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Today PARVEEN MIRZA discusses infant care with health visitor ZAITUN CASSAM. Pharmacist SALEHA KHAN talks about the use, misuse and possible side effects of medicines, and PANKAJ UDHAS sings a ghazal.
Producer YOUSUP AZIZ
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
Book, Speak for Yourself, £2.75 from booksellers

Contributors

Talks:
Saleha Khan
Talks:
Pankaj Udhas

Each Easter pilgrims from Greece and Cyprus flock to the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and, through the liturgy of St John Chrysostom , proclaim ' Christ is Risen
Producer NUALA O'FAOLAIN
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
St John Chrysostom
Producer:
Nuala O'Faolain

starring Charlie Chaplin Jackie Coogan
Six-year-old Jackie Coogan as the Kid - miniature version of the Tramp - acquired by mistake in infancy and brought up in a world of harshness and poverty. This is a ' picture with a smile - and perhaps a tear'.
Screenplay, music, production and direction by CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Films: page 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Chaplin
Unknown:
Jackie Coogan
Unknown:
Jackie Coogan
Unknown:
Charlie Chaplin
Tramp:
Charlie Chaplin
Man:
Carl Miller
Woman:
Edna Purviance
Child:
Jackie Coogan

The feature film starring
Roddy McDowall , Donald Crisp Elizabeth Taylor and Lassie
Concluding a season of films starring some of Hollywood's most popular child actors.
Poverty forces the Carraclough family to sell Lassie, their beloved collie. But neither distance nor chains can keep Lassie from finding her way back home.
Screenplay by HUGO BUTLER Produced by SAMUEL MARX
Directed by FRED M. WILCOX. Films; p 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Roddy McDowall
Unknown:
Donald Crisp
Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor
Unknown:
Hugo Butler
Produced By:
Samuel Marx
Directed By:
Fred M. Wilcox.
Joe Carraclough:
Roddy McDowall
Sam Carraclough:
Donald Crisp
Dally:
Dame May Whitty
Rowlie:
Edmund Gwenn
Duke of Rudling:
Nigel Bruce
Mrs Carraclough:
Elsa Lanchester
Priscilla:
Elizabeth Taylor
Daniel Fadden:
Ben Webster

An insight into the lives of individual French men and women. June. The Spa Doctor
As the summer season starts patients flock to the surgery of Dr Jean-Louis Bourdier in search of mud, massage and the Vichy water cure. But the doctor still finds time for his family, his entertaining and his Jaguar. And as a town councillor he must attend the annual ceremony honouring de Gaulle's fight for a Free France-especially significant to Vichy.
The best so far: informative, atmospheric, and full of distinct Gallic feeling. (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH) Series editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF Producer judi CONNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jean-Louis Bourdier
Editor:
Edward Mirzoeff
Producer:
Judi Conner

A series of films exploring the English hedgerow: June -
Midsummer in the hedgerow brings roses, elderflowers and an abundance of exquisite grasses.
David Streeter and Rosamond Richardson reveal the beauty of the hedgerow, show how to trace documents which may tell us something of its history, and make a refreshing elderflower cordial.
Film cameraman NIGEL MEAKIN
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS
Book (same title), hardback £10.50, paperback £5.95 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
David Streeter
Unknown:
Rosamond Richardson
Unknown:
Nigel Meakin
Producer:
Erica Griffiths

A series of six episodes by CHARLES MCKEOWN
4: The Headmaster goes on the wagon, Davies gives Miss Shilling an unwelcome present, and Parsons demands the redecoration of the common room. All of which present problems for Pinkerton.
Music arranged by RONNIE BAZLEBURST Designer JAN SPOCZYNSKI
Produced by GARETH GWENLAN Directed by JOHN B. HOBBS

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles McKeown
Arranged By:
Ronnie Bazleburst
Designer:
Jan Spoczynski
Produced By:
Gareth Gwenlan
Directed By:
John B. Hobbs
Pinkerton:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Miss Shilling:
Eleanor Bron
Headmaster:
Derek Farr
Clifford:
Andrew Robertson
Davies:
Clive Meretison
Renfrew:
Michael Elwyn
Parsons:
David Sjbley
Beech:
Derek Francis
Flax:
Alan Parnaby
Bursar:
Paul Hardwick

A series of eight documentaries 5: Eskrima - The Filipino Way Narrated by Dennis Waterman
Cacoy Canete is the undisputed master of the Philippines' own martial art. Eskrima is spectacular, fast and very effective, tested by the need to survive in a violent society. The Canete family founded a club to practise and develop their art and are seen celebrating its 50th anniversary in the company of experts from all over the country.
Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON
Assistant producer HOWARD REID Written and produced by MICHAEL CROUCHER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Waterman
Unknown:
Cacoy Canete
Editor:
Andrew Johnston
Producer:
Howard Reid
Produced By:
Michael Croucher

starring Kenneth Welsh, Jennifer Dale, Martha Henry, Gabriel Arcand
A serial in six parts

Montreal 1954: Neither of his sons having proved a fit successor, Sir James Munroe is on the verge of selling the empire he has built up. However a meeting with a young reporter, who suggests one of his daughters might take over instead, opens his eyes to the 1950s, to youth and to love, and the powerful wrath of his wife.

A CBC production

Contributors

Screenplay:
Douglas Bowie
Director:
Denys Arcand
Executive Producer:
Mark Blandford
James Munroe:
Kenneth Welsh
Catherine Munroe:
Martha Henry
Jimmy Munroe:
Peter Dvorsky
Cleo Munroe:
Jennifer Dale
Larry Munroe:
Joseph Ziegler
Amy Munroe:
Mitch Martin
Laura Shannon:
Linda Griffiths
Cline Jones:
Don Granbery
Violet:
Lyn Jackson
Gene Prudhomme:
Gabriel Arcand
Secretary:
Jessie Thomson
Chuck:
Donald Pilon

JOHN TUSA , PETER SNOW and DONALD MACCORMICK present full coverage of developments in the last day's campaigning before voting in the General Election. LINDA ALEXANDER and JOAN BAKEWELL present Newsnight's review and analysis of the rest of the day's events.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Linda Alexander
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell

12.0 Part 3; Systems Engineering
The new San Francisco Railway suffered repeated breakdowns due :to many of the engineering concepts, like the trains beingfail-saferatherthanfail-soft.
12.25 Instrumentation: Fourier Analysis and Transducer Response
Any variation may be reproduced artificially by a suitable and simultaneous combination of simple oscillations. Engineers use this property ito measure the response of various instruments 40 changes in pressure and acceleration.
12.50 Inorganic Chemistry: Bonding
How do electrons bond atoms together to form molecules?

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