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Sicily. Magenta De Vine and Rajan Datar check out windsurfing in Palermo, and an ice-cream obsession in Catania. Plus Latin love, Arab music and Greek theatre in Siracusa.
Producer Bridget Boseley
Series producers Sharon Ali and Dave Stewart * STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Rajan Datar
Producer:
Bridget Boseley
Producers:
Sharon Ali
Producers:
Dave Stewart

Programmes made by the public under their own editorial control.
Hybrid City. In the 1980s every major city saw the rise of huge corporate building complexes, designed to link the finance houses and multinational companies which today form the new global economy.
Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility, an awareness-raising group based in America, examines how cities have been restructured, not for the public's benefit but for powerful corporations. Producer Fred Johnson
Series producer Giles Oakley
A Media Workshop production for BBCtv 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Producer:
Fred Johnson
Producer:
Giles Oakley

The Poet, the President and the Travelling
Players follows the English
Shakespeare Company on their tour of rural Malawi with Macbeth, finding parallels between the Scottish tragedy and Malawi's current political situation under dictator
Dr Hastings Banda. And exiled
Malawian poet Jack Mapanje , who spent nearly two years in Mikuyu prison as a result of Banda's censorship policy, reads some of his poems. Producer John Purdie
Series editor Nigel Williams
A Union Pictures production for BBCtv ● STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Hastings Banda.
Unknown:
Jack Mapanje
Producer:
John Purdie
Editor:
Nigel Williams

First of a three-part dark comedy written by Guy Hibbert, author of Bad Girl, and starring Paul McGann.
Joe has a successful international career, a perfect marriage and a 1-year-old child. His brother Paul manages a retirement village in the heart of Little England, a place to re-create old family values - except Paul is infertile. So big-hearted Joe suggests to Paul's wife that he act as secret sperm donor - a "gift" with catastrophic effects.
Stereo
Teletext subtitles: p888
Drama: page 4

Contributors

Writer:
Guy Hibbert
Director:
Pedr James
Producer:
Hilary Salmon
Joe Thompson:
Paul McGann
Frankie Thompson:
Josette Simon
Linda Thompson:
Gwyneth strong
Paul Thompson:
Philip Davis
Jean Thompson:
Doreen Mantle
Bill Thompson:
Allan Surtees
Aunt Peggy:
Judy Cornwell
Kate:
Nyasha Joseph-Mitchell
Kate:
Shani Joseph-Mitchell
Peter Dobson:
Bernard Horsfall
Rosemary Dobson:
Brigit Forsyth
Nigel Dobson:
Noah Huntley
Tom Edmonds:
Neil Dudgeon
Babs Edmonds:
Janet Rawson
Ruth Edmonds:
Emma Jane Lavin
Dawn:
Elaine Lordan
Barry:
David John
Jackie:
Sue Wallace
Margaret:
Jean Warren
Anne:
Joolia Cappleman
Woman on train:
Clare Malka
Man on train:
Alexander Torrigua

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