garbo was finally allowed to use her gift for comedy has been chosen by J. B. Priestley as the film he would most like to see again. She plays the naive Comrade Ninotchka who comes to Paris to investigate the dubious activities of a Russian trade delegation and soon finds herself enjoying the charms of Count Leon and the capitalistic life.
Screenplay by CHARLES BRACKETT BILLY WILDER and WALTER REISCH
Adapted from an original screen story by MELCHIOR LENGYEL
Produced and directed by ERNST LUBITSCH . Films: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Greta Garbo
Unknown:
Melvyn Douglas
Unknown:
Ina Claire
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Charles Brackett
Unknown:
Billy Wilder
Unknown:
Walter Reisch
Story By:
Melchior Lengyel
Directed By:
Ernst Lubitsch
Ninotchka:
Greta Garbo
Count Leon d'Algout:
Melvyn Douglas
Duchess Swana:
Ina Claire
Iranoff:
Sig Rumann
Buljanoff:
Felix Bressart
Kopalski:
Alexander Granach
Commissar Razinin:
Bela Lugosi
Count Rakonin:
Gregory Gaye

A drama series in eight episodes
In the confusion of a road accident ten lives are mixed in a jigsaw of past and present.
5: Terri by RAY JENKINS
The Shop Assistant: For Terri it was meant to be more than a holiday, it was to be a break with the past. Featuring and Costume designer SHEILA BEERS Make-up artist MARTHA LIVESBY Designer ANTHONY THORPE Producer JOE WATERS
Director DOUGLAS CAMFIELD

Contributors

Designer:
Sheila Beers
Artist:
Martha Livesby
Designer:
Anthony Thorpe
Producer:
Joe Waters
Director:
Douglas Camfield
Terri:
Michelle Newell
Ian Shaw:
Michael Byrne
Joanna:
Jane Collins
Tom Baxter:
Daniel Hill
Megson:
Patrick Jordan
Diana:
Caroline Holdaway
Jack Dutton:
Davyd Harries
Dilys Martin:
Patricia Garwood
Frank Martin:
Peter Geddis
PC Trevor Banks:
David Beames
PC Neil Galloway:
David Sadgrove
Stephanie:
Sharman MacDonald
Manageress:
Juliet Winsor
Stephen Plummer:
Geoffrey Beevers
Malcom Day:
Nicholas McArdle
Interviewee:
Stewart Bevan
PA:
Shelagh McLeod
Mr Asif:
Marc Zuber
Anaesthetist:
John Gleeson
Receptionist:
Doremy Vernon
Ward nurse:
Lesley Clare O'Neill
First ambulance man:
Bill Rourke
Second ambulance man:
Peter Quince
Junior nurse:
Kara Noble

The programme in which the BBC hands over air time to the public.
Tonight: The Simon Community who care and campaign for the homeless and rootless - in fact the many thousands who are sleeping rough on our city streets.
'Dossers aren't a pretty sight and we don't expect people to like what they see, but if they understand a little more...'

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