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Contented Cows and Other Animals
Experiments on lambs wearing balaclava helmets; hens laying multicoloured eggs; pigs building nests, and chickens helping design their own cages.... such research projects on farm animals could lead to big improvements in the way they are treated.
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY Written and produced by HILARY HENSON

Contributors

Editor:
Graham Massey
Produced By:
Hilary Henson

The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena Live coverage of this afternoon's singles final.
JOHN MCENROE started as favourite to win for the sixth time in seven years.
The one man who beat him in that run of victories was JIMMY CONNORS - Will it be his turn again this year?
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentator DAN MASKELL
JOHN BARRETT , MARK COX GERALD WILLIAMS
Producers JOHNNIE WATHERSTON ALASTAIR SCOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
John McEnroe
Unknown:
Jimmy Connors
Introduced By:
Barry Davies
Commentator:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Producers:
Johnnie Watherston
Producers:
Alastair Scott

A weekly discussion of issues and ideas, with Bryan Magee This week: historian Lord Briggs philosopher Professor Ernest Gellner , scientist Professor Richard Gregory and critic Hilary Spurling.
Assistant producer IAN PAUL
Studio director DAVID Mitchell Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryan Magee
Unknown:
Professor Ernest Gellner
Unknown:
Richard Gregory
Unknown:
Hilary Spurling.
Producer:
Ian Paul
Director:
David Mitchell
Producer:
Christopher Graham

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton with Luke Casey, Nick Clarke and Mark Rogerson reporting.
Including this week: The Other Boys from the Black Stuff: how Canada is scraping oil from the bottom of the barrel by turning the tar sands of Alberta into oil. Who's for the USM?: in the last four years the unlisted securities market has turned many entrepreneurs into overnight millionaires. But should the small saver join in the fun? Plus: The Nun's Story: how Sister Josepha's thriving altar-bread business is helping some of Lancashire's unemployed start their own businesses.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Widlake
Presenter:
Valerie Singleton
Reporter:
Luke Casey
Reporter:
Nick Clarke
Reporter:
Mark Rogerson
Director:
Don Harley
Deputy Editor:
Michael Hogan
Editor:
Richard Tait

Six families and their houses It is not only stately homes which are infused with family history, memories and traditions. More ordinary dwellings carry their own stories.

A miner's terraced house in Yorkshire.
'Living in Grimethorpe you can't ignore the pit.' Indeed the pithead towers over the terraced house where Lucy Mallinson brought up nine children. Only Lucy, son Slogger and daughter Joan live in the house now. Lucy wouldn't live anywhere else but Slogger hopes for a pools win. 'I'd buy a bungalow in Bridlington and have some fresh air. It'd do me fine, that'. Filmed just before the strike the six brother colliers give an insight into life in a coalmining community.

Contributors

Subject:
Lucy Mallinson
Subject:
Slogger Mallinson
Subject:
Joan Mallinson
Photography:
Rex Maidment
Sound:
Don Lee
Research:
Linda Cleeve
Film Editor:
Tony Heaven
Director/Producer:
David Pearson

One Man Island
Noisy with guillemots and razorbills, kittiwakes and seals, the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth shimmers with life. Artist and naturalist Keith Brockie has been finding his way to the island for ten years, and now for the first time has devoted a full 12 months to capturing the inhabitants in paint and pencil (fulmar, above). It's a chance to enjoy, through his eyes, the burglary of nest-building shags, the aerial fly-past of thousands of puffins, and the flowers and rhythms of an island's seasons.
Narrated by Anthony Quayle Directed and photographed by MIKE HERD
Produced for QUAILSPRING by IAN FLEMING
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Brockie
Unknown:
Anthony Quayle
Unknown:
Ian Fleming

Presented by Peter Schaufuss 3: New Moves
It sometimes seems that there are no limits to the movements which the dancers of today can perform. So it's up to today's choreographers to be equally imaginative in devising new works.
In tonight's film
Peter Schaufuss looks at five leading choreographers at work. with Maurice Bejart , Robert Cohan , Kenneth MacMillan , Roland Petit , Glen Tetley and (in order of appearance) Frank Andersen ,
Lis Jeppesen and artists of the Royal Danish Ballet.
Alessandra Ferri , Jennifer Penney , Stephen Jefferies and artists of the Royal Ballet
Richard Cragun Jean Charles Gil Grazia Galante Michel Gascard Patrice Touron and artists of the Ballet of the Twentieth Century Patrick Harding-Irmer and artists of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre
Elisabetta Terabust
Music played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
The Royal Danish Orchestra Programme consultant CLEMENT CRISP Photography
PETER HALL , JOHN MCGLASHAN ELMER COSSEY , COLIN WALDECK Film editor ROBIN SALES Producers
DEREK BAILEY , JULIA MATHESON Director DEREK BAILEY

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Schaufuss
Unknown:
Peter Schaufuss
Unknown:
Maurice Bejart
Unknown:
Robert Cohan
Unknown:
Kenneth MacMillan
Unknown:
Roland Petit
Unknown:
Glen Tetley
Unknown:
Frank Andersen
Unknown:
Lis Jeppesen
Unknown:
Alessandra Ferri
Unknown:
Jennifer Penney
Unknown:
Stephen Jefferies
Unknown:
Richard Cragun
Unknown:
Jean Charles Gil
Unknown:
Grazia Galante
Unknown:
Michel Gascard
Unknown:
Patrice Touron
Unknown:
Patrick Harding-Irmer
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
John McGlashan
Unknown:
Elmer Cossey
Unknown:
Derek Bailey
Unknown:
Julia Matheson
Director:
Derek Bailey

Ludovic Kennedy discusses Italians (BBC2), The Bill
(ITV) and Crimewatch UK
(BBC1) with Italian journalist Gaia Servadio , Channel 4 newscaster Trevor McDonald and reformed criminal John McVicar.
Plus the issue raised by Crimewatch UK: is it public service or police propaganda? Does it fight crime or glamorise it? Are dramatic reconstructions of crimes helpful or voyeuristic? Assistant producers
HENRIETTA GILPIN , KEVIN LOADER Producer JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludovic Kennedy
Unknown:
Gaia Servadio
Unknown:
Trevor McDonald
Unknown:
John McVicar.
Unknown:
Henrietta Gilpin
Producer:
John Archer

continues a season of films of fantasy and prediction.
Starring Jon Finch Jenny Runacre
Jerry Cornelius , Nobel prize-winner and adventurer extraordinary, attends his father's melancholy funeral in Lapland, all the while remembering premonitions of the end of the present world - and the birth of a 'new age'. Cornelius sets out on a quest to discover the truth of the warning and finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into bizarre experiments to save the world by a 'final programme' and the creation of the new Messiah.
Produced by JOHN GOLDSTONE and SANDY UEBERSON
Written and directed by ROBERT FUEST
0 FILMS: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Finch
Unknown:
Jenny Runacre
Unknown:
Jerry Cornelius
Produced By:
John Goldstone
Produced By:
Sandy Ueberson
Directed By:
Robert Fuest
Jerry Cornelius:
Jon Finch
Miss Brunner:
Jenny Runacre
Major Wrongway Lindbergh:
Sterling Hayden
John:
Harry Andrews
Professor Hira:
Hugh Griffith
Miss Dazzle:
Julie Ege
Dr Baxter:
Patrick Magee
Dr Smiles:
Graham Croyden
Dr Powys:
George Coulouris
Dr Lucas:
Basil Henson

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