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Trevor Philpott reports on The Snow Business
For this series of repeats we have chosen in the main the films that were the most fun to do and which even the people they were being made about considered the most fun to make.
The first of them, The Snow Business, is about those holidays in the snowy mountain peaks which the British began to flock to during the 60s. No longer were the glamorous Alpine resorts the winter pleasure grounds only of the rich, now the vast majority of people roaring in each winter were package tourists with different sized pocket-books and different ideas of fun.
The Snow Business compares the joys to be bought at St Moritz. the most fashionable resort of alt. with those that can be had in the ever-expanding snow centres on less exclusive mountain tops - at about a tenth of the price.
Directed by RANDALBEATTIE Produced by PETER ROBINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Philpott
Produced By:
Peter Robinson

Written and presented by General Sir John Hackett , GCB, CBE, DSO, MC
The most prized of all Britisn decorations for valour is the Victoria Cross, which is put ahead of all other honours, decorations and awards for bravery - civil or military. But there are m?ny other medals awarded for valour, and in this series of six programmes GENERAL SIR JOHN HACKETT looks at some of the rewards given to the British serviceman, and at the conditions in which they were won. Although the use of medals as military awards is comparatively recent, they have a long history as an art form to commemorate important people and events. This first programme traces the history of the medal from the times of the Greeks and Romans to its introduction into Britain under Elizabeth the First.
Director STUART DEWEY
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS. Preview: p 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Hackett
Unknown:
Sir John Hackett
Director:
Stuart Dewey
Producer:
Philip Chilvers.

The story of a warm-hearted family of pioneer stock - seven children, their parents and grand-parents-who struggle to survive during the Depression of the early 30s. starring
The Grandchild (part 2)
Tension mounts as Mary Ellen awaits the new arrival, but the real crisis is completely unexpected.
Based on EARLHAMNER JR'S auto-biographical novel Spencer's Mountain Written by BOB PETERSON and CLAIRE WHITAKEH
Directed by RALPH SENENSKY

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Ellen
Written By:
Bob Peterson
Directed By:
Ralph Senensky
Olivia Walton:
Michael Learned
John Walton:
Ralph Waite
Grandpa:
Will Geer

This final programme reflects the spectacular
11th International Festival of Country Music held at the Wembley Arena earlier this year, features
Laney Smallwood , Poacher Billy Jo Spears and Ronnie Milsap
Compere Ronnie Prophet Commentator DAVID ALLAN
Show organiser MERVYN CONN Director RICK GARDNER Producer DOUGLAS HESPE

Contributors

Unknown:
Laney Smallwood
Unknown:
Poacher Billy Jo Spears
Unknown:
Ronnie Milsap
Commentator:
David Allan
Unknown:
Mervyn Conn
Director:
Rick Gardner
Producer:
Douglas Hespe

A series of nine documentary films on topical issues.
5: The Catch
HMS Guernsey is a policewoman of the sea. The laws she enforces define the dos and don'ts of fishing. Her beat is three-quarter-million square miles of coastal water. The trawler skippers she orders to accompany her to the nearest port appear before magistrates with the power to fine up to £50,000, and confiscate the catch and the nets - crippling blows to the master of the Jose Caesareo and the master of the Candida Viera , whose stories are the subject of this film. Both were caught with their nets down inside Britain's 200-mile limit. Both faced bankruptcy and ruin. But for the men who sail the Fishery Protection Vessels it was a success, an essential demonstration that valuable fish stocks must be protected and conserved, so that when finally the argument over Britain's fishing limits is settled, there will at least be something within those limits left to catch.

Contributors

Research assistant:
Mo Bowyer
Film cameraman:
Royston Halladay
Film cameraman:
Graham Edgar
Film cameraman:
Michael Coles
Film editor:
TONY HEAVEN
Producer and narrator:
ROGER MILLS

Baby Grand tickle your late evening sensibilities with words and music designed to undermine your gravity. with Sharon Morgan Sion Probert
Alun Richards Baby Grand is:
JUDITH GLANVILLE , ROBIN LYONS CLIFF PRIOR, CHRIS STUART and NEIL WATSON
Sound TONY MOSSMAN , DES BENNETT Lighting LEN STEPHENS Director IEUAN LEWIS
Producer JACK WILLIAMS BBC Cymru/Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Sharon Morgan
Unknown:
Sion Probert
Unknown:
Alun Richards
Unknown:
Judith Glanville
Unknown:
Robin Lyons
Unknown:
Chris Stuart
Unknown:
Neil Watson
Unknown:
Sound Tony Mossman
Director:
Ieuan Lewis
Producer:
Jack Williams

to Brass Tacks
Every Child a Wanted Child?
The experts have had their say.
Now Eric Robson reports what the Brass Tacks audience has been saying - on radio phone-ins and in their letters - about the present concern over the provision of facilities for abortion in this country.
Research JUDY HILL
Director PETER HAMILTON Producer BRIAN GIBSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Director:
Peter Hamilton
Producer:
Brian Gibson

Tonight, for the first time on British television, we bring you the news in German, as transmitted earlier this evening throughout the German Democratic Republic.
The programme offers you a chance to improve your understanding of the German language and a glimpse of how world and internal events are covered bv GDR Television.
Presented by Corinna Schnabel
(Repeated: Tuesday BBC1, 9.10 am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Corinna Schnabel
Director:
Patrick Harpur
Producer:
Barbara Derkow

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