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9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective A Midsummer Night's Dream
ROY STRONG visits Hatfield House to introduce the play.
9.26 Twentieth-Century History Roosevelt and the New Deal
President Roosevelt's far-reaching plans to drag America out of the Depression.
9.48 Mathscore Two
4: Fine Adjustment. Laurel and Hardy cut a shelf to length-how accurate must they be? ; '
10.10 Look and Read
Dark Towers by ANDREW DAVIES 8: Beware of the Bird!
A reading series for 7- to 9-year-olds in ten episodes.
10.35 Brazil: Amazon Frontier
Brazil's hectic pace of economic development has carried new ventures to the Amazon region. Producer LEN BROWN
11.0 Watch! Indian Dancing
JAMES EARL ADAIR is joined by an Indian dancer, RATI KARTHlGESU. Together they use shadow puppets to tell the Indian folk story of The Four Friends.
11.17 Japan: The Crowded Islands Back of Beyond: How the people in the remote village of Ishihama make the most of their unpromising surroundings.
11.40 Religious and Moral Education 11-13
A Different Road: ANITA HARRIS and others recall how they coped with upheavals in their lives.
12.3 pm Whatever Happened to Britain?
The last of an eight-part analysis
A Good.'Serviant, -But a Bad master
Options The current dilemma.
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12.30 Other People's Lives A series of ten films
8: Chole Island-- a Woman's Place , , ,
12.55-1 .8 Maths Help : A series for adults studying maths :; O-level: Equations
1.19 Science Topics: Free Fall
Skydivefs experience free fall;'. Astronauts experience so-called weightlessness. Yet anyone- who's' jumped off a diving board- has experienced similar sensations. Series producer PETER BRATT
1.40 Let's See. Getting Around
2: On the Rails. Trains and railway travel in Scotland today.
2.0 You and Me: Stretch and Run DAVID ASHTON and his young friends meet SONIA LANNAMAN .
2.15 Near and Far: Not on the Level Hills, valleys and mountains are all part of the landscape. How are they shown on maps?
2.40 Junior Craft, Design and Technology: Up and Down the Hill Wheels and Gears

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davies
Producer:
Len Brown
Unknown:
James Earl Adair
Producer:
Peter Bratt
Unknown:
David Ashton
Unknown:
Sonia Lannaman

The lines are permanently engaged for Harold in Number Please as he and a rival vie/for the attentions of the same girl; there are also hold-ups when he chases a bus conductress in Off the Trolley Television version ' .written by PETER DURSTON Produced by BOB HOAG

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Durston
Produced By:
Bob Hoag

The clock in your head that tells you when reality exists only does so for you - not anybody else. And it runs fast or slow depending on your mood. So-what time is it? And why is this writing in your past?
In the third of a series of six programmes James Burke spends 30 of his minutes (not necessarily yours) looking at why the world around you can't exist 'now' for everybody.
This programme will be short, or long, depending on you. Its real length? Who knows?
(First shown on BBC1)

Contributors

Presenter:
James Burke
Photography:
David Feig
Producer:
Mick Jackson

When you join a band you have to jSork out what to play, how to play, and when to play. \
This week Deirdre Cartwright (guitar), Henry Thomas (bass) and Geoff Nicholls (drums) look at i basic playing techniques, and the . ways in which the instruments fit together rhythmically - often taking cues from patterns laid down by the drums.
With comments from JOHN TAYLOR CARL PALMER , ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE DENNIS BOVELL , LARRY GRAHAM and many more!
Produced by CHRIS LENT

Contributors

Guitar:
Deirdre Cartwright
Guitar:
Henry Thomas
Guitar:
Geoff Nicholls
Unknown:
John Taylor
Unknown:
Carl Palmer
Unknown:
Robbie Shakespeare
Unknown:
Dennis Bovell
Unknown:
Larry Graham
Produced By:
Chris Lent

by JANE AUSTEN dramatised in six parts by KEN TAYLOR
2: Fanny has grown up to be an indispensable member of the household at Mansfield Park. During Sir Thomas's absence abroad, the glamorous Crawfords from London arrive to stay in the neighbourhood, to the delight of almost everyone.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Ken Taylor

Creaming the Fat
Reporter David Henshaw
Slimming is Britain's number one participation sport-and by far the most futile: almost all the weight we lose we put back on again.
Brass Tacks reports on the £300-million industry that thrives on the fear of fat. In Reading a cross-section of slimming addicts are filmed undergoing everything from jaw wiring to stomach stapling. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the very latest techniques include electric shock therapy for cake addicts, and balloons that inflate in stomach. Director JULIET MAY
Producer DAVID HENSHAW Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
HELPLlNES: page 83

Contributors

Reporter:
David Henshaw
Producer:
David Henshaw
Editor:
Colin Adams

The popular series featuring Kelly's unique observations on life. Written by KELLY MONTEITH , NEIL SHAND featuring Roger Kemp
Eileen Nicholas , Harry Towb Lisa Vanderpump , Stuart Fell John Hollls , David Lodge Phil McCall , Judy Gridley
With TONY ANHOLT , ROBIN BAILEY
GABRIELLE DRAKE , HILDEGARD NEIL VICTOR SPINETTI , JUNE
BARRIE ROBERTA HAMMOND , DANIEL HILL
ROBERT PARVIN , EMMA STEPHENSON
Signature tune by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Sound JOHN DELANY
Lighting BILL MILLAR Designers
ROGER CANN. DINAH WALKER
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER

Contributors

Written By:
Kelly Monteith
Written By:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Roger Kemp
Unknown:
Eileen Nicholas
Unknown:
Harry Towb
Unknown:
Lisa Vanderpump
Unknown:
Stuart Fell
Unknown:
John Hollls
Unknown:
David Lodge
Unknown:
Phil McCall
Unknown:
Judy Gridley
Unknown:
With Tony Anholt
Unknown:
Robin Bailey
Unknown:
Gabrielle Drake
Unknown:
Hildegard Neil
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti
Unknown:
Barrie Roberta Hammond
Unknown:
Daniel Hill
Unknown:
Robert Parvin
Unknown:
Emma Stephenson
Unknown:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Unknown:
John Delany
Unknown:
Bill Millar
Unknown:
Roger Cann.
Directed By:
Geoff Posner

with Robert Laccy
The fourth of six films on the noble families of Europe. Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein
The tiny country of Liechtenstein is squeezed between Austria and Switzerland and has been ruled by Prince Franz Josef II since 1938. In that year he met Hitler and prevented the Nazis taking over his country.
The Prince and his wife, Princess Gina, have the most valuable collection of paintings still in private hands in the world. But they dislike talking about money -' you can't eat a painting and you can't make clothes out of a castle, I mean what is rich? '
ROBERT LACEY finds how the family lost 22 castles and 100,000 ancestral acres to the Russians in 1945 but kept Liechtenstein, and transformed it into Europe's richest community.
The noble house of Liechtenstein can claim to be the world's most successful aristocrats, for they have risen from landowners to rulers of a fully fledged, if pocket-sized, sovereign state.
Assistant producer ANNE MORRISON Photography NIGEL WALTERS Film editor JIM LATHAM
Executive producer ADAM CLAPHAM ProducerJOHN BIRD
Book (same title), £ 9,95, from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Laccy
Unknown:
Robert Lacey
Editor:
Jim Latham
Producer:
Adam Clapham
Producer:
John Bird

David Jesscl and Sue Cook meet those who make or break the law, enforce it or think it's an ass, in this weekly look at law and order; reports from Ed Boyle , expert comment from Michael Molyneux.
Studio director PIETER MORPURGO
Producer HUGH PURCELL. Editor PETER CHAFER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jesscl
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux.
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo
Producer:
Hugh Purcell.
Editor:
Peter Chafer

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