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The gypsies have always been a nation within a nation - a people renowned for their knowledge and love of horses. Aidan Smith and Paul Johnson visit the Appleby Horse Fair with David and Lewis Boswell who are true Romany gypsies. Here the whole travelling nation comes together every summer.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Aidan Smith
Presenter:
Paul Johnson
Subject:
David Boswell
Subject:
Lewis Boswell
Producer:
David Turnbull

Starring Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaret Leighton

When his younger son is expelled from Osborne Naval College on a charge of theft, Arthur Winslow, convinced of his innocence, prepares to fight his son's case through all the courts in the land. Robert Donat gives one of his finest performances as the famous KC and political leader who agrees to defend the Winslow boy.

This Week's Films: page 9
I was forced out of the theatre: pp 3-4

Contributors

Screenplay/From his own stage play:
Terence Rattigan
Producer:
Anatole de Grunwald
Director:
Anthony Asquith
Sir Robert Morton:
Robert Donat
Catherine Winslow:
Margaret Leighton
Arthur Winslow:
Cedric Hardwicke
Desmond Curry:
Basil Radford
Violet:
Kathleen Harrison
Attorney General:
Francis L. Sullivan
Grace Winslow:
Marie Lohr
Dickie Winslow:
Jack Watling
John Watherstone:
Frank Lawton
Ronnie Winslow:
Neil North
First Lord:
Walter Fitzgerald
Watkinson:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Lord Chief Justice:
Kynaston Reeves
Mr Ridgeley-Pearce:
Ernest Thesiger
Admiral Springfield:
Lewis Casson

by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
starring Ronnie Barker

Happiness is a warm handcuff when a hardened criminal is escorted to prison by a sympathetic warder.
featuring

(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Dick Clement
Writer:
Ian La Frenais
Music:
Max Harris
Executive Producer:
James Gilbert
Producer:
Sydney Lotterby
Fletcher:
Ronnie Barker
Mr Barrowclough:
Brian Wilde
Mr Mackay:
Fulton Mackay
Police sergeant:
Hamish Roughead

The Compulsion to Win

A story of personal tension centred around the Formula 750 cc motor-cycle race held on the Isle of Man during TT week.
Tonight's documentary watches the progress and tries to understand the motivation of two racers, their mechanics, managers, and wives. For these men are determined to contest, complete and conquer the most dangerous race circuit in the world. A contest that has already taken the lives of over 100 men.

'Never mind, you get 110 for finishing': pages 48-50

Contributors

Narrator:
Walter Gotell
Film Cameraman:
Peter Middleton
Film Editor:
Don Fairservice
Producer:
Paul Watson

'Horror films are beyond reality, therefore they don't date...' Vincent Price talking on location for his new film The Revenge of Dr Death. Film 73 looks at the horror film cult with Denis Gifford, author of A Pictorial History of Horror Movies.
Don't miss the colour feature on Vincent Price in next week's Radio Times.

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Gifford
Interviewee:
Vincent Price
Producer:
Patricia Ingram

BBC One London

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