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The aim of this magazine for Asian women is to provide advice and information on matters of interest to them.
It also includes demonstrations on how to make items of everyday use at home, sewing and cooking, a story for children and an item of popular music.
Producer ashok RAMPAL
Directed by KRISHAN COULD BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Directed By:
Krishan Could

There is no simple clear way in which a scientific theory comes into being. Intuition and chance can play as much part as reason and logic. This programme shows how a theory about child bed fever was created and tested.
Producer PETER WALTON
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Walton

A Yesterday's Witness special
Sixty years ago there wasn't a single family planning clinic in this country. Then, the late Dr Marie Stopes wrote Married Love and Wise Parenthood-and sparked off a social revolution.
The advocates of birth control who founded and staffed the first clinics fought a fierce battle against ignorance and prejudice.
Some of those pioneers recall that fight to help free women from the fear of unwanted pregnancies. Taking part
Dr Helena Wright , Dr Evelyn Fisher Dr Olive Gimson , Baroness Stocks Charts
Frankenburg Alicia Fleming , Cecily Mure Elizabeth Richardson
Produced and directed by STEPHEN PEET

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Marie Stopes
Unknown:
Dr Helena Wright
Unknown:
Dr Evelyn Fisher
Unknown:
Dr Olive Gimson
Unknown:
Frankenburg Alicia Fleming
Unknown:
Cecily Mure
Unknown:
Elizabeth Richardson
Directed By:
Stephen Peet

live from the new Barbican Centre in London
Introduced by Mary Marquis with specialist comment and assessment by Ralph Holmes
During the past week more than 50 young violinists from 23 countries. including for the first time China, have been striving for a place among the six finalists in the competition. Tonight three of the finalists play a concerto before a distinguished international jury that includes
Ruggiero Ricci !, Henryk Szeryng and Shu-Chen Tan from China
The chairman is Yfrah Neaman
Named after the great Hungarian violinist and teacher, the Carl Flesch Competition began in 1945 but it was reconstituted as a major international event in 1968. The ten prizes range from £4,500 to £300 with up to 20 concert engage-, ments on offer, but the aim is as much to further the careers of all gifted violinists who compete, as it is to select prize winners.
In part one two finalists perform with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Sir Charles Groves
(Part 2 is at 8.5 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Marquis
Unknown:
Ralph Holmes
Unknown:
Ruggiero Ricci
Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Unknown:
Shu-Chen Tan
Unknown:
Yfrah Neaman
Unknown:
Carl Flesch
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Conducted By:
Sir Charles Groves

The second of eight programmes Isla St Clair and Desmond Lynam with the stories behind the scenes from the world of travel.
Today's Exchange Rates: what it will cost you abroad for everything from petrol to postcards.
Traffic Jam of the Week: where it's going to be and how to avoid it. Worldwide Weather: Jim Bacon sticks his neck out.
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON
BBCManchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Lynam
Unknown:
Jim Bacon
Producer:
Roger MacDonald
Producer:
Alan Dobson

by CARLA LANE , starring
Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer Ria is pleased to meet Kathleen, her old schoolfriend - but Ria talks too much and a friend turns into an enemy.
Directed by JOHN B. HOBBS
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY * Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Contributors

Unknown:
Carla Lane
Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Unknown:
Geoffrey Palmer
Directed By:
John B. Hobbs
Produced By:
Sydney Lotterby
Ria:
Wendy Craig
Ben:
Geoffrey Palmer
Leonard:
Bruce Montague
Adam:
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Russell:
Andrew Hall
Kathleen:
Helen Horton
Tony:
Ed Bishop
Delivery man:
Roger Elliott

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, dramatised for television in four episodes by Bill Craig
Starring Vivien Heilbron as Chris Colquohoun and Hugh Fraser as Robert Colquohoun

'I had finished with that life that had been, all the love I'd given to my Ewan, dead, lost and forgotten far off in France. Now I would stand by a stranger's side, sleep in a stranger's bed, while he loved me and me him.'

BBC Scotland

Contributors

Author:
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Dramatised by:
Bill Craig
Film Cameraman:
Alex Scott
Studio Lighting:
Alan Henderson
Designer:
David McKenzie
Producer:
Roderick Graham
Director:
Tom Cotter
Chris Colquohoun:
Vivien Heilbron
Robert Colquohoun:
Hugh Fraser
Else Queen:
Celia Imrie
Charlie:
Jonathan Watson
Ewan Tavendale:
Duncan Sharp
John Muir:
Billy Riddoch
Hairy Hogg:
Malcolm Rennie
Mrs Hogg:
Margo Gillies
Peter Peat:
Hugh Martin
Old Leslie:
Alex McCrindle
Ake Ogilvie:
Alec Heggie
Will Melvin:
Andrew McCulloch
Dalziel of Meiklebogs:
Donald Douglas
Sands:
Jimmy Yuill
Jock Cronin:
Jon Morrison
Dod Cronin:
Billy McColl
Kindness:
Alexander Morton
Ag Moultrie:
Terry Cavers
MacDougall Brown:
Nicholas McArdle
'Feet' Leslie:
Martin Black
Mrs Brown:
Anna Cowie
Cis Brown:
Sharon Erskine
Old Moultrie:
Ian Stewart
Mr Geddes:
Charles Houston
Mrs Geddes:
Maureen Morris

BBC Two England

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