Presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham: rptd Wed, 12.25)
With Bianca Maria Corbella, Yole Marinelli, Luigi Basagaluppi, Alberto Colzi
A Biblical meditation in verse and music
Poems by Joan Brockelsby
Choirs:
Royal Tunbridge Wells Mixed Voice Choir, Royal Tunbridge Wells Orpheus Male Voice Choir, Rusthall Parish Church ChoirFrom St Paul's Church, Rusthall, Kent
Introduced by Lionel Lambourne
Victorian women began as sylphs - elegant and fragile - they became formidable matrons in bustles. They also became emancipated. Do the fashions show this?
For people who want to improve their knowledge of the game.
Introduced by David Vine
With Dan Maskell and Joyce Williams
(Colour)
Introduced by Vincent Kane
with Frank O'Farrell, Manager of Leicester City Football Club
Can summer visitors help the economy of the hill farm?
John Cherrington visits Dartmoor
(from Birmingham)
Weather for farmers
(Colour)
How 'educational' are educational cruises for schoolchildren?
A firm which began by producing books on trains, has become one of Britain's fastest growing publishers of general non-fiction.
(Colour)
Exploring the world of Antiques with Max Robertson
Customers Joan Newell, Leonard Pearcey
(from Bristol)
(Book: see page 13)
[Starring] Judy Garland with John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury
This rip-roaring period musical, set in New Mexico in the 1890s, is the story of a group of well-bred East Coast waitresses who cause confusion in a rough and ready border town where they have been sent to staff a new restaurant. Amongst the songs is Judy's famous number, 'On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.'
(This Week's Films: page 14)
by Oliver Postgate
Today Rolf and his party visit the Bamyili aborigine settlement and Rolf renews acquaintance with David Blanasti and his didgeridoo. Later they reach Alice Springs and Rolf takes part in the local Toddly-on-Hen regatta held on the dry bed of the River Todd!
An Australian Broadcasting Commission production.
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 Wally Cox - a case of stunted development and the stuntmen!
(Colour)
with Brigadier George Chatterton appeals for the Lady Hoare Trust. The accident of Thalidomide added suddenly to the number of children born damaged - but it also spurred interest in more ways of helping these unfortunate families.
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, to: [address removed]
(Colour)
Dramatised by Gerald Savory
with Daphne Slater as Margery Bishop, Graham Crowden as Bill Marsh, Arthur Pentelow as Charlie Bishop, Ann Castle as Janet Lascelles, Mark Edwards as Gerry Morton
Margery Bishop, a married woman, falls in love with Gerry Morton, a man much younger than herself. She feels she must confess this to her husband - but Virtue is not always its own reward - or is it?
"This is the master at his most sardonic. Impeccably acted as ever, especially by Daphne Slater, who made the difficult main role entirely convincing." (Daily Telegraph)
Starring Tyrone Power, Kim Novak
with Victoria Shaw
Tyrone Power gives one of his most accomplished performances spanning the years of the career of America's popular pianist of the 30s, Eddy Duchin. Duchin, who launched such hits as 'Stormy weather,' had the sort of tragic private life that has dogged many great entertainers but this imaginative film, with its authentic atmosphere of the time, brings a fresh touch to a familiar theme
(This Week's Films: page 14)
with Robert Dougall
and Weather
Joss Naylor is a Cumberland hill sheep farmer who was nearly crippled when young, and had three discs removed from his spine when he was 21. To get himself fit he used to run up and down the mountains, 30, 40, 50 miles a day, until today he is one of the champion fell-runners in the Lake District.