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A haunted house, a freaky fantasy and Alan Garner 's family saga feature in this adults' guide to children's books. AIDAN CHAMBERS and GRACE HALLWORTH offer a range of fiction, from picture-books to early teenage novels.
Director JOHN CROOKE
Producer CAROINE PICK

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Garner
Unknown:
Grace Hallworth
Director:
John Crooke
Producer:
Caroine Pick

A series of ten films about the way people live, in cultures with values and customs that are very different from our own.
7: Bali - Cremation
In the village of Kamasan a young man has died. He is from a high caste Brahmana family. Many of the values and beliefs of Balinese Hinduism are expressed in the ceremonies that accompany his cremation.
Film editor ROBERT BROWN Producer PETER RAMSDEN
Booklet, £1.50 (inc p and p), from BBC Publications[address removed] Book, Face Values £8.50, from booksellers

Contributors

Editor:
Robert Brown
Producer:
Peter Ramsden

A series of ten programmes
CHRIS SERLE, IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS and GILL NEVILL continue their exploration of the world of information science.
7: Let's Pretend
Training space-shuttle pilots, or testing bridges to destruction, is normally too costly or too dangerous to do on the real thing. But by giving a computer an exact description of how a complicated system behaves, it can mimic anything from the British economy to the world's weather.
Directors FRANK ASH , MATT BONEY Producer PAUL KRIWACZEK

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Directors:
Frank Ash
Directors:
Matt Boney
Producer:
Paul Kriwaczek

starring Jack Buchanan Edward Everett Horton
Googie Withers , Otto Kruger
In this lively comedy-melodrama, Jack Buchanan stars in a non-musical role as a recently retired insurance investigator who, aided by his reluctant wife, poses as an American hit-man in order to recover some stolen jewels.
Screenplay by RALPH SPENCE Produced by WALTER C. MYCROFT and JACK BUCHANAN Directed by THORNTON FREELAND
(First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Buchanan
Unknown:
Edward Everett Horton
Unknown:
Googie Withers
Unknown:
Otto Kruger
Unknown:
Jack Buchanan
Unknown:
Ralph Spence
Produced By:
Walter C. Mycroft
Produced By:
Jack Buchanan
Directed By:
Thornton Freeland
John Forrest:
Jack Buchanan
Younce:
Syd Walker
Treadwell:
Edward Everett Horton
Alice Forrest:
Googie Withers
Mike Chadwick:
Otto Kruger
Alberni:
Jack La Rue
Prince Homouska:
Walter Rilla
Beretti:
David Burns
Charles Cartwright:
Charles Carson
Harper:
Leslie Perrins
Spider Ferris:
Ronald Shiner
Barman:
Robb Wilton

A Measured Life
In this, the first of two educational autobiographies, richard HOGGART , the educationist and literary critic, retraces his personal education experiences.
Producer richard ARGENT
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hoggart

A series in 18 parts adapted from her books by JOAN LINGARD
8: Maggie's weekend in Edinburgh is full of emotional upheavals and far from peaceful.
Studio sound BRIAN DEWAR Director MICHAEL KERRIGAN BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Lingard
Unknown:
Brian Dewar
Director:
Michael Kerrigan
Maesie:
Kirsty Miller
James:
Ian Michie
Mr Fraser:
David Ashton
Mrs Fraser:
Margo Croan
Grandfather:
James Copeland
Catriona:
Jane Garven
Alexander:
Pat Doyle

A series of ten programmes on practical garden design. 7: The Vegetable Garden
'Growing vegetables is a most relaxing hobby, eating them an enjoyable climax,' says GEOFFREY SMITH. ..
In this week's programme he shows how he plans and runs his own vegetable garden the whole year round.
Film editor PETER RINGSTED ProducerBRIANDAVIES
Book (same title), £1.50, from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith.
Editor:
Peter Ringsted

from
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Young music, art, fashion and style with Mike Andrews
Nicky Picasso and Steve Blacknell This week: studio band
Fire Engine, The Event Group dance from A Black Box, and a studio interview with Alice Cooper
Executive producer MICHAEL APPLETON
Director ROY CHAPMAN
Producer JOHN BURROWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Andrews
Unknown:
Nicky Picasso
Unknown:
Steve Blacknell
Unknown:
Alice Cooper
Producer:
Michael Appleton
Director:
Roy Chapman
Producer:
John Burrowes

A documentary film.
Dramatics in Monte Carlo. The English obsession with organising a replica of home abroad has come to the Mediterranean. The obligatory amateur dramatic group is about to put on another production, The Heiress, in central Monaco. Standards must be maintained, so a director, John Bromley, is flown out to take charge. For John Grant, the leading man, things wil be all too dramatic ... Photography MIKE SOUTHON
Sound recordist GRAHAM RODGER Film editor PETER SYMES Producer DAVID PEARSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Rodger
Editor:
Peter Symes
Producer:
David Pearson

The first of six programmes of song, dance and comedy starring Ben Vereen, Turnstyle with special guest Michael Parkinson and GEOFF RICHER'S FIRST EDITION
Written by BORIS DAY
Choreography GEOFFREY RICHER
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST Vocal backing JEAN GILBERT , LINDA JARDIM. VICKY SILVA Costume designer VERITY LEWIS
Sound LEN SHOREY. Lighting BILL MILLAR Designer ANDREW HOWE DAVIES
Producer STANLEY APPEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Vereen
Unknown:
Michael Parkinson
Director:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Unknown:
Jean Gilbert
Unknown:
Linda Jardim.
Unknown:
Victy Silva
Designer:
Verity Lewis
Unknown:
Sound Len Shorey.
Unknown:
Bill Millar
Designer:
Andrew Howe Davies
Producer:
Stanley Appel

Twenty years ago malaria was eradicated from Sri Lanka. It was the showpiece success story of who's great campaign against the disease that its greatest investigator called 'the million murdering death'. But within a few years it was back. Worldwide, it more than doubled its numbers of reported cases in just five years.

The parasite and the mosquito have both shown a remarkable capacity for beating the scientist at his own game. But now, Sri Lanka's latest onslaught is one of few around the world that seems to be making headway. Is it just a temporary advance, doomed yet again to failure? Or is this a rare example of self help, backed up by effective collaboration between the West and the Third World, with a genuine promise of success?

Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Film editor:
Keith Raven
Horizon editor:
Graham Massey
Written and produced by:
Alec Nisbett

Dramatised by Elizabeth Elliot
Janis's husband, a merchant captain, is away at sea. They have recently moved the family home away from London to settle, with their 3-year-old daughter, into a cottage on the North Cornish coast. For a while life seems idyllic, then Janis discovers a secret place - a hidden dove that will change her life...

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Elizabeth Elliot
Film Editor:
Justin Smith
Assistant Director:
Kevin Crooks
Producer:
John King
Janis:
Janis Winters
Fran:
Joanna Foster

with Peter Snow , John Tusa , Peter Hobday and Donald MacCormick
Producer PAUL NORRIS
Directors ALEX SAWARD , JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
CLIVE SYDDALL , JOHN MAHONEY
Deputy editor DAVID DICKINSON Editor RON NEIL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Producer:
Paul Norris
Directors:
Alex Saward
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Clive Syddall
Unknown:
John Mahoney
Editor:
David Dickinson
Editor:
Ron Neil

A series of eight programmes based on excerpts from French-speaking television networks. 6: Les Trois Tours
MARIANNE LAWRENCE introduces a view of Paris that most tourists don't see: life in the tower blocks of the 13e arrondissement.
Research JANE COTTAVE
Production SUSAN PATON

Contributors

Introduces:
Marianne Lawrence
Unknown:
Jane Cottave
Unknown:
Susan Paton

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