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Marshall Farm at Woolsery in north Devon has been in the Stevens family for two generations. In the 1980s everything went sour. With the cuts in milk quotas, they can't make a living from the 200- acre dairy farm so they're selling up.
Presented by Ian Breach. Director Janet Crook
Series producer Howard Perks BBC South West (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Ian Breach.

Cameraman Sid Perou with the help of the Cave Diving Group has been under ground in northern England and the West Country to film some of the networks of caves previously unseen. Narrator: Ken Cooper. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sid Perou
Narrator:
Ken Cooper.

Starring
Peter Finch
Kay Kendall
David Prentice , a television drama producer, has a new and exciting idea for a programme: a fictional series about an ordinary married couple who are, in reality, husband and wife.
The natural choice seems to be Simon and Laura Foster , a showbiz couple who have a blissfully happy marriage - apparently.
Director Muriel Box
0 FILMS: pages 17-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Finch
Unknown:
Kay Kendall
Unknown:
David Prentice
Unknown:
Laura Foster
Director:
Muriel Box
Simon:
Peter Finch
Laura:
Kay Kendall
Janet:
Muriel Pavlow
David:
Ian Carmichael
Wilson:
Maurice Denham

Science-fiction series for under-5s. The pieman and piewife are up to their eyes in pies preparing for a local fair when they are interrupted.
Devised by Chloe Ashcroft and Peter Gosling
Music Peter Gosling Puppets Clare Beaton
Series producer Michael Cole Producer Sharon Miller (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chloe Ashcroft
Unknown:
Peter Gosling
Music:
Peter Gosling
Producer:
Sharon Miller
Piewife:
Chloe Ashcroft
Pieman:
David Hargreaves
Piepilot:
Ben Thomas

Bernard Aldrich was river keeper to the late Lord
Mountbatten when this film was made. He is still the river keeper of the beautiful stretch of the River Test where it flows through Broadlands.
He has the kind of life many dream about.
Writer/Director Michael Croucher (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Aldrich
Director:
Michael Croucher

Weather followed by The Natural World
Where the prairies of America meet the great northern forest lies a natural parkland in which one tree is dominant, the trembling aspen.
Narrated by Sian Phillips. Filmed and directed by Robert J Long
Produced by Pelham Aldrich-Blake BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sian Phillips.
Directed By:
Robert J Long
Produced By:
Pelham Aldrich-Blake

Starring
Hedy Lamarr George Brent
Following the sudden death of a fellow traveller, Hunt Bailey is drawn into the sinister world surrounding a beautiful woman - a woman who has become the object of a maniacal obsession.
Director Jacques Tourneur
0 FILMS: pages 17-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Hedy Lamarr
Unknown:
George Brent
Unknown:
Hunt Bailey
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Allida:
Hedy Lamarr
Dr Hunt Bailey:
George Brent
Nick:
Paul Lukas

Complaints against the police are at their highest level. Confidence in the force, especially among the young, has dropped dramatically. Can it be restored? Young people put their case to officers in the Words Apart studio and to young recruits beginning their police careers at the Metropolitan force's training school in London.
Director Nigel Shepherd Producer Neil McDonald

Contributors

Director:
Nigel Shepherd
Producer:
Neil McDonald
David Vincent:
Roy Thinnes
Dr Bob Vincent:
Linden Chiles
Grace Vincent:
Julie Sommars

The first of a four-part series written and presented by Irish novelists. 'All fiction has its autobiographical roots, spreading through, in my case, a provincial world, limited and claustrophobic.' William Trevor , the distinguished short story writer and novelist, explores the landscape of his childhood - a small seaside town in County Cork. Cameraman Eric Gillespie Producer Tony McAuley BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor
Unknown:
Eric Gillespie

Inside the Revolution
For many people the Czechoslavak revolution was a dream come true, 20 years after Soviet troops swept into Prague. Yet behind the revolution were carefully laid plans, leading all the way to Moscow. John Simpson
tells the inside story using unique footage and featuring a special interview with Vaclav Havel , Czechoslovakia's new president.
Producer Marsh Marshall Editor James Hogan
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Simpson
Unknown:
Vaclav Havel
Producer:
Marsh Marshall
Editor:
James Hogan

Director
Jiff Menzel 's gentle black comedy - his first film won an Oscar in 1966 and has since become a classic of Czech cinema.
In occupied Czechoslovakia during the Second World War a young apprentice railway guard leads a quiet, uneventful life in a small country station. Only the amorous exploits of the chief guard and dreams of his own romantic conquests relieve his boredom.
0 FILMS: pages 17-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Jiff Menzel
MiloS Hrma:
Vaclav Neckaf
Máša:
Jitka Bendová
Stationmaster:
Vladimir Valenta
Hubička:
Josef Somr
Stationmaster's wife:
Libuse Havelkova
Dr Brabec:
Jiff Menzel

From the early 70s to last year's revolution, British academics helped to run a secret university in Czechoslovakia, whose aim was to keep alive the spirit of free intellectual enquiry. Michael Ignatieff reports on the intellectual as undercover agent. Producer Julian Birkett
Executive Producer Kevin Loader

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Producer:
Julian Birkett
Producer:
Kevin Loader

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