Duet for a Dream
IMRAT KHAN (sitar and surbahar) plays Raga Bageshwree
A double-track recording by the same artist for the first time. Accompanied by SANKHA CHATTERJEE (tabla) and colour television's interpretation of the mood of the music.
Executive producer GERRY HYNES from Birmingham; rptd Wed, 12.25 pm
One of the highlights of the year on the Hebridean Isle of Colonsay is the Root, Grain and Produce Show. Philip Wrixon was one of this year's judges.
(Birmingham)
A colourful contest between the railways and the elements.
A British Transport film Producer EDGAR ANSTEY Director GEOFFREY JONES
An unconquered overhang at Strone Ulladale in the Outer Hebrides - three men attempt to climb it.
Introduced by Christopher Brasher
[Repeat]
by Ted Hughes
A nativity play with a difference. A fortune-teller tells the inn-keeper and his wife that three kings will visit them; but how do you recognise a king when you see one?
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Equestrian sport's annual review this year features the spectacle of Badminton, the dramas of Kiev, the promise of Cirencester Park; relives again the successes Of ALISON DAWES and PADDY McMAHON at Hickstead and reflects the continuing dominance of International Show Jumping and Eventing by Britain's top riders.
ALISON DAWES, DAVID BROOME and PETER ROBESON represent the jumpers, LUCINDA PRIOR-PALMER, SUE HATHERLY and RICHARD MEADE the eventers, as they discuss the highlights of another exciting season with DORIAN WILLIAMS , RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and MAJOR and MRS LAURENCE ROOK , whose delightful Gloucestershire home, Beverston Castle , was the setting for this recording.
In March this year the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductor John Pritchard and soloist Ida Haendel , toured the People's Republic of China.
This was the first-ever visit by an orchestra from the West.
Entertainment laid on by the hosts included a rehearsal by the Peking Central Philharmonic Society, a performance by the Shanghai Ballet Company, a concert by Shanghai schoolchildren, an acrobatic display and a visit to a People's Commune.
Joyous, revealing and unique, it proved one of the most fascinating records ever seen on TV (LEEDS EVENING POST) Film editor PETER WEST
Director GEOFFREY HAYDON
BERT FOORD
Told by Gordon Rollings.
Narrator HUGH FALKUS
Cousteau's team dive in the Coral Sea to hunt for rarely seen animals like the nautilus, a beautiful cousin of the octopus, which has survived unchanged for
500 Million Years Beneath the Sea
Produced by Les Requins Associe's and Metromedia Producers Corporation (from Bristol; first shown on BBC2)
starring Marlon Brando
Jean Simmons , Merle Oberon with Cameron Mitchell , Elizabeth Sellars
In 1794, Desiree Clary , daughter of a Marseilles silk merchant, meets for the first time Napoleon Bonaparte , a young general. They fall in love but Bonaparte's burning ambition for power is destined to divide them.
Director HENRY KOSTER
Holiday Films: pages 17-18
A programme of mystery and surprises introducing this international illusionist who seems to perform the impossible while admitting the impossibility of what he is doing. As Romark says "Truth will seem to be trickery and trickery will be completely believable"
(from Manchester)
Another chance to see the programme that marked the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney Productions, with highlights from many of the most famous Disney films.
A Walt Disney Production
Weatherman BERT FOORD
For the end of the year, hymns and songs from past programmes, recorded all over Britain.
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler with Thora Hird
Andrew Cruickshank , Ted Moult Jimmy Savile , Madge Saunders Cliff Morgan , Muriel Shepherd Rt Hon William Whitelaw , mp Lord Soper
The Archbishop of York
Producer RAYMOND SHORT
starring Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton , Rex Harrison with Pamela Brown , George Cole
Hume Cronyn , Cesare Danova
Kenneth Haigh , Roddy McDowall One of the greatest of all ' super colossal' HoNywood epics, Cleopatra, the story of the life and times of the legendary queen of the Nile, was the ultimate multi-million dollar production. The chequered history of the events surrounding its making have become almost as famous as the history it portrays and no film has had to survive more difficul
- ties on its way to the screen.
Director JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Holiday Films: pages 17-18
with Robert Dougall Weather
Part 2
Closedown
