It's Cutlasses Now, Men! Jeffrey Richards , film critic and historian, takes a look at the world of the swashbucklers - those sabre-wielding paladins of film, fiction and theatre - from
Douglas Fairbanks Sr's Robin Hood to
Errol Flynn 's Sea Hawk, from Edmund Rostand 's
Cyrano de Bergerac , to Gene Kelly 's Musketeer and Stewart Granger 's Scaramouche.
With contributions from ALISTAIR COOKE ,
KEVIN BROWNLOW. JOHN BAXTER ,
STEWART GRANGER , WILLIAM HOBBS , DEREK WARE ,
CHRISTOPHER PALMER , DAME FLORA ROBSON ,
RALPH FAULKNER , CORNEL WILDE and DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR Producer JOHN POWELL
(Extended rpt of Easter Monday's broadcast)