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5: Home Bleep Home
Robot servants are still a long way off, but automated homes offer ageing populations a graceful way to grow old.
Commentary: Anna Massey. Producer DAVID HARRISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Massey.
Producer:
David Harrison

Transport
An ox-drawn wagon and a modem train, aided by a euphonium, show how music gets louder and quieter.
Presented by Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs.
Euphonium: Stephen Saunders Director CLARE ELSTOW
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT

Contributors

Presented By:
Jonathan Cohen
Presented By:
Helen Speirs.
Unknown:
Stephen Saunders
Director:
Clare Elstow
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett

Office Work (1)
The Temp's Story.
Film editor IAN MCKENDRICK Producer PAUL BALMER followed by Office Work (2)
The Secretary's Story. Film editor AMBER LANE Producer ROGER FRY

Contributors

Editor:
Ian McKendrick
Producer:
Paul Balmer

The Odyssey
The Fury of Poseidon
Robert Erskine tells how Odysseus escaped the twin perils of Scylla and Charybdis only to be shipwrecked by Poseidon. Only one man survived.
Illustrated by Paul Birbeck. Producer ANDREA CHRISTODOULOU

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Erskine
Illustrated By:
Paul Birbeck.

5: Aesthetics
Mat Irvine visits the Design Museum in London to investigate soft-tech and, with Dilly Bellingham, challenges you to re-design the famous personal organiser. Together they discover some methods of designing and printing your own magazine.
Researcher SIOBHAN KELLY
Series producer ROBIN MUDGE

Contributors

Unknown:
Siobhan Kelly
Producer:
Robin Mudge

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
Carry Go Bring Come
In today's story, everyone except Leon is busy getting ready for Marcia's wedding. Presented by Stuart Bradley. Puppeteer: Mary Edwards. Producer CAROLINE GODLEY

Contributors

Presented By:
Stuart Bradley.
Unknown:
Mary Edwards.
Producer:
Caroline Godley

Weather followed by The Yellow River
A six-part series. 3: The Temple
For centuries, the Taer
Temple has been a centre of pilgrimage for Tibetan
Buddhists. An intimate look at the life of the monks, from prayers before dawn to the yearly climax of the religious calendar when a huge figure of Buddha - sculpted in rancid butter - is revealed to thousands of pilgrims. Written and narrated by Stephen Jessel.
Produced by VIVIANA WOODRUFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Jessel.
Produced By:
Viviana Woodruff

1: Exmoor
Simon King is one of Britain's top wildlife cameramen. When this series was first shown in 1976, he was 13 years old. Then, the Man, Mike Kendall , and Simon explored the British countryside and its wildlife. Director JOHN KING. BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon King
Unknown:
Mike Kendall
Director:
John King.

Starring Walter Matthau Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn.
Dentist Julian Winston is a very lucky man - he has a beautiful girlfriend and an incredibly efficient receptionist who between them provide Julian with the perfect life style. But then his girlfriend tries to gas herself and his receptionist undergoes a strange transformation.
Produced by M.J. FRANKOVICH Directed by GENE SAKS
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Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Matthau
Unknown:
Ingrid Bergman
Unknown:
Dentist Julian Winston
Produced By:
M.J. Frankovich
Directed By:
Gene Saks
Julian:
Walter Maithau
Stephanie:
Ingrid Bergman
Toni:
Goldie Hawn
Igor:
Rick Lenz
Jack:
Harvey Greenfield
Senor Sanchez:
Vito Scott
Mrs Durant:
Irene Hervey
Georgia:
Eve Bruce
Store manager:
Irwin Charone

This week Snub catches 'supergroup' The Breeders, (the Pixies' Kim Deal ,
Josephine Wiggs from Perfect Disaster and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donnelly ) recording their debut album; Silver Bullet explain how chart success won't dilute their hardcore hip hop sound plus Mute Drivers, Tangerine and Nitzer Ebb.
Produced and directed by BRENDA KELLY and PETER FOWLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Kim Deal
Unknown:
Josephine Wiggs
Unknown:
Tanya Donnelly
Directed By:
Brenda Kelly
Directed By:
Peter Fowler

Green
Politics
Six young people challenge Andrew Simms on the practicality of making today's world a greener place. And the Thompson Twins explain their conversion to green issues.
Producer JACKIE HAMILTON
Executive producer BILL HILARY BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Simms
Producer:
Jackie Hamilton

The final stage of Wainwright's creation is a fitting climax: savouring the still beauty of the North York Moors, he tells Eric Robson of his love for this countryside, and of the mixture of elation and sadness that marks their arrival on the east coast. Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK
Producer RICHARD ELSE
(First shoum in BBC NE - Newcastle)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
John Mapplebeck

Guess What's Coming to Dinner
In the next ten years, you'll be eating food created by genetic engineers. Tomatoes that produce a caterpillar poison, crops that glow in the dark - not science-fiction but fact: new foods that contain genes from microbes, animals and foreign plants.
Do we need this genetically engineered food? The technology could be used to make drought resistant crops for the Third World or to help food processors take a penny off a can of tomatoes. It could be used to reduce, or increase, the use of pesticides. So what will it be used to achieve?
And, when it happens, will it cause ecological chaos? Written and produced by TESSA LIVINGSTONE
Series editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
0 TRANSCRIPT: send a cheque for £1.75, payable to BSS, to: Horizon [address removed]
0 EARTHWATCH: page 85
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Contributors

Produced By:
Tessa Livingstone
Editor:
Robin Brightwell

Starring Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Nick Apollo Forte.
Danny Rose is a theatrical agent, strictly small-time whose bizarre range of clients are even smaller. The exception is an Italian crooner called Lou Canova , who is a big problem. Lou's girlfriend Tina had a penchant for mobsters and Danny has just become the subject of a Mafia hit-man, which is not his usual kind of contract.
Written and directed by WOODY ALLEN
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Contributors

Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Mia Farrow
Unknown:
Danny Rose
Unknown:
Lou Canova
Directed By:
Woody Allen
Danny Rose:
Woody Allen
Tina Vitale:
Mia Farrow
Lou Canova:
Nick Apollo Forte
Ray Webb:
Craig Vanderburgh
Barney Dunn:
Herb Reynolds
Vito Rispoli:
Paulgreco
Joe Rispoli:
Frank Renzulli
Johnny Rispoli:
Edwin Bordo

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