by J.B. Priestley
[Starring] Irene Worth
A further series of short plays specially written by famous authors featuring distinguished English and Continental actresses in solo performances
Linda Carfield was on a night plane from New York that crashed at London Airport and she lost all consciousness in the terror of the disaster. She had planned to stay at Pulteney's Hotel, and when she recovers some kind of consciousness apparently there she is, in a bedroom of the hotel...
(Next week: Fenella Fielding in 'The Autograph ' by Aldo Nicolaj)
(Colour)
[Article]
"A Touch of Venus" starts again this evening with the first of a further seven plays, each providing a star role for one of a galaxy of actresses, some of whom are rarely seen on TV, including three European stars of great distinction - Mai Zetterling, Genevieve Page, and Lila Kedrova who appear in engaging plays by the Italian writer Aldo Nicolaj. The series opens with a specially written script by J.B. Priestley which fully employs the potentials of the television medium, and provides an ideal part for the actress of his choice, Irene Worth.