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The last of eight programmes looking behind the doors of Westminster and Parliament. Narrated by Anthony Quayle People of the Palace
Today, the world of the 2,000 people who work at the Palace of Westminster is revealed.
There are secretaries, researchers, lawyers, librarians, cooks and cleaners and cellarmen, all known collectively as 'strangers'.
Executive producer JOHN GAU Producer ALAN SCALES
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Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quayle

Presented by David Lomax Today's programme concludes the story of the women who flew in the Second World War with the Air Transport Auxiliary. Today, he tells of the all-women ferry pool at Hamble, near Southampton, and of their adventures flying their aircraft with no navigation aids or radio. How, just three years after flying small club aeroplanes, women like Joan Hughes were piloting the biggest bombers and how American girls crossed the Atlantic to join them. At the end of the war, they quietly returned to civilian life, their achievements quickly forgotten.
Producer JOHN COLEMAN
Series editor DAVID SEYMOUR (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
David Lomax
Unknown:
Joan Hughes
Producer:
John Coleman

Written and narrated by Patrick O'Donovan.
The remarkable story of how 500 peasant farmers in the harsh north-east of Brazil gave up their life on the land to build a living replica of Jerusalem as it was 2,000 years ago. Now they dedicate their lives almost entirely to a spectacular once-yearly six day recreation of Christ's Passion. Forty thousand people from all over Brazil come to take part rather than to watch.
Producer BOB SAUNDERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick O'Donovan.
Producer:
Bob Saunders
Jesus:
Carlos Reis
Mary:
Diva Mendonca
Herod/Judas:
Ednaldo Lucena
Pilate:
José Pimental

from Paris Barry Davies introduces the memories and the mistakes, but mostly the medal moments, from the past week's competition in the Palais Omnisports de Paris
Bercy. In post-Olympic year, new champions and fresh talent traditionally provide this graceful sport with renewed impetus and Alan Weeks describes the personalities and routines which blossomed in the Paris springtime.
Television presentation A2F, France Assistant producer BARBARA SLATER Executive producer JIM RESIDE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Weeks
Producer:
Barbara Slater

with Ian McCallum. Roots are important to
Ian. He acknowledges his rock/folk musical style as well as his political awareness spring directly from his background - born in Scotland and brought up in the north east. In the last of the current series, Ian explores these influences through his music, together with his band McCallum. And he's joined by one of his all-time heroes - John Martyn
Director JOHN WARWICK Producer MARIA BLAKE
A ZENITH NORTH production for BBC Newcastle

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McCallum.
Unknown:
John Martyn
Director:
John Warwick
Producer:
Maria Blake

In the final show of the series, one of Britain's best reggae acts - Bim Sherman, also the Godfathers live in Madrid. Plus a Snub exclusive - the brand new single from New Order.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bim Sherman
Director:
Peter Fowler
Producer:
Brenda Kelly
DEF II Editor:
Janet Street-Porter

Presented by Martin Young. School trips are always a popular way to learn. But are they under threat after April? The programme looks at the new legislation and accompanies one school on a day out at the Ironbridge Gorge museum.
With exam time looming again, there's a review of study aids and some experts give their advice on the best way to revise.
What's the education press saying about current issues? Maureen O'Connor finds out. Series producer BERNARD ADAMS Producer EMMA READ (e)

Contributors

Presented By:
Martin Young.
Unknown:
Maureen O'Connor
Producer:
Bernard Adams

Trial in the Jungle
The Tasaday, a remote
Philippine tribe living 'in the Stone Age', are now seen as a famous scientific hoax. But when they were first discovered, in 1971, they were hailed as the anthropological find of the century.
How did these people dupe every scientist who went to see them? Some say they deserved Oscars for their performances, some say that the scientists were romantics searching for noble savages. Horizon has investigated the extraordinary story and arrived at a quite different conclusion. Weigh up the evidence from their stone tools, their language, their knowledge of plants and.... perhaps there wasn't a hoax at all.
Narrator Andrew Sachs Film editor JAMES HAY
Produced by BETTINA LERNER
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
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Produced By:
Bettina Lerner
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

starring
Elizabeth Taylor
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Jane Alexander. Hollywood in its golden L age was a place of M glitter and fantasy; ■J the 'dream factory' where everything was larger than life. And they didn't come much larger than the respective egos of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons - gossip columnists extraordinaire whose lifelong feud set Tinsel Town alight and gave new meaning to the word 'backbiting'. This colourful true story boasts bravura performances from Taylor and Alexander as the most feared women in Hollywood.
Screenplay by JACQUELINE M. FEATHER and DAVID SEIDLER Produced by JAY BENSON Directed by GUS TRIKONIS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor
Unknown:
Jane Alexander.
Unknown:
Hedda Hopper
Unknown:
Louella Parsons
Unknown:
Jacqueline M. Feather
Produced By:
Jay Benson
Directed By:
Gus Trikonis
Louella:
Elizabeth Taylor
Hedda:
Jane Alexander
Mayer:
Richard Dysart
Dema:
Joyce van Patten
Dr Harry 'Docky' Martin:
Jon Cypher
Harriet:
Leslie Ackerman
Ida:
Bonnie Bartlett
William Hopper:
Thomas Byrd
Andy:
Joel Colodner

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick.
With international reports by DAVID SELLS
CHARLES WHEELER
GAVIN ESLER and JULIAN O'HALLORAN
Producers JOHN BARTON.
KEITH BOWERS. EILEEN FITT. MARION KERR Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Unknown:
Donald MacCormick.
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Gavin Esler
Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Producers:
John Barton.
Unknown:
Keith Bowers.
Unknown:
Eileen Fitt.
Unknown:
Marion Kerr
Editor:
Nigel Chapman
Editor:
John Morrison

The topical arts and media programme reports on issues and performances.
This week's presenters are Sarah Dunant and Tracey MacLeod. Producer FIONA MURCH
Executive producer KEVIN LOADER Editor MICHAEL JACKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
Tracey MacLeod.
Producer:
Fiona Murch
Editor:
Michael Jackson

BBC Two England

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