Programme Index

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Miscellany for young children.
Say What You Feel. Annette Badland and Baxter find it difficult to console Spike. Children learn how to play percussion. Today's song is Mama Don't Low. With Simon Buckley and Richard Coombs. Producers Julie Callanan and Cas Lester

Contributors

Unknown:
Annette Badland
Unknown:
Simon Buckley
Unknown:
Richard Coombs.
Producers:
Julie Callanan
Producers:
Cas Lester

A ten-part course for beginners in spoken Hindi and Urdu presented by Sneh Gupta and Omar Salimi. 5: Shopping. (R)
● SUPPORT MATERIAL: book, same title. £8.99; two cassettes. £9.99, from retailers
* INFORMATION: a guide to finding a language class is available, in return for a large 38p sae. from [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Sneh Gupta
Presented By:
Omar Salimi.

Elizabeth /. MasA or Reality.
Sir Roy Strong , as Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , looks for clues to the personality of some English sovereigns. Director Julia Matheson
Producer Derek Trimby (R)
(Charles Ion Thursday at 2 15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Roy Strong
Unknown:
Albert Museum
Director:
Julia Matheson
Producer:
Derek Trimby

Weather followed by Westminster Live
Prime Minister's questions and other business from the Lords and Commons. Presented by Vivian White. Commentary by Brian Curtois.
Editor Geoffrey Sumner

Contributors

Presented By:
Vivian White.
Commentary By:
Brian Curtois.
Editor:
Geoffrey Sumner

A duel of words and wit between
Arthur Marshall with Jancis Robinson and Mike Read , and Frank Muir with Jane Glover and Spike Milligan.
Refereed by Robert Robinson. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Jancis Robinson
Unknown:
Mike Read
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Jane Glover
Unknown:
Spike Milligan.
Unknown:
Robert Robinson.

The programme for consumers of welfare and public services.
The Poll Tax. Whatever happened to the poll tax? Who's paying it? How much are they paying and what's it going to be spent on? A report from Wandsworth, Swansea and Wigan on 'a day in the life of the poll tax'. Editor Frank Ash
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Contributors

Editor:
Frank Ash

A visit to the Marchioness of Salisbury's Elizabethan knot garden at Hatfield House inspires
Geoff Hamilton to plant a parterre. It combines the aroma of herbs with a stunning geometric design that would be a talking point in any garden.
● GARDENING: page 101
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Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Hamilton

Starring Rod Steiger
In flight from both Scotland Yard and the FBI, international financier and swindler Carl Schaffner, en route to Mexico, meets a man who shares a remarkable physical resemblance. Drugging him, Schaffner assumes his identity only to discover, after crossing the border, that his victim was both a wanted political assassin and a local folk hero.
Films: pages 37-42

Contributors

Based on a story by:
Graham Greene
Director:
Ken Annakin
Carl Schaffner:
Rod Steiger
Johnny:
David Knight
Mary:
Marla Landi
Chief of police:
Noel Willman
Chief Insp Hadden:
Bernard Lee
Paul Scarff:
Bill Nagy
Police sergeant:
Eric Pohlmann
Cooper:
Alan Gifford

The new foreign affairs programme reports from around the globe, bringing today the stories that could well dominate the news tomorrow.
The Ukraine. Controversial historian Professor Norman Stone reports from the Ukraine. Once independent, now part of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine struggles for freedom. If it succeeds, the Soviet empire would fall apart. Producer Brian Barr Editor John Morrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Norman Stone
Producer:
Brian Barr
Editor:
John Morrison

The last in the series from the American comedienne.
Her special guest is Ade Edmondson
Rita's visa expires and she has to go home; and Ade makes an appeal. With Martin Bergman , Ian Burford , Liz Edmiston , Louise Gold ,
Philip Lowrie , Robert Meadmore , Lill Roughley , Corinne Russell , Michael Fenton Stevens and Sally Ann Triplett.
Director, Producer Kevin Bishop

Contributors

Unknown:
Ade Edmondson
Unknown:
Martin Bergman
Unknown:
Ian Burford
Unknown:
Liz Edmiston
Unknown:
Louise Gold
Unknown:
Philip Lowrie
Unknown:
Robert Meadmore
Unknown:
Lill Roughley
Unknown:
Corinne Russell
Unknown:
Michael Fenton Stevens
Unknown:
Sally Ann Triplett.
Producer:
Kevin Bishop

The feature-length opening episode of David Lynch and Mark Frost's acclaimed television series. An offbeat murder-mystery drama about a small town where anyone would want to be.
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean
"She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." The body of Laura Palmer, a beautiful teenage girl, is found by the shoreline in the small lumber town of Twin Peaks, shattering the tranquillity and revealing a host of dark and twisted secrets involving drugs, illicit love, Norwegian property developers, Douglas firs and cherry pie.
COVER STORY: page 5
BARRY NORMAN: page 37
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Contributors

Writer:
Mark Frost
Writer:
David Lynch
Director:
David Lynch
Agent Dale Cooper:
Kyle MacLachlan
Sheriff Harry S. Truman:
Michael Ontkean
Catherine Martell:
Piper Laurie
Josie Packard:
Joan Chen
Shelly Johnson:
Madchen Amick
Bobby Briggs:
Dana Ashbrook
Benjamin Horne:
Richard Beymer
Donna Hayward Lara:
Flynn Boyle
Audrey Horne:
Sherilyn Fenn
William Hayward:
Warren Frost
Norma Jennings:
Peggy Lipton
James Hurley:
James Marshall
Ed Hurley:
Everett McGill
Pete Martell:
Jack Nance
Leland Palmer:
Ray Wise
Sarah Palmer:
Grace Zabriskie
Lawrence Jacoby:
Russ Tamblyn
Laura Palmer:
Sheryl Lee
Leo Johnson:
Eric Da Re
Andy Brennan:
Harry Goaz
Tommy 'Hawk' Hill:
Michael Horse
Lucy Moran:
Kimmy Robertson
Major Briggs:
Don Davis
Nadine Hurley:
Wendy Robie

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