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From the West

Contributors

Presenter:
John Earle
Film Editor:
Philip Mutton
Designer:
Kenneth Wrench
Producer:
Ronald Webster

In 1862 Jules Verne published his Five Weeks in a Balloon, describing a fictitious air-journey from Zanzibar to Senegal.
A hundred years later, Anthony Smith and Douglas Botting flew by balloon from Zanzibar across the sea channel to the mainland of Africa. In this, the balloonists were forced to make a crash landing in the African bush.
First transmission on August 23, 1962

Contributors

Narrator/balloonist:
Anthony Smith
Filmed by/balloonist:
Douglas Botting
Filmed by:
Alan Root
Film editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston
Series edited by:
David Attenborough

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
with Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Cathal O'Shannon, Magnus Magnusson.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Reporter:
Christopher Brasher
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Reporter:
Cathal O'Shannon
Reporter:
Magnus Magnusson
Associate Producer:
Kenneth Corden
Associate Producer:
Anthony Smith
Assistant Editor:
John Lloyd
Editor:
Derrick Amoore

A film series starring Michael Rennie as Harry Lime and Jonathan Harris as Bradford Webster.
A BBC film release
First transmission on July 16, 1962

In his youth, Plato Kazantis stole a valuable gold cross from the church in his native village. Now, approaching old age, his conscience troubles him-he must restore the cross to the church before he dies. And only Harry Lime can help him to find it.

7.30-7.55 Grass Roots: 2: Chipping Campden: a series about England and the English.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

Story and teleplay by:
Ben Parry
Director:
Robert M. Leeds
Producer:
Irving Asher
Executive producer:
Vernon Burns
Harry Lime:
Michael Rennie
Bradford Webster:
Jonathan Harris
Plato Kazantis:
Ernest Sarracino
Rochard:
Edgar Barrier
Ardo:
Ralph Manza
Lauber:
Peter Brocco
Karla:
Theona Bryant

by Stan Barstow
Some parents' trouble is that they protect their children too much.
See page 39

Contributors

Writer:
Stan Barstow
Designer:
Jeremy Davies
Film Sequences - Cameraman:
Dick Bush
Film Sequences - Editor:
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Script Editor:
Kenneth Ware
Producer:
David E. Rose
Director:
Peter Cregeen

Introduced by Frank Bough.

including
Rugby Union: Wales v. England
Peter West previews next Saturday's International at Cardiff Arms Park.

The Mystery of the Matterhorn
Frank Bough in Zermatt, one hundred years after the first ascent by Edward Whymper of England.

Contributors

Presenter/item presenter (The Mystery of the Matterhorn):
Frank Bough
Item presenter (Rugby Union):
Peter West
Presented by:
Alec Weeks
Associate editor:
Alan Hart
Associate editor:
Lawrie Higgins
Editor:
Cliff Morgan

by Simon Raven.
with Michael Hordern, Alec McCowen, John Phillips, Derek Francis, James Maxwell, Agnes Lauchlan, Leonard Maguire, Gerald Cross, Felix Felton, Colin Jeavons
See page 39

Contributors

Writer:
Simon Raven
Music:
Dudley Moore
Designer:
Moira Tait
Story Editor:
Roger Smith
Producer:
James MacTaggart
Director:
Stuart Burge
Sir Jocelyn Symonds:
Michael Hordern
Baroness Cleethorpe:
Agnes Lauchlan
Donald Prior:
James Maxwell
Philip Clewes:
Felix Felton
Myles Beresford:
Gerald Cross
Forbes-Wainright:
John Phillips
Private Secretary:
Alec McCowen
Barry Raines:
Colin Jeavons
Burke Farringdon:
Leonard Maguire
Rendel Smith:
John Kidd
Dan Royston:
Christopher Benjamin
John de la Poeur Whiting:
Frank Williams
The Minister:
Derek Francis
Gerald:
Philip Dunbar
Torquil Flute:
George Howe
First Alderman:
Wallace Campbell
Second Alderman:
William Lyon Brown
Councillor:
Steven Berkoff
Mrs. Dan Royston:
Jeanette Landis
Spectator:
Charles Ross
Spectator:
Frank Littlewood

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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