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Where do you live? Living in a Tenement. Stephanie Davidson
(aged 7) shows what it is like to live in a Glasgow tenement flat.
Presented by Alan Cumming. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Davidson
Presented By:
Alan Cumming.

A miscellany series for young children.
Bring in the New. Annette Badland is not happy when Baxter decides to make some changes. Plus: building a nest and a tricycle. Producers Julie Callanan and Cas Lester
0 BOOK: 'Orla's Upside Down Day'. £3.99
(hardtack) or £1.99 (paperback), available from booksellers

Contributors

Producers:
Julie Callanan
Producers:
Cas Lester

Environment
Breaking Ground. Nepal, East Africa and the USA provide the locations for a programme investigating how different pressures on agricultural land lead to the erosion of soil by wind and rain.
Director Edwina Vardey
An International Broadcasting Trust production

Contributors

Director:
Edwina Vardey

New series. In Living Memory.
The School. What was life like in the classroom 50 years ago? With Sian Sutton , Brinley Jenkins and the children of Ammanford
Welsh School.
An Opus 30 production for BBCtv

Contributors

Unknown:
Sian Sutton
Unknown:
Brinley Jenkins

Weather followed by Wideworld
Return to the Biami. Twenty years ago an Australian, Susan Cornwell , was the first white woman to trek to the cannibal people of the Biami in Central New Guinea. Last year she returned, but their lifestyle was much changed. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Cornwell

Betjeman on Kilvert. Sir John
Betjeman travels through Kilvert country in the Welsh borderlands, and recalls a way of life recorded by the clergyman-diarist in the 1870s.
Director Patrick Garland
Producer Derek Trimby (R)

Contributors

Director:
Patrick Garland
Producer:
Derek Trimby

Radon - Out of Sight, Out of Mind The south west is known to have the highest levels of radon gas in the country. New research suggests radon causes leukaemia as well as other cancers. Hugh Prysor-Jones reports. Producer Gary Johnston

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Prysor-Jones
Producer:
Gary Johnston

Starring Jerry Lewis Dean Martin
When Melvin and Al walk past the US Navy's recruiting poster saying 'The Navy needs you', the finger should have been pointing the other way- for the navy's sake. Corinne Calvet Herself
Director Hal Walker
0 FILMS: pages 17-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerry Lewis
Unknown:
Dean Martin
Unknown:
When Melvin
Director:
Hal Walker
Melvin Jones:
Jerry Lewis
Al Crowthers:
Dean Martin
Lardoski:
Robert Strauss
CdrLane:
Leif Erickson

Another chance to see Alan Plater's seven-part adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Barchester novels, starring Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne, Geraldine McEwan, Susan Hampshire

Obadiah Slope, having learned of Eleanor's wealth, has changed sides and abandoned Mrs Proudie's candidate, Quiverful.
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Adapted by:
Alan Plater
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
David Giles
Septimus Harding:
Donald Pleasence
Mrs Proudie:
Geraldine McEwan
Dr Grantly:
Nigel Hawthorne
Signora Madeline Neroni:
Susan Hampshire
Eleanor Harding:
Janet Maw
Obadiah Slope:
Alan Rickman
Quiverful:
Jonathan Adams

Starring Rita Rudner and her special guests
Stephen Fry , Jonathan Ross
The popular American comedienne in her first British series, featuring stand-up comedy, sketches and songs. With Morwenna Banks, Martin Bergman , Philip Lowrie , Geoff McGivern and Michael Fenton Stevens.
Director/Producer Kevin Bishop

Contributors

Unknown:
Rita Rudner
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross
Unknown:
Martin Bergman
Unknown:
Philip Lowrie
Unknown:
Geoff McGivern
Unknown:
Michael Fenton Stevens.

A five-part series investigating what medical negligence is and what happens when patients believe they are victims of doctors' mistakes.
3: For the Protection of the People The General Medical Council, which has the power to discipline doctors, has judged that failure to act on tests - after which a woman died - was not serious professional misconduct. Raw Deal asks whether the GMC, as a disciplinary body, has a future.
Narrated by Helena Kennedy
Producer Deborah Cadbury
Executive producer David Paterson

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Kennedy
Producer:
Deborah Cadbury
Producer:
David Paterson

Continuing the series of short plays by writers new to television. Tonight's drama, written by Gregory Evans, stars Maggie O'Neill and Vivienne Rochester
Ruth and Esther live isolated lives. Both women are frightened by what they see around them, but for Esther this fear becomes an obsession because of her 8-month-old child.

Contributors

Writer:
Gregory Evans
Producer:
Phillippa Giles
Producer:
Vicky Licorish
Director:
Bob Blagden
Esther:
Maggie O'Neill
Ruth:
Vivienne Rochester

BBC Two England

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