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A practical guide to everyday writing with seven new and handy ways of remembering spelling. Today there's help with long words and telephone messages.
Presented by BARRY TOOK
With MICHAEL GAMBON , ZENA WALKER and TILLY VOSBURGH
Sketches written by ANDY HAMILTON and BARRY PILTON
Director JULIAN STENHOUSE. Producer CAROLINE PICK
Adults wanting help with reading. writing or spelling can ring, in England, [number removed]or write to: Write Away, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ; in Wales, ring [number removed]. or write to Write Away, PO Box 9. Caerphilly. Mid Glamorgan, or in North Wales ring [number removed]9: in Scotland ring [number removed]. or write to Write Away, Network, Dowanhill, 74 Victoria Crescent Road, Glasgow G12 9JN; in Northern Ireland ring [number removed]8, or write to Write Away, Room 208, 28 Bedford Street, Belfast BT2 7FE.

Contributors

Presented By:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Michael Gambon
Unknown:
Zena Walker
Written By:
Andy Hamilton
Director:
Julian Stenhouse.

First of eight programmes about attitudes and assumptions that still condition women's lives. SHARON DUCE with CHRISTIAN RODSKA and ERIC CARTE in Leila by FRANCES MCNEIL
Leila's husband is not best pleased when she decides to retrain for a skilled job, ' a man's job '.
Producer BRIGIT BARRY
Director BRONWEN GRAY.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances McNeil
Producer:
Brigit Barry
Director:
Bronwen Gray.

Ten programmes which aim to help mentally handicapped people to get more out of life.
Presented by BRIAN RIX
1: Let's Go and Meet People Social greetings
Assistant producer ROSANNA HIBBERT Producer CHARLES PASCOE

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Rix
Producer:
Rosanna Hibbert
Producer:
Charles Pascoe

A series of ten films
1: The Chrysanthemum People
Most people think of Japan as an urban, industrial country. In many important ways, however, life in Japan is still an extension of life in a Japanese village.
Directed by PETER RAMSDEN Produced by HOWARD SMITH

Contributors

Directed By:
Peter Ramsden
Produced By:
Howard Smith

Four films about television and its impact.
1: The Ratings Business (part 1) How commercial pressures dominate the American TV industry. Narrator MICHAEL DEAN
Director PAUL KRIWACZEK
Producer JOHN RADCLIFFE

Contributors

Narrator:
Michael Dean
Director:
Paul Kriwaczek
Producer:
John Radcliffe

A documentary film series about life in some of Britain's cities as seen by a few of the people who live in them.
From Londonderry 2: The Priest's Tale
John McCullagh is a Tyrone man who came to Derry a week after his Ordination in 1961. He worked in two city parishes before helping to set up the Pastoral Centre which supports the work of diocesan priests. The civil disturbance of the last 12 years has opened many wounds. He sees himself as one, of many, who helps to bind them up and, more important, tries to ensure that they won't be inflicted again.
Film editor DON O'DONOVAN Producer IAN HAMILTON
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
John McCullagh
Editor:
Don O'Donovan
Producer:
Ian Hamilton
Producer:
James Dewar

starring Des O'Connor who plays host to some of the finest entertainment talent from Britain and America.
Tonight's special guests are: from Britain Roy Hudd, Pam Ayres from America George Wallace
Orchestra directed by COLIN KEYES Programme associate NEIL SHAND Sound HUGH BARKER
Lighting ERIC WALLIS. Designer BOB COVE Executive producer JAMES MOIR Producer BRIAN PENDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Pam Ayres
Directed By:
Colin Keyes
Unknown:
Eric Wallis.
Producer:
James Moir
Producer:
Brian Penders

starring Richard Stilgoe and Ron Bain , Miriam Margolyes Roger Sloman , Tracey Ullman
Special guest star Kevin Turvey This week: Advice
If we took all the professional advice that's thrown at us. would we wind up wearing the same clothes, sitting in identical cars on our way to the same restaurant, stuck in a country lane on an AA recommended short cut?
Designer JIM LONGMUIR
Script editor COLIN GILBERT
Executive producer SEAN HARDIE :
Producer TOM GUTTERIDGE. BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Ron Bain
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Roger Sloman
Unknown:
Tracey Ullman
Unknown:
Kevin Turvey
Designer:
Jim Longmuir
Editor:
Colin Gilbert
Producer:
Sean Hardie
Producer:
Tom Gutteridge.

Breaking in Children
Two mothers have asked for help. They can't control their very disobedient but otherwise normal children. Jonathan, aged 5. simply does nothing he's told. It's one long fight that made his mother Deirdre desperate. David, aged 8, created so much havoc by running around and continually being cheeky, that his mother. Jennifer, had him taken into care.
Both mothers asked for help from Roger McAuley , Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. There they get a therapy that's extremely unpopular in the UK - called behavioural therapy it's based on a system of rewards and punishments that has strong similarities to the way animals are trained.
The film follows in day by day detail the emotional, courageous and often very funny efforts that Deirdre and Jennifer make to get control over their children. Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Film editor IAN POTTS
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by EDWARD GOLDWYN

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McAuley
Editor:
Ian Potts
Editor:
Simon Campbell-Jones
Produced By:
Edward Goldwyn

Neil Innes , singer and songwriter extraordinary, plays all the major roles in the third programme of his eye-opening, ear-piercing, foot-tapping, heart-throbbing, knee-trembling series.
In tonight's programme:
See: a great composer going bananas
Gasp: at a tycoon as his knicker elastic gives way
Thrill: to the beat as men of myth and magic beam down
Marvel: at tonight's special guest Ivor Cutler
Film cameraman JIM SAUNDERS Film sound LYNDON BIRD Film editor IAN PITCH
Designer CHRIS ROBILLIARD Producer IAN KEILL
Director ANDREW GOSLING

Contributors

Singer:
Neil Innes
Unknown:
Ivor Cutler
Unknown:
Jim Saunders
Designer:
Chris Robilliard
Producer:
Ian Keill
Director:
Andrew Gosling

with Peter Snow , John Tusa , Peter Hobday and Donald MacCormick ; weather forecast from Linda Alexander , plus the evening's sports results from David Icke.
Producer PETER BELL Directors
ALEX SAWARD and JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
CLIVE SYDDALL and JOHN MAHONEY Deputy editor DAVID DICKINSON Editor RON NEIL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Linda Alexander
Unknown:
David Icke.
Producer:
Peter Bell
Directors:
Alex Saward
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Clive Syddall
Unknown:
John Mahoney
Editor:
David Dickinson
Editor:
Ron Neil

Hot off the Eurovision link from Hamburg comes tonight's news giving you a chance to develop your understanding of the German language and a German view of world events.
Presenter CORINNA SCHNABEL
Programme consultant WERNER KASTOR Director JANE BARANGA
Producer RARBARA DERKOW

Contributors

Presenter:
Corinna Schnabel
Unknown:
Werner Kastor
Director:
Jane Baranga
Producer:
Rarbara Derkow

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