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A special compilation of music favourites for viewers from India and Pakistan.
Artists include:

Ghulam Rasul and Party, Usha Attre, Sharad Kumar and Shamin Ahmed, Masood Rana
Presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham)

Contributors

Performers:
Ghulam Rasul and Party
Singer:
Usha Attre
Musician:
Sharad Kumar
Musician:
Shamin Ahmed
Singer:
Masood Rana
Presenter/Producer:
Saleem Shahed
Compiled by:
Ashok Rampal
Producer:
Mahendra Kaul

Starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

Rapiers flash in the moonlight as the dashing Count of Monte Cristo joins the fight to save the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg and its beautiful princess from the tyranny of a ruthless dictator.

Contributors

Screenplay:
George Bruce
Director:
Rowland V. Lee
Producer:
Edward Small
Count of Monte Cristo:
Louis Hayward
Grand Duchess Zona:
Joan Bennett
Gurko Lanen:
George Sanders
Mathilde:
Florence Bates
Colonel Zimmerman:
Lionel Royce
Baron von Neuhoff:
Montagu Love
Fritz Dorner:
Clayton Moore

A film series in which the famous underwater explorer takes his oceanographic vessel Calypso on a voyage of adventure and scientific discovery.

This film examines the history of undersea exploration, in which Cousteau plays an important part, and shows some of the bizarre machines that are currently being used to discover the oceans' last secrets.

Produced by Les Requins Associes and Metromedia Producers Corporation (from Bristol: first shown on BBC2)

Contributors

Explorer/Narrator:
Jacques Cousteau
Narrator:
Hugh Falkus

from Copenhagen
A further visit to the Bernstorffparken to see the climax of the premier event of women's show jumping: the fourth and final round of the 1970 World Championship.
Led by Marion Mould, the current title-holder, the British have an enviably strong entry for these championships, with Annelli Drummond-Hay and a former junior champion Ann Moore.
Presented by the Danish Television Service

Contributors

Showjumper:
Marion Mould
Showjumper:
Annelli Drummond-Hay
Showjumper:
Ann Moore
Commentator:
Dorian Williams

Like a mountain seen through a mist, Moses towers above the religious history of the West. Christianity and Islam have their roots in his God.

Tonight's film examines the origins and development of Judaism, and the part played by the prophet, as far as historical records allow us to see it.
Rabbi John Rayner discusses Judaism today in the light of its founder with Paddy Feeny and a group of Bristol students.
(From Bristol) (Repeated on Monday at 12.55 pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
Paddy Feeny
Guest:
Rabbi John Rayner
Producer:
Peter Firth

Inaugural Service from St Giles' Cathedral, The High Kirk of Edinburgh
A shortened form of this afternoon's service, attended by civic dignitaries from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Conducted by The Rev Dr Ronald Falconer
Preacher, The Rev Dr H. C. Whitley Minister of St Giles'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader Tom Rowlette, conductor James Loughran

(Two Beethoven symphonies from the Festival at 7.30: Radio 4)

Contributors

Commentator:
Tom Fleming
Service conducted by:
The Rev Dr Ronald Falconer
Preacher:
The Rev Dr H.C. Whitley
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Tom Rowlette
Conductor:
James Loughran
Master of Music:
Herrick Bunney, MVO
Assistant Organist:
Andrew Armstrong
Television Presentation:
Ralph Smith

Highlights of the great moments of laughter from three decades of MGM comedy films.
Among the famous stars at their most hilarious and amusing are: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, The Marx Brothers, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, Lucille Ball, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable

Contributors

Producer:
Robert Youngson

Starring Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty

Marlag 'O', row camp for Naval Officers, has the reputation of being escape-proof. That is, until Albert makes his appearance; but even with Albert's help escape is a highly dangerous undertaking.
(Philip Jenkinson writes on page 9)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Vernon Harris
Screenplay/Based on the play by:
Guy Morgan
Based on the play by:
Edward Sammis
Producer:
Daniel M. Angel
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Lieut Geoff Ainsworth:
Anthony Steel
Capt Maddox:
Jack Warner
Lieut Jim Reed:
Robert Beatty
Lieut Tex Norton:
William Sylvester
Lieut Fred Erickson:
Paul Carpenter
Joe:
Eddy Byrne

The third in a series of five programmes from the 1970 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, leader Alan Loveday, conductor Neville Marriner, Simon Preston, Philip Ledger, Christopher Hogwood (harpsichords)

Bach Concerto No 2 in C major, for three harpsichords and strings

The Soft Machine
Hugh Hopper (guitar), Mike Ratledge (organ/electric piano), Robert Wyatt (drums), Elton Dean (saxophones)

Introduced by Richard Baker

(Next week: An evening of Gilbert and Sullivan)

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Musicians:
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Leader:
Alan Loveday
Conductor:
Neville Marriner
Harpsichordist:
Simon Preston
Harpsichordist:
Philip Ledger
Harpsichordist:
Christopher Hogwood
Guitarist (The Soft Machine):
Hugh Hopper
Organist/Electric pianist (The Soft Machine):
Mike Ratledge
Drummer (The Soft Machine):
Robert Wyatt
Saxophonist (The Soft Machine):
Elton Dean
Director:
Geoffrey Haydon

An invitation to step into the humorous and imaginative world of James Thurber
A series based on a selection of his famous stories and cartoons starring William Windom as John Monroe, Joan Hotchkis as his wife Ellen, Lisa Gerritsen as his daughter Lydia.

It is an indisputable fact that man's basic enemy is the eternal female. But there's more to it than that.

Contributors

Based on stories and cartoons by:
James Thurber
John Monroe:
William Windom
Ellen:
Joan Hotchkis
Lydia:
Lisa Gerritsen

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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