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Second of five portraits of people in their seventies and eighties who continue to work, proving there is no need for the elderly to lose their vigour. Today, Gladys Walker, who is 78 and still running a pub in the New Forest.

Contributors

Subject:
Gladys Walker

Drama. Michael Landon wrote, directed and stars in this tale of young boy and his grandfather and their shared love for homing pigeons.
Hugh Bandoum MICHAEL LANDON , Da ART CARNEY.
Hugh (aged ten) ROBERT HY GORMAN
(1990) * FILM REVIEWS pages 53-59

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Landon
Unknown:
Hugh Bandoum Michael Landon
Unknown:
Da Art Carney.

On the eve of the 124th Open Golf
Championship, Steve Rider reviews the likely contenders at St Andrews and sets the scene fortomorrow's play.
Producer Barbara Slater
AFRICAN SUMMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Rider
Producer:
Barbara Slater

The slave trade was one of the worst atrocities in world history. Its legacy is racism and the devastated economies of Africa. Trevor Phillips chairs a discussion which considers the extent of/Europe's moral debt to Africa and the financial settlement which would be an appropriate recompense for centuries of colonialism and exploitation. Africa's 's Big Game is at 9.30pm Producer Michael Waterhouse

Jonathan Ross visits the Pacific North West of the US, the location of both Twin Peaks and The X Files, novelist Kathy Lette examines the Argentinian approach to sex and death, and Gordon Kennedy finds a taste of the Continent in the Channel Islands. Presented by Penny Junor.
(Stereo)
Address: the E-mail address for any travel tips or stories is: [email address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Ross
Unknown:
Kathy Lette
Unknown:
Gordon Kennedy
Presenter:
Penny Junor
Series Producer:
Liz Warner

What's going on this week in the world of wildlife.
Simon King gives advice on watching common seals and new-born pups from a Northern Ireland carpark, how to photograph butterflies, and introduces the fascinating world of the slug.
(Repeated next Saturday)
Information: see Ceefax page 624.
BBC Wildlife magazine, or access the Internet: the URL address is: [internet address removed] or record the closing titles and playback on still frame. You can E-mail your information on: [email address removed]

Followed by African Summer: Video Nation Africa Shorts

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon King
Producer:
Yvonne Ellis
Series Producer:
Mike Beynon

Continuing the series on issues that affect the lives of disabled people.

In 1995, 20,000 people in England alone will receive ECT, Electro Convulsive Therapy. Established as a treatment in 1938, ECT, often called shock therapy, can claim many successes, though its use against some patients' will and without their full knowledge of the possible consequences has been the subject of increasing criticism.

Contributors

Producer:
Joanna Kay
Editor:
Ian Macrae

BBC Two England

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