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A series of 12 explorations with Professor W. G. Hoskins
11: Breckland and Broads
Who would believe that East Anglia has its own desert? Yet in a way that is what the Breckland is. PROFESSOR WILLIAM HOSKINS asks how this came about, and compares this arid and little frequented part of East Anglia with the watery and popular landscape of the Broads.
A ravishing portrait of Breckland and the Broads. (DAILY MAIL) Film cameraman MIKE RADFORD Producer PETER JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor W. G. Hoskins
Unknown:
Professor William Hoskins
Unknown:
Mike Radford
Producer:
Peter Jones

An Arabian Voyage
Presented by John Mackenzie
Ask where the last British passenger ship on a year-round scheduled service survives and people, even in shipping circles, would be hard put to find a reply. The answer, surprisingly, is in the Arabian Gulf. For 32 years the Dwarka has been sailing one of the oldest and most romantic shipping routes in the world. She is an Imperial echo of the routes established throughout the East in the days of the British Raj. Producer BOB SAUNDERS
Series editor ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Presented By:
John MacKenzie
Producer:
Bob Saunders
Editor:
Anthony Isaacs

A thousand years ago in China the souls of 108 knights were reborn to fight the tyranny and corruption of the government. Liang Shan Po and the Millionaire
Directed by GYO KOMATA
English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL for WORLD WIDE SOUND, London Produced by NTV Tokyo

Contributors

Directed By:
Gyo Komata
Directed By:
Michael Bakewell

A personal view by J. Bronowski in 13 programmes
With these words Dr Bronowski opens the first programme which charts the changes, anatomical and intellectual, that brought about man's superiority.
"The impression is that a very powerful intellect is being turned on (vast areas of darkness." (DAILY MAIL) "Quite simply, a milestone in television."
(NEW YORK TIMES)
Book (same title) £7.50 paperback, £11.00 hardback from booksellers

Contributors

Presenter:
J. Bronowski
Series Editor:
Adrian Malone

International Chess
Presented by Jeremy James
Game 9: It's at this stage that a player's nerve really needs to h.old.
The favourite has fallen - tonight either Hungarian Andras Adorjan or West German Hans Hecht can reach the final-and a draw will not be good enough.
Expert analysis and comment by BILL HARTSTON
Director JILL DAWSON
Producer ROBERT TONER

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Unknown:
Andras Adorjan
Unknown:
Hans Hecht
Unknown:
Bill Hartston
Director:
Jill Dawson
Producer:
Robert Toner

The Incas
Until their conquest by the Spanish in the 15th century, the Incas built up a 3,000-mile empire, with cities perched on mountain tops, irrigated terraces clinging to the sides, and a network of roads carved through some of the most difficult terrain in the world-all in less than a century.
Today archaeologists are digging behind the myths and legends that surround the Incas to discover how their enormous empire was actually run. Dr John Hyslop investigates the road system, probably the most extensive ancient road system in the world.
Dr Craig Morris studies the administrative centres and Dr Ann Ken dall excavates near the most spectacular of all Inca sites-Machu Pichu. But can their research do more than tell us about the Incas, can they also help to re-populate areas of Peru which once flourished, but where now only a few families live in extreme poverty? Narrator Ian Holm
Producer ANNA BENSON GYLES
Series editor BRUCE NORMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Hyslop
Unknown:
Dr Craig Morris
Unknown:
Dr Ann Ken
Narrator:
Ian Holm
Producer:
Anna Benson Gyles
Editor:
Bruce Norman

A comedy film series re-creating the successful feature film, starring special guest stars
April Fools
Anything for a lark. It's 1 April and everyone at the 4077th is playing outrageous tricks on everyone else. But Colonel Potter, exasperated by this mad behaviour, springs a nasty little surprise of his own.
Written by DENNIS KOENIG
Directed by s. CHARLES S. DUBIN
Theme music on BBC Comedy Themes (record REH 387, cassette ZCR 387) from retailers

Contributors

Written By:
Dennis Koenig
Unknown:
Charles S. Dubin
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
B J Hunnicutt:
Mike Farrell
Colonel Potter:
Harry Morgan
Hotlips:
Lorctta Swit
Charles:
David Ogden Stiers
Klinger:
Jamie Farr
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher
Tucker:
Pat Hingle
Rizzo:
G W Bailey
Roy:
Roy Goldman
the Nurse:
Jennifer Davis

The first of a series of seven programmes to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Presented by H. C. Robbins Landon ' The result of dire necessity '
HAYDN became the most popular composer the world had ever seen and one of the wealthiest. But he almost starved. He almost failed.
The story of how and why he succeeded is told by H. C. ROBBINS LANDON, who was inspired to make a lifelong study of the composer on being told, as a schoolboy, that 90 per cent of Haydn's music was not even published.
Film cameraman ROBIN ROLLINSON Film editor RICIIARD PAWELKO
Executive producer HUMPHREY BURTON Producer J. MERVYN WILLIAMS BBC Cllmru/Wales
(The Emperor Quartet: tomorrow 10.10) BBC Music Guides: Haydn String Quartets il.50, Haydn Symphonies £1 50, from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Joseph Haydn
Presented By:
H. C. Robbins Landon
Told By:
H. C. Robbins
Unknown:
Robin Rollinson
Producer:
Humphrey Burton
Producer:
J. Mervyn Williams

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