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Story: Granny's Doll by GLADYS DAVIES Presenters
Lucie Skeaping , Don Spencer
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, £1-50 from bookshops. Play On (record REC
332, cassette ZCM 332); Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away
(record REC 242 or cassette MRMC 004), from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Davies
Unknown:
Lucie Skeaping
Unknown:
Don Spencer

A series of programmes which aims to help mentally-handicapped people to get more out of life. Presented by BRIAN RIX with VALERIE ANN LESTER Let's Go and Eat Out
Directed by ROSANNA HIBBERT
Series producer GORDON CROTON
Notes for parents and teachers, 65p inc postage available from B[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Rix
Unknown:
Valerie Ann Lester
Directed By:
Rosanna Hibbert

Five public talks on race relations. 2: Racism and Reaction
DR STUART HALL , Director, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
A booklet Five Views of Multi-Racial Britain. £ 1.00 inc postage and packing, from [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stuart Hall
Producer:
John Twitchin

Five programmes telling the story of crime fiction from Poe to the present.
2: Puzzles - Pure and Complex Commentary by H. R. F. KEATING
Director DOUGLAS ARGENT
Producer BERNARD ADAMS
Book (same title), paperback 13.35. hardback £5.35, from bookshops

Contributors

Commentary By:
H. R. F. Keating
Director:
Douglas Argent
Producer:
Bernard Adams

A series of five programmes
2: ADAM HOPKINS in conversation With ASA BRIGGS
Lord Briggs gives some of his views on higher education: was the expansion of the 60s justified? What about the quality of teaching and research?
Director PAULA GILDER
Producer JENNY ROGERS

Contributors

Director:
Paula Gilder
Producer:
Jenny Rogers

Adapted by Brian Finch
A series in 14 parts from the books by James Herriot
Starring Christopher Timothy as James Herriot and Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon
with Peter Davison and Carol Drinkwater

Nellie Dimmock's little dog provides James with another opportunity to glimpse the generosity of Granville Bennet. But the local cricket match has to be played and James must face the demon bowler...
(First shown on BBC1)
(Part 10 tomorrow at 6.0 pm)

Contributors

Author:
James Herriot
Adapted by:
Brian Finch
Producer:
Bill Sellars
Director:
Robert Tronson
James Herriot:
Christopher Timothy
Siegfried Farnon:
Robert Hardy
Tristan Farnon:
Peter Davison
Helen:
Carol Drinkwater
Mrs Hall:
Mary Hignett
Granville Bennet:
James Grout
Zoe Bennet:
Pamela Salem
Mr Blenkinsopp:
William Hoyland
Mr Dimmock:
John Comer
Mrs Dimmock:
Margaret Heery
Mrs Pounder:
Kristine Howarth
Betty:
Nancy Gower
Tom Willis:
David Theakstok
Hodgekin:
Teddy Turner
Len:
Barry Hart
Umoire:
Ken Hastwell
Girl:
Karen Drury
Nellie:
Georgina Eastwood
Sam:
Philip Wileman
Fred:
Mark Torvic

The third of seven programmes made by young people for young people. This evening's programme comes from Reading.
! ' The story so far:
A bomb drops on Reading; you can't believe a thing you read in the papers or see on television, people subject you to racial insults. and you can't get a job - or anything - because you don't look like a robot. We've all been there.
So have: The Specials and Reading band General Accident ...
Made with the help of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

Mervyn Jones , Dealer
Mervyn Jones started with horses and caravans and now buys and sells absolutely anything. Dealing becomes your night and day.
Money's no good to me. It's goods
I need for the excitement of buying and selling.' He works with a Welsh hill farmer-'and two can work better than one; you gang up on the fellow '. He also keeps close contact with gypsies. They call at 20 or 30 farms in a day. They're like miners, digging away and turning out all the rubbish in the hope of finding a nugget and when they get their nugget I want to be there first to get it off them.' Narrator DERYCK GUYLER
Film editor ROY NEWTON
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Mervyn Jones
Unknown:
Mervyn Jones
Narrator:
Deryck Guyler
Editor:
Roy Newton
Produced By:
Don Haworth

The fifth of eight programmes starring Dcs O'Connor who sings. jokes and talks with his guests from both sides of the Atlantic. Tonight guests are - from Britain: Max Bygraves , Marti Webb from America: Michael Keaton
Orchestra directed by COLIN KEYES Programme associate NEIL SHAND Sound LEN SHOREY
Lighting ERIC WALLIS
Designer GRAHAM LOUGH
Executive producer JAMES MOIR Producer BRIAN PENDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Dcs O'Connor
Unknown:
Max Bygraves
Unknown:
Marti Webb
Unknown:
Michael Keaton
Directed By:
Colin Keyes
Producer:
James Moir
Producer:
Brian Penders

The Spike
If a special kind of spike appears on the chart when your brain waves are measured, you have epilepsy; it reveals an electrical storm going on in your head.
The symptoms range from short blackouts to frequent violent convulsions, and can include bizarre hallucinations and feelings of acute fear. Research shows how the spike disrupts the brain's marvellous control systems but, as yet medical efforts to restore control have not been very successful.
This film shows epileptic fits happening, and also explains what the onlooker should and should not do. Most sufferers can live with these strange events inside their heads, but they are also impaled on another kind of spike: public prejudice, which can hurt far more than the epilepsy itseit.
Narrator DR PETER FENWICK
Film editor ROGER DAVIES
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Written and produced by MARTIN FREETH
( Repeated next Sunday)

Contributors

Narrator:
Dr Peter Fenwick
Editor:
Roger Davies
Editor:
Simon Campbell-Jones
Produced By:
Martin Freeth

The last of five films by directors making their drama television debut.
The Silence of the Sea by VERCORS dramatised by THOMAS EI. LICE
This classic story of the Second World War is set in 1940 when the Germans occupy France. Major von Ebrennae is billeted on an old man and his young niece and meets a wall of silent hostility Undeterred, he talks to them. 'I don't regret this war. Great things will come of it for Germany and France. One day the sun will shine again over Europe.' The silence continues.
Photographed by JOHN HOOPER Sound recordist PETER EDWARDS Film editor DAVID MARTIN Script editor JON AMIEL Producer TERRY COLES Director
PHILIP RONHAM-CARTER

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Thomas Ei.
Unknown:
John Hooper
Unknown:
Peter Edwards
Editor:
David Martin
Editor:
Jon Amiel
Producer:
Terry Coles
Director:
Philip Ronham-Carter
with Werner von Ebrennac:
Michael Byrne
the niece:
Fay Howard
the old man:
Hugh Dickson
Gefreiter:
Kenneth Owens
Woman:
Lisa Bergmayer
Orderly ROBERT:
Von Kaphengst

with Peter Snow , Charles Wheeler , John Tusa and Peter Hobday ; news, weather from LINDA ALEX ANDER, plus sport from DAVID ICKE.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Linda Alex
Unknown:
David Icke.

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