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The first of nine egg-racing and problem-solving programmes.
Teams from: WELLCOME LABORATORIES, ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY, and ici are challenged to weigh the judges. Heinz Wolff , Head of BioEngineering at the Clinical Research Centre; Michael French, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lancaster University, and series presenter Johnny Ball.
Hilary Henson drops in on the Radio Bristol heat in search of the ' Fastest Eggmobile in the World '. For the supreme champion - the Hartmann Fibre Trophy and a cheque for E250. Production assistant DANA PURVIS
Director PAUL LOOSLEY Producer PETER BRUCE

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinz Wolff
Presenter:
Johnny Ball.
Unknown:
Hilary Henson
Unknown:
Dana Purvis
Director:
Paul Loosley
Producer:
Peter Bruce

The first of eight films
1: Before the Revolution
The remains of the industrial revolution are still with us to visit, to enjoy and to interpret. But how did early industry begin?
Anthony Burton visits a neolithic flint mine in Norfolk, a Roman gold mine in Wales and a wooden windmill at Bromsgrove.
Film editor KEITH WILTON Producer MICHAEL GARROD

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Editor:
Keith Wilton
Producer:
Michael Garrod

The last of six interviews by Ludovic Kennedy with people whose lives have changed suddenly. Joan Jara
Joan went to Chile in the course of her dancing career, and married the folk-singer VICTOR JARA. When Salvador Allende 's government was overthrown by a right-wing coup in 1973, Victor was taken to the infamous Santiago boxing stadium. He was tortured and murdered. Joan later returned to England and dedicated herself to campaigning for the restoration of democracy in Chile.
Researcher PETER LUFF Director ANN FREER
Producer TONY LARYEA

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Joan Jara
Unknown:
Victor Jara.
Unknown:
Salvador Allende
Unknown:
Peter Luff
Director:
Ann Freer
Producer:
Tony Laryea

A series of eight programmes 4: Michael Hastings in Brixton
' My family, too, were immigrant. They came to this country 150 years ago. All in tailoring, except one sister who plied a singularly different type of trade.'
A Book Programme film written and narrated by MICHAEL, HASTINGS, author of the award-winning comedy Gloo Joo.
Producer SANDRA GREGORY

Contributors

Unknown:
Gloo Joo.
Producer:
Sandra Gregory

Being a reconstruction in eight parts of the strange case surrounding Constance Kent
Written by Douglas Livingstone
with Joss Ackland as Mr Kent, Prue Clarke as Constance and the voice of Harry Andrews as Chief-Insp Whicher

On the night of Friday 29 June 1860, Francis Savill Kent, aged 3 years and 10 months, was found... brutally... horribly murdered.

(Part 2 on Thursday at 9.0 pm)

Feature p 84

Contributors

Writer:
Douglas Livingstone
Music:
Ron Grainer
Lighting:
Hubert Cartwright
Sound:
Robin Luxford
Sound:
Trevor Webster
Designer:
Oliver Bayldon
Producer:
Richard Beynon
Director:
Paul Annett
Mr Kent:
Joss Ackland
Constance:
Prue Clarke
Chief-Insp Whicher (voice):
Harry Andrews
Savill Kent:
Toby Scopes
Second Mrs Kent:
Amanda Murray
Elizabeth Gough:
Rosalind Lloyd
Mary Ann Kent:
Diana Beevers
Elizabeth Kent:
Eliza McClelland
Amelia Kent:
Katy Durham-Matthews
William Kent:
Russell Lewis
Emily Doel:
Sally Watkins
Cook:
Elspeth MacNaughton
Sarah Cox:
Juliet Waley
Alloway:
Anthony Arundell
First Mrs Kent:
Sonia Graham
Constance (aged 8):
Joanne Ridley
William (aged 7):
Spencer Hicks
Vicar:
John Rolfe
Edward Kent:
Nigel Le Vaillant
Constance (aged 10):
Lucy Durham-Matthews
William (aged 9):
Andrew Clasby
Dr Parsons:
Michael Turner
Landlord:
Colin Rix
Inspector:
Nicholas McArdle
Grimnel:
George Malpas
PC Urch:
Martin Fisk

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Introduced by Judy Lines and Bob Bond from Buckler's Hard, Hampshire.
With more and more families taking to the water in small cruising boats, the trailer-sailor' has now really come into its own. How easy are they to launch and recover by the average family? In this programme, the first of two on the subject, we put the question to owners and manufacturers of some of the smaller boats currently available.
Producer KEN GRIFFIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judy Lines
Introduced By:
Bob Bond
Producer:
Ken Griffin

BBC Two England

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