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From the West

Contributors

Presenter:
John Earle
Script:
Stuart Wilkinson
Additional material:
Tom Tully
Designer:
Kenneth Wrench
Production team:
Hugh Duggan
Production team:
Bob Murray
Production team:
Philip Mutton
Producer:
Ronald Webster

The gold prospectors of 1898 braved the dangers of the White Horse Rapids and frozen Chilcoot Pass to reach the Klondike; Harold and Maisie Eastwood see the old trail and encounter moose, caribou, and giant brown bears on the way.
First transmission on May 4, 1962

Contributors

Narrated and filmed by:
Harold Eastwood
Explorer:
Maisie Eastwood
Robert Service's verse spoken by:
Murray Kash
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, Jonathan Harris as Bradford Webster.
A Third Man Corp. (U.K.) Ltd. production, distributed by BBC-tv

Harry Lime arrives in Hong Kong with an important bid which should win a big profit to his company. But the papers are stolen and the deadline for the filing of the bid is only a few hours ahead.

19.30-19.55 Grass Roots: 5: Under the Sleeping Giant
A series about England and the English.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

Story/Teleplay:
Fred Schiller
Story/Teleplay:
Mary C. McCall Jr.
Story Consultant:
Warner Law
Director:
Paul Henreid
Producer:
Irving Asher
Executive Producer:
Vernon Burns
Harry Lime:
Michael Rennie
Bradford Webster:
Jonathan Harris
Aubrey Reeves:
Alan Caillou
Dolly Wong:
Linda Wong
Chung Lee:
Jim Howe
Inspector Simms:
George Pelling

by Brian Hayles.
There are two young constables in each car, ready to deal with trouble as it happens.

Vandalism brings Z Victor One into contact with the canal community - and eventually leads them to a more serious crime.

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Hayles
Designer:
Jeremy Davies
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Geoffrey Mulligan
Film sequences - Editor:
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Script Editor:
Kenneth Ware
Producer:
David E. Rose
Director:
Paul Bernard

Introduced by Frank Bough.

featuring
World Heavyweight Boxing: Floyd Patterson U.S.A., Former champion of the world
v. George Chuvalo, Heavyweight champion of Canada
Film of the eliminator for the World Heavyweight title.

also
The World Open Trampoline Championships
The world's best performers at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

See page 37

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Boxer:
Floyd Patterson
Boxer:
George Chuvalo
Associate editor:
Alan Hart
Associate editor:
Lawrie Higgins
Editor:
Cliff Morgan

by Hugh Whitemore.
Starring Barry Foster, Ernest Clark, Philip Locke and Dora Reisser
See page 37

Contributors

Writer:
Hugh Whitemore
Original Music:
John Sebastian
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Charles Lagus
Film sequences - Editor:
Jim Latham
Story Editor:
Roger Smith
Designer:
Peter Seddon
Producer:
James MacTaggart
Director:
Don Taylor
Dan Sankey:
Barry Foster
Pritchard:
Ernest Clark
Pentelow:
Philip Locke
Plunkett:
Antony Carrick
Siggy:
Dora Reisser
Mrs. Hartridge:
Carmel McSharry
Fat housewife:
Madge Brindley
Huge man:
Arthur Mullard
Photographer:
Richard Jacques
Patient:
Michael Brennan
The Rev. Cobbold:
Michael Barrington

Denis Tuohy talks to Professor J. M. Plumley and Dr. W. H. C. Frend.
At Qasr Ibrim on the Upper Nile two Cambridge scholars last year came upon evidence of a Christian Church active in Nubia at a time when none was thought to have existed. The unexpected finds which they describe and discuss in this programme throw new light on the place of Christianity in the continent of Africa.

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Tuohy
Interviewee:
Professor J. M. Plumley
Interviewee:
Dr. W. H. C. Frend
Producer:
R. T. Brooks

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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