(from Birmingham: rptd Wed, 12.25pm)

The Engineering Programme
Introduced by Arthur Garratt

with Bianca Maria Corbella, Yole Marinelli, Luigi Basagaluppi, Alberto Colzi
(Books and records: see page 13)

in music, dance and mime performed by parishioners of Church Stretton, Shropshire at the Church of All Hallows, London Wall.
'A Procession of Palms' by Malcolm Williamson

Diamond is a strategic material.

Jenny Moore, a working girl who is living on her own, asks... about cooking in a bed-sit.

Introduced by Brian Jackson

The first of two programmes on children's books, including a review of a few of the thousands of books on sale this Christmas.

Each year British exports of board and card games continue to rise-with more and more products aimed at adults. Reg Abbiss looks at two of the oldest and most successful firms in the field.

Introduced by Michael Bentine from the National Film Theatre.

Everybody has an eye for a pretty girl, and the silent film comedians were no exception, as we see in this week's excerpts from the films of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harry Langdon.
(A BBCtv production in association with Mitchell Monkhouse Associates and Raymond Rohauer)

Starring Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, John Lund with Jeffrey Hunter

The stars of Broken Lance, Robert Wagner and Debra Paget, are teamed together again in this Western, sympathetic to the Indian cause, about a young surveyor who tries to act as mediator between the is Cavalry and the Cheyenne tribe.
(This Week's Films: page 11)

Lucille Ball stars as Lucy Carter
with her children Desi Arnaz Jr and Lucie as Craig and Kim, and Gale Gordon as the long-suffering Harrison (Uncle Harry) Carter

Lucy and the Air Force Academy: Part 2 ...taking a base stand

by Louisa M. Alcott
A new dramatisation in nine parts from "Little Women" and "Good Wives" by Denis Constanduros and Alistair Bell

Amy has gone to Europe with Aunt March. Jo, to avoid the persistently amorous Laurie, has taken a job as a governess in New York and met Professor Bhaer. At home, Beth's health is causing concern

with Cliff Richard and The Settlers
featuring Solomon King and the Kingsmen and Burnley High School Choir in a programme of modern songs which express man's faith, his doubts, and his concerns.
The theme of today's programme, the third of a monthly series The Joy of Living

by John Pennington
Created by A. J. Cronin
Starring Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
with Nigel Green as Hamil

David Hamil has devoted his life to his dead wife's wish that their son should become a doctor. The boy is studying hard and it looks as if Hamil's aim is bound to be realised. But there are unforeseen obstacles just around the corner. One of them is a woman.

A season of feature films starring Hollywood's greatest star in her most famous roles. starring Greta Garbo with John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith

This delightful romantic drama about the 17th-century Swedish monarch Queen Christina, who, dressed in men's clothes, finds herself sharing a room in a remote village inn with a handsome Spanish nobleman, was an ideal vehicle for Garbo. And it gave John Gilbert - her leading man of the silent era - a chance to show that he could still excel in the role of a romantic hero.
(This Week's Films: page 11)

with Richard Baker
and Weather

A survey in two parts of the life and work of the great Soviet film director whose Battleship Potemkin was voted by an international conference of film-makers as the best film ever made.

'Eisenstein is the very greatest of us all' (Vittorio de Sica)
This first programme begins with his birth in Riga and ends with his departure for the West in 1929, and it includes extracts from Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, and Old and New. Among those who speak of Eisenstein as a friend or colleague are:
G.V. Alexandrov, who was Assistant Director of Battleship Potemkin and co-director of October
Rene Clair, who made Sous les Toits de Paris in the next studio to Eisenstein in Paris
John Grierson, who knew him in Britain
Joris Ivens, director of Spanish Earth, and who was his friend in Paris
Ivor Montagu, who worked with him in Hollywood
Grigori Rostotsky, Prizewinner at the Moscow Film Festival of 1969, and who was his student
Maxim Shtraukh, the great Soviet actor, who knew him at school and worked with him in the Theatre
(Made with the co-operation of The Novosti Press Agency)
Presented by BBC television and NET

('Ivan the Terrible' BBC2 Thursday at 10.35 pm. Genius in disgrace: page 11)

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