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The Big Time
Sheena Easton - the Making of a Star. Reporter JOHN PITMAN
The story of Sheena Easton is a real Cinderella story which began three years ago when the 19-year-old drama student from Glasgow was given the chance to make a pop record for The Big Time.
Today, many hits later, she is an international star. This programme charts her meteoric rise to fame.
Producer ESTHER RANTZEN Director PATRICIA Houlihan

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheena Easton
Reporter:
John Pitman
Unknown:
Sheena Easton
Producer:
Esther Rantzen
Director:
Patricia Houlihan

The camera of John Else and the songs of Ian Campbell and his folk group
Here Come the Brummies: a film ballad of life in the Midlands.
Music takes a giant stride into creative i,>isir>itian. * SUNDAY i imw The film told you more about Birmingham than many conventional documentaries (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH) Film editor COLIN HALL
Producer JOHN bird

Contributors

Unknown:
John Else
Unknown:
Ian Campbell
Editor:
Colin Hall
Producer:
John Bird

Six programmes in which Sir Hugh Casson , architect and President of the Royal Academy, visited places that gave him particular pleasure.
5: Ruskin - at Coniston in the Lake District
For 50 years JOHN RUSKIN dominated the art world of his time, famous for his writing on architecture, art and philosophy.
Ruskin's drawings take SIR HUGH to see the collections in the Ruskin Museum and at Brantwood.
Produced by ANNE JAMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Casson
Produced By:
Anne James

starring
Terry Moore
Robert Armstrong and ' Joseph Young '
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young is allowed to adopt a baby gorilla, despite her father's misgivings. Years later only Jill is able to control the giant-sized creature, now known as ' Mighty Joe Young '.
A group of New York showmen take Joe to America, but things go disastrously wrong when the gorilla is tormented and runs amok in the night club where he is the star attraction ...
Screenplay by RUTH ROSE from an original story by MERIAN C. COOPER Produced by JOHN FORD and MERIAN C. COOPER
Directed by ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK
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Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Moore
Unknown:
Robert Armstrong
Unknown:
Joseph Young
Unknown:
Jill Young
Unknown:
Joe Young
Play By:
Ruth Rose
Story By:
Merian C. Cooper
Produced By:
John Ford
Produced By:
Merian C. Cooper
Directed By:
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Jill Young:
Terry Moore
Max O'Hara:
Robert Armstrong
Gregg Ford:
Ben Johnson
Press agent:
Frank McHugh
LORA LEE:
Jill Younga Child
Mighty Joe:
Young Himself

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Roy Strong visits Hatfield House to introduce the play which he believes was written to celebrate an aristocratic marriage and to flatter a Virgin Queen.
Producer victor poole Director DAVID WILSON
(The BBC Television Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream can be seen next Sunday and Balanehine's ballet on Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Strong
Director:
David Wilson

Bill Symonds , Cider Maker and Country Gentleman
Bill Symonds was plied with cider in the cradle, nearly drowned in a vat of it as a child and when, in later years, his bank manager and accountant advised him to follow other small cider makers and go bankrupt he responded with the logic of a strong character fortified by the brew and sacked them both.
Now in old age he has become ambassador at large for the spirit of cheerful insobriety his family have fostered in Herefordshire for 250 years.
Narrator DERYCK GUYLER
Directed by JEAN THOMPSON
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Symonds
Narrator:
Deryck Guyler
Directed By:
Jean Thompson
Produced By:
Don Haworth

Back in Manchester tonight for his regular half-hour of live, unpredictable entertainment.
Director ALAN WALSH
Produced by KEN STEPHINSON
(Russell Harty is back in London next Tuesday)

Contributors

Director:
Alan Walsh
Produced By:
Ken Stephinson
Produced By:
Russell Harty

A series of films portraying issues, stories and characters.
Sex, Drugs and the Vicar
News of the World editor Barry Askew began his week on a Tuesday with a series of options for Sunday's paper. Lurid sexual secrets bandied in open court. Kiss and tell' exposes from rising starlets. Confessions of the boudoir eased from the. famous and infamous. But in the end there could be only one lead ... Undercover reporter David Potts, posing as a 'dirty old man', prepared the damning dossier, and snatch photographer Ian Cutler, using unconventional techniques, came up with the sort of shuddersome photographs that would wring the withers of News of the World readers and make breakfast on Sunday 6 September more than the usual, unforgettable experience.
The front page splash read 'Mr Nasty's Nursery of Vice ...
Film cameraman DAVID south
Film recordist colin MARCH
Film editor ROLAND TONGUE
Executive producer ROGER mills
Produced by DAVID JONES , CLAUDIA milne

Contributors

Editor:
Barry Askew
Reporter:
David Potts
Unknown:
Ian Cutler
Produced By:
David Jones
Produced By:
Claudia Milne

by TED WHITEHEAD
There are changes in life-style down at The Mulberry: Robin applies for a white-collar job and Brahms attempts to transform his future with a dead-cert investment. Meanwhile, Lynn sees problems ahead in her increasingly involved relationship with Jack.
Title song by ALAN PRICE
Senior cameraman GEOFF FELD
Costume designer DENNIS BRACK Designer BARBARA GOSNOLD Producer COLIN TUCKER
Directed by BARBARA DERKOW

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Whitehead
Unknown:
Alan Price
Unknown:
Geoff Feld
Designer:
Dennis Brack
Designer:
Barbara Gosnold
Producer:
Colin Tucker
Directed By:
Barbara Derkow
Nicola:
Primi Townsend
Camille:
Pam Scotcher
RObin:
Neville Smith
Else:
Christina Paul
Jack:
Tom Marshall
Ring-a-ding:
Leslie Ash
James:
Roy Alexander
Space:
Bradley Lavelle
Lady Vanessa:
Slzi Arden
Stewart:
Victor Lucas
Brahms:
Brian Vaughan
Lord Arvin:
Pall Brooke
Antonia:
Gillian Barge
Barney:
Toby Salaman
Andy:
Harry Fowler
Bernice:
Val Clover
Lynn:
Catherine Neilson
Edwin:
Sam Dastor
Jonathan:
Peter Harlowe
Motorcyclist:
Christopher Wright
Spanish woman:
Sandra Arabian

The American musician Billy Cob -ham, one of the world's foremost drummers, famous for his playing in the jazz-rock fusion field, has influenced a whole generation of young musicians and lectures regularly around the world on drumming technique. Renowned for his enormous drum kits and high-energy style, he is much concerned with the technical development of the instrument as well as with expanding the musical range of the drum set. He was recorded before an invited audience at London's Greenwood Theatre, demonstrating drum techniques with jazz drummer Nic France of Ian Carr 's NUCLEUS, and rock drummer Chris Wyles , currently with the SHAKIN' STEVENS band.
Studio sound ADRIAN bisiiop-laggett
Executive producer MICHAEL APPLETON Director JOHN BURROWES
Producer SANDRA GREGORY

Contributors

Musician:
Billy Cob
Unknown:
Ian Carr
Unknown:
Chris Wyles
Producer:
Michael Appleton
Director:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Sandra Gregory

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