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The courses a college provides have to be formally approved by outside agencies - process full of potential conflict and friction. This programme follows a London College of Printing course proposal through that process.
Producer NICK BRENTON
A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Brenton

with Edgar Bergen Charlie McCarthy
Fibber McGee 's attempt to bring an aircraft factory to the town of Wistful Vista involves radio stars Bergen and McCarthy in a series of comic misadventures as they thwart Fibber's unscrupulous rivals and sort out their own romantic problems.
Lucille Ball plays the much-put-upon Julie who finally gets her man in this comedy featuring a host of American radio personalities of the period.
Story and screenplay by JAMES v. KERN Produced and directed by ALLAN DWAN (First showing on British television) Films: page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Bergen
Unknown:
Charlie McCarthy
Unknown:
Fibber McGee
Directed By:
Allan Dwan
Fibber McGee:
Jim Jordan
Molly:
Marion Jordan
Julie Patterson:
Lucille Ball
Jerry:
Lee Bonnell
Marge:
Dorothy Lovett
Gildersleeve:
Harold Peary
Mrs Uppington:
Isabel Randolph
Bill:
Walter Baldwin
Hilary Horton:
Neil Hamilton
Cudahy:
Charles Halton
Mr Collins:
Harlowe Wilcox
Hotel manager:
Spencer Charters
Major:
Jed Prouty

The 1984 Museum of the Year Awards with Sue
Jay Museums are livelier and more attractive places than they were. As interest in the past continues to grow more of them are visited more often. New museums open at a rate of one a fortnight and established museums redesign existing collections.
The Museum of the Year Awards recognise the best of the innovators new and old, large and small.
In the first of four programmes Sue Jay and Kenneth Hudson visit the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to look at two recently opened galleries-of archaeology and Islamic ceramics - which this year received the judges' special commendation, and Dr Neil Cossons explains how museums have changed radically in recent years to meet the needs of a public with more time to stand and stare.
The Museum of the Year Awards are organised by NATIONAL HERITAGE in conjunction with THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. Lighting MAURICE GARMAN
Cameraman ALASTAIR MITCHELL Videotape editor ROY DEMERY Production MARTIN L. BELL
0 HELPLINES: page 71

Contributors

Unknown:
Jay Museums
Unknown:
Kenneth Hudson
Unknown:
Dr Neil Cossons
Unknown:
Alastair Mitchell
Editor:
Roy Demery
Unknown:
Martin L. Bell

Presented by Peter France
Sir Walter Ralegh
In North Carolina they are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first settlement in North America. Colonisation of the New World was Walter Ralegh 's most ambitious scheme, but what was its aim?
The Rise of the Victorian Town Hall With the future of the GLC at stake Mark Jones examines the spectacular growth of Victorian local government and the moment the Tory Government in 1898 tried to abolish the London County Council. The Leaking Embassies
Christopher Andrew reports on the security leaks in the British embassies in Rome and Berlin in the 1930s. The Foreign Office was stunned by the sorry state of British security.
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter France
Presented By:
Sir Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Mark Jones
Unknown:
Christopher Andrew
Producer:
Timothy Gardam

Robin Ray presents the third round of this nationwide competition to find out who knows most about the movies. Apart from questions to test their all-round knowledge, each contestant will be examined on a specific area of the cinema.
John Dawson answers questions on John Wayne
Anthony Wilkinson on Jane Fonda Isabelle Heward on Luis Bunuel
Robin Clapton on 20th Century-Fox musicals of the 40s.
Devised by ROBIN RAY
Film editor and researcher
MALCOLM ILLINGWORTH Director PAUL LOOSLEY Producer JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
John Dawson
Unknown:
John Wayne
Unknown:
Anthony Wilkinson
Unknown:
Jane Fonda
Unknown:
Isabelle Heward
Unknown:
Luis Bunuel
Unknown:
Robin Clapton
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
Malcolm Illingworth
Director:
Paul Loosley
Producer:
John Buttery

Another chance to see Paul Daniels in the first of a series of magic, comedy and fun in which he re-creates for the first time on television 'The New Page', an illusion that grabbed the headlines at the turn of the century, and introduces his international guests with their remarkable skills:
From Japan, the champion top-spinner Koma Zuru
From China, The Acrobatic Troupe of Chunking climbing ropes as you have never seen before. with DEBBIE MCGEE , AMANDA NEWMAN GLEN BEXFIELD and ALAN RICHES
Musical director KEN JONES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Director JOHN BISHOP
Produced by JOHN FISHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Daniels
Unknown:
Koma Zuru
Unknown:
Debbie McGee
Unknown:
Gil Leaney
Director:
John Bishop
Produced By:
John Fisher

with Bob Langley
Action at the British Waterski-ing Championships at Stamford and from the west country, Malcolm McKeag sails a wide variety of craft at Salcombe's Island Cruising Club, and yachtsman Chay Blyth is at home to Debbie Rix.
Director MARK KERSHAW Producer TONY RAYNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Langley
Unknown:
Malcolm McKeag
Unknown:
Chay Blyth
Unknown:
Debbie Rix.
Director:
Mark Kershaw
Producer:
Tony Rayner

John Tusa , Peter Snow , Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
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:
Olivia O'Leary
Unknown:
Peter Bell
Unknown:
John Morrell
Unknown:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Glen Davis
Unknown:
Chris Fox
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Unknown:
Helen Jenkins
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Dickinson

11.30 Personality and Learning: Self Concept
Two sixth-formers in a girls' comprehensive reflect on 'who they are'. Their thoughts are set against their different activities inside and outside school.
11.55 The GCIMS Link-up
The smell cf a rose, drugs in blood, toxigens in cigarette smoke - how chemists analyse minute traces in complex mixtures.

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