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A new cartoon film series
When Chuck and Nancy discover a magic ring they are launched on a series of exciting adventures in the land of the Arabian Nights.
Shazzan, a gigantic and friendly genie, helps them in their search for the owner of the ring.

Introduced by Norman Tozer
A topical magazine programme about people, places, events, ideas, and inventions

John Earle and Jeremy Carrad take both Tom Tom canoes out for trials on the River Wye. In this final programme of the present series Norman takes a took back at some of the most popular stories of the past year.
From the South and West

Contributors

Presenter:
Norman Tozer
Reporter:
John Earle
Reporter:
Jeremy Carrad
Director:
Brian Hawkins
Producer:
Lawrence Wade

In which the people who watch the programmes confront the people who make them
Presented by Cliff Michelmore with the help of a statistically selected audience in the studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Producer:
Michael Townson

by David Ellis
Starring John Slater, Derek Waring
with Paul Angelis, Douglas Fielding, Bernard Holley

Contributors

Writer:
David Ellis
Script Editor:
P. J. Hammond
Designer:
Antony Thorpe
Producer:
Richard Beynon
Director:
Rodney Bennett
Det.-Sgt. Stone:
John Slater
P.C. Quilley:
Douglas Fielding
P.C. Newcombe:
Bernard Holley
P.C. Bannerman:
Paul Angelis
Jackie Drysdale:
James Marcus
Agnes Drysdale:
Hilary Mason
Sydney Harrop:
Cyril Varley
Sgt. Potter:
Victor Brooks
Det.-Insp. Goss:
Derek Waring
Lily Oldham:
Amelia Bayntun
Vic Ridyard:
Johnny Wade

A season of Britain's great laughter-makers
Starring Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Shaw

The five car owners of a remote Hebridean village refuse to pay their road fund licences until they get a new road, but when Whitehall intervenes things take a hilarious turn for the worse...

This film was produced by Group 3, a British production company set up in 1951 by the National Film Finance Corporation. In charge were John Baxter, John Grierson -'father of the British documentary' - and Michael Balcon. Their aim was to make low-budget films employing young talent. The venture was regarded with suspicion by the trade, but some of the films produced - such as Brandy for the Parson and The Brave Don't Cry (both seen on BBC-tv) - received critical acclaim.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Alfred Shaughnessy
Screenplay/Director:
John Eldridge
From the novel by:
Eric Linklater
Producer:
John Grierson
General Matheson:
Ronald Squire
Cariona Matheson:
Kathleen Ryan
Samuel Pettigrew, M.P.:
Raymond Huntley
Hugh Marvell, M.P.:
Sebastian Shaw
Andrew Flett:
Fulton Mackay
Lucy Pettigrew:
Jean Colin
Roderick McLeod:
Jameson Clark
Mrs. McLeod:
Grace Gavin

The future is being created now - for better or for worse

The people of the twenty-first century are being fashioned now in our primary schools. Our boys and girls will have to live with the tempestuous uncertainties foretold for their world. They will have to learn how to do so - and that begins at school. What is going on in the classroom? Is progressive teaching a menace - or can it produce men and women better able to control and live within their society?
This programme goes to the heart of this argument, which is about how children learn, and how parents and teachers are helping them in our primary schools. It is solely concerned with State primary schools because that is where the real educational revolution is happening.
See page 51

Contributors

Series Editor:
Max Morgan-Witts
Producer:
Glyn Jones

A thriller serial in six parts by Bill Craig
Starring William Lucas as Eddie Prior, Claire Nielson as Liz Elliot, Peter Copley as Cadwaller, Aubrey Morris as Spinner
and Callum Mill as Sgt. Forbes
From Scotland

Eluding the police, Eddie returns to the island where Liz has obtained the stolen projector and film from Shaw's widow. Kate Dewar, meanwhile, has confronted her husband with an airline ticket and false passport. Liz decoys the pursuing Cadwaller, who is after the film, while Eddie returns to the cottage to project it. The film reveals a submarine lying on the seabed. When Cadwaller appears to demand it at gun-point, Eddie stalls until the chance arrival of Spinner allows him to make a run for it. With Cadwaller on his heels, he is rescued by Helen, who tells him that she is a British intelligence agent.

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Craig
Music:
Andy Park
Designer:
David McKenzie
Producer:
Pharic MacLaren
Cadwaller:
Peter Copley
Liz Elliot:
Claire Nielson
Spinner:
Aubrey Morris
Lt. Piggott:
Tom Browne
Eddie Prior:
William Lucas
Helen:
Libby Glenn
Sgt. Forbes:
Callum Mill
Cameron:
Paul Kermack
Tom Dewar:
Bill Henderson
Kate Dewar:
Eileen McCallum

What matters in the news and out of it with Kenneth Allsop and Michael Barratt,
Robert McKenzie, Vincent Kane
with on-the-spot reports by Fyfe Robertson, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, Denis Tuohy, Linda Blandford

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Michael Barratt
Reporter:
Robert McKenzie
Reporter:
Vincent Kane
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
David Lomax
Reporter:
Philip Tibenham
Reporter:
Denis Tuohy
Reporter:
Linda Blandford
Assistant Editor:
John Dekker
Editor:
Anthony Smith

talks to Melvyn Bragg
Tonight Roy Jenkins appears in the role of successful political biographer and historian. Before his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1967 he published five books. Among others, his biographies of Lord Attlee, Sir Charles Dilke, and Asquith were highly praised by the critics.

Contributors

Interviewee:
The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins
Interviewer:
Melvyn Bragg
Director:
Denis Moriarty

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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