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A reminiscence in five parts by J.B. Priestley first broadcast last year to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Shown in two instalments for Schools
Part 3: The Dark Horizon June 4 - July 10
Part 4: The Throbbing Sky July 10 - September 6
Part 5: The Private Victory September 6 - December 31
The programme written and narrated by J.B. Priestley.
Prologue written by John Terraine read by Robert Harris
(Shown on BBC-2)
(to 15.27)

Contributors

Written and narrated by:
J.B. Priestley
Prologue written by:
John Terraine
Prologue read by:
Robert Harris
Producer:
Ed Rollins
Executive Producer:
Tony Essex

Introduced by Leslie Crowther.
With Peter Glaze, Christine Holmes, Jillian Comber
Guests, The Small Faces, Saveen

(Bert Hayes is appearing at Butlin's Hotels, Cliftonville; Christine Holmes in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter/Comedian:
Leslie Crowther
Comedian:
Peter Glaze
Performer:
Christine Holmes
Hostess:
Jillian Comber
Musicians:
The Small Faces
Ventriloquist:
null Saveen
Music:
Bert Hayes and his Octet
Designer:
Ken Sharp
Producer:
Peter Whitmore

Starring Andy Stewart
with Bernadette, James Urquhart, John Gray, Dixie Ingram, The White Heather Dancers, Harry Carmichael and Ian Powrie and his Band.
From Scotland

Contributors

Singer/Presenter:
Andy Stewart
Performer:
null Bernadette
Singer:
James Urquhart
Performer:
John Gray
Dancer/Dance director:
Dixie Ingram
Dancers:
The White Heather Dancers
Pianist:
Harry Carmichael
Musicians:
Ian Powrie and his Band
Producer:
Iain MacFadyen

Introduced by Peter Scott.

Sea Serpents, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster - true or false? Fact or fiction? Bernard Heuvelmans suggests such creatures could exist and uses in his evidence such remarkable animals as the Komodo dragon, the giant panda, the monkey-eating eagle, the snub-nosed monkey, and the mountain gorilla.
From the West
See page 59

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Guest:
Bernard Heuvelmans
Compiled and directed by:
Richard Brock
Series Producer:
Jeffery Boswall

A detective calls back at the Coopers'; Gran and Cora have a surfeit of glass; Arnold is bored by an entertainment and Philip arranges a journey.

Contributors

Devised by:
Colin Morris
Story by:
John Cresswell
Script:
C.E. Webber
Producer:
Ronald Travers
Director:
Bill Sellars
Augustus Tripp:
John Sharp
Mrs. Tyser:
Lynne Carol
Mrs. Heppenstahl:
Maggie McGrath
Detective:
Brandon Brady
Philip Cooper:
Jeremy Bulloch
Ellis Cooper:
Alan Browning
Vivienne Cooper:
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Gran Hamilton:
Gladys Henson
Cora Brassett:
Eileen Way
Betty Lloyd:
Helen Cotterill
Archie Lean:
Colin Bell
Ian Creighton:
Jonathan Dennis
Jeff Langley:
Michael Collins
Peter Connolly:
Patrick Connor
Sydney Huxley:
Anthony Verner
Lance:
Raymond Hunt
Maisie:
Susan Bills
Amelia Huntley:
Naomi Chance
Arnold Tripp:
Gerald Cross
Patty:
Maureen Beck
Nayler:
Gordon Griffin
Brewer:
Bruno Barnabe

by Ronnie Taylor.
[Starring Harry Worth]
with Dudley Foster as Baker, William Kendall as Dalby
See page 60

Contributors

Writer:
Ronnie Taylor
Incidental music composed and conducted by:
Dennis Wilson
Designer:
Raymond Berger
Producer:
Graeme Muir
Himself:
Harry Worth
Baker:
Dudley Foster
Dalby:
William Kendall
Yates:
Geoffrey Hibbert
Petrov:
John G. Heller
Faversham:
Vernon Joyner
Miss Fenner:
Jean Rogers
Bentley:
Richard Coleman

by Tudor Gates.
Starring Neil McCallum
Guest star, George Cole
See page 59

Contributors

Writer/Series created by:
Tudor Gates
Series created by:
Brian Degas
Designer:
Jeremy Davies
Producer:
William Slater
Director:
Max Varnel
Angelo James:
Neil McCallum
Jacques Bavar:
George Cole
Marcel Lamballe:
Ralph Michael
Barbizon:
David Collings
Sylvie:
Kathleen Byron
M. Marnay:
Walter Horsbrugh
Thug:
George Lee
Tramp:
George Merritt
Yvonne Marnay:
Georgina Moon
Railway attendant:
Ian Kingsley

A documentary film about the thoughts of a man sailing the Atlantic Ocean single-handed.
Val Howells, on a voyage from New York to Southampton, experiences a kind of schizophrenia. He must live with and analyse his own self-set loneliness.

Contributors

Subject:
Val Howells
Producer:
John Ormond

A look at the films showing on BBC-tv and the new releases in the cinema.
with Philip Jenkinson who introduces scenes from:
Beloved Infidel - Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr
Lullaby of Broadway - Doris Day
Stop! You're Killing Me - Broderick Crawford
Fahrenheit 451 - Julie Christie, Oskar Werner by courtesy of Rank
Is Paris Burning? - Anthony Perkins, Leslie Caron
Promise Her Anything - Leslie Caron, Warren Beatty by courtesy of Paramount
Also featuring an interview with Leslie Caron in the studio.

10.47-11.12 No Turning Back
The story of Michael Taylor.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

10.47-11.12 The Founder
The story of Lancing College.
(Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Jenkinson
Interviewee:
Leslie Caron
Producer:
Christopher Doll
Subject (No Turning Back):
Michael Taylor

BBC One London

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

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