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TRUTHS, CLOSE UP NORTH
30 min, BBC TV
Chantell and Derrick want to get married,
buy a house and settle down. But with mortgage rates rising, are
bricks-and-mortar still a sound investment? Close Up North
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YOU
CAN'T KEEP A GOOD GOD DOWN
40 min, Tyne Tees Television
Margaret Thatcher appointed the Bishop of
Durham, but the Rt. Rev David Jenkins will be remembered as a thorn
in Tory sides. This film, transmitted in the month of his retirement,
profiles a man described as both a heretic and a prophet. |

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| CONFERENCE
EXPRESS
3 x 30 min series, Tyne Tees Television
Series of half hour reports following representatives
from their North Eastern constituencies as they attend the annual
party political conferences in:
- Torquay
- Brighton
- Blackpool |

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POINT OF ORDER
11 x 30 min series, Tyne Tees
Television
Weekly magazine focusing on the people, policies
and politics affecting the North East of England. |
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ALSTON
PIT, DREHSCHEIBE EUROPA
1 X 6 min News Magazine Feature, Deutsche
Welle, Germany
Underground at one of the few small, privately-owned
drift mines still working in the UK. |

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GUY
FAWKES NIGHT, DREHSCHEIBE EUROPA
1 X 5 min News Magazine Feature, Deutsche
Welle, Germany
Bonfire Night on Tyneside. Crowds gather
at Municipal firework displays and back street bonfire parties across
the UK to burn the effigy of a Catholic Terrorist who attempted
to blow up Parliament. |

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BEACON IN THE NORTH
55 min, Tyne Tees Television
A celebration of Durham Cathedral's first
nine centuries. The finest Romanesque church in Europe, a world
heritage site and the shrine of the North's greatest Saint - Cuthbert.
Explore corners of this inspirational building that visitors can't
normally see.
* WINNER ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARD |

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EDGE
OF EMPIRE - A Journey Along Hadrian's Wall
4 x 30 min Series, Tyne Tees Television
& Ordnance Survey
The most famous frontier of the greatest
empire in the history of the ancient world and probably the most
misunderstood archaeological monument in Britain. A fascinating
journey along the 73 miles of the Roman Wall World Heritage Site,
unraveling some of the mysteries of 2,500 years of history.
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DRUMLANRIG
- A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GREAT ESTATE
45 min, BBC TV Scotland
Drumlanrig is the Dumfrieshire home of the
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry: a castle at the heart of one
of the great Scottish estates. In the company of the present Duke
we are taken on a tour of the estate; its woodlands and moorlands.
As the seasons turn we see the castle in all its varied moods. |

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PRIVATE LIVES, DIVERSE REPORTS
29 min, Channel 4
Scandalous revelations about private lives
have damaged the careers of many public figures. Should there be
a law against it?
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THE DROVE
50 min, Channel 4
In the days before the railways, towns were
fed by cattle driven on the hoof from one end of the country to
the other. Modern counterparts recreate the story of 18th century
drovers, driving a herd of 30 Galloway cattle from Wigtownshire
in Scotland, via the Pennines and East Anglia, to market at Smithfield
in London. |
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HUMORESQUE
4 min, ITV
A homeless tramp decides to end it all -
but discovers there is hope after all. |

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DOMESDAY
45 min, BBC TV
Celebrating the 900th anniversary of the
commissioning of the Domesday book, Michael Wood journeys from midsummer's
night at Stonehenge to the Glastonbury Festival in search of the
roots of England's history and people. |
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PEOPLE'S
COURT
30 min, BBC TV
TV series pilot featuring real-life court
cases tried in the television studio. Presented by Valerie Singleton. |

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IDEAS UNLIMITED
4 x 30 min Series, BBC TV
New ideas in industry. |
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SKYJACKER
4 min Pop Promo, ITV & BBC TV
ITV Chart Show, featured Indy Single.
BBC Get Fresh Video Of The Week. |

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A WINTERS
DAY
35 min, BBC TV
After five days of continuous snow, bulldozers
battle through mountainous drifts to liberate an isolated Welsh
village. |

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ORS - SERIES II
13 x 35 min Series, BBC TV
Live weekly youth / pop / current affairs
/ comedy / music magazine programme presented by Robert Elms and
featuring Ben Elton. |
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A BETTER ALTERNATIVE, BRASS TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
Almost one third of the population suffer
from rheumatism and arthritis. Is 'conventional' medicine working,
or is there "A Better Alternative?"
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THE OXFORD ROAD SHOW - SERIES I
11 x 35 min Series, BBC TV
Live weekly youth / pop / current affairs
/ comedy / music magazine programme. |
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DAM LIABILITY, OPEN SECRET
35 min, BBC TV
Many dams have not been inspected for over
quarter of a century. Just how safe are they? |
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THE BLIGHT,
BRASS TACKS
45 min, BBC TV
In many Durham mining villages residents
are suffering from planning blight, whilst in Macclesfield, architect
Rod Hackney refurbishes old houses and communities. As Langley Park's
Railway Street faces the bulldozers, we ask should local authorities
demolish old housing or renovate instead?
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A TOWN
LIKE NEW ORLEANS?
40 min, BBC TV
In every town there are thousands of musicians
- ignored by both television and the music industry alike - playing
live music for fun and very little money. Watch and enjoy the Jack
Bennett All-Stars, Another Colour, Howard Sarna, the Roskoe Players,
the Zero Slingsby Quintet and The Commies from Mars.
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RAILWAY JOURNEYS OF THE WORLD, DECCAN, INDIA
55 min, BBC TV
Armed with only a rail pass and a notion
of destination, writer Brian Thomson boards the 85 Down Madras Mail
and sets off on a fascinating 5-day journey from the noise and heat
of Bombay to the peaceful, palm-fringed paradise of Cochin.
* Pilot for TV Series
* BAFTA NOMINATION, BEST DOCUMENTARY
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A BETTER KITCHEN TABLE, BRASS TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
Controversy surrounds the publication of
civil defence booklet 'Protect and Survive' as many fear that emergency
plans are hopelessly inadequate and pressure mounts for construction
of new public shelters. |
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TEENAGE
MOTORCYCLISTS, BRASS TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
As accident rates amongst teenage motorcyclists
reach record levels, is there need for new legislation to reduce
the power of the motorcycles learners are allowed to drive? |

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THE TAUNTON RAILWAY DISASTER, TONIGHT
22 min, BBC TV
Behind- the-scenes of the year-long forensic
investigation of a major rail disaster. |
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ARE THE KIDS
ALRIGHT?, BRASS TACKS
50 min, BBC TV
With unemployment at twice the national
average, Sunderland's youth is being thrown on the scrap heap. The
Council's answer: a £7m leisure centre and a pedestrian precinct.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Crawford's dreams of making it centre around
the £300 guitar he's bought on credit and his new Punk band,
The Rejected.
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IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A PIG, BRASS
TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
Diseases spread quickly in factory farms,
so huge quantities of antibiotics are used to keep them at bay,
increasing the development of antibiotic resistance which can transfer
to the human population. Is it time to call a halt? Is it time to
choose between cheap meat and safe meat?
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PARADISE
LOST
35 min, BBC TV
Chapeltown in Leeds. Back-to-back housing,
high unemployment and low morale; a multi-racial, often violent,
example of urban decay. Guided by dedicated teacher Nadine Senior,
agroup of enthusiastic 12-year olds is preparing for the school's
Christmas production of Paradise Lost.
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORY, BRASS TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
Old people are increasingly treated as socially
redundant and have little or no political clout. Maggie Kuhn, leader
of the Grey Panther movement, explains why she believes in
a militant approach to the rights of the elderly.
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| A CALCULATED RISK, BRASS
TACKS
55 min, BBC TV
If the predictions of the nuclear industry
are correct we can look forward to limitless cheap energy, economic
growth and an increasingly powerful role in world affairs. If the
opponents of nuclear power are correct, the dangers are genuine
and serious, casting doubt on the government's plans to build a
THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
*First ever TV show to pioneer multimedia
audience participation with live local radio link-ups nationwide. |
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