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A See-Saw programme
by Julie Holder
(R)

The old traditions of travelling players lives on in southern Italy.
The Circus Embellriva is made up of seven families who never play a town for longer than three days before moving on. The backstage life, the travelling, the tent up, the tent down, the animals, the heat, the troubles, are all to be found in this film. Producer JOHN BIRD
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS

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August: The Country Priest
Louis Mahuas is parish priest of the village of Landaul, near the south coast of Brittany.
He ministers to no more than ten at early morning Mass on weekdays, a full church on Sundays. For 30 years he has enjoyed teaching science at the church school where he was once a pupil himself. But Fr Louis is even more Breton than French. The revival of his native Celtic language and culture is the passion of his life.
Narrator Michael Dean Film editor JIM LATHAM
Producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF (R) (e)

Starring Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea

Ginger as a girl 'from the wrong side of the tracks'. When she falls in love with the handsome and well-off Ed she determines that they will be married - whatever the problems...
Films: page 19

— also starring
Barbara Eden Steve Forest
Dolores Del Rio
The Burton family, although of mixed blood, are more or less accepted by the local white community until the Kiova Indians attack a neighbouring farm and kill all but one of the inhabitants. Elvis Presley , in his first strong dramatic role. plays the half-breed Pacer, who, when war comes, finds he belongs to neither the white nor the Indian community.
Screenplay by CLAIR BUFFAKER Produced by DAVID WEISBART Directed by DON SIEGEL
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'I'm a stroke victim. When I walk I have to drag an invisible ball and chain, and I speak with a stumbling parody of my old voice. But I'm a bloody sight better off than I would have been without fighting it.'

Eric Pleasants is 73 and fighting the hardest battle of his extraordinary life. A strongman turned martial arts instructor, he survived German POW camps by joining the Britische Freikorps, and seven years in a Siberian prison camp for smuggling people across the German border. He believes that his highly developed sense of personal survival and his fanatical physical fitness have helped him recover from a massive stroke which would have killed many and crippled most.

Open Space is the series where the public make programmes under their own editorial control with help from the Community Programme Unit.
Info: page 76

with John Lawton

Minefields, poison gas, hired mercenaries, early-warning systems - it's no holds barred in the never-ending battle between two of nature's superpowers: the insects and the plants. Q.E.D. uncovers a microscopic world of conflict where thousands of insects lay siege to a single tree. Unable to move, plants retaliate with their arsenal of chemical weapons. There are few clear victories, but one thing is certain - plants are not pacifists.

A series of nine programmes.

Five hundred thousand caribou wander the George River area of Quebec. They thrive in one of the meanest places on earth, crossing the George River twice yearly on their annual migration from summer pastures to winter grounds.

Today the caribou face competition for their wilderness, and the river itself is greatly swollen because of human activity. For the caribou this is disastrous as this, the first of two films from the award-winning Canadian series The Nature of Things, shows.

Presented by David Suzuki

BBC Bristol
(Ceefax subtitles)

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Mike Farrell as B.J., Harry Morgan as Col Potter, Loretta Swit as Hotlips, Larry Linville as Major Frank Burns

In tonight's episode, which opened the fourth year of this popular series, viewers are introduced to Captain B.J. Hunnicutt, who is in turn introduced to the 4077th.
(R)

by DAVID RUDKIN
In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little.... strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power.
Special sound by ELIZABETH PARKER RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Graphic designer ANN JENKINS Film editor GREG MILLER
Photography JOHN KENWAY Designer MICHAEL EDWARDS Producer CAROL PARKS
Directed by DAVID RUDKIN BBC Pebble Mill

with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with political and economic reports from Will Hutton and Nick Clarke

11.30 Caring for Health the Brazilian Way
Rio holds little glamour for most of its inhabitants. Slums breed sickness, and hospitals are falling apart. Why, despite Brazil's wealth, is it so bad to be sick?
(R)

11.55 Maths: Estimation
How many divorces will there be in 1987? There are many possible ways of estimating this from data but some methods are better than others. To choose the correct one, precise nature of the data must be known.
(R)

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