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The first of six films about the things we use and the people who design them. The Truck
Truck drivers are the most discriminating critics of the vehicles they drive. What happens when you put them together with 38 tonnes of Leyland 'Roadtrain' and the design engineers who produced it?
Film editor ROLAND TONGUE Series producer IAN WOOLF Producer SAM BERRISFORD

Contributors

Producer:
Sam Berrisford

For this award-winning eight-part series (the title is an Inca term for gold and silver)
Jack Pizzey spent 18 months in 'the least-reported and most exciting region' in the world. He travelled the length and breadth of the continent to report on every aspect of South American society: from Argentina's 'dirty war' to Brazil's carnival.
Tyrants Will Rise from My Tomb
Simon Bolivar is venerated the length and breadth of South America for ending Spanish colonial rule 150 years ago. Yet, as he so accurately prophesised, his death was followed by dictatorship after dictatorship. Why has South America been dominated by the generals? In search of the common factors behind the viscious circle of revolution and oppression, Jack Pizzey went to Pinochet's Chile and Bolivia, a country named after the great liberator, where the military are waiting in the wings. Produced and directed by CLIVE FLEURY
An AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION production

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Pizzey
Unknown:
Simon Bolivar
Unknown:
Jack Pizzey
Directed By:
Clive Fleury

starring with Divided We Stand
Battle stress hits everyone, people do crazy things, but Frank's complaints make the 4077th sound like bedlam. A psychiatrist is sent to assess the crack-up rate and the possible breaking-up of the unit. The evidence is overwhelming, but if these people were not all half-crazy, they would go insane ... Written by LARRY GELBART
Directed by JACKIE COOPER (R)

Contributors

Written By:
Larry Gelbart
Directed By:
Jackie Cooper
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Lin Ville
Fr Mulcahy:
William Christopher
Capt Hildebrand:
Anthony Holland

A comedy by PETER BUCKMAN The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion.
Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who is an enthusiastic bandsman from the north, where they do these things properly.
Musical advisor ROBERT MANDELL Lighting BARRY CHATFIELD Sound ROGER GUEST
Designer MARY SPENCER Producer ROBIN MIDGLEY Director DAVID ATTWOOD BBC Pebble Mill
● FEATURE: page 13

Contributors

Comedy By:
Peter Buckman
Unknown:
Robert Mandell
Unknown:
Barry Chatfield
Unknown:
Roger Guest
Designer:
Mary Spencer
Producer:
Robin Midgley
Director:
David Attwood
Mathew, conductor and second cornet ..:
Colin Farrell
Keith, solo cornet:
Colin Blumenau
Tim, soprano cornet:
Jerome Davies
Nick, repiano cornet:
Bryan James
Don, third cornet:
Terry Molloy
Philip, flugel horn:
Colyn Davies
Wayne, solo horn:
Nick Mercer
Jenny, tenor horn:
Jacqueline Hill
Hannah, second tenor horn:
Audrey Leybourne
Maggie, baritone horn:
Lynda Myers
William, first trombone:
Michael Griffiths
Pauline, second trombone:
Chrissy Roberts
Geoff, euphonium:
Alan Starkey
Richard, Eb bass:
Keith Mansell
Albert, Bb bass:
Patrick Wilkes
James, trombone:
Clive Swift

from the Silk Cut Festival Join commentator
David Allan for this week's selection of country styles, ranging from classics to contemporary, recorded at the Wembley Arena. Featuring
Hank Williams ' Original Driftin' Cowboys Margo Smith
Johnny Duncan , Jeff Hanna and Marie Osmond
Festival organiser MERVYN CONN Sound
PAUL CUNUFFE , BARRIE HAWES Lighting JOHN WIGGINS Designer COLIN GREEN Directors
DAVID MITCHELL , STEVE MORRIS Producer DAVE PERROTTET

Contributors

Unknown:
David Allan
Unknown:
Wembley Arena.
Unknown:
Hank Williams
Unknown:
Margo Smith
Unknown:
Johnny Duncan
Unknown:
Jeff Hanna
Unknown:
Marie Osmond
Unknown:
Mervyn Conn
Unknown:
Paul Cunuffe
Unknown:
Barrie Hawes
Unknown:
John Wiggins
Designer:
Colin Green
Unknown:
David Mitchell
Unknown:
Steve Morris
Producer:
Dave Perrottet

12.10 Harris Tweed
The development of industrialisation in controlled laboratory experiments on the islands of Harris and Lewis, where wool spun in a factory is still woven by hand.
(R)

12.35 Drinking Motivation in Animals
Models and diagrams are used to explain the mechanism of drinking, and film illustrates the drinking behaviour of animals in the wild and in controlled laboratory environments.
(R)

(to 1.05)

Contributors

Producer (Harris Tweed):
Paul Kafno
Producer (Drinking Motivation in Animals):
Tony Jolly

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