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ROBERT BEDFORD HAPPY TO GAMBLE ON DISASTER Robert Redford's first effort in the director's chair, the subject of The South Bank Show, has already received considerable critical acclaim. In Sunday's programme he tells Melvyn Bragg why he has joined the long like of top stars who've switched to the other side of the camera. Here, we look at their successes, near-misses —and, in certain cases, films which were complete disasters has just achieved the ambition of an acting lifetime—to direct his first film Released here this month, Ordinary People was unveiled in America to generally ecstatic reviews and has already won five Golden Globe awards, as well as being nominated for six Oscars. Redford isn't the first successful actor to turn director, but it is a move full of risks. And he chose a difficult subject—family hostility and mental breakdown. So it is surprising that American critics like Pauline Kael and Richard Schickel described the film as "miraculous", "earnest" and "honest". The director was delighted by perhaps the OBERT REDFORD

nicest compliment of all from his star, Donald Sutherland: "The thing that is really wonderful about Bob is that he was a 'painter'. Nobody, with the possible exception of Fellini [the famous Italian director], ever gave me better physical direction. He directed my body and my face better than anyone." Redford had long planned to direct. "I've always wrestled with the doubt that being an actor is not significant enough in itself," he says. "Not of enough value. I enjoy acting and make no apologies, but at times I find it can be a demeaning business." So it looks as if Redford might have left famous roles, such as the Sundance Kid, behind him to

take his chances in a hot seat where initial success is by no means a guarantee against subsequent disaster. But what is involved in an actor becoming a director, and how did others manage it ? It's certainly different now from the days of John Ford and John Huston, who graduated through writing or simply being "prop" menthe equivalent of stagehands. The new breed of directors are mostly young stars who, rebelling against the studio "system", have had the intelligence and business acumen to nurture their talent and sell it to the highest bidder. Clint Eastwood with his Malpaso Company evolved from playing in mindless "spaghetti westerns" to choosing his writers, picking his cast,

The South Bank Show/Sunday Robert Redford's director, Ordinary Peop Mary Tyler Moore as it has already been showered wi praise. But if what happened t many other actors-unedi aythgob there could be storms ah

collaborating on screenplays, starring, directing and even composing and singing the songs on the soundtrack. But Eastwood is not only a man with an eye for a good business deal; he has cleverly followed a line from one of his own pictures, Magnum Force (1973): "A man has to know his limitations." That's why he is still basically The Man With No Name: enigmatic, with an aura of latent violence, yet, in a way, curiously lovable. Other actors have enjoyed less success in the director's seat: Marlon Brando's curious western One-Eyed Jacks (1961) puzzled critics and mystified the public, who found the mixture. of violence and lyricism too hard to take. John

Wayne's The Green Berets (1968) was greeted with derision on both sides of the Atlantic: his over-simplified patriotism met the same reception as Errol Flynn's World War Two heroics in Objective Burma (1945). "Flynn wins the war single-handed," scoffed a reviewer then. Wayne's buddy of 40 years, director John Ford, said: "I think Duke got Vietnam muddled with cowboys and Indians; and it's not the same thing." But there have been notable successes. Supporting actor Dennis Hopper's exploration of small-town America, Easy Rider (1969), was made for a song and grossed more than 20 million dollars as well as initiating a new school of socially exploratory films. Warren Beatty's

Shampoo (1975), which he co-wrote and produced, satirised the morals and lifestyle of Southern Californians It was a big hit and the current word is that Beatty's latest effort, with the working title Reds, which he has directed and produced, is going to be even more successful. Easy Rider co-star Jack Nicholson directed his own film Drive, He Said in 1971. It examined contemporary attitudes of young people towards authority, and earned Nicholson respect without actually tempting him to forsake acting. So how many of these young contender have made the change and stayed the course ? Eastwood has proved that he can not only retain his artistic integrity but also manage the financial aspects of film-making. But for every Eastwood, there are half a dozen contenders who seem to have lost their way. Where, for instance, does Sylvester Stallone go three years after the comparative failure of Rocky II (1978), a follow-up of his 1976 Rocky, the tale of a small-time boxer who makes it big ? And will Woody Allen and Mel Brooks survive the mixed critical receptions of their last two movies ? A friend of Woody Allen's explained: "He was fine when he had a director who would tell him when to stop, when to go and when he wasn't being funny. But now he's in sole charge he doesn't have to listen to anyone, not even his analyst." When British actor Albert Finney ventured into directing with Charlie Bubbles (1968), another examination of social behaviour in relation to class structures, he said: "The real joy was being my own boss. If I did make any mistakes, they were mine and no one else's." But a close friend of the late Peter Sellers confided: "Peter was fabulous with a strong director, but if he once felt he'd got the upper hand, then chaos reigned. He just didn't know when to stop." If that is true of Sellers, it might explain the decline of a host of fellow actor/ director comics, going right back to the vintage days of Hollywood. Some comedians like Harry Langdon ran into trouble immediately they took over. Producer Hal Roach said: "Comedian Larry Semon spent six months and a feature budget on a tiny two-reeler called The Sawmill (1922). When he came back from location Vitagraph fired him on the spot." More recently Jerry Lewis's attempts to direct One More Time (1970) caused great upheaval. A producer friend said: "His last few pictures were a nightmare If he liked a scene he'd go on and on, adding bits, writing more lines, putting in more business, until you'd find you'd spent a whole day on a sequence that would last 20 seconds in the final cut." Some believe talented Gene Wilder and his chum Marty Feldman may well be suffering from the same malaise. Chaplin, of course, was the original actorturned-director, but even he became selfindulgent in later years. In A Countess From Hong Kong (1966), he won over moody Marlon Brando and nervous Sophia Loren by sheer ingratiation. But after a few days' shooting he had become so "friendly" to work with that the actors began to ignore his direction. "It was lovely", one of the cast explained, "but at times hardly any real work got done. It was just one big mutual congratulation society." Three years after A Countess from Hong Kong was made, veteran British actor Sir Richard Attenborough directed Oh! W hat a Lovely W ar, and two years later Lionel Jeffries/continued overleaf 3

Redford as a young soldier in W ar Hunt (1961). his first film Below: in his new role, directing Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland in a golf course Ordinary People. scene from

FILMS THAT MADE REDFORD A STAR

Redford the romantic. As a man of mystery, he woos Daisy (Mia Farrow) in the 1974 film of Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. continued/made a hit with The Railway Children. Everyone in the business was pleased that two such beloved actors had made their mark as directors, though some thought it a pity that young directors like Ken Loach, Jack Gold and Peter Watkins had not had similar opportunities. But they weren't actors. Could it be that they lacked pedigree ? If it is track records which count, the awful fate of famous Hollywood director Erich Von Stroheim might deter a few actors who want to direct. In the Twenties, Stroheim was the toast of the movie capital, with a string of successes. Then

three flops followed. Within four years he was back where he started, as an actor, sometimes playing supporting roles in movies like The Lost Squadron (1932) and Sunset Boulevard (1950). The irony was that in Sunset Boulevard he was asked to parody the great director he had once been. They had turned the ringmaster back into the clown. Let us hope that Redford is like the late Alfred Hitchcock, who used to approve the final dub of his latest picture then retire to the comfort of his Beverly Hills garden, while the studio publicity machine went into full gear with sneak previews, press shows and premieres. "One can't be responsible all the time," he once said. "Whenever a critic says to me he doesn't think my last picture is as good as the one before, I invariably reply that I wouldn't know, because I hadn't seen the one before."

Redford the political animal emerged in 1972, with The Candidate

Redford and Paul Newman go down fighting in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (1969)

Still in epic romantic vein, Redford proved to be one of the few Hollywood leading men capable of matching the highpowered Barbra Streisand, in the 1973 film The W ay W e W ere

Redford took to the air to portray a daredevil aviation pioneer in 1' he Great W aldo Pepper (1975)

One of his most popular roles: as the Thirties con-man in The Sting

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Pairing Redford with Dustin Hoffman was dynamite in A ll the President's Men (1976)

Redford as a man of the early 20th century western wilderness, in Jeremiah Johnson

(1972)a subject much in accord with his own interests in outdoor life and American backwoods history

As the ex-ace rodeo rider reduced to selling breakfast cereal in TheElectricHorseman (1979)

The terror that could be on the street where you live by Larry Ashe They are all respectable enough today— but these houses and flats were not as innocent as they look. They were used as bomb factories, boltholes or transmitting stations for terrorists and spies. Neighbours were unaware of what went on behind those ordinary-looking doors and windows. Today there will almost certainly be other houses and flats hiding similar deadly secrets— perhaps on the street where you live. Tuesday's play, The Perfect House, is a story about terrorists and their need for what in the jargon of spying is called a "safe house" 6

359 Amhurst Road, Stoke Newington, East London

61 Crouch Hill Finsbury Park, North London

BETWEEN Lower Clapton and Dalston, this first-floor flat—described by the Daily Express nine years ago as "dingy"—was home for four members of The Angry Brigade, a gang of bombers whose activities between 1967 and 1970 included an attack on the American Embassy, damage to a BBC outside-broadcast van at a Miss World Contest, and the bombing of the Department of Employment and Productivity and the house of Home Secretary Sir Robert Carr. Gang-members Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelson, John Barker and James Greenfield each received 10-year sentences for conspiring to cause explosions.

EXAMPLE of an IRA barrio factory shown by Scotland Yard to newspaper reporters after the Balcombe Street siege in 1975. It was a two-bedroomed flat— described then as "squalid" by the Daily Mirror— in a large corner house, believed to be the base for two members of the siege gang. An Armalite rifle, explosives and ball bearings "for use in shrapnel bombs" were found on the premises. The gang of four, who held their Balcombe Street hostages for 138 hours, were found guilty of six charges of murder and each sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.

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befitting the status of Russian master-spy Konon Trofimovitch Molody, otherwise known as Colonel K, otherwise known as Gordon Lonsdale. This Thirties block offered hotel accommodation and was particularly favoured by Lonsdale because it featured a swimming pool—since demolished—on the roof. He was sentenced in 1961 to 25 years' imprisonment for running the Portland Spy Ring, but on April 22, 1964, he was exchanged at a Berlin checkpoint for Greville Wynne, the Briton imprisoned by the Russians for alleged spying. Lonsdale, believed to have died in Moscow 10 years ago, studied Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies while living at The White House.

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walking distance of the Admiralty, the Dolphin Square complex of flats includes shops, swimming pool, squash courts and sauna—an excellent H.Q. for anyone seeking a quiet and exclusive London retreat. It was the home of William John Christopher Vassall, clerical officer in the Admiralty's cipher department, sentenced in 1962 to 18 years' imprisonment for passing Naval and Admiralty secrets to the Russians. Vassal, son of a vicar, first aroused the suspicions of M.I.5 operators because of his address; they wondered how he could afford such a flat on his £800-a-year salary. He was released in 1972 after four applications for parole.

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example of a "safe house" situated in an area of high mobility and used by Carlos Martinez, the international terrorist believed to be "The Jackal", during his 18-month friendship with the flat's tenant at the time. The Jackal is alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping of 11 oil ministers at an OPEC Conference in Vienna, the shooting of Marks & Spencer chairman Edward Sieff, and a rocket attack on an El Al jet at Orly Airport, Paris.

A SERVICE flat offering complete anonymity. Staff described the occupants as "typical Arab tourists". In fact, they were the six IranianArab gunmen who took over the Iranian Embassy on April 30 last year, and held 19 hostages, including PC Trevor Lock; two hostages died. It was acquired through an Earls Court flat agency with a deposit and first week's rent (k104) in advance, plus agency commission. The six second floor rooms gave a pleasant outlook in a cosmopolitan area. This was where the siege was planned and where the gunmen received weapons. The siege ended on Bank Holiday Monday, May 5, when the S.A.S. burst into the embassy in Princes Gate. Five gunmen were killed; the other, Fowzi Nejad was jailed for life.

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45 Cranley Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex suburban bungalow was the home of U.S.-born Russian spies Peter and Helen Kroger, from where they transmitted secrets to the U.S.S.R. stolen from Portland Naval research station by Henry Frederick Houghton and his girlfriend Ethel Gee. The Krogers, jailed in 1961 for 20 years and released in 1969 in exchange for Moscow-held British lecturer Gerald Brooke, paid £4,200 for the property. It is just 20 minutes from the centre of London by Central Line Underground (useful for Peter Kroger, who to outsiders was a respectable antiquarian bookseller). It was so close to Ruislip U.S. Air Base that Kroger's transmissions went undetected amid the base's chatter of radio messages. THIS PLEASANT

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admitted that, at the ripe old age of 44, Shirley Bassey is looking—well, ripe, and surely the most glamorous Welsh grandmother of them all. Shirley is the last big-star-guest in the current run of The Muppet Show on Sunday. Later the same evening, you can hear her sing the title song from the Bond film, Diamonds A re Forever. Once, her age was one of the most zealously-guarded secrets in showbusiness. But now after 27 years of headlines, two marriages (the first, to television director Kenneth Hume ended in 1961; divorce proceedings with the second, former Venice hotel manager Sergio Novak, are continuing), three children (Sharon, 25, mother of a year-old son; Samantha, 16, and Mark, 14), Shirley is completely unashamed about her birthdate. "It's no secret," she says "People can work it out for themselves. Sometimes I feel that there isn't anything everyone doesn't know about me." Rather than forget about birthdays, there was IT MUST BE

more than just a memory of the old Tiger Bay Tigress about the way in which Shirley celebrated her 44th earlier this year. She did an impromptu performance in a club in the jet-set ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, while a French reveller sipped wine from under her knee as she hoiked one still-shapely leg on to a chair, Blue Angel-style. British showbusiness these days sees little of perhaps its most volatile artist. Her joyous romp with the Muppets is a treat. Shirley lives in Switzerland and spends much of her time in California, where she has an adoring audience, a Rolls-Royce registered BIRD 80 and time to spare for anonymous forays into Mexico, where she wanders and sun-soaks, far from the headline stories that seem always to accompany her. Shirley now needs work only six months a year, and admits that her roots in Britain — and in particular in her home-town Cardiff—are withering. "I return only two or three times a year, to see my mother," she says. "There is nowhere to work, and all my old friends have disappeared virtually without trace. Maybe I'll return when I retire, live in the country and concentrate on gardening." It's difficult to imagine Shirley Bassey pottering around the petunias with a trowel. But then, she hardly looks the conventional granny either. Foot-loose and still fabulous, Shirley has as her constant companion her ex-road manager, Australian Ken Carter. But both insist there is no prospect of marriage. "Whenever I say 'I do', it seems to be a declaration of war," says Shirley.

A Turn Up in a Million/Tuesday 10.30

the historian, Ernest Bevin was the desperately poor, illegitimate and illeducated West Country boy who became an international statesman and one of Britain's great foreign secretaries. To trades unionists who this year remember the centenary of his birth —marked by Tuesday's documentary A Turn Up in a Million he was the founder and first general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, a powerful and often ruthless man, an 18-stone mountain who could move tens of thousands of men with the sheer strength of simple words and total conviction. But Bevin is best remembered by one select group as the man who sent them down the mines. In 1940 he became Minister of Labour and National Service in Churchill's War Cabinet. Responsible for the nuts and bolts of the war effort, and given immense power to keep the supply of munitions and other essentials at peak production, he was the man who introduced conscription for the mines. This was done only after an optional scheme had failed: in four months only 1,000 young men MPROBABLY, tO

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The ruthless statesman who sent schoolboys down the mines by Stewart Knowles

offered to go down the pits. Bevin's broadcast appeal for volunteer miners, in November 1943, also failed, and the following month the Government announced a blind ballot directing 10 per cent of all young men registering for military service to be sent underground. Often straight from school—and, since class was for once no barrier, many came from famous English public schools—the youngsters In 1943 Bevin ordered 10 per cent of young men registering for military service to go down the ' es. Boy min volunteers like these could not do all the work.

suddenly drafted into unfamiliar darkness became known as the Bevin Boys. One was comedian Eric Morecambe, who has good reason to remember the experience since it heralded the start of a heart condition that would continue to plague him. It was not long after he had met and teamed up with Ernie Wise. But, whereas Wise was called-up into the Merchant Navy, More-

cambe was conscripted into the mines. Wearing boots with metal toe-caps, a tin helmet and a head lamp, he disappeared into the depths of New Town Colliery, Manchester in May 1944 but subsequently volunteered for the pit at Accrington where his father had worked during World War One. "I, who had never carried anything heavier than a set of band books," says Morecambe, "was set to pushing great big tubs of coal along rails in the dark, with only a Davy safety lamp of about one candlepower." Some seams were no more than 2ft. high. Morecambe worked the 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. shift. "I had gone down the mines in Al condition," he says, "but in 11 months I was classified C3 and sent home with a touch of heart trouble to my mother's fussing, which I enjoyed." Unlike the ex-public schoolboys with their unfamiliar accents, Morecambe had at least one thing in common with Bevin, the man responsible for his 11 months in the dark—he, too, came from a workingclass background. But whereas Morecambe knew his father—he was a corporation workman when the young Eric Bartholomew was born in Morecambe, Lancashire—Ernest Bevin, born March 7, 1881, in the Exmoor village of Winsford, Somerset, never knew who his father was. Bevin's mother was the village midwife, and often forced to apply for parish relief to feed her six sons. She died when Bevin was eight and he was brought up by a half-sister, leaving school when he was 11 and finding work as a farm boy earning six old pence (21p) a week. Aged 13, Bevin went to Bristol. Then, in 1901, after a series of casual jobs (including working as a conductor on horse-drawn trams), he became a van-driver and took the unexpected road to power. Involved in a dock strike in 1910, he became chairman of a newlyformed carmen's branch of the Dockers' Union and within a year was a full-time union official. Responsible for the merging of 14 unions into the giant T.G.W.U. in 1922, he went on to become its first general secretary--one of the most powerful men in the land. Jack Jones, former T.G.W.U. general secretary, is quite sure that Bevin led a social revolution by creating the first powerful union devoted to the interests of the general mass of workers. "He was ruthless in climbing to the top," says Jones. Moss Evans, present general secretary of the T.G.W.U. thinks the example of Bevin could help us today: "There/continued on page 12

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BEVIN: The tram conductor who became Foreign Secretary continued from page 10/are so many aspects of the present state of our country that recall the feeling and the experience of the 1930s that Bevin's centenary takes on an even greater significance than it might otherwise have done. "Look at our problems . . . On mass unemployment, Bevin gave a lead with a programme of early retirement and good pensions to create 2 million jobs in 1933. He was deeply concerned about the need for a national Labour newspaper, stumped the country for 12 months and raised L100,000 to rescue the Daily Herald— a lot of money in today's terms. "He kept building the T.G.W.U., and, despite unemployment, kept pressing for better working conditions, believing in the right to improvement. And then, of course, he won the war on the home front by managing the massive mobilisation of the country's labour force. "Later he crowned his career by being a great Foreign Secretary, and Attlee's greatest source of strength. As one looks now to the

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need to reconstruct our ruined economy his story is a source of inspiration." "The trouble was that if you disagreed with him, you had to be wrong," says 96-year-old Labour veteran Lord Shinwell. "If you agreed with him, you had to be right." Lord George-Brown remembers Bevin at Labour Party conferences. "He was the one fellow who never put up his hand and said 'Mr. Chairman'. He just got up, and that enormous bulk waddled for-

ward and everyone sat back and listened. He was an enormously ruthless force." Roy Jenkins believes that Ernest Bevin could have been Prime Minister, had he wanted the job. He says: "Bevin was ruthless, but not a bully." After the war, Bevin became Britain's first Foreign Secretary who dropped his aitches. But whatever his limitations may have been, he was a tough negotiator in postwar conferences and an implacable opponent of Communism.

Harold Wilson, who served as a member of Bevin's team at the post-war Conferences of Foreign Ministers, held in Moscow and London, confirms that Bevin was never reluctant to use undiplomatic language. Once, when Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov launched a vitriolic attack on the West, Bevin, patience worn thin, shouted: "Now `e's gone too bloody far!" The Russian alliance with the West finally fell apart, and, in 1949, Bevin set about playing a major role in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) two years before illhealth forced him to resign as Foreign Secretary. Within weeks, he was dead. His ashes are in Westminster Abbey. Bevin's public image was that of a dogmatic and overbearing figure, though as a negotiator he was a realist who knew the need for compromise. But most remember him as a speaker of great and often brutal power. He also had a caustic wit. At a dance following a post-war Labour Party conference he watched delegates letting their hair down on the ballroom floor and asked: "Is that what they call the Labour Movement ?" From the poorest beginnings, he reached the heights of power. He was, as he himself once said, "a turn up in a million".

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learning about country life with the animals down on the farm. Far away from Coronation Street, Eddie Yeats, the Street's chubby villain, becomes a weekend huntin', shootin', fishin' country squire. Geoffrey Hughes, who plays Yeats, has found an upperclass retreat on the Lilford Hall Park estate in Northamptonshire, with thatched cottage, sheep, pigs, hens, goats, and owls. Sadly Tito, the rare barn owl he is holding (top picture, right) died soon after the picture was taken—bitten by a rat. Hughes, a working-class lad from Liverpool, discovered the pleasures of country life only a few years ago. Now, reversing the trend of the song, it's a case of how to keep Hughes in the bright lights of Manchester once he's been down on the farm. Hughes, 35, whom I found getting ready for the lambing season, says : "I was a late convert to country life but now I leave the Street on Fridays and can't get back to the country fast enough." "Leaving cobbled streets for the meadows brings the jokes. People pull my leg that I'm a weekday villain and a weekend nob." He hangs his famous woolly hat on a peg in the studios, dons a flat cap, and with two Springer spaniels at his heels is ready to start LOOK WHO'S

two days' hard work. The land he has acquired is no ordinary holding, for he works it in conjunction with Lord Lilford's estate. No ordinary animals, either. The sheep, the goats, even the hens are all special breeds. "We raise them for rare breed sales," says Hughes. When work on the land is through, Hughes goes back to meals with home-cooked bread, jam, blueberry and crabapple pies and home-made wine which his wife Susan prepares. Sometimes, when he's marching the 250 acres dotted with Lord Lilford's Highland cattle, there are doubletakes as visitors spot the familiar face under the flat cap. Can it really be Eddie Yeats, the Robin Hood character from Coronation Street? Says Hughes : "More often than not they look at the Springers—Sassie and Hal—then at the 12-bore shotgun I use for clearing vermin, and decide it can't be. That suits me fine in my refuge away from the spotlight. It's a grand life being a country boy. "As a city lad, once I didn't know an ash tree from an oak, but I'm learning fast. I'll drink to this life. In home-made wine, of course." There's a fascination in the countryside that perhaps only the cityborn can fully experience. A deep sense of peace and contentment.

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Coronation Street/Monday,Wednesday 7.30 Geoffrey Hughes (Eddie Yeats of Coronation Street)

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Below left, Hughes walks the fields of his weekend country retreat on the Lilford Hall Park estate and (below) nestles two kid goats

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Terrence Hardiman and Helen Ryan in Friday's My Father's House Fleet Street finally discovered Selina Scott, the attractive newsreader from the far north of Scotland. Selina pictured left, had just been named as Anna Ford's replacement at ITN—but she has been good news around Grampian Television these past three years as a reporter and presenter. Talking to us before she had any inkling of her new job, Selina claimed to be unaware of the armchair oglers who have made Anna Ford's life so perplexing, though she said: "Of course I'm aware of the dolly-bird, body-beautiful bit. But I can't take myself all that seriously. A programme presenter needs a sense of humour." Last year she flew in a small plane north to Nairn on the Moray Firth and stood in a howling gale all day to cover a story. The next day she received three anonymous letters telling her she was the worst-dressed woman on television and didn't she know her hair was a mess? ITN could never be like that ... LAST MONTH

clutch—and the car hurtled backwards across the courtyard, scattering cast, crew and camera equipment. After a little practice, Hardiman got the hang of the gears and was given a mark at which to stop the car for the benefit of the camera. "Walking and speaking at the same time is a little difficult for me," says Hardiman, whose roles on TV range from the German Luftwaffe ace in Secret A rmy to Pooter, the inept and fussy clerk in Diary of a Nobody. "But acting and driving a car when I barely know one end from the other is almost impossible." Wired up with a microphone, he had to drive into the courtyard at a tight angle and stop in exactly the right place. "Of course, the first thing I did was almost knock the camera flying, having already ruined one dramatic scene by driving backwards. "But everyone was lovely. They laughed, and I laughed. The joke was on me, and if you can't laugh you may as well give up. I remember an actress telling me she found the business so- painful— and I felt guilty because I think it is such fun." The even-tempered Hardiman grew up in London's East End. His father was a policeman on the beat— "a truly dedicated, respected, upright fellow on a bicycle"—who rose to station sergeant before retirement and who was to have the strange ex-

perience of seeing his son play a uniformed police inspector in Softly, Softly. "He used to say that I'd got higher than he ever did," says Hardiman. "He gave me tips on how to hold the inspector's gloves and stick." Alec Blake is a businessman who designs racing car engines and drives a car with confident ease. "In fact," says Hardiman, "I'm not a wonderful driver, though I may say that I am when I am actually driving. And as for being a successful businessman— well, I have no business sense whatsoever. "I've recently bought myself a pocket calculator, and have just about learnt to write 'hello' on it—that's about my level. You punch up 0.7734, turn it upside-down and it reads 'hello'. Try it." Blake is confident, and Hardiman says that the more he works the more confident he becomes. Nonetheless, he is a little superstitious: a week after completing work on My Father's House he still had the moustache that he had grown for the part—"just in case something was wrong and they wanted me to do it again"—and he whistles in dressing-rooms mainly to prove that he doesn't really believe in the actors' superstition that whistling in dressing-rooms brings bad luck. STEWART KNOWLES

THE DAY THE MOTEL ALMOST CLOSED 25 years at the drawingboard, ITV designer Rex Spencer is packing up his pencil-box and retiring. Among the hundreds of sets that he has created in that time, he was responsible for the original decor of Britain's most famous motel, Crossroads. "If it had been up to me, there never would have been a Crossroads," he says. "I was working with Noele Gordon when she was presenting a chat show with music called Lunch Box. We were told that this was to be dropped, and that a new programme was to be launched, set in a motel— and we didn't like the sound of it one bit. We imagined Node interviewing people while a band played in the corner of the dining-room. "As spokesman for our union, I was asked to complain to the management. " 'Don't worry,' the manAFTER

agement replied. 'There's no music. It's just a nice little series that will run only for 13 weeks.' " Spencer worked for many years in the theatre before joining ATV in Birmingham He shared the design of the earliest Crossroads sets with a colleague. "We did half each," he recalls. "Motels were rare, 15 years ago, and we began recording at the Alpha Studios, in the Old Aston Theatre. We had space and a drive-in, and we were able to film as the

cars drove up to the door and people got out with their luggage. "The decor has moved with the times, obviously. When the motel opened, the reception area was hung with prints of veteran cars, and there was a big stone fireplace." Spencer and his wife Molly are moving to a house near Cahors, near the River Lot in France. "It belongs to my son, so I shan't be changing the decor there," says Spencer. -

Rex Spencer ringed, with the cast and crew of Crossroads in 1966. The series, said TV executives, will only run for 13 weeks. Rex, inset, is pictured on his retirement this year. The series carries on ... ,

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FILM MEN WHO CREATE 'REAL LIFE' MONSTERS THE TELESCOPE showed it clearly. Strange things were happening in the depths of space. ..gainst the infinite blacknes of the heavens, a g r o t e squ e, seaweed-like growth, gleaming gold and purple, was being attacked by hundreds of pale, oval satellites — weird, wraith-like creatures that lurched into it and bounced away again like dodgems at a funfair. All around, fragments of debris whirled and spiralled in the sky; far beyond, the specks of stars gazed silently on. Or so it appeared. Actually, the "telescope" was a microscope and the scene being observed was a culture of Paramercium, a minute, singlecelled creature gathered round a growth of alga; and the starlike specks were yet smaller single-celled organisms and bacteria. I was at the Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire laboratory of Oxford Scientific Films, whose work is featured in The Television Programme on Friday. The illusion was significant. For O.S.F. — arguably one of the world's leading exponents of miniature nature photography — have, in fact, made film stars of such creatures : they became "space monsters" in sequences shot for Superman. And in O.S.F.'s first complete feature film, currently being planned at Long Hanborough, all kinds of minute creatures will be photographed to pass, on screen, for awesome visitors from another universe. Which, in a sense, is exactly what they are. "There's a whole other world down there," said Peter Parks, engineer, artist and codirector of Oxford Scientific Films. "With creatures like the larger mammals, you're dealing with an absolute ceiling of a few thousand different species. Once you get down to the size of creatures that we tend to specialise in, you're talking about species that are numbered in millions. Insects, spiders, invertebrates from the sea—to anyone who is new to the subject, the variety of such creatures is, quite simply, beyond imagination." A technique recently developed means they can now exploit such material in novel ways. These days, O.S.F. can film simultaneously in three 20

planes, one application of which can be to make a spider look as if it is grappling with a full-grown man. The spider is filmed inches from the camera; the man will be 30ft. away down the studio. Until recently, available technology meant one or other would be in focus — but not both. But with both in focus simultaneously, as is now possible, the image tricks the eye out of its normal estimate of their relative size. Exactly how this is done remains an O.S.F. secret, but it makes all manner of weird scenes possible . . although Peter Parks admits that one remaining problem is that while you can direct the movements of man, O.S.F. have yet to find ways of controlling the behaviour of an amoeba. At O.S.F., one suspects, this may yet be achieved. For ever since the company was formed by a group of Oxford University scientists in the midSixties—there is today a nucleus of eight co-directors with specialisations ranging from high-speed photography to birds, fish and spiders — O.S.F. have produced a stream of home-grown, cost-cutting answers to technical problems. The results have been extraordinary. Achievements include filming an embryo chick while still inside the egg; shots of the birth of harvest mice, seen from inside the nest; the first detailed film of trout spawning, filmed in O.S.F.'s own running-water tank at Long Hanborough; and, more recently, scenes that simulate a journey along the guts of a human being, for a hallucinatory sequence in Ken Russell's feature film A ltered States. "We were lucky in one respect," said Peter Parks. "When we started, we had virtually no photographic knowledge. We never knew what was impossible." Their market is expanding all the time. Not only do O.S.F. contribute regularly to' nature series like Survival and The W orld A bout Us, but increasingly they are called on for special-effects sequences for films like Saturn 3 and Flash Gordon. As well as this varied movie work, they run a stills library, with more than 70,000 slides, that supplies publishers and the technical

Sean Morris, one of the cofounder directors of Oxford Scientific Films, adjusting the 35mm tilting and panning time lapse camera for a commercial currently being

shot to advertise a brand of paper. It shows carnations apparently rapidly developing from bud to full bloom. The image made by the camera head, the shutter and the

lighting system can be programmed to the wishes of the director and the idiosyncrasies of the plant. Tight control has to be kept on growing conditions

Two strange inhabitants of the tropical Atlantic. The predatory blue sea slug Glaucus eating V elella in a sequence filmed for Survival. Left: A red meadow ant struggles for its life in the tendrils of a sundew plant. The scene is featured in Death Trap, an O.S.F. film about plants that eat animals.

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press—to say nothing of fulllength documentaries like that made recently by John Paling, one of Parks' colleagues, about an orphaned baby squirrel. The setting for all this specialist photographic activity is a cluster of low stone buildings off a country lane nine miles north of Oxford. Inside is a remarkable array of equipment that O.S.F. have developed. The place has its own fully-equipped machine room — logical enough, when you consider that O.S.F. build, as well as design, nearly all their own photographic rigs. Then there is a 1,000-gallon running-water fish tank, with a constant-flow system circulating water through filters from a tank outside; there are five optical benches that link a camera and its subject so that any vibration in one is matched precisely in the other, and not recorded on film; there is a camera that can take wide-angle, sharply focused pictures through an aperture no larger than a pinhead, making it possible, for example, to film bees pollinating a foxF glove by shooting through a hole pricked in the petals of F' the flower. '8 But the most awesome • equipment of all is in O.S.F.'s main studio. Two startlingly wcomplex camera systems, both about the size of a small car, hang suspended from rails slotted into the ceiling. In front, a deserted landscape had been stretched out in miniature across the studio floor, over which the cameras can skim as if mounted in aircraft. "The equipment weighs around seven- tons," said Peter Parks. "That's the strange thing : you can film an elephant with photographic equipment that you hold in one hand, but to film something tiny you have to use all this apparatus, "Take the Pathfinder /Cosmoscope here," he said, indicating what looked like a random assembly of girders and lenses. "It takes a crew of five. Two up the top, three down the front. And the whole thing tracks backwards and forwards along the rails. What can it do? Well, with this we can get a lens within an eighth of an inch of the ground, so that we can film an insect from underneath, looking up at it. We can also crab, crane, tilt, pan, roll, tumble, yaw, barrel-roll, circumnavigate and — within limits—loop. We can operate under water, too. "You see, for all its weight. the equipment is exquisitely balanced."/continued overleaf .

involving temperature, humidity and light. Since filming takes many weeks or months, power cuts, stray insects and freak growth patterns can cause problems. The two-ton Pathfinder system making a promotional film in one take, using objects of model and real size. Here, the Pathfinder moves from the confines of a miniature jungle, past rocky outcrops and then between two model trains as they pass through a rocky gorge. At one stage the camera is immersed beneath the surface of a pool into which a real leopard frog leaps and propels itself past the camera. The- camera then emerges from the pool without a trace of water on the lens to Wuxi- the image. It continues to track along between the two trains, so near to the ground that the wagon axles are above the middle of the frame. The remote-controlled system supplies video displays for its five controllers who ride with the camera. These complex multiple moves enable the camera to film imaginative sequences which might otherwise need several cameras using many different lens systems.

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THEY CALL him The Cat. In football circles, the name conjures up the image of a lithe goalkeeper in the style of the original "cat," former Chelsea and England goalkeeper Peter Bonetti, pouncing to frustrate opposing forwards. Not so with Bob Bevan (left). His team christened him thus "because I give them kittens". Bevan is, at various times, chief public relations officer for European Ferries and — complete with spectacles and gumshield — goalkeeper with Old Wilsonians' seventh team in the nether regions of a London amateur league_ He is also (surprisingly, perhaps) increasingly in demand as a speaker at football gatherings and, in that capacity, one half of a "double act" that threatens to steal the show at the Professional Footballers' Association dinner, to be televised on Sunday. There is The Cat, and there is The Canon — the Rev. Canon Don Lewis, Rural Dean of Swansea and a man who appears to delight in confounding preconceptions of how a clergyman ought to conduct himself Canon Lewis describes him-

self as "a recycler of waste", and he proved the point on the Parkinson show by revealing that his dog collar was made from a washing-up liquid container. His superiors, he says, "tolerate me". His qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts degree, and a degree in Tickleology, conferred on him by Ken Dodd. As for The Cat, who has come to Sunday's dinner by way of local soccer get-togethers, the P.F.A. affair is his F.A. Cup Final. He is still pleasantly surprised by his success. "A few weeks ago, at a Bolton Wanderers do," he says, "I• found myself sitting between Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse — and they'd come to hear me." He talks to the stars of a game played in another world. A world where tiled baths and tactical talks are unknown; where a "team" may be eight men and a 10-year-old boy; where the washing facilities might be a bucket of cold water. Playing conditions may be unspeakably bad : one winter, says Bevan, "it was so slippery, we couldn't turn round at half-time". JOHN MORRIS

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3.0 INTERNATIONAL SPORTS SPECIAL-2 Table Tennis England v. Hungary

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from Assen, Holland Can the Russians maintain their domination in this ultra-dangerous branch of motor-cycle sport ? Their reigning champion Anatoli Bonderenko has not qualified this year due to a shoulder injury and their hopes now rest with vastly experienced Siberian former champ Sergei Tarabanko. Watch for the new Swedish sensation, 18-year-old mow-cross ace Erik Stenlund, an ice man for only three months but fourth in the Moscow semifinal of this year's championship.

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2.50 Sandown-William Hill Imperial Cup (H'cap Hurdle) (2m.) RACE COMMENTATORS GRAHAM GOODE (SANDOWN), JOHN PENNEY (AYR): BETTING AND RESULTS JOHN TYRREL: DIRECTORS JOHN P. HAMILTON (SANDOWN, CLIFF MARTIN (AYR)

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Space hero Buck Rogers journeys to the Planet Throm, home of the man-bird Hawk. He finds Hawk's entire race, except for his mate, has been exterminated by humans. Buck Rogers Gil Gerard Erin Gray Col. W ilma Deering Tim O'Connor Dr. Huer Felix Silla Twiki Mel Blanc V oice of Twiki Dr. Goodfellow Wilfrid Hyde White Thom Christopher Hawk Jay Garner A dmiral A simov

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Come Dance with Me Gemma Craven teaches everyone to dance. Bungle, George and Zippy enjoy dancing a polka, the waltz and learning about rhythm dancing. Rod, Jane and Roger do the square dance, and Gemma reads the story jungle Night Fever by Lee Pressman, illustrated by Joan Hickson. The puppeteers are Valerie Heberden and Ronnie Le Drew. Lines and shapes and Grandma Bricks of Swallow Street are by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall. WRITER JOHN KERSHAW : RESEARCHER ANDREW PRENDERGAST: DIRECTOR AUDREY STARRETT : PRODUCER JOE BOYER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CHARLES WARREN

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12.30 Vet JOHN SPEER with MOLLY BROOKES DAVID FORD

Hutched Pets and Fish Fourth of an eight-part series, presented by veterinary surgeon John Speer, to help you understand your pet. Hutched animals are wholly dependent on their owners—usually children. Because of this, it's essential that parents take a responsible interest. The same applies to the aquarium fish. Guest experts Molly Brookes and Dr. David Ford give practical advice. PROGRAMME ADVISERS MIKE WILLIAMS, JOHN DAFT: DIRECTOR/PRODUCER BOB HARDING

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The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

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Marshal James Flagg is forcibly retired at 45 by the town mayor. Then an outlaw arrives. See film guide, page 28 Marshal lames Flagg Robert Mitchum Big John McKay George Kennedy W aco David Carradine SCREENPLAY RONALD M. COHEN, DENNS SHRYACK : DIRECTOR BURT KENNEDY

On a clear night 3,000 stars are visible to the naked eye. Astronomers Heather Couper and Terence Murtagh visit the Royal Greenwich Observatory to see the Isaac Newton telescope. Plus there are tips and advice on how to build your own telescope and how to take photographs of the planets and stars. The jewels in the Milky Way: see Family Scene, page 74 DESIGNER ROBERT SCOTT: DIRECTOR DEREK GOODALL: PRODUCER DAVID TAYLOR: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOY WHITBY

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News at 5.45 6.0 Thames News ANDREW GARDNER RITA CARTER Andrew Gardner and Rita Carter bring you the latest Thames area news of the day with reporters Graham Addicott, Colin Baker, Ed Boyle, Stephen Chambers, Tim Ewart, Sandra Harris, Gerry Harrison, Nicky Home, Tricia Ingrams, Sandra Naidoo, Simon Neave, Michael Wale, Simon Westcott and weatherman Francis Wilson,

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6.35 Crossroads Kevin Banks puts an important suggestion to Arthur Brownlow. Eddie Lee tries to give ex-girl friend Yvonne Brooks her marching orders. See Inside Television This week's cast: Y vonne Brooks Maureen Sweeney Eddie Lee Roy Boyd Becky Foster Maxine Gordon David Hunter Ronald Allen Chris Hunter Stephen Hoye Barbara Hunter Sue Lloyd Meg Mortimer Node Gordon A dam Chance Tony Adams Glenda Brownlow Lynette McMorrough Kath Brownlow Pamela Vezey A rthur Brownlow Peter Hill Kevin Banks David Moran V ictor Lee Victor Winding fill Harvey Jane Rossington Iris Scott Angela Webb Marian Owen Margaret John Doris Luke Kathy Staff Roland Hislop John Wentworth Raymond Pemberton Hilary Minster Clerk of Court John Breslin DEVISERS HAZEL ADAIR, PETER LING: STORIES PETER LING WRITERS JOSHUA ADAM, DAVID GARFIELD, ARTHUR SCHMIDT : DIRECTOR DOROTHY DENHAM : PRODUCER JACK BARTON

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7.0 Nature Watch ADRIAN SLACK Continuing this series on people who have fallen in love with nature. Adrian Slack is a botanist obsessed by plants that eat flesh. At his Somerset home, he breeds carnivorous plants of all types. But today, he visits their natural habitat-the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, America. The reporter is Julian Pettifer. CAMERA PETER GREENHALGH, IAN HOLLANDS : FILM EDITOR PAUL CLEARY : DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS ASHLEY BRUCE, ROBIN BROWN

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7.30 Coronation Street Mike Baldwin moves into a new flat, with a little help from a girl-friend. A woman police inspector brings Emily Bishop news of Arnold Swain-how will she take it? The hideaway where Eddie Yeats wears his other hat: see page 16 This week's cast: Elsie Tanner Patricia Phoenix Len Fairclough Peter Adamson Ken Barlow William Roache

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Will Fiddler ever get a job? A highly unlikely event, it appears, which must be worth a wager. Ma (Toni Palmer), Fiddler (Robin Nedwell) and Tina (Susan Skipper) starring in W est End Tales.

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A TV Network Production Betty Driver Betty Turpin Anne Kirkbride Deirdre Langton Johnny Briggs Mike Baldwin Thelma Barlow Mavis Riley Eileen Derbyshire Emily Bishop Barbara Knox Rita Fairclough Jean Alexander Hilda Ogden jack Howarth A lbert Tatlock Fred Feast Fred Gee Geoffrey Hughes Eddie Y ates Christabel Finch Tracy Langton Julie Goodyear Bet Lynch Bridget Brice Sonia Price Ginn' Barlow W. Pol. Insp. W alters Joe Cook P.c. Maskell V era Duckworth Elizabeth Dawn Helene Palmer Ida Clough WRITER H. V. KERSHAW : STORIES PETER TONKINSON, ESTHER ROSE : DESIGNER ERTC DEAKINS : DIRECTOR JOHN MICHAEL PHILLIPS : PRODUCER BILL PODMORE

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8.0 West End Tales BY KEITH WATERHOUSE

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Mug Punter with GARFIELD MORGAN LARRY MARTYN TONI PALMER PETER CHILDS SUSAN SKIPPER Fifth in this seven-part comedy series set in Soho. Tina has a bet - on with Fiddler. If she wins, he must get a regular job. And if he wins, it's a weekend in Brighton. Fiddler Robin Nr dwell Garfield Morgan Bishop Toni Palmer Ma Checkie Larry Martyn Peter Childs Sgt. Dobbs Tina Susan Skipper Joe Melia Squint-Eyed Cyril Point Three Tom Chatto Y outh Pete Lee Wilson Tourist Chris Jenkinson Stuart Myers Brothers John Salpeas Dave Cooper Minders John Cannon DESIGNER BRYAN HOLGATE : PRODUCERS COLIN FREWIN, KEITH BECKETT : DIRECTOR JAMES GATWARD

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8.30 World in Action An in-depth report on a topical issue from the award-winning team. EDITORS RAY FITZWALTER, ALLAN SEGAL

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Hard Men BY TROY KENNEDY MARTIN

Another all-action case for the Flying Squad - otherwise known as The Sweeney. Scottish villains are said to be particularly tough. But are they as tough as Det.-Insp. Jack Regan? Regan John Thaw Dennis Waterman Carter Freeth James Cosmo 7ellyneck James Warrior Ross Stewart Preston Stronnach Jonathan Carr Gibson Alex Norton Hodgy Laing Ronnie Letham Bramley Brian Hoskin Dubbin Michael Beint Braithwaite Benjamin Whitrow Guards Officer Julian Hough Maj. Chapman Roger Davidson Marge's friend Janet Ellis Maggie's mother Miranda Forbes Sir Henry Norman Lumsden Boyd Ian Ricketts P. c. David Stockton Maggie Natalie Pennington Sara Simmons Dinner party guests { David Drummond Sir Henry's wife Vicky Chinas Old lady Peggy Bullock DIRECTOR GRAHAM BAKER: PRODUCER TED CHILDS: EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LLOYD SHIRLEY, GEORGE TAYLOR

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11.22 Starting Science Stairway to the Stars-A series to involve younger children in science.

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Writing: My Comprehensive EducationIdeas for writing an autobiography.

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12.10 Rainbow Let's Sing Together George, Zippy and Bungle have a singsong. Geoffrey explains that you can sing softly or loudly, slowly or quickly. Rod, Jane and Roger have a singalong, and Geoffrey tells the story of The Singing Kettle by Anna Standon, illustrated by Jane Scott.

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Adventures on Roarke's island where dreams can come true, at a price. Fred Forbush plans his own assassination, knowing his family will finally have financial security from the insurance. Then his business picks up, but he can't stop the hit man. Terri Summers, crippled in a car crash, hopes to find a cure for her paralysis. Roarke Ricardo Montalban Tattoo Herve Villechaize Fred Forbush David Doyle Dr. Franz Gail Fisher Jack Summers Peter Graves Terri Summers Eve Plumb

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Ashley Jackson, perhaps Yorkshire's best-known painter, goes to Ireland and Spain on a curious mission: to seek his roots. It turns out to be an emotional, and exciting journey back in time, ending unexpectedly in an isolated Andalucian dustbowl in the middle of hundreds of singing, dancing and drinking Spanish gypsies and Flamenco artists celebrating their own heritage. The quest started when Jackson had his peace of mind shattered by a bequest from his mysterious Spanish grandmother. A little red scrap book ...

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the women's contest between Britain and Canada. Plus up-to-the-minute news of other sports events. • Further highlights of The Hunt Gymnastics International will be shown tomorrow afternoon.

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Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg, director of laws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, talks to French film journalist Catherine Laporte Coolen about his career.

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10.30 Mid-week Sports Special BRIAN MOORE

Action and excitement on a day when British teams bid to reach the semifinals of Europe's big three football club competitions — plus top-class gymnastics and the latest sports news. Football League champions Liverpool face a difficult European Cup quarterfinal second-leg match against C.S.K.A. Sofia in Bulgaria; in the Cup-Winners' Cup, West Ham are away to powerful Russian side Dynamo Tbilisi, while Newport are hosts to formidable East Germans Carl Zeiss Jena; and in the return match of their quarter-final, Ipswich are at home against talented St. Etienne of France in the U.E.F.A. Cup. There will be exclusive coverage of one of these matches and news of the others. Also, from Wembley, highlights of The Hunt Gymnastics International in which, for the first time, the U.S.S.R.'s senior men's team accepted a challenge from Britain. The meeting also features

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4.15 Dr. Snuggles

9.30 Politics: What's It All About?

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Wortley and the Balance of PaymentsHighlighting Britain's economic problems.

4.20 Bugs Bunny

10.31 Evolution

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Selection in Action: 3-A-level series on the evidence for the evolution theory.

4.45 The Hunt Gymnastics International

10.53 Experiment-Biology

Inheritance in a Fungus-Another A-level biology programme. 11.10 Good Health

Time to Spare ?-How to make creative use of leisure.

Great Britain Senior Men v. U.S.S.R. Senior Men Great Britain Senior Women v. Canada Senior Women

11.27 Seeing and Doing

Repeating yesterday's programme about a visit to Holland. 11.44 Picture Box A second chance to see Monday's film in this

series to stimulate creative work.

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Gideon's Fantastic House/ Gideon and the Fish Machine Two more cartoon adventures with duckling Gideon and his farmyard friends. Volces by Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Britain's 1980 Overall Champion Jeff Davis, 26, of Harlow, hopes to excel for his country's strongest-ever team in The Hunt Gymnastics International contest against the powerful U.S.S.R. entry Pete Hunt Russell Patterson A rthur Sutton Mary Sutton Lynne W ebber

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12.30 The Sullivans Over a beer at the pub, Michael begins to question his reasons for staying out of the armed forces. For cast, see Tuesday.

1.0 News at One 1.20 Thames News 1.30 Together BY ROY RUSSELL

Mary starts driving lessons, Duggie goes down with the flu and Charlene receives a letter from some music people. This week's cast: Sarah Cunningham Delena Kidd Martha Finch Kathleen Byron Charlene Frisby Gina Maher Edward Fuller Raymond Francis Programmes as London except for:

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4.50 Little House; 6.0 ATV News; 6.5 Crossroads; 7.0 Emmerdale; 10.30 Focus; 11.30 ATV News; 11.35 Lou Grant. ANGLIA 1.20 Anglia News; 4.20 Laurel & Hardy; 6.0 About Anglia; 6.20 Arena; 6.35 Crossroads; 7.0 Survival; 10.30 Basketball; 11.30 Kate Mystery.

SOUTHERN 1.20 Southern News; 4.20 Beachcombers; 5.15 Betty Boop; 5.20 Crossroads; 6.0 Day by Day; 6.30 University Chall.; 7.0 Emmerdale Farm; 10.30 People Rule; 11.30 Father Dear Father.

3.45 Leave It to Charlie BY H. V, KERSHAW

Money, Money, Money Comedy series about luckless Charlie Fisher, a keen young insurance agent. A rthur Simister Peter Sallis Charlie Fisher David Roper A lice Simister Gwen Cherrell Florence McGee Jean Heywood Jennifer Padgett Sally Kinghorn Jeanette Wild Marigold

from Wembley Arena Further highlights from the absorbing contest between the experienced and highly rated Russian Senior Men's team and Great Britain's Seniors-the strongest group of competitors this country has ever fielded. One of the team, Keith Langley, scored 9.9 for his vault at the Moscow Olympics, the highest ever score by a British Olympic gymnast. The women's competition between senior teams from Great Britain and Canada should be exciting too. The programme is introduced by John Taylor and Susan King. PRODUCER MIKE WARD

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11.30 Three's Company

Amos doesn't raise any objections to Henry Wilks' plan to take a holiday— until Henry reveals where he is going. For cast, see Tuesday.

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Chrissy takes a tip from Janet when she tells her to play down her attractiveness while alone in the flat with Jack. She appears in a sloppy bathrobe and curlers --but when he doesn't make a pass at her, Chrissy worries she's losing her sexappeal. John Ritter lack Tripper Joyce DeWitt lanes W ood Suzanne Somers Chrissy Snow Audra Lindley Helen Roper Norman Fell Stanley Roper

6.0 Thames News Andrew Gardner and Rita Carter with the Thames news, sport and weather.

6.25 Help! Viv Taylor Gee with the programme that tries to help someone, somewhere.

12.0 What the Papers Say A journalist looks at what the papers have been saying this week. Extracts are read by Daphne Oxenford, Barbara Greenhalgh, Peter Wheeler, John McGregor and Frank Duncan.

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Greetings from Earth Part 2 Commander Adama realises he must return the Aliens to their original orbit before they die in the Galactica's atmosphere. Captain A pollo Richard Hatch Commander A dama Lorne Greene Dirk Benedict Lt. Starbuck Terry Carter Col. Tigh Herb Jefferson Jnr. Lt Boomer Maren Jensen A thena Laurette Spang Cassiopea Noah Hathaway Boxey Sheba Anne Lockhart lolly Tony Swartz

7.30 Bognor Deadline Episode 6: Hard Cheese on Eric The police are holding a man in custody and he has made a full confession. The trouble is, Bognor believes he is innocent. Will he come up with enough evidence to convince the police? Not for the first time, Bognor ends up putting his own life at risk in order to bring the real culprit to justice. For cast, see Tuesday. • Let Sleeping Dogs Die, a new Bognor story, begins next Tuesday.

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Finder's keepers seems an acceptable philosophical tenet for poor busker Sidney Pratt (Roy Kinnear, right) but can he escape the conscience of escapologist The Incredible Mr. Tanner (Brian Murphy)? RESEARCHER ANDREW DICKSON:

8.30 TV Eye The week's big story—from reporters Llew Gardner, Julian Manyon, Bryan Gould, Peter Gill and Denis Tuohy. EDITOR MIKE TOWNSON

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9.0 Hill Street Blues MICHAEL CONRAD DANIEL J. TRAVANTI MICHAEL WARREN

More downtown drama focusing on American police in a tough inner-city precinct and the problems they face. Michael Conrad Sgt. Phil Esterhaus Daniel J. Travanti Capt. Frank Furillo Bruce Weitz Mick Belker Veronica Hamel Joyce Davenport Michael Warren Hill

10.0 News at Ten followed by

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10.30 Thames Report

8.0 The Incredible Mr. Tanner JOHNNIE MORTIMER, BRIAN COOKE

BRIAN MURPHY ROY KINNEAR in

The Wallet More ups and downs in the lives of struggling street entertainers Ernest Tanner and Sidney Pratt. When Sidney finds a wallet, he thinks their problems are over. But he hasn't allowed for Ernest's conscience. Ernest Tanner Brian Murphy Sidney Pratt Roy Kinnear A rchie Tony Melody Prudence Rosie Collins Cledwyn Talfryn Thomas Mick John Forgeham Amy Madoline Thomas Bryan Coleman Commissionaire Policeman Joe Dunlop DESIGNER COLIN ANDREWS: DIRECTOR/ PRODUCER PETER FRAZER-JONES

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The series that concentrates on the key issues that concern the 14 million people who live in London and the South-East. Reporters Allan Hargreaves, Angela Lambert, Peter Prendergast, Martin Short, Bill Wigmore and John Withington examine the stories behind the headlines and carry out in-depth investigations. EDITORS MICHAEL BRAHAM, JAMES FARRANT : DIRECTORS DORON ABRAHAM', JULIAN ASTON, KEN CRAIG, MIKE DORMER, GREG LANNING, ALAN STEWART

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11.0 Camera Moving Pictures The Electric Paradise Film in Britain flickered into life in the fairgrounds and music halls before the

turn of the century. The Haggar family were a troupe of travelling players who made movies in Wales which were very popular with early audiences. Another pioneer was Charles Urban. He was the first to exploit the power of the new medium to educate as well as entertain.

DIRECTOR PETER MULLINGS : PRODUCER MIKE MURPHY

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12.15 Close Sit up and listen with Johnny Morris as he reads an extract from one of the great Chinese philosophers.

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10.15 The French Programme A repeat of Monday's programme which visits a French family at home. 10.38 Evolution Yesterday's programme in this A-level series on the evidence for evolution.

11.2 Stop, Look, Listen Another chance to see Wednesday's programme about wool, from shearing to carpet. 11.14 Reading with Lenny Kevin's Little Truck—Learning to read with Terry Hall and Lenny the Lion.

11.26 Leapfrog Tuesday's mathematics magazine for sevento nine-year olds. 11.43 Insight Repeating Monday's magazine for the deaf and partially hearing.

12.0 The Magic Ball The Story of the Circus BY GERALD HAGAN

When Sam's Magic Ball took him to the circus he found it silent and deserted. The narrator and writer is Eric Thompson, animation is by Brian Cosgrove. WRITER/DIRECTOR BRIAN COSGROVE

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Before Your Very Eyes A further series of seven programmes which looks behind the small screen. Peter Fiddick, television columnist of

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1.0 News at One 1.20 Thames News 1.30 Together

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News at 5.45 6.0 Thames News Andrew Gardner and Rita Carter with the Thames news and weather.

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2.0 After Noon Plus MAVIS NICHOLSON Mavis Nicholson introduces the programme's regular feature on predicaments. She is joined by guest psychotherapist Glyn Seaborn Jones.

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7.0 Family Fortunes BOB MONKHOUSE

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When Lady Diana Spencer becomes the Princess of Wales at this summer's Royal Wedding, she will inevitably be the star of the greatest television spectacular of the decade. With the prospect of a lifetime in front of the cameras, she will join a Royal Family of already accomplished television performers. But she has one great advantage—she's a "natural" IT WAS A MOMENT of film that

no one is likely to forget. The television cameras that had recorded every foreign beauty, every stolen kiss during the "eligible years" of Prince Charles focused on a young blonde, evidently shocked to find the Press outside the kindergarten where she taught part-time. On television screens throughout the kingdom, Lady Diana Spencer was identified as the latest and likeliest lady in the Prince's life. That first-ever TV appearance on November 10, 1980, probably was the toughest she will ever have to make. Those that followed, in weeks of hectic

activity, never could equal its surprise. She said nothing. She simply smiled nervously, and across the nation millions were left with a mental picture of a shy and attractive young woman whose obvious and enviable niceness made a nonsense of whatever class divides might still exist in Britain. The days that followed established a TV-newsnight routine, with regular clips of Lady Diana dashing from the front door of a mansion block in London's Earls Court, where she shared a flat with three other girls, to a Volkswagen Polo parked 100 yards away at the kerbside.

Suddenly she was a television star. And, after years of speculation and rumour and endless news-film of headscarved society beauties at polo games, there came the undeniable feeling that here was the lady who could be The One. The scene with the car (BL was soon to rejoice in the spectacle of the Volkswagen replaced by a shiny new, red mini Metro I) was to be enacted many many times in following weeks. Lady Diana's home street became base-camp for an army of photographers, reporters and TV cameramen from all over the world. Her comings and goings, her teaching job at the

Royal spectacular: Princess Anne's wedding was 'I televised to the world. Diana and Charles will face the same 500 million audience.

Young England Kindergarten, Pimlico, were lovingly recorded and relayed to the breakfast and evening audiences of Press and television, Camera lenses peering, questions thrown, her car chased as it burbled down the street, Lady Diana remained the shy but composed and polite young woman who had made that winning first impression. Others were notably less composed as they heaped abuse on the media for its unremitting gaze. And, inevitably, Lady Diana's increasingly regular TV appearances excited discussion and comment on all aspects of her appearance, demeanour and

lifestyle. Her blonde hair, her peaches-and-cream complexion, her clothes, her job, her impeccable family connections and background—all underwent, and survived, the closest scrutiny. First TV impressions were right. The world agreed that the purposeful lady without a home garage in Earls Court was utterly charming, open, friendly and natural, with a fresh-faced beauty that might accurately be described in the foreign prints as English Rose. If Prince Charles was delighted when the lady said Yes--"I was frankly amazed," he declared, in turn amazing his world audience—then it is tair to say

Before the TV eye : Lady Diana showed winning ways even when caught off guard before the engagement was announced. Now the experienced Prince Charles can give his advice.

that all who had come quickly to like and admire Lady Diana were thrilled at news of the Royal engagement. For her, Tuesday, February 24 became the day of the second test by television. At Buckingham Palace, before a battery of newsmedia men, Lady Diana took her place at the side of the Prince and, helpfully displaying the sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring on her left hand, once again won hearts with her directness, her girlishness and her loveliness. She held her head to one side, charmingly. At one moment, it seemed that she might rest it affectionately on the Prince's

shoulder. She smiled a lot, and the wintry sun shone with summer's brilliance on her hair. "I am absolutely delighted, thrilled, blissfully happy," she said. "I never had any doubts." And the people's hearts responded, for here were no rehearsed platitudes. Had the Earls Court road -show helped to prepare her for television's set-piece engagement appearance ? Certainly, Lady Diana was more relaxed, confident. But still there was a shyness, a reminder of the "Shi Di" that friends knew at home in Northamptonshire. In the relatively few weeks until the couple's summer wed-

ding, "Lady Di" can expect the cameras to be wherever she goes. Though with her personal policeman, Chief Inspector Paul Officer, at her side, and a new home address at Clarence House, she will never again have to run the gauntlet of the Press en route to her car. She seems perfectly well able to take it all in her purposeful stride—a tele-visual trailer to the biggest TV role that she will ever play, in July, in St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey. On the day that she weds Prince Charles, Lady Diana Spencer will appear before a world audience of 500 million. Her "performance" on that

day will need to be superb. And with Prince Charles among the experienced television personalities on hand to advise her, you can be sure that it will be. The Prince isthe youngest Royal to have taken part in the presentation of TV documentaries, and it will be remembered that he was a slow and somewhat nervous starter. He grew quickly in confidence not least because undoubtedly he sought and acted on the advice of TV professionals. Lady Diana will surely do the same, for the day of the wedding and perhaps also in preparation for future screen appearances, like her husband, as a presenter of documentary material. Should she decide to develop a screen "career", Barry West_ wood, the Southern TV presenter who has groomed thousands of inexperienced people for screen appearances, thinks that she enjoys a head-start. "The trick of successful broadcasting is to get the audience on your side, and Lady Diana has done that already," he says. "She is young and pretty, and arouses viewers' sympathy—an enormous advantage. She can hardly put a foot wrong. "I would advise anyone appearing on television to pay attention to their 'body language', their eye movements and their smiles. "A lot of people smile because they think it looks warm and friendly. The trouble is, it can also look condescending, patronising, self-satisfied, apprehensive, apologetic .. . "Women's Lib may not approve but young women, particularly pretty young women, can get away with 'inappropriate

smiles' much more easily than men. Lady Diana can smile and people will think, 'Ah—isn't she nice.' But if Prince Charles wore the same expression, they'd probably think 'Soppy date I' If at the moment Lady Diana comes across as shy and nervous in front of television cameras, confidence will grow with age. Though even at 19 she has developed a distinctive style. "There is nothing strident about her," says Katie Boyle. "Her style is totally feminine. "I really don't think that she needs much advice about television presentation. She's got it right, naturally. She has that lovely giggle, a flattering modern hairstyle, and she obviously likes high necklines which accentuate her femininity. "She already wears light colours near her face, which is important for television. And she has a natural, scrubbed-clean look that is a great advantage on screen. "She also knows how to move. I watched her the other day, and I wasn't aware of her hands, which means that she knows what to do with them. As her confidence increases she will start to hold her head up higher, and then she'll be perfect ." Fashion and beauty writer Janet Impey agrees that Lady Diana has already developed a style of her own and thinks that she should build on it. She offers just one piece of advice. "She often wears shirts with frills, which look nice with her soft face," says Janet. "But I'd urge her not to over-do them. They can look fussy. "I see her in pastels, though on television they can look wishy-washy. It could be a good idea to go for clear, strong colours like sky blue or deep rose pink." Lady Diana can be sure of as much such advice as she cares to seek. But Ronald Allison, former Buckingham Palace Press Officer, now Controller of Sport and Outside Broadcasts at Thames Television, joins all her current advisers in agreeing that, already, she is doing well. "The one important thing to remember when you go on television is to be natural," he says. "It sounds easy but it can be very difficult. When you think about it, it's the most unnatural thing in the world to have only 20 seconds to answer a question ... "Lady Diana instinctively acts naturally. And, whatever other advice she may get, whatever other skills she may acquire before the cameras, that really is all she need ever do." it's advice that Prince Charles once needed, received and acted on. And you can be sure that he, too, will underline its importance in the all-too-few private hours that he and Lady Diana will spend together before the day that they both will make the television spectacular of the 1930s. 65

PUTTING ON THE COUNTRY STYLE Actress Helen Ryan who appears in the series My Father's House, needs a versatile wardrobe to cope with the double demands of her profession and her busy weekends spent converting a cottage in the heart of Buckinghamshire

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HEN we found all her spare time is spent in paintactress Helen Ryan splattered jeans, she is pleased she was half way up with her progress. "I've now a ladder, dressed in a uncovered an original Victorian pair of trusty jeans, paint-brush fireplace in my lounge," she in hand. Helen moved to a said, "knocked out a cupboard village in the heart of Buckingin the bedroom to make it hamshire a couple of years ago bigger, and removed all the and planned to lead a relaxed polystyrene tiles from the kitchen back-to-the-land existence. But ceiling. My next big job is to get the reality of converting a tiny quarry tiles laid in the kitchen, country cottage into a cosy home but there's no rush. I'm rather has meant that her life has been enjoying ferreting around the more hectic than idyllic. local junk shops looking for However, in spite of the paintbrass and copper bits and splattered decorator's garb, pieces." Helen was keen to come down Two gas brackets, cleverly from her perch to talk about converted into electric lamps for fashion and to try on weekend the lounge, are an example of clothes - from jumpers and her talent for blending old with Re c . wellies for Saturday morning new. The Edwardian period Re t a il gardening to a crisp classical holds a special place in her outfit for Sunday best. affections, since she played Unlike the character she portQueen Alexandra in the series Edward The Seventh. It's not only rays in My Father's House this week-an embittered woman reflected in her collection of who refuses to give her husband Edwardian bric-a-brac, but with a divorce-Helen's parting with her love of period dress. "I love her own husband was an the wide-brimmed hats of that amicable arrangement with the,, era and like to wear the equivtwo children's welfare very alent shapes today-partly bemuch at heart. Helen and her cause they help shade my face children now spend many week(being a red head means that ends in the country. she is sun sensitive) and Although she complains that partly because they frame

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Oranges in caramel -a taste of Venice This Italian pudding is a speciality of Venice where it is made with pipless Sicilian oranges. But you can easily use ordinary oranges. Slice them, removing pips and then assemble them again, securing the slices together with cocktail sticks. Coat with the rich caramelised sugar syrup. A little spirit or liqueur improves the flavour of the syrup— try Cointreau or Kirsch. . KATHIE WEBBER

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\ my face and look so feminine. jr I was always very fond of the long Laura Ashley style of dress when it was fashionable, but I couldn't wear anything full length now—it's just not practical for my life-style." Helen confesses to being a reluctant shopper. "I spend very little time looking for myself," she said, "but I love buying clothes for the children." Her 11-year-old daughter Rebecca already has strong views on clothes and trends. "She notices immediately if I've something new. She will sometimes ask me to keep an outfit for her until she's older and she approves if I try out something daring ! "I do think that people are lucky if they have found a style that suits them. All I know is that Jean Muir is the designer that I most admire. Her clothes are extremely classical ; straightforward simple lines and understated elegance. I have one pale grey dress, in a rather sophisticated Grecian style that I love to wear for dressy occasions, but otherwise I tend to buy everyday clothes from Wallis shops." Her red hair limits her colour choice and means that she looks best in cool colours. "But copper colours also look good on me," said Helen, "and yellow is probably my favourite. It's so uplifting." With her willowy figure, Helen has no trouble wearing

the trousers, which she finds essential to her way of life. "But it does mean that I'm hardly ever out of wellies." Her cottage is situated well away from the main road. "So when I do wear something smart," she said, "I still have to wear my wellingtons and carry my proper shoes separately." But having a front garden next to the local recreation field does have compensations. Her 14-year-old son, Danny, is mad about football and that means that he's never far away at weekends. Other regular activities in the Ryan household include cycling, swimming, tennis when the weather is fine, and walking ... "even if it's only down to the village duckpond, to feed the ducks." Helen finds immense satisfaction in the rituals of village life. "Luckily, everybody here is so friendly and helpful," she said. "It's the small things that count, like borrowing flour from the publican's wife when all the shops have shut." The pub is very much the centre of village life and Helen will often stop by for a drink and a chat during the weekend. "They do a really good lunch there but if the children are with me, I prefer to cook a traditional Sunday lunch at home. One thing about the country air, it certainly makes you appreciate your food !" JANET IMPEY

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TERENCE MURTAGH * If you would like to know more about what is going on in the night sky, don't forget there is still time to send for the Heavens Above Star Pack. The package includes a chart to help you identify stars in the night sky, a dramatic colour poster showing an impression of the American satellite Voyager's encounter with Saturn and its moons, and a pamphlet giving hints on how to do your own skywatching. The Star Pack is free : all you have to do is to send your name and address to Star Pack, Heavens Above, Yorkshire Television, Leeds, LS3 1JS., enclosing a large 10in. x 7in. (25cm. x 18cm.) stamped addressed envelope.

ermiu s Ca 0 Xgn Is Sheena the new Cilia? THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT 1980 WAS quite a year for Sheena Easton. She was featured in the television show The Big Time where we saw her being groomed for stardom, had two hits in the Top 10 at the same time and rounded the year off neatly by appearing on the Royal Variety Show. But Sheena's album Take My Time (EMI Records-EmC3354) shows that her overnight fame is richly deserved. She may have had a lot of help from television exposure and she may have been put through the image-machine, but she is not simply a young innocent from Scotland who has been manipulated by the entertainment business.This young lady does have a lot of talent. Sheena is a qualified teacher of speech and drama—and with brains as well as beauty she could well mature into a major talent My favourite track on the album is the ballad When He Shines which she performed on the Royal Variety Show. Also included are her latest single Take My Time and her two biggest hits to date—Modern Girl and 9 to 5. Sheena Easton seems to have mastered the difficult art of appealing to family audiences and producing hit singles—and now looks all set to become the Cilia Black of the Eighties. MA RTYN SUTTON

TWO WEEKS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANC FOR E7 A CAMPING holiday is still the cheapest way to spend two weeks in the glorious South of France. And there is still time to book your place for 1981 with the TVTimes Travel Service at prices that start from only £79 per head. There is a choice of staying in large, comfortable frame ten t on a well-organised campsite overlooking the sea, or in spacious fully-equipped mobile homes on an established site within minutes of a vast beach. And there is a choice of travel—overland by coach fro m London, Birmingham. Manchester and Newcastle, or by air from Gatwick to Marseilles. Coach departures are Mondays and Fridays from May 11 to September 18. Flights leave every Sunday from May 17 to September 13_ Our camping holidays are at Presqu'ile de Giens between Toulon and Le Lavandou. This is a delightful wooded peninsula and tip , La Reserve campsite is just 200 yards fro m the charming village of Giens. The site is manned by our own camping staff and is fully equipped with hot showers, washbasins and British-style W.C.s. There is a restaurant, bar and self-service shop. The modern tents on the site provide generous accommodation. There are six-berth tents for parties of four or five and four-berth tents for parties of two or thre • Each tent has kitchen annex : sleeping areas and built-in groundsheets, wardrobe space and zipped doorways. Beds consist of a mattress on a raise, sprung base. A table, chairs, icebox, cutlery and dishes are supplied. A cooking o: -.ck of utensils and double-burner

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EVEN IF YOU don't use paperknives, they can make a fascinating collection. Paper-knives date from the 18th century and were often beautiful examples of the craftsman's art, especially in Germany, where the Solingen sword manufacturers produced miniature sabres and rapiers. Italy also produced small-scale weapons. The French specialised in enamelled handles, and during our Empire-building days the British carved ivory knives with little Indian gods, elephants or temples. Towards the end of the 19th century, small objects holding tiny photographs were popular. I have a little paper-knife, the clenched fist handle holding photographs of the Isle of Wight. The simplest and the cheapest

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YOU D YOUR BODY NOW IT'S YOUR TURN Why are non-smoking carriages on British Rail trains often full of smoke ? Can an elderly person donate organs for a transplant ? These were two of the questions readers asked in their many letters to Anna Ford after her four-part series You and Your Body was featured in Family Scene. There was enormous interest in Anna's features on alternative medicine. Many wanted to know more about the possible link between food allergies and mental illness—research which is still in its infancy. One of the largest postbags came from the hard of hearing who were intrigued by the use of electrode implants to relieve deafness. Here Anna discusses some of the most-asked questions raised by her recent series .. .

New hip, new life! One of the most successful operations available in the NHS market-place is hip replacement. The operation, described in the You and Your Body series, entails replacing a joint eroded by years of painful osteo-arthritis with an artificial steel and plastic joint. Among the satisfied N.H.S. customers who wrote in as a result of the series was Mrs. M. Poole of Otley, to whom hip replacement surgery has meant a new lease of life. She says: "I am one of the lucky patients who have had the fantastic hip operation you wrote about in TVTimes, and I feel a new person. "I was only 15 when the trouble started. I had to have an operation, after which I limped. As the years passed, arthritis gradually set in. I became really crippled, with one leg shorter than the other. The pain was shocking and my right leg was useless. At times I had to lift it with both hands to get into the bath or into a car. "At the age of 32 I received my new hip joint, which made my legs the same length. I am now 42 and live a full, active life—running a house, going out to work, shopping, able to stand for hours, walking miles if necessary and even riding a bike. On my last check-up at the hospital I was told that after 10 years there seems to be very little wear and the artificial joint is nearly as good as a normal one."

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If my postbag is anything to go by. premenstrual and menopausal problems—mostly the result of an imbalance of hormones—are far more common than many doctors realise. Each month countless thousands of women suffer the misery of premenstrual tension. Many women made it clear in their letters that some doctors dismiss far too lightly. Mrs. Doreen Terry, from North London, writes: "Even today the average woman is told by her GP, "Youll have to put up with it.'" Women in Mrs. Terry's situation may like to know that there are clinics around the country which offer help for PMT, but they are small and overworked. Generally, they deal only with extreme cases where symptoms are seriously disrupting patients' lives. However, there are helpful booklets from Women's Health Concern, 16 Seymour Street, London, W1 .

It was heartening to discov that many readers are making us of the organ donor card in eluded with the series. In fa some people have suggeste ways to extend the "spa parts" scheme. Mrs. Patricia Rushton from Huddersfiel writes, "Why doesn't TVTime make a special offer of a badge bracelet or brooch to be worn b would-be kidney or other orga donors? The proceeds could b used to provide kidney machines One pendant is already avail able from the National Kidne Research Fund, Green Hil House, 184b Station Road Harrow, Middlesex. Many readers wrote to ask there is an age-limit on the scheme, and also what happe to the donor's remains afte

Needle versus the weed Acupuncture, a technique of treatment devised in China some 5,000 years ago, has proved effective against a whole host of disorders ranging from sciatica to stomach ulcers. But it was its use as an aid against smoking which provoked most interest among readers: a 60 per cent success rate is claimed for the technique in the battle against the weed. Still little understood in the West, this painless treatment is not yet available on the National Health Service. The growing number of acupuncturists around the country—not all of them qualified doctors— are solely in private practice. For further information, write to : The British Acupuncture Association, Harvester House, 37 Peter Street, Manchester M2 5QD. On the subject of smoking— a major cause of ill health— many readers felt we hadn't

better weeks. Work may seem touch and go at times. You are full of confidence at the weekend, the life and soul of the party.

ARIES (March 21 to April 20): You take problems in your stride and headaches at work will be sorted out ?ivith the help of superiors. Keep summer plans to yourself for a while. Do not try to depend on someone who is unreliable.

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We had this plea from Mr. W. Willis of St. Austell in Cornwall : "Following your words against smoking, will you please take up the cudgels on behalf of British Rail travellers ? "On the Continent smoking and non-smoking coaches are effectively separated by springloaded doors. In this country, there is merely a doorway with no door, through which the smoke drifts backwards—because some genius designed the smoking section forward of the non-smoker". When we checked with British Rail a spokesman said that the position of the smoking coach depended on the direction in which the train was travelling. He also said that spring-loaded doors were longer common on Continental trains. "On British Rail's air-conditioned coaches the air is changed every four minutes," he said.

slighted. You'll get on better with someone at work. Anything to do with charitable organisations is favoured. Don't be dragged down by anyone else's depression.

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Don't take no for an answer. Let LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 23). other people run around while you Your stars in Basically this is a forward-looking stick to your plans, and gradually If it's TVTimes. Mr. Mrs. Miss' time, but someone's illness coulf everyone else will agree. it may be your birthdaythis affect your work prospects in some First name hard to gather the family together. week, 1981 will way. You may feel out of your Address A near relative is demanding. be a wonderful depth at a social function. RomanTAURUS (April 21 to May 21): year especially if tically you will have a happy weekSomeone receives bad news ; you LEO (July 23 to Aug. 23): Yoi you are involved end. Hopes will be realised. must cheer them up, remind them score a success in a social setting in training. There's some inand an exciting invitation could of the positive side of life. Domestic compatability in your love life, Birth details SCORPIO (Oct. 24 to Nov. 22) matters are important. You would come your way. A fresh idea seems but in the end this brings you DateMonth Don't expect a winning streak t like to daydream the weekend brilliant to start with—then you see even closer together. Year 11 last long ; you may feel 'envious 0 away, but there are practical the pitfalls. A domineering person someone else who seems to hay matters to attend to. won't get his own way for once. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): Place more luck than you. You have goo • Generosity from you will touch GEMINI (May 22 to June 21): rapport with your partner, bu someone's heart. A new contact VIRGO (Aug. 24 to Sept. 22): Keep a fit of jealousy or pique to if you are too arrogant other could lead to happiness ahead. Friends have other plans, but ime (if known) yourself. Otherwise it's one of your people won't want to help yo Quite an easy-going week at there's no need for you to feel Surname

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re an age limit? organs have been removed. There is no age-limit to the scheme, although children are not eligible. The body organs deteriorate with age, and the kidneys of a person older than 50 would not normally be considered suitable for transplant. Strangely enough, the cornea improves with age, and so cornea donors are sought from a wider age range. ' Once the organ in question has been removed—and in some cases the post-mortem is complete—the body is released for burial. The only exception is when the body has been willed for research to assist at a teaching hospital, in which case the area health authority has the responsibility for arrangements.

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Childhood tantrums • Our six-and-a-half-year-old son has violent and seemingly unreasonable tantrums. Once my husband lost his temper with him so badly he suggested we put him into a home as we seemed unable to cope. I didn't feel that was the answer as he's a dear little boy when he's not having tantrums. I, too, have been terrified and ashamed by my own rage with him. I wondered if he had a mental illness, but his school teacher advised patience and I was unwilling to take him to the doctor in case his records would be marked for life. Instead, reluctantly, I went to the welfare clinic. The staff spent much time with me, and, with their help and guidance, we discovered his behaviour was a bid for more attention. They helped us to see how to deal with the problem and our son is now much better. There must be countless ordinary famili s like us, worried about the battles within their homes. Don't worry about wasting the social workers' time—they would rather see you now than later on in court. Mrs. J. E., Suffolk.

and at the same time feel that, because of what he has done, every man will eventually be unfaithful to you. This is the reason why you suddenly hold back with your boyfriend. May / say though, that putting on the brakes is very wise, as 16 is far too young to get seriously involved physically with a man. I do agree that you should talk it all over with someone, and / suggest that you ring Capital Help-Line (01-388-7575) who will tell you who to contact.

Abortion - your concern Prostaglandins are an important group of substances with a wide range of activities in the body. But many people were concerned at the role of artificial prostaglandin in abortion. Increasingly these artificial prostaglandins are coming to be seen by doctors as a quick, safe answer to unwanted pregnancy. I know many people view the whole subject of abortion with horror, but the fact is that thousands of women will continue to seek to terminate their pregnancies. Surely it is better that these women suffer the minimum pain and anxiety? The other point many critics ignored was that artificial prostaglandins are also used to induce labour, to help mothers to experience pain-free and natural delivery. Finally, I must apologise for a mistake in the labelling of female organs in a diagram which appeared in the third article of the series. The terms uterus and womb of course, both mean the same. While regretting this error, / recall that uterus comes from the ancient Greek word for hysteria, which goes to show that the early men of medicine were as biased about the workings of the female body as some doctors today who ridicule premenstrual tension.

Many parents will find your experiences understandable. After all, we can train for childbirth, but we can't learn by theory alone how to be a parent. It's hard enough to live in harmony with another reasoning adult, let alone a small over-demanding offspring. Your sensible letter will, I'm sure, encourage many parents who bottle up their feelings to explosion point to seek outside expert help. My £10 goes to you for taking the trouble to write about this problem so constructively.

Teenage turmoil • I'm 16 and very confused. Some years ago my father had an affair. It wasn't serious but I was badly hurt by it and since then I find it impossible to talk in confidence to my parents, friends or relatives. I've been good friends with a boy for about a year and now it's becoming more serious. Unfortunately, I feel guilt and disgust whenever he tries to kiss or touch me. I know my behaviour is

hurting him terribly. Is there something wrong with me? I feel I need someone to talk to about this. J. M., London. Feelings between fathers and daughters can run high emotionally and be very complex, but you must try and detach yourself from your father's behaviour. You should certainly not sit in judgment of him as you don't know all that led up to his affair but, far more important, you must try not to be jealous of him

Katie regrets she is unable to enter into individual correspondence. We request readers not to send in stamped addressed envelopes for replies.

LAST WORD • I was appalled to read the recent letter from Miss Falsoner expressing her opinion that married women in well-paid jobs should sacrifice their posts for school-leavers. I am a working wife and recently interviewed at least 30 young girls for a junior accounts post, which has had to remain vacant. Until schools again start producing people who can spell, add up and converse in a coherent manner, working wives will still be needed. P. A. Greenfield, N. Yorks.

Win a night out with the stars THE TVTimes Top Ten Awards are here again. As usual there are five voting categories. You can choose from all three TV channels. But please don't vote for Noele Gordon, Eamonn Andrews, Benny Hill or Violet Carson. They are in our Hall of Fame and thus ineligible. To attend the gala night when the stars collect their awards, just enter the competition at the bottom of the coupon. All you have to do is predict the first, second and third places in the final result of the poll for the Favourite TV Personality (Male) —not necessarily your own choice. Senders of the first 20 voting slips coming nearest to the official result will each receive two tickets for the awards presentation, televised in the Spring. Send coupon to : TVTimes Top Ten, P.O. Box 40, Market Harborough, Leics.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 20): You may have to look after other .people's children. You want to run away from a situation you do not like. Romantically the scene could be exciting but a bit unstable. Any kind of performance will go well. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 to Feb. 18):

If your mind wants to be stretched, start studying a new subject. People around you are idle, so you will have to do more on your own. Too much nervousness could affect Your health, so try to remain calm.

OUR SILHOUETTED mystery star of the week can win you a fiver. Here we give one name only to some of the stars appearing on ITV this week—plus clues to their programmes and identities. You supply the missing names, then simply fill them into the grid to read DOWNWARDS. Fill them in from left to right in the order the clues are listed. If you solve it all correctly you will then be left with the two names of our star of the week. Send us those two names with the title of the programme. The silhouette on the grid is of our star. Send your answers, preferably on a postcard or on the outside of a sealed envelope, with your own name and address clearly printed in block letters, to Spot the Star No. 12, TVTimes, P.O. Box 40, Market Harborough, Leics. Closing date is March 17, 1981. First five winners picked at random after that date will each win a fiver. Answers in two weeks; winners named one week later. DEVISED BY ERIC LINDEN

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Winners of No. 9: Mrs. V. Stow, Basingstoke, Hants.; Miss C. Hammond, Hitchin, Herts.; M. Scott, Sidcup, Kent; Miss M. Mariner, Bognor Regis, ussex; Mrs. S. Cuck, Doncaster, S. 'f orks.

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