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With Paddy Feeny
Six programmes about the life and work of men who have the power to mould the world around them.
This week: The Country Editor
featuring The Editor of a weekly newspaper printed in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
BBC Television Outside Broadcasts
Science and Features presentation

Tonight at 6.35
The Country Editor
Since the war a great number of papers - especially in the Provinces - have had to choose between selling out to one of the big newspaper combines or shutting down altogether. Tonight we take our outside-broadcast cameras to a paper, printed weekly at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire which is one of the lucky few which has been able to survive - and prosper - without being forced into this choice. Or has luck really had anything to do with it?
Editor and one-third owner is thirty-seven-year-old Herbert Thomas, Since he took over circulation has gone up by leaps and bounds until now it is in excess of 20,000. His readers are about equally split between those working in industry and those in agriculture. Some speak English, some speak Welsh, some are in the booming tourist industry, some in the declining fishing trade. But whatever their interest he claims that a copy of his newspaper goes into almost every home in the area.
Circulation is not the only measure of a county paper's success. In many ways the advertisements are a more important guide; without them the paper would flounder. And the responsibility for looking after the paper's business affairs rests with the editor's brother. He,too, is one-third owner of the paper. And is the brothers' mother.
Nearly a quarter of the staff of fifty has been with the paper over twenty years. How is a county newspaper run? What influence can it hope to have? Why has this privately owned paper not only built up a growing readership but also been able to keep an amazingly faithful staff? These, and other questions, will be put to Mr. Thomas in tonight's All Sorts to Make a World.

(Max Morgan-Witts)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paddy Feeny
Producer:
Selwyn Roderick
Series Editor:
Max Morgan-Witts

Call sign of International Air Security
A film series.
Produced by MGM-TV in association with the BBC

An ex-bootlegger decides to tell all he knows to a Congressional Crime Committee. To stop him, his old associates kidnap his granddaughter.

Contributors

Teleplay:
Lewis Davidson
Producer:
Lawrence P. Bachmann
Director:
Pennington Richards
Associate producer:
Aida Young
Alan Garnett:
Nigel Patrick
Jimmy Delaney:
Bill Smith
Barry:
David Langton
Fat man:
Kevin Brennan
Sporinza:
David Bauer
Angela:
Janet Thompson

With Anthony Booth as Finn Brodie, Thomas Heathcote as Woody.
Series created by Group North

Contributors

Script:
Rodney Gedye
Script Editor:
Kenneth Ware
Music composed by:
Bert Chappell
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Charles Lagus
Film sequences - Editor:
Roy Watts
Designer:
Frederick Knapman
Producer:
Terence Williams
Director:
Michael Simpson
Peter Rudd:
John Lyons
Foster:
Clifton Jones
Finn Brodie:
Anthony Booth
Helen Woods:
Ann Mitchell
Pat O'Brien:
Gerry Duggan
Woody:
Thomas Heathcote
First foreman:
Alan Dudley
Second foreman:
Michael Goldie
Tom Ellis:
Wally Patch

Introduced by Frank Bough.
News - Action - Personalities in a weekly sports magazine for the family.

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Presented by:
Richard Tilling
Associate Editor:
Alan Hart
Associate Editor:
Lawrie Higgins
Editor:
Cliff Morgan

A new film series starring George C. Scott as social worker Neil Brock, a man dedicated to helping people in trouble.

Neil Brock finds it difficult to concentrate on his own romance because of his concern for the plight of the poverty-stricken families in his street.

Contributors

Neil Brock:
George C. Scott

Two performances.

Ustinov on Music
Peter Ustinov talks to Huw Wheldon and conjures up the possibilities and perils of producing opera at Covent Garden.

The Sermon
by Peter Redgrove.
Peter Redgrove wrote this poem specially for Monitor. It shows the funny and frightening crack-up of a demented clergyman.

Introduced by Huw Wheldon.
(First shown in Monitor)

Contributors

Interviewee (Ustinov on Music):
Peter Ustinov
Interviewer (Ustinov on Music)/presenter:
Huw Wheldon
Poet (The Sermon):
Peter Redgrove
Preacher (The Sermon):
Michael Hordern
Film editor:
Allan Tyrer
Producer:
David Jones

BBC One London

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