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Should music have a special place in every child's education? Atarah Ben Tovim, a former principal flautist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, now runs the BEN TOVIM CHILDREN'S MUSIC CENTRE in Rossendale, Lancashire, and is a leading campaigner for children's right to music. But opinions differ about the place of music in the curriculum. What should our priorities be?
Producer SUZANNE CAMPBELL-JONES
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
Atarah Ben
Producer:
Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Based on the novel by RUMER GODDEN
Written and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER. Films: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
David Farrar
Novel By:
Rumer Godden
Directed By:
Michael Powell
Sister Clodagh:
Deborah Kerr
Dulip Rai:
Sabu
Mr Dean:
David Farrar
Sister Philippa:
Flora Robson
General:
Esmond Knight
Kanchi:
Jean Simmons
Sister Ruth:
Kathleen Byron
Sister Honey:
Jenny Laird
Sister Briony:
Judith Furse
Angu Ayah:
May Hallat
Con:
Shaun Noble
Mother Dorothea:
Nancy Roberts

A series of eight programmes
3: To Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Novelist and playwright Beryl Bainbridge makes a journey around England and Englishness. She travels to many of the places visited by J. B. Priestley 50 years earlier for his book English Journey.
She meets the fastest plate-maker in the potteries and finds it difficult to visit the grave of Arnold Bennett. Manchester remains the home of northern entertainment and the most influential soap opera of them all. Narration
J. B. PRIESTLEY , BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Film editor ROBIN JACKMAN Photography JOHN WARWICK
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR
Producer BERNARD HALL. BBC West
Book (same title) £7.95 from booksellers)

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
B. Priestley
Editor:
Robin Jackman
Producer:
James Dewar
Producer:
Bernard Hall.

Arthur Marshall
Rosemary Leach , Robert Powell challenge Frank Muir
Joanna Lumley , Chris Serle Referee Robert Robinson
Devised by MARK GOODSON and BILL TODMAN Produced and directed by PAUL CIANI

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Rosemary Leach
Unknown:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Joanna Lumley
Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mark Goodson
Unknown:
Bill Todman
Directed By:
Paul Ciani

Presented by Anneka Rice
A series of eight programmes in which a number of well-known personalities take up the sport of their choice.
4: This week glider pilot Martin Shaw goes solo. Breakfast Time weatherman Francis Wilson starts weight training and Superstars World Champion Brian Hooper takes up white water canoeing.
'And then suddenly your instructor says you can do the next one by yourself, says MARTIN SHAW as he faces the challenge of his first solo.
'What I really want to do is get fit again', says weatherman FRANCIS WIL SON, who goes to the first session of a three-month weight training course. 'I've done a bit on flat water but this rough stuff looks fantastic', says BRIAN HOOPER as he starts to learn white water canoeing with World Champion RICHARD FOX.
Film editor PATRICK FLEMING Research VICKI MOORE
Produced by PETER RAMSDEN

Contributors

Presented By:
Anneka Rice
Unknown:
Francis Wilson
Unknown:
Brian Hooper
Unknown:
Martin Shaw
Unknown:
Francis Wil
Unknown:
Brian Hooper
Unknown:
Richard Fox.
Editor:
Patrick Fleming
Editor:
Research Vicki Moore
Produced By:
Peter Ramsden

by JILL TWEEDIE and CHRISTOPHER BOND starring Lynn Redgrave with Jonathan Newth
Sarah Neville , Helen Cotterill
Josh and Martha are invited to a party at the Department. Martha is unsure what to wear. Her feminist principles are temporarily shelved for the occasion.
Lighting director HARRY BRADLEY Designer TONY THORPE
Executive producer ALAN J w BELL Produced by ZANNA BESWICK Directed by MANDIE FLETCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Tweedie
Unknown:
Christopher Bond
Unknown:
Lynn Redgrave
Unknown:
Jonathan Newth
Unknown:
Sarah Neville
Unknown:
Helen Cotterill
Director:
Harry Bradley
Designer:
Tony Thorpe
Produced By:
Zanna Beswick
Directed By:
Mandie Fletcher
Martha:
Lynn Redgrave
Josh:
Jonathan Newth
Mary:
Sarah Neville
Mo:
Helen Cotterill
Irene:
Polly Adams
Ben:
Andrew Paley
Jane:
Sara Sugarman
Bess:
Linda Polan
May:
Julia Swift
Wendy:
Frankie Cosgrave
Waitress:
Jacqueline Morgan
Newsagent:
Norman Robbins

Professor Bonner and the Slime Moulds
Scoop up a handful of soil from anywhere in the world and you'll be holding in your hand some of nature's strangest creatures-the minute and extraordinary slime moulds. Starting their bizarre life cycle as thousands of independent amoebas, they transform themselves into crawling slugs, then plant-like creatures on waving stalks. Slime moulds have been the lifetime study of Professor John Tyler Bonner of Princeton University, who finds in them clues to some of biology's greatest puzzles - how cells develop and differentiate; the mysteries of pregnancy; the origins of our remote ancestors. Now specialist micro-photography reveals the hidden world of the slime moulds as PROFESSOR BONNER follows the fantastic journey of these strange creatures of the soil.
Micro-photography by NICK TAYLOR Film editor DICK ALLEN
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY Director FISHER DILKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor John Tyler
Editor:
Dick Allen
Editor:
Graham Massey
Director:
Fisher Dilke

The story of the boxing booths
Prize-fighting on fairground boxing booths is a disappearing spectacle. It was once known as the 'school of champions' and many famous boxers, like Tommy Farr began their careers fighting all-comers for a pound a round to entertain the crowds. The tradition is almost dead, but Ma McKeowen , now aged 84, still tours with the family boxing booth round the fairgrounds of the south, remembering the days when she discovered boxers such as Freddie Mills, who became a world champion. Narrator James Hogg
Film editor RICHARD BUSS Producer david SEYMOUR

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Farr
Unknown:
Ma McKeowen
Narrator:
James Hogg
Editor:
Richard Buss

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick , with MAUREEN CARTER and BRIDGET KENDALL
Producers
PETER BELL. JOHN MORRELL. DAVE STANFORD
Directors
JOHN WILKINSON. GLEN DAVIS. CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE. HELEN JENKINS Deputy editor PAUL norris Editor DAVID DICKINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick
Unknown:
Maureen Carter
Unknown:
Bridget Kendall
Unknown:
Peter Bell.
Unknown:
John Morrell.
Unknown:
John Wilkinson.
Unknown:
Glen Davis.
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie.
Unknown:
Helen Jenkins
Editor:
David Dickinson

From Tap to T'ai Chi
On weeknights at the Yorkshire Dance Centre in Leeds they're queueing up to join an extraordinary range of classes - from an exhausting session of jazz dance to the calm of t'ai chi chuan.
Director ROGER KEECH
Producer PATRICK HARGREAVES

Contributors

Director:
Roger Keech
Producer:
Patrick Hargreaves

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