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Grandfather's Penny Farthing Presenters
Delia Morgan , Johnny Ball
Pianist Richard BROWN
Designer JOHN ASHBRIDGE
Written by PETER WILISHIRE Directed by JOHN DALE
Producer ANNE GOBEY ' Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Delia Morgan
Pianist:
Richard Brown
Designer:
John Ashbridge
Written By:
Peter Wilishire
Directed By:
John Dale
Producer:
Anne Gobey
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

The last of five programmes on how to grow your own fruit, presented by GEOFFREY SMITH 5: Figs, Grapes and Melons
Some of the more exotic sounding fruits are among the easiest to grow. In this programme Geoffrey Smith shows how to grow top quality melons and figs on an allotment, and grapes both indoors and outdoors.
Series producer PETER RIDING
Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Book (same title), 69p, from bookshops Gardening Hints on Ceefax

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Producer:
Brian Davies

Week-by-week, Newsweek investigates a current issue in context and in close-up, and analyses the ideas that matter now and in the future. presented by David Jessel , Richard Kershaw and Donald Maccormick
Deputy editor PETER CERESOLE Editor PETER IBBOTSON

Contributors

Presented By:
David Jessel
Presented By:
Richard Kershaw
Presented By:
Donald MacCormick
Editor:
Peter Ceresole
Editor:
Peter Ibbotson

Mexico and the Mexican Indian A series of six programmes 2 : The First Great Temples
The Night of the Dead is celebrated throughout Mexico every year-a pagan cult that has become a Christian festival. The Mexican obsession with death probably began 3,000 years ago with the mysterious Olmec people. Their influence spread across Mexico and was followed by the building of the first great temples - Tootihuacan and El Tajin.
Today, religious rites are still performed at El Tajin by the Totonac people. But Spanish priests succeeded in stamping out the sacred Ball Game - a game involving the sacrifice of players who were sent as messengers to the gods.
Narrated by IAN HOLM
Photography JOHN HOOPER , COLIN WALDECK Film editor RAOUL SOBEL
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Written and produced by ANNA BENSON GYLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Holm
Unknown:
John Hooper
Unknown:
Colin Waldeck
Editor:
Raoul Sobel
Producer:
Bruce Norman
Produced By:
Anna Benson Gyles

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by Jame Saunders starring
Richard Beckinsale
Anna Calder-Marshall and David Swift
Lena can't understand Stan's complete change of character, including his getting out of bed. Stan, however, wants to make his first day as a florist/gardener one to remember. After spending it at Diana's-not all the time in the garden - it proves to be just that.
Music Ken Jones
Designer Tim Gleeson Producer Roger Race

Contributors

Writer:
James Saunders
Producer:
Roger Race
Music:
Ken Jones
Designer:
Tim Gleeson
Stan:
Richard Beckinsale
Lena:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Signwriter:
Gordon Rollings
George:
Paul Curran
Dingley:
David Swift
Diana:
June Ritchie
Pub landlord:
Pat Gorman

Law-breakers, law-enforcers, lawyers, the law - in 13 frank documentary films set in Florida, USA. 8: Rape
In the last ten years, rape has increased in the Circuit Eleven catchment area more than any other crime. It has risen from 70 to over 700 cases a year. The victims' ages range from two months to 91 years. Five per cent of the victims are men. In an attempt to come to terms with this appalling upward spiral, Florida has set up a centre for its sex offenders.
In this documentary, rapists from the centre meet a rape victim and a panel of police and rape treatment consultants in a teach-in on rape, sponsored by the Government and conducted before an audience predominantly female. Open frank debate and group therapy on this taboo subject seem to be working. For where 90 per cent of rapists who are sent to prison will rape again within weeks of their release, only eight per cent of those at the Government centre re-offend.
Walter Merricks points out that no such constructive alternative to prison exists here.
Film cameraman COLIN DEEHAN Film recordist JOHN PRITCHARD Film editor PETER GORDON Researcher MO BOWYER
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer MARK ANDERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Merricks
Unknown:
Colin Deehan
Unknown:
John Pritchard
Editor:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Researcher Mo Bowyer
Producer:
Mark Anderson

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