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The Leisure Business
That most English of games-croquet - is gaining ground both at home and abroad. And the best croquet gear is made here by the oldest manufacturers of sports goods and games in the world.
Presented and produced by MICHAEL PRIESTLEY

Contributors

Produced By:
Michael Priestley

from the Parish Church of the Ascension, Wembley

Rev Donald Aird introduces musicians of the parish with The Ian Hall Singers and members of the Chelmsford Ballet Company in Praise God: a Celebration for Trinity Sunday

Contributors

Presenter:
Rev Donald Aird
Singers:
The Ian Hall Singers
Dancers:
Members of the Chelmsford Ballet Company
Conductor:
Ian Hall
Conductor:
David Baron
Choreographer:
Elizabeth Twistington Higgins
Producer:
R. Brooks

Act 2 Of MOZART'S
The Marriage of Figaro rehearsed by ANTHONY BESCH JILL GOMEZ as The Countess PATRICIA HAY as Susanna TOM MCDONNELL as The Count Repetiteur HENRY WARD
Television direction RODNEY BENNETT Producer VICTOR POOLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Besch
Unknown:
Jill Gomez
Unknown:
Patricia Hay
Unknown:
Susanna Tom McDonnell
Unknown:
Rodney Bennett
Producer:
Victor Poole

8 : When the bough breaks
When Ireland was divided in 1921 neither side thought the other would be able to survive. Both sides were wrong.
Director BRIGIT BARRY
Producer HOWARD SMITH
Book (same title) £ 2.20, from bookshops

Contributors

Director:
Brigit Barry
Producer:
Howard Smith

Hop Hopes
New varieties, new methods, new marketing to make an old industry competitive in the EEC. PHILIP WRIXON reports.
Producer JOHN KENYON (from Birmingham)
Weather for Farmers

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Wrixon
Producer:
John Kenyon

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A series of six programmes in which Arthur Negus travels along some of the old coaching routes of Britain stopping along the way to investigate anything unusual from the past that takes his fancy. This week:
London to Portsmouth Part 2
Film cameraman JACK BELLAMY Sound ALISTAIR CROCKER
Film editor CHARLES ALDRIDGE Director PAUL SMITH Producer JOHN KING (from Bristol)
Going for a Song: English Furniture, by Arthur Negus , £ 1.75. from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Bellamy
Unknown:
Alistair Crocker
Editor:
Charles Aldridge
Director:
Paul Smith
Producer:
John King
Unknown:
Arthur Negus

Michael Aspel introduces your TV requests. With him in the studio this week : Cilla Black
Producer FRANCES WHITAKER
Send your requests to ' Ask Aspel.' BBC Television Centre. London W12 8QT

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel
Producer:
Frances Whitaker

by NOEL STREATFEILD
Adapted for television in six parts by JOHN TULLY
Part 6: Light in the Window
Having run away from the orphanage, Margaret, Peter and Horatio have been working on a canal boat but Ma Smith has told them that they can no longer stay there.
Music composed and conducted by TOM MCCALL , arranged by ALFRED RALSTON Producer DOROTHEA BROOKING ‡

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tully
Unknown:
Ma Smith
Conducted By:
Tom McCall
Arranged By:
Alfred Ralston
Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Lavinia Beresford:
Gillian Bailey
Jem:
Kit Daniels
Margaret Thursday:
Claire Walker
Ma Smith:
Susan Field
Captain Smith:
Will Stampe
Clara:
Jill Reddick
Lady Corkberry:
Sonia Graham
Peter Beresford:
Simon Gipps-Kent
Horatio Beresford:
David Tully
Mr Fortescue:
Alba
Ida Fortescue:
Jean Challis
Mrs Beamish:
Molly Maureen
Sir Edward Delaware:
Philip Ray
Hannah:
Elsie Arnold
Rector:
Peter Neil

Issued in 1893 for Ihe Columbus Exhibition in Chicago.
Theslamp is taken from a painting by William H.Powell. The 400lh anniversary was actually in 1892. A Personal History of the United States written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
2: The New Found Land
ALISTAIR COOKE retraces the epic journeys of the French and Spanish adventurers, the first Europeans to explore North America.
Associate producer ANN TURNER
Producer and director MICHAEL GILL
Fully illustrated book, Alistair Cooke 's America, £5.00, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
William H.Powell.
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Producer:
Ann Turner
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke

by Arthur W. Pinero
A Play of the Month presentation starring Michael Hordern Geraldine McEwan and Leonard Rossiter with Anna Calder-Marshall, Barrie Ingham, Peter Firth
For almost two hours the play held me in happy captivity (Daily Mirror)

Contributors

Author:
Arthur W. Pinero
Producer:
Cedric Messina
Director:
Bill Hays
Cis Farringdon:
Peter Firth
Beatie:
Candace Glendenning
Wyke:
Join Blythe
Popham:
Jan Francis
Agatha Posket:
Geraldine McEwan
Mr Posket:
Michael Hordern
Mr Bullamy:
Dudley Jones
Charlotte:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Isidore:
John Nightingale
Achille Blond:
Alan Hockey
Col Lukyn:
Leonard Rossiter
Capt Horace Vale:
Barrie Ingham
Inspector Messiter:
Peter Whithread
Constable Harris:
Geoffrey Perkins
Sgt Lugg:
Ken Jones
Mr Wormington:
Ken Wynne

A search by CHRISTOPHER BURSTALL Tonight's Omnibus is the record of a personal search, made with the help of sculpture students and established sculptors, with Henry Moore , Barbara Hepworth Bernard Meadows , Frank Martin
Executive producer MIKE WOOLLER Producer CHRISTOPHER BURSTALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Burstall
Unknown:
Henry Moore
Unknown:
Barbara Hepworth
Unknown:
Bernard Meadows
Unknown:
Frank Martin
Producer:
Mike Wooller
Producer:
Christopher Burstall

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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