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Story: Clocks and More ClocksWritten and illustrated by PAT HUTCHINS. Presenters: Chloe Ashcroft, Ben Bazell
Pianist WILLIAM BLEZARD
Costume designer EVE renslaw Designer kathy attv
Graphic designer PETER WANE
Written and directed by PIPPA dyson Producer JOHN M. A. LANE
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Illustrated By:
Pat Hutchins
Unknown:
Chloe Ashcroft
Directed By:
Pippa Dyson
Producer:
John M. A. Lane
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Live coverage of the speech by the Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party
The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher , mp Reporting team
SIR ROBIN DAY, DAVID DIMBLEBY
Outside broadcast producer NEIL ECCLES Producer JAMES hogan
Editor MARGARET DOUGLAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown:
David Dimbleby
Editor:
Margaret Douglas

In Jerusalem, the city of churches, mosques, synagogues and shrines, three families who live within a mile of each other are visited-one Christian, one Muslim and one Jewish. The devotions practised in each home are observed, with each family talking briefly about what their religion means to them.
Producer NUALA o'faolain
A BBC/Open University production

continues a season of films celebrating the 60th anniversary of BBC "Radio starring
Basil Radford , Naunton Wayne
While on holiday in Baghdad, Caldicott and Charters are mistaken for spies by Nazis and flee for their lives. When the real
For Charters and Caldicott a poolside chat with La Palermo quite makes their heads swim. agents turn up, they leave for Istanbul, then Budapest, finally ending up in a lonely old castle The immortal, eccentric English-man, first created in The Lady
Vanishes, became famous on radio during the war years in the series written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat , the authors of that classic film.
Screenplay by JOHN WATT and MAX KESTER Produced by john CORFIELD Directed by john BAXTER Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Basil Radford
Unknown:
Naunton Wayne
Written By:
Frank Launder
Written By:
Sidney Gilliat
Unknown:
John Watt
Unknown:
Max Kester
Produced By:
John Corfield
Directed By:
John Baxter
Charters BAS:
Il Radford
Caldicott:
Naunton Wayne
La Palermo:
Greta Gynt
AHy:
Abraham Sofaer
Sheik:
Charles Oliver
Rossenger:
Cordon McLeod
Klacken:
Bernard Rebel
K7:
Cyril Gardner
Waiter:
Morris Harvey

The show made by young people Frank Finds Out ...
' Don't just sit there complaining. Get on your bike and do something about it ..."
It's all very well for politicians to come up with silly suggestions - after all, it's their job - but what happens to Frank, a provincial punk poet With more reasons for complaint than a Tranmere Rovers fan, when he decides to cycle to London in an attempt to do something about the way his life is being run?
Find out in tohight's programme, which was made by mike NIX , PETE SINCLAIR and FRANK STRIDENT, three young men who have recently given up cycling.
Made with the help of THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Nix
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair

with Geoff Hamilton and Roy Lancaster Archie Skinner has two gardens. One is well over 100 acres, the other a small cottage garden. He's
Head Gardener at Sheffield Park in Sussex, a National Trust Garden of great beauty, full of rare trees, and in autumn the colours are breathtaking. His own garden is fascinating, but like any plants-man's patch, rather overcrowded.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGllTON Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Afill

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton
Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Archie Skinner
Unknown:
Jean Laugllton
Producer:
John Kenyon
Unknown:
Pebble Afill

The weekly television review presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses
The Chinese Detective (BBC1), Jonathan Dimbleby in Evidence: The Cold War Game (YTV) and from Our Delhi Correspondent (BBC1) with guests including military historian John Keegan and last year's Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight's Children. Plus a look at a community which feels inadequately served by network television, and whose appetite for home video entertainment could well be met by cable in the future.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Guest:
John Keegan
Guest:
Salman Rushdie
Assistant Producer:
Carol Owens
Assistant Producer:
Stephen Garrett
Director:
Clare Paterson
Producer:
John Archer

Written by DUDLEY LONG
A new action comedy series of six programmes starring and featuring, in order of A small west country town is shattered by the chapters of accidents that continually befall Lester Small in his capacity as the town's driving instructor. His least favourite accident is one Mrs Davies.
Film cameraman REX maidment Film sound CLIVE Derbyshire Film editor JOHN CARR Designer BOB COVE
Producer DENNIS MAIN WILSON Directed by JOHN B. hobbs

Contributors

Written By:
Dudley Long
Unknown:
Lester Small
Unknown:
Mrs Davies.
Editor:
John Carr
Designer:
Bob Cove
Directed By:
John B. Hobbs
Lester Small:
Brian Murphy
Mrs Davies:
Hilda Braid
Chief Insp Rodgers:
James Cossins
Sally Small:
Amanda Barrie
Bert, the milkman:
Colin Spaull
Bank manager:
Richard Vernon
Alf Bayley:
John Forgeham
Jenny:
Linda Robson
Fred Stone:
Michael G Jones
PC Bright:
Dudley Long
Lads:
John , Blundell
Lads:
Paul Duggan
Lads ,:
John Fowler
Lads:
David Nunn
Waitress:
Anne Rosenfeld

The first of ten programmes by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender
with Janet Davies, Caroline Dowdeswell, John Ringham, Bill Pertwee, Neville Hughes
The voices of Bud Flanagan and E.V.H. Emmett
Signature tune by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner, played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards, Conducted by their Director of Music, Capt. Trevor L. Sharpe M.B.E., L.R.A.M., A.B.C.M.

This is the first, black-and-white episode of Dad's Army, originally shown on 31 July 1968. In it our heroes band together to form a platoon of Local Defence Volunteers to defend our island home.

Contributors

Writer/Signature tune:
Jimmy Perry
Writer/Producer:
David Croft
Signature Tune:
Derek Taverner
Signature tune played by:
The Band of the Coldstream Guards
Conductor:
Capt. Trevor L. Sharpe
Designer:
Alan Hunter-Craig
Designer:
Paul Joel
Captain Mainwaring:
Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson:
John Le Mesurier
Lance Corporal Jones:
Clive Dunn
Private Frazer:
John Laurie
Private Walker:
James Beck
Private Godfrey:
Arnold Ridley
Private Pike:
Ian Lavender
Mrs. Pike:
Janet Davies
Janet King:
Caroline Dowdeswell
Bracewell:
John Ringham
A.R.P. Warden Hodges:
Bill Pertwee
Soldier:
Neville Hughes
The voice of [Singer, signature tune]:
Bud Flanagan
The voice of [Newsreel announcer]:
E. V. H. Emmett

A four-part screenplay by CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON , from the novel by MALCOLM BRADBURY starring
Antony Sher as Howard Kirk with Isla Blair as Flora Beniform
Paul Brooke as Henry Beamish Laura Davenport as Annie Callendar
Geraldine James as Barbara Kirk Veronica Quilligan as Felicity Phee
Maggie Steed as Myra Beamish 1: October 2nd 1972
Nixon's America, Heath's England, petrol 36p a gallon. Howard and Barbara Kirk , fashionable Watermouth University's well-known progressive couple, are throwing one of their celebrated parties. Another fresh term - new faces to radicalise, old issues and adversaries to be confronted. History needs some action and Howard has just the scheme for an autumn of disruption.
One of the rarest spectacles on television, full-blooded satire in the proper sense of the word. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH) Wonder/ul, gripping viewing
(THE GUARDIAN)
Music GEORGE FENTON
Producer MICHAEL WEARING Director ROBERT knights
BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hampton
Novel By:
Malcolm Bradbury
Unknown:
Antony Sher
Unknown:
Howard Kirk
Unknown:
Isla Blair
Unknown:
Paul Brooke
Unknown:
Henry Beamish
Unknown:
Laura Davenport
Unknown:
Annie Callendar
Unknown:
Geraldine James
Unknown:
Barbara Kirk
Unknown:
Veronica Quilligan
Unknown:
Felicity Phee
Unknown:
Maggie Steed
Unknown:
Myra Beamish
Unknown:
Barbara Kirk
Martin Kirk:
Jonathan Bruton
Celia Kirk:
Charlotte Enderby
Anne Petty:
Chloe Salaman
John Mclntosh:
Graham Padden
Jane Mclntosh:
Judy Liebert
Moira Millikin:
Elizabeth Proud
Melissa Tordoroff:
Miriam Margolyes
Peter Madden:
Bill Buffery
Beck Pott:
Julia Swift
Michael Bennard:
Lloyd Peters
Marjorie:
Juliet Waley
Joanna:
Jane Slaughter
MiSS Ho:
Zienia Merton
Professor Mangel:
Steve Plytas

and Conservative Conference Report
JOHN TUSA , PETER SNOW and VINCENT HANNA with a full report from the Conservative Conference at Brighton; with DONALD MAC-CORMICK and JOAN BAKEWELL in London to assess the news.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell

in the company of David Hepworth and Mark Ellen takes its own look at the rock scene with studio guests Bauhaus, Orange Juice
Plus news, views, clues and reviews.
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer michael appleton

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hepworth
Unknown:
Mark Ellen
Director:
Tom Corcoran
Producer:
Michael Appleton

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