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Adventure starring Donald Sinden

Sir Anthony Ross hires an academic to help him to locate his son, who has gone missing in the Arctic.
(1974, U)
See Films: pages 50-56

Contributors

Director:
Robert Stevenson
Sir Anthony Ross:
Donald Sinden
Professor Ivarsson:
David Hartman
Captain Brieux:
Jacques Marin
Donald Ross:
David Gwillim

The series tackling issues of importance to disabled people meets Mabel Cooper, who talks about her 20 years spent in an institution. Children and parents express their disapproval about Government plans to review primary and secondary education for disabled pupils, and there's a look at why so many disability sports associations are run by able-bodied people.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Mabel Cooper
Editor:
Ian MacRae

The programme that advises on buying and caring for antiques returns for a ten-part series.
As well as helping to spring-clean some of the 175 rooms at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, there are items on buying a piano at a specialist auction and a woman who collects thirties clothing. Paul Barritt, leader of the English Chamber Orchestra. gets to play a 1727 Stradivari valued by Christie's at up to £850,000, and a couple are helped to choose antiques for their newly decorated house. Presented by Francine Stock, with Tim Wonnacott, David Dickinson and Madeleine Marsh.

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Contributors

Leader:
Paul Barritt
Presented By:
Francine Stock
Unknown:
Tim Wonnacott.
Unknown:
David Dickinson
Unknown:
Madeleine Marsh.
Series Producer:
Jane Lomas
Series Editor:
Mark Hill

First of eight short films in which author Thomas Pakenham tours Britain and his native Ireland in search of trees that can offer mystery and magic. Tonight Lincolnshire's Bowthorpe oak.

Then Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Presenter:
Thomas Pakenham
Producer:
Rob Payton
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson

In the run-up to the referendum on whether London should have an elected mayor, this film recalls how Mrs Thatcher's government abolished the Greater London Council, led by Ken Livingstone, in 1986.
(Stereo)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Narrator:
Dawn French
Producer:
Daniel Brittain-Catlin
Producer:
Tricia Lawton

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Asthma and the Bean (Subtitled)
1.00 The Front Desk (Stereo)
1.30 The Arch Never Sleeps

GCSE Bitesize Revision
2.00 German 1

Languages
4.00 The New Get by in French: 1
Survival guide.

Business and Training
5.00 Career Moves

Open University
5.45 Hidden Power
6.10 Modellings Muddle
6.35-7.00am Free Body Diagrams

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BBC Two England

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