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A series of ten programmes with DAVID BLAKE and LINDA REILLY 5: The State's Business
Young's Brewery in Wandsworth is a successful family firm-a liv
-ing example of the virtues of private enterprise. Yet is all this at risk from an increasing mass of state intervention?
Director PETER LEE-WRIGHT Producer CHRIS JELLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
David Blake
Unknown:
Linda Reilly
Director:
Peter Lee-Wright
Producer:
Chris Jelley

Ten films about the fascinations and the working environment of professional engineers.
6: JOHN COPLIN is an Assistant Director (Design and Technology) of Rolls-Royce Ltd, Derby.
Research MARY SPRENT
Producer MICHAEL GARROD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Coplin
Producer:
Michael Garrod

Five programmes about investigative journalism on television. Introduced by CHRIS DUNKLEY 1: The Markov Investigation
A team of Panorama journalists set out to discover who really killed Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov.
Production assistant GILES OAKLEY Producer BERNARD ADAMS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Dunkley
Unknown:
Georgi Markov.
Unknown:
Giles Oakley
Producer:
Bernard Adams

A 15-part sociology series 6: Labour's Love Lost?
This programme looks at the work experience and attitudes to work of a number of men and women. It also examines the different rewards work offers, and the changing role of women at work.
Narrated by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX
Script adviser MALCOLM DAVIES Producer TONY ROBERTS
Director LIBBY HALLIDAY
Background notes to the series are available. Write to: The Living City, BBCtv, Wood Lane , London [Postcode removed], enclosing a large sae, with 135p postage.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Unknown:
Malcolm Davies
Producer:
Tony Roberts
Director:
Libby Halliday
Unknown:
Wood Lane

A serial in 16 parts
Part 6 by PHIL REDMOND
Simon is in trouble with Mr Baxter. By the end of the day he's in much worse trouble, all because of Tucker and the Tremblers.
For cast see page 47
Grange Hill Stories: £4.25 (hardback); SOp (paperback), from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Redmond

The story of a warm-hearted family of pioneer stock - surviving the Depression years of the 30s and facing the war years of the 40s. starring
The Family Tree
A curio left to Verdie causes her to investigate the past and leads to quite a discovery.
Based on EARL HAMNER jr's autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain Directed by LAWRENCE DOBKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Earl Hamner
Directed By:
Lawrence Dobkin
Olivia Walton:
Michael Learned
John Walton:
Ralph Waite
Grandpa:
Will Geer
Verdie Hamilton:
Lynn Hamilton
Mary Ellen:
Judy Norton-Taylor
Jason:
Jon Walmsley
Erin:
Mary Elizabeth McDonough
Ben:
Eric Scott
Jim-Bob:
David W Harper
Elizabeth:
Kami Cotler

by VERA BRITTAIN
An autobiography 1913-1925 Dramatised in five parts by ELAINE MORGAN
Part 2: Buxton 1914

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain:
Cheryl Campbell
Mr Brittain:
Emrys James
Mrs Brittain:
Jane Wenham
Edward Brittain:
Rupert Frazer
Roland Leighton:
Peter Woodward
Miss Penrose:
Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs Leighton:
June Tobin
Aunt Florence:
Hazel Douglas
Sarah:
Janet Davies
Geoffrey:
Geoffrey Burridge
Betty:
Tricia George
Theresa:
Joanna Foster
Norah:
Elizabeth Rider
Mrs Smith:
Kristine Howarth
Welsh patient:
Roger Monk

The Bridge that Spanned the World
Presented by Professor Tom Hughes
The world's first iron bridge was erected 200 years ago by the Quaker iron-master Abraham Darby. It still spans the River Severn, near Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.
It was the culmination of 70 years work by the remarkable Darby family which included the invention of coke smelting, the development of the first iron railways, and building some of the earliest steam engines.
The Darbys' surprisingly modern approach to their problems lives again as Chronicle shows tub-boats moving along their canal, trolleys climbing their hillside railway, and part of the bridge being specially re-cast in the iron-works that has been on the same site since 1709.
And the Quaker connection links Coalbrookdale with the United States. It begins with a Darby relative setting up the first blast furnace in Pennsylvania and climaxes when Josiah White makes the iron-making discovery which set America on the path to world leadership.
Narrated by DEREK COOPER
Film cameraman PETER CHAPMAN Film editor
MICHAEL GOLDSMITH
Producer ROBIN BOOTLE Editor BRUCE NORMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Professor Tom Hughes
Unknown:
Abraham Darby.
Unknown:
Josiah White
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Peter Chapman
Unknown:
Michael Goldsmith
Producer:
Robin Bootle
Editor:
Bruce Norman

Investigates, Discovers, Questions This week: The Cure
The hidden story behind drug abuse in Britain - the search for a solution.
Nick Ross investigates how the old as well as the young have become victim to drug addiction on an alarming scale. While heroin, cannabis and LSD claim the headlines, thousands of families are falling prey to everyday medicines or common household products. This, the second of two programmes, questions the responsibility of doctors and drug companies, and looks for ways to reduce the menace.
Editor TIM SLESSOR
A pamphlet on dangerous drugs and where to get information and help is available from: Man Alive, (The Fix) BBCtv, London [Postcode removed]. Enclose an sae.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Ross
Editor:
Tim Slessor

Thirty zany minutes with the chap once known as the Rochdale Cowboy. Vampires, Noah and a diminutive man from the Third Reich find their way into another MIKE HARDING one-man show.
Musical director menu close Sound ALAN FOX
Lighting GEORGE NORTON Producer BARRY BEVINS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Harding
Unknown:
Alan Fox
Unknown:
George Norton
Producer:
Barry Bevins

for the BBC2 Trophy
Leigh or Barrow v Widnes
In this second quarter-final, the Floodlit Trophy holders Widnes, will find extremely tough opposition away to either Leigh or Barrow.
Leigh are particularly strong this season, having previously beaten Widnes as well as Leeds and Hull KR. Barrow, too, are a difficult side to overcome on their home ground.
Highlights of the match played earlier this evening.
Introduced by RICHARD DUCKENFIELD Commentator EDDIE WARING
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Duckenfield
Commentator:
Eddie Waring
Producer:
Keith Phillips

takes a look at the contemporary rock scene.
Introduced by Anne Nightingale In the studio this week: Herman Brood and his Wild Romance The Skids with films, album tracks, interviews, news and reviews
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anne Nightingale
Unknown:
Herman Brood
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Producer:
Michael Appleton

BBC Two England

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