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For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Sawal Aur Jawab - Can I Help You?
From the Midlands

Questions by post, in English or your own language, for answering in the programme should be sent to Make Yourself at Home or Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye, [address removed]

(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Peterborough, Tacolneston, Cambridge, Holme Moss, Pontop Pike, Winter Hill, Sheffield, Weardale, Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)
(to 9.20)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Morby
Programme Editor:
David Gretton

Written by Michel Faure and Joe Cremona.
A course of thirty lessons for absolute beginners in French.

It's chilly on top of the Eiffel Tower!

With Andre Maranne, Pamela Stirling
and Francois Brincourt as Jean-Paul, Malou Pantera as Francoise

(Repeated on Tuesday at 10.45 p.m.)
(to 9.55)

Contributors

Writer:
Michel Faure
Writer:
Joe Cremona
Director:
Maddalena Fagandini
Producer:
Ronald Smedley
Presenter:
Andre Maranne
Presenter:
Pamela Stirling
Jean-Paul:
Francois Brincourt
Francoise:
Malou Pantera

from Liskeard Parish Church, Cornwall.
Psalm 1
First Lesson: Jeremiah 5, vv. 1-5, and 1014, from the Revised Standard Version read by Mr. Willie Cox

Second Lesson: Acts 9, vv. 1-22, from the New English Bible
read by The Rev. Donald G. Richards.

Hymns (from Hymns Ancient and Modern Standard): Nos. 35, 220, 239, 308, 299

Contributors

Vicar:
The Rev. D. H. P. Davey
Curate:
The Rev. Colin Mynett
Curate/Reader (Second Lesson):
The Rev. Donald G. Richards
Reader (First Lesson):
Willie Cox
Organist and Choirmaster:
John E. Tallon
Captain of the Ringers:
Stewart Robinson
Introductory commentary:
Alan Gibson
TV direction:
Kenneth Savidge

Ten lectures on evolution and change in architectural ideas.

The rational expression of structure and economy of means has been the sustaining principle of modern architects. What is its historical basis?
Speaker, Robin Middleton, Technical Editor, Architectural Design

(Repeated next Saturday at 10.45 a.m.)

Contributors

Speaker:
Robin Middleton
Series Adviser:
John Donat
Producer:
Nancy Thomas

A film visit to North Scotland
Percy Thrower meets Jim Sutherland at work in his Inverness garden.
Sequences include:
Dry walling and trailing plants: a small pool with electric waterfall; heathers; water hyacinth; gentians; dodecatheon; recommended vegetable varieties for the North
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Jim Sutherland
Producer:
Paul Morby

A scheme to eradicate this disease is in progress in Northern Ireland, where they have found it to be more widespread among both cattle and humans than was expected.
David Richardson reports.

From the Midlands
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.15)

Contributors

Reporter:
David Richardson
Director:
Keith Reading
Producer:
John Kenyon

Told by Tony Beamish.
In a little-mapped part of Laos Tony Beamish discovered a very civilised tribe, the Yao. whose accomplishments contrast strangely with their Jungle home. To get there he had to hire elephants to cope with the swampy forest terrain. (Repeat)

2 40-3.10 Talk-Back
Young people from Stratford-upon-Avon discuss today's shrinking world.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Narrator/filmed by:
Tony Beamish
Filmed by:
Ivan Polunin
Presented by:
Georges Robin
Series edited by:
Brian Branston

Starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward
with Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley

The exciting story of the heroic men of the construction battalions - the Seabees -
who worked under constant attack by the Japanese to build vital island installations in the Pacific during World War II.

Contributors

Director:
Edward Ludwig
Wedge Donovan:
John Wayne
Constance Chesley:
Susan Hayward
Lt.-Cmdr. Robert Yarrow:
Dennis O'Keefe
Eddie Bowers:
William Frawley
Johnny Novasky:
Leonide Kinskey
Sawyer Collins:
J.M. Kerrigan

by Alexandre Dumas.
Dramatised in twelve episodes by Anthony Steven.

Bertuccio identifies a figure from the past and Edmond receives visitors from Italy.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Author:
Alexandre Dumas
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Music composed and conducted by:
Roberto Gerhard
Designer:
Mary Rea
Designer:
Barry Newbury
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Peter Hammond
Edmond Dantes:
Alan Badel
Valentine:
Anna Palk
Maximilian:
Edward De Souza
Haydee:
Valerie Sarruf
Albert:
Sandor Eles
Madame Danglars:
Rosalie Crutchley
Madame de Villefort:
Patricia English
Bertuccio:
Cyril Shaps
Villefort:
Michael Gough
Thomson:
Donald Eccles
Cavalcanti:
Austin Trevor
Benedetto:
Richard Kay
Danglars:
Morris Perry
Eugenie:
Isobel Black
Ali:
Roy Stewart
Dancer:
Rita Wilson

A film about the work of Dr. Barnardo's.
It is a hundred years since Dr. Barnardo began his work for children.
Today, the organisation which he founded is one of the largest of its kind in the world. What is its story? What is its work now?
Geoffrey Wheeler talks to F. J. Potter, General Secretary and to Miss D. M. Dyson Regional Officer and visits Homes and foster parents working for the Society now.
(Repeated tonight at 11.15)

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Interviewee:
F. J. Potter
Interviewee:
Miss D. M. Dyson
Director:
Derek Smith
Producer:
William Purcell

from Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church, Bangor, Co. Down.
With the Presbyterian choirs of the district and the children of the congregation.
Hymns introduced by Donald Cairns.

Glory be to God the Father (R.C.H. 7)
O for a thousand tongues to sing (R.C.H. 166)
Come. children, join to sing (R.C.H. 177)
The King of love my Shepherd is (R.C.H. 438)
It were my soul's desire (I.C.H. 327)
Glorious things of thee are spoken (R.C.H. 206)
In the roll-call of God's sons (I.C.H. 202)
The Lord my pasture shall prepare (I.C.H. 510)
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! (R.C.H. 369)
Daisies are our silver (Songs of Praise 354)
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun (R.C.H. 388)
Onward! Christian soldiers (R.C.H. 535)

Contributors

Soloist:
Cyril Willoughby
Trumpeter:
Dennis Wilby
Trumpeter:
Andrew Forbes
Trumpeter:
Harold Uprichard
Organist:
Henrietta Byrne
Conductor:
Edgar Boucher
Presenter:
Donald Cairns
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. David Burke
Producer:
Moore Wasson

The film this Sunday stars Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
with Phil Terry, Howard da Silva

A story about a drunk, a messed-up life, and lost weekends.

Contributors

Director/screenplay:
Billy Wilder
Screenplay:
Charles Brackett
From a novel by:
Charles Jackson
Don Birnam:
Ray Milland
Helen:
Jane Wyman
Wick:
Phil Terry
Nat:
Howard Da Silva
Gloria:
Doris Dowling

Starring Norman Vaughan
with Maggie Fitzgibbon, Joe Henderson, Arthur Worsley, The Morgan James Duo, Nosher Powell, The Malcolm Clare Dancers, The Mike Sammes Singers, Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra.

(Joe Henderson is appearing at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth)
(See page 13)

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Took
Additional material:
Norman Vaughan
Additional material:
Charles Hart
Additional material:
Terence Hughes
Choreographer:
Malcolm Clare
Designer:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Kenneth Carter
Entertainer:
Norman Vaughan
[Actress]:
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Pianist:
Joe Henderson
Ventriloquist:
Arthur Worsley
Singers:
The Morgan James Duo
[Actor]:
Nosher Powell
Dancers:
The Malcolm Clare Dancers
Singers:
The Mike Sammes Singers
Musicians:
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

"Film that grips like an octopus" (Daily Express)
"Russell's ideas, carried out with superb boldness and certainty of technique, worked marvellously in terms of pictures and music." (Daily Mail)
"...explodes like an extravagant and unpredictable firework." (Sunday Telegraph)

Sunday Night offers another chance to see Ken Russell's award-winning feature on the strange circle of wives, mistresses, and friends surrounding the life and music of the French composer.
With Oliver Reed as Debussy, Vladek Sheybal as Pierre Louys
See page 14
(Boulez on Debussy: tomorrow on BBC-2 at 8.50 p.m.)

Contributors

Scenario/Directed and produced by:
Ken Russell
Scenario/Dialogue:
Melvyn Bragg
Debussy:
Oliver Reed
Pierre Louys:
Vladek Sheybal
Gaby:
Annette Robertson
Lily:
Penny Service
Madame Bardac:
Isa Teller
Secretary:
Stephanie Randall
Saint Sebastian:
Jane Lumb
Maeterlinck:
Vernon Dobtcheff
Chouchou:
Victoria Russell
Zohra the slavegirl:
Verity Edmett

BBC One London

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