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The story of Peter Scupham and John Mole who run the Mandeville Press, a small publishing house in the heart of the English countryside. Director Richard Kurti
Producer James Roberts
A Shooting Stars Movie Factory production (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Scupham
Unknown:
John Mole
Director:
Richard Kurti
Producer:
James Roberts

Starring Will Hay
In this hilarious comedy of errors, William Davis is mistaken for economics expert Professor Davys. When the real professor is captured by Nazi spies, the teacher embarks upon a frantic rescue attempt.
Directors Will Hay and Basil Dearden
0 FILMS: pages 18-22

Contributors

Unknown:
William Davis
Unknown:
Basil Dearden
William Davis:
Will Hay
Bobby:
John Mills
Costello:
Basil Sydney
Professor Davys:
Henry Hewitt
Joyce:
Thora Hird

Starring George Formby, Kay Walsh

When the County Echo launches a keep-fit campaign, George Green finds himself in the middle of a competition more suited to plumper mortals.
Films: pages 18-22

Contributors

Director:
Anthony Kimmins
George Green:
George Formby
Joan Allen:
Kay Walsh
Hector Kent:
Guy Middleton

Weather followed by Under Sail
Sea Cloud. Tom Salmon narrates the story of this square rigger, originally built in the 1930s as an extravagant wedding present.
Producers Brian Hawkins and Robin Drake (R)

Contributors

Producers:
Brian Hawkins
Producers:
Robin Drake

The magazine programme that challenges able-bodied perceptions of disability. With subtitles and sign language interpretation. Presented by Isobel Ward, Simon Barnes and Chris Davies.
Producer Christopher Hutchins

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Barnes
Unknown:
Chris Davies.
Producer:
Christopher Hutchins

Starring
George C Scott Ali McGraw
Sixteen years after the disappearance of his only son,
Burton Allen , a widowed American businessman, travels to China in an attempt to clarify the boy's fate.
Director Robert Day
* FILMS: pages 18-22

Contributors

Unknown:
George C Scott
Unknown:
Ali McGraw
Unknown:
Burton Allen
Burton Allen:
George C Scott
Rose Arrow:
Ali McGraw
Daniel Allen:
Michael Biehn

Vous parlez français comment? If your French is rusty O-level and you'd like to improve it, this series is for you. Orteans/Paris.
Dariane Lorian visits Orleans, the town of Jeanne d'Arc. In Paris she does a bit of clothes shopping, finds out about train times and buys a ticket.
Producer Frank Ash ,
£3.50, and cassette, X4.99, from booksellers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dariane Lorian
Producer:
Frank Ash

The magazine programme on Asian affairs presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Shyama Perera. With the increasing threat of civil war in Sri Lanka, East talks exclusively to President Premadasa as he battles to control the Tamil separatists.

Contributors

Presented By:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Presented By:
Shyama Perera.

A series of six personal views by Jonathon Porritt , former director of Friends of the Earth.
3: A Greener Living. 'Prevailing wisdom has it that quality of life is a by-product of a permanently expanding economy.' Porritt looks at the problems affecting education, health care and the inner cities and examines some developing strategies for improving our quality of life. He then talks to Paddy Ashdown , leader of the Liberal Democrats, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Master of Birkbeck College, and Dr John Rae , writer and former head teacher in the independent sector.
Producers Paul Kriwaczek and David Williams
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt
Leader:
Paddy Ashdown
Leader:
Dr John Rae
Producers:
Paul Kriwaczek
Producers:
David Williams

Comedienne Ruby Wax careers from a belligerent taxi driver in London to a peasant wedding in Cyprus, via Britain's answer to
Gloria Swanson and a nudist camp. Director Paul Sommers
An Aspect Film and Television and Raw Produce production for BBCtv (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gloria Swanson
Director:
Paul Sommers

Mountaineer Joe Brown goes to a remote loch in the Western
Highlands of Scotland where, 70 years ago, Murdo MacDonald introduced a colony of trout. Producer Michael Begg
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Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Brown
Unknown:
Murdo MacDonald
Producer:
Michael Begg

Six Artists on Drawing Sir Hugh Casson 's direct, no-nonsense approach to drawing challenges the mystique that has gathered, wrongly in his opinion, around the job of the artist. Producer Dick Foster
0 BOOK: 'The SBC Drawing Course', £11.95, available from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson
Producer:
Dick Foster

Holland House. Peter Palumbo , the Chairman of the Arts Council, enthuses about Holland House, an office block built in the City of London by the Dutch architect Beriage. Producer Clare Paterson (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Palumbo
Producer:
Clare Paterson

BBC Two England

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