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The children compose some music about a goblin and listen to a string quartet. The gnome from Pictures at an Exhibition comes to life and captures the fairies.
Presenters:
Jonathan Cohen and Helen Spiers with lain King (violin) Michael Ponder (viola) Sarah Gilford (cello)
Neil Tarlton (double-bass) Animation Bura and Hardwick Puppets Alan Platt
Director Andrea Christodoulou Producer Elizabeth Bennett

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Unknown:
Helen Spiers
Viola:
Michael Ponder
Cello:
Sarah Gilford
Double-Bass:
Neil Tarlton
Director:
Andrea Christodoulou
Producer:
Elizabeth Bennett

Timmy Mallett and Anjuu Misra explore how faith and belief sometimes help people to see each other differently. There is a very old story retold with eight large jellies, lots of cream and a hundred children, a visit to a vicar who draws cartoons and stops fights, a look inside a Hindu temple and a reminder of who our neighbours are.
Assistant producer Mike Dick Producer John Forrest

Contributors

Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Anjuu Misra
Producer:
Mike Dick
Producer:
John Forrest

8: This week Mat Irvine visits the West Country to try out a yacht that's as easy to sail as driving a car. The challenge is to design an energy management system to control bicycle lights, and both he and Dilly
Bellingham show how to make and fly your working solid fuel rocket. Production assistant Amanda Mooney
Series producer Robin Mudge

Contributors

Unknown:
Amanda Mooney
Producer:
Robin Mudge

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
Stuart and Nutmeg go on a shopping spree. Today's story, The Shopping Basket, is about adventures on the way home from the shops. Presenter: Stuart Bradley. Puppeteer: Mary Edwards. Producer Caroline Godley

Contributors

Presenter:
Stuart Bradley.
Unknown:
Mary Edwards.
Producer:
Caroline Godley

Starring
Danny Kaye Dana Wynter US Private First Class
Ernie Williams passes his time in England just before D-Day by doing impersonations. Allied Intelligence soon realise that he could
'become' the key figure of General MacKenzie-Smith, who is the target of determined Nazi assassination squads.
PFC Ernie Williams/General
Director Melville Shavelson
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Contributors

Unknown:
Danny Kaye
Unknown:
Ernie Williams
MacKenzie-smith:
Danny Kaye
Lady MacKenzie-Smith:
Dana Wynter
Colonel Somerset:
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Sergeant Bridget Stanhop:
Diana Dors
Lady Vivian:
Margaret Rutherford
Captain Patterson:
Allan Cuthbertson
Corporal Joseph Praeger:
Jesse White

Manchester's rising stars Inspiral Carpets filmed live plus an interview; and a look at the work of Cabaret Voltaire - who, back in the punk days, pioneered electro rhythms and sampled before samplers - on the eve of the release of a new LP. Plus Soupdragons and Edsel Auctioneers.

[Photo caption] Cutting a rug: Inspiral Carpets, Manchester's latest musical export, providing wall-to-wall sound DEF II: Snub TV, 6.30pm BBC2

Contributors

Musicians:
Inspiral Carpets
Musicians:
Cabaret Voltaire
Musicians:
Soup Dragons [billed as Soupdragons]
Musicians:
Edsel Auctioneers

Fitting Images
'You can't judge a book by its cover' - but all the evidence suggests that is precisely what people do; they make judgments based on the way others look. For Dennis Nye , Kathy Burke and Nicky Read , 'looks' have played a significant part in their lives.
Series producer Roger Tonge Producer Julie Callanan (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Nye
Unknown:
Kathy Burke
Unknown:
Nicky Read
Producer:
Roger Tonge
Producer:
Julie Callanan

John Wallace , the Principal Trumpet of the Philharmonia Orchestra, gives this week's Master Class in brass to three former finalists:
Ceri McInally (tuba), Rachel Clarke (horn) and Craig Patterson (trumpet). They are working on music by Arnold, Mozart and Enesco. Designer David Wilson Director Peter Maniura
Event sponsored by Lloyds Bank.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wallace
Unknown:
Ceri McInally
Horn:
Rachel Clarke
Horn:
Craig Patterson
Designer:
David Wilson
Director:
Peter Maniura

A film shown in two-parts. Starring
Tommy Lee Jones Christine Lahti
One summer evening in 1976, Gary Gilmore shot dead a petrol station attendant. The next night he killed the manager of a motel. From his prison cell in Utah he demanded to be executed by firing squad.
1: April 1976: 35-year-old
Gary Gilmore is released on parole from federal prison in Illinois and joins his cousin Brenda Nicol in Provo,
Utah. After a spell working for his uncle Vem Damico , he changes jobs and meets Nicole Baker , an attractive 19-year-old mother of two. Falling in love, they begin a tempestuous relationship that leads to impossible tensions on both sides.
Screenplay by Norman Mailer , based on his book Producer/Director Lawrence Schiller (Part 2 next week)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Lee Jones
Unknown:
Christine Lahti
Unknown:
Gary Gilmore
Unknown:
Gary Gilmore
Unknown:
Brenda Nicol
Unknown:
Vem Damico
Unknown:
Nicole Baker
Unknown:
Norman Mailer
Director:
Lawrence Schiller
Gary Gilmore:
Tommy Lee Jones
Brenda Nicol:
Christine Lahti
Nicole Baker:
Rosanna Arquette
Vern Damico:
Eli Wallach
Johnny Nicol:
Jordan Clarke
Earl Dorius:
Richard Venture
April Baker:
Jenny Wright
Pete Galoran:
Walter Olkewitz
Rikki Wood:
Michael Leclair
Val Conlin:
Pat Corley

The live programme of the arts and media reports on people, issues and performances.
Producer Janice Hadlow
Executive producer Kevin Loader Editor Michael Jackson

Contributors

Producer:
Janice Hadlow
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Editor:
Michael Jackson

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