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Introduced by John Craven
The last in this series of four programmes in which young people air their views about topics and issues that matter to them.
Today: Images - do we worry too much about how people look? With zany pop star Captain Sensible, and Dr Desmond Morris , famous for his books and programmes about human behaviour.

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Introduced By:
John Craven
Introduced By:
Dr Desmond Morris

A series of eight films 5: Chopped
' As a boy I used to sit at the end of the runway watching the planes land and take off.'
Already in trouble before going solo. the first flying casualty finds the pressures building up. He becomes very good at everything except the landing. His eye and hand co-ordination are just not good enough. He has to leave.
Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer COLIN STRONG

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Editor:
David Lee

Truck Drivin' Man
He has been called ' the last American hero '. With his country-style music and even his own radio stations, the long-haul trucker has become the mechanised cowboy of the 80s. But this story of three truckers and their journey from Portland in Oregon to Phoenix, Arizona, is also about the reality as well as the myths. Lead driver, Karl Weber , puts it this way:
' The small independent operator hasn't only got to fight the government bureaucratic machine and the big trucking companies, but also his own union-the Teamsters. And to keep in business, he's just got to keep on truckin'.'
For KARL wfiwr that can mean upwards of 200,000 miles a year.
Producer RICHARD TAYLOR
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES

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Unknown:
Karl Weber
Producer:
Richard Taylor
Editors:
Anthony Isaacs
Editors:
Peter Jones

A series of six programmes about Britain in the 1990s
5: Suddenly at Home The Early End of British Industry
Clive Sinclair , millionaire electronics innovator, believes that the 1990s will differ from the 1970s as profoundly as the 19th century differed from the 18th. Only a small percentage of the workforce will still be employed in industry. Seven million jobs will need to be found in ' products of the mind '. And, he says, contrary to popular thinking, Britain today is an excellent place to get new ventures under way. His ideas are challenged by three people also concerned with looking at our future.
Director DON harley
Producer victor maruion Editor JOHN REYNOLDS

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Unknown:
Clive Sinclair
Editor:
John Reynolds

Events in the life and work of Fred Dibnah, Bolton steeplejack 5: An Epic Journey Begun
The annual test of the stamina and solidarity of FRED DIBNAH and his family, as their steam engine and trailer leave the mill chimneys behind and roll away to shatter the tranquillity of rural Cheshire. This is the old engine, the roller which Fred spent 14 years restoring and which he expects to repay him with ' a form of immortality ':
' When I'm long gone dead it will still be here. Even if they drop the Bomb it would blow all the houses down but just roll this over into a ditch somewhere, and if there were anybody left they would eventually find it and sort of say, ' Mm, this is interesting. What were they like when they made these?'
Narrator Deryck Guyler
Photography ARTHUR SMITH
Sound JACK WILSON , DAVE BAUWUR Film editor PETER GIBBS
Assistant producer JEAN Thompson
.Written and produced by don haworth BBC Manchester

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Unknown:
Fred Dibnah
Narrator:
Deryck Guyler
Narrator:
Photography Arthur Smith
Narrator:
Sound Jack Wilson
Unknown:
Dave Bauwur
Editor:
Peter Gibbs
Producer:
Jean Thompson
Produced By:
Don Haworth

A comedy series in which Kelly presents his unique observations on life, written by KELLY MONTEITH , NEIL SHAND featuring MICHAEL BALFOUR PETER BLAND , ELLIS DALE
DEREK GRIFFITHS , JANE HOW
LLEWELLYN REES , ELIZABETH SPENDER MICHAEL STAINTON
With SNEH GUPTA, KATHLEEN HEATH
Music composed by RONNIE hazlehurst Sound PETER BARVILLE
Lighting WARWICK FIELDING Designer DAVID HITCHCOCK Producer bill wilson

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Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Michael Balfour
Unknown:
Peter Bland
Unknown:
Ellis Dale
Unknown:
Derek Griffiths
Unknown:
Jane How
Unknown:
Llewellyn Rees
Unknown:
Elizabeth Spender
Unknown:
Michael Stainton
Unknown:
Kathleen Heath
Composed By:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Designer:
David Hitchcock

Forty Minutes ...of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals.

Roedean is Britain's most famous public school for girls. It is exclusive, expensive and draughty. Sited on a bleak outcrop of the South Downs, it looks down with a faint disapproval on nearby racy Brighton. But Roedean made a self-inflicted dent on its public image when it appointed a headmaster, having allowed the first male teacher in the classroom just over ten years before.
The Roedean Ethos still lives on, however, and this film conveys what it feels like to be a school-girl there. Some of today's 400 Roedean girls make known their feelings on the pressures of the classroom and social life, of 'crushes' and friendships, of conformity and success.

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Film Cameraman:
John Hooper
Film Recordist:
Alan Cooper
Film Editor:
Jane Val Baker
Executive Producer:
Roger Mills
Director:
Lucy Harington

A comedy film scries in which a group of irreverent young lawyers join an old-established law firm. starring Wilfrid Hyde White as Emerson Marshall , with Martin Short as Tucker Kerwin Alley Mills as Leslie Dunn
Joe Regalbuto as Eliot Streeter
Shelley Smith as Sara James , and Tim Thomerson as Johnny Danko Inferno
When fire breaks out at the law firm's offices, everyone is trapped. Mr Marshall does his best to cheer up his staff and is disappointed by the lack of response from a singularly unappreciative audience.
Written by DAVID lloyd
Directed by charlotte BROWN

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Unknown:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Unknown:
Emerson Marshall
Unknown:
Martin Short
Unknown:
Leslie Dunn
Unknown:
Joe Regalbuto
Unknown:
Eliot Streeter
Unknown:
Shelley Smith
Unknown:
Sara James
Unknown:
Tim Thomerson
Unknown:
Johnny Danko
Unknown:
Mr Marshall
Written By:
David Lloyd

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