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7.40 Community Theatre
8.5 The Resistance
Sab-ras - a programme of music and dance with a review of recent news.
Produced and presented by SALEEM SHAHED
Director ASHOK RAMPAL. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Wednesday, BBC2, 10.35 am)
Mr Forgetful and Mr Uppity by ROGER HARGREAVES Told by ARTHUR LOWE
Animation TERRY WARD
The story of Jesus told in pictures So That You Remember Me Storyteller RAY SMITH
Designers PAUL BIRKBECK , GRAHAM MCCALLUM Music RAYMOND PREMRU
Adapted for television and produced by MOLLY cox
Reflections on a Journey
NORMAN NICHOLSON visits Cartmel and Swarthmoor.
The third of four programmes in which a traveller speaks of his personal response to some places of Christian significance.
This week a Cumbrian poet in his native territory reflects on an ancient priory, a sandy bay and some reminders of the early Quakers.
Producer R. T. BROOKS
A lively look at words and letters With DONALD GEE
BOB HOSKINS and PATRICIA HAYES
NORMAN ROSSINGTON
NIGEL STOCK
Script BARRY TOOK
Adviser CATHERINE MOORHOUSE Director BARBARA DERKOW
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES (Repeated: Thursday 2.0 pm)
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Book (same title), il.00, from bookshops '
with Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport and Dana Andrews
A season of films featuring five great Hollywood screen personalities of the 1930s and 1940s.
When drifter Cole Hardin is falsely accused of horse-stealing, he finds himself in the saloon-court of the notorious Judge Roy Bean, 'the law west of the Pecos'. But the judge has one weakness - his idolatry of the 'Jersey Lily', Lily Langtry - and in this Cole sees a chance to save his skin.
Director WILLlAM WYLER (Black and white) Films: page 8
(Gary Cooper is featured in The Hollywood Greats, Thursday, 9.25 pm)
Two of the world's greatest laughter-makers
Stan eventually comes to realise that Ollie is too big for his breeches.
A Hal Roach film
The Western film series, starring Leif Erickson as Big John Cannon, Cameron Mitchell as Buck Cannon, Mark Slade as Blue, Linda Cristal as Victoria, Henry Darrow as Manolito
The last report from Calypso on her voyage to the Antarctic Blizzard at Hope Bay
Wildlife filming in the Southern Ocean is brought to an end, but not soon enough to escape the terrific storms that herald the Antarctic winter. Cousiteau and his crew nearly lose Calypso when a blizzard traps them in Hope Bay. Narrated by JACQUES COUSTEAU and HUGH FALKUS
A production Of LES requins associes and METROMEDIA PRODUCERS CORPORATION BBC Bristol.
Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
Based on the novel by Noel Streatfeild; dramatised in six parts by John Wiles
The girls have found out that Sylvia is finding it hard to cope financially. They are determined to help. Pauline and Petrova have been given parts in a professional production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Previously transmitted in their entirety as a Play of the Month presentation, The Chester Mystery Plays are being shown again in six weekly episodes.
A production, using the latest television techniques, of the medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in the City of Chester in the 14th century.
Tonight: Part 3 Birth of Christ
with the following Company:
HILDA BRAID, KEITH CHEGWIN, KENNETH COLLEY , PAUL COPLEY, JOE GLADWIN , BRIAN GLOVER, CHRISTOPHER GUARD, KIM HARDY, TONY HAYGARTH , JAMES HAZELDINE, RONALD HERDMAN , DAVID JACKSON, PHILIP JACKSON , SAM KELLY, ASHLEY KNIGHT, KEVIN MCNALLY,
JOHN NORMINGTON, ANTONIA PEMBERTON, JOHN QUARMBY, HELEN RAYE , TERRY SCULLY, DEREK SMITH , NINA THOMAS
THE CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD Music director DAVID LUMSDEN
Modern English text by MAURICE HUSSEY Music composed and conducted by GUY WOOLFENDEN
Paintings by TOM TAYLOR
BRIAN PIKE , BERNARD BLATCH Producer CEDRIC MESSINA Director piers HAGGARD
Introduced by Thora Hird
In tonight's programme, THORA introduces another selection of favourite hymns from the last two years of Song of Praise, with the theme ' The Cost of Praise '.
Said Thora: It's easy to sing a nice hymn but it's a sight harder to mean what you sing. Tonight I shall be examining some of the deep beliefs held by the people who wrote some of our more popular hymns.'
The programme features hymns from Birmingham, Wales, Northern Ireland, Cornwall and many other places.
Producer FRANK PAGDEN
Ninth of a series of ten episodes starring Peter Gilmore in Uncharted Waters by MARTIN WORTH with Jessica Benton , Howard Lang Brian Rawlinson , Mary Webster Tom Adams and Jill Gascoine
SI certainly have no intention of being a pale reflection of Anne. She's been watching over me ever since I set foot in this house.'
Cast in order of appearance
Series devised by CYRIL ABRAHAM Scripteditor mervyn haisman
Designer BRYAN ELLIS Producer GERAINT MORRIS Director GERALD BLAKE
starring
Frank Sinatra
Gina Lollobrigida with Peter Lawford
Steve McQueen , Richard Johnson
The commander of a band of guerrillas, stationed in the Burmese jungle, falls in love with the mistress of an arms profiteer while he is recovering from injuries received in an unexpected Japanese attack.
Frank Sinatra , at the height of his film career, Steve McQueen on the brink of stardom, and Gina Lollo brigida in her first Hollywood film, make an unbeatable trio in this exciting Second World War drama.
Director JOHN STURGES Films: page 8
with Kenneth Kendall
Weather
Angela Rippon introduces the St Thomas Wake:
Foxtrot for orchestra by Peter Maxwell Davies and talks to him about this entertaining and unusual piece, in which a jazz band rubs shoulders with a symphony orchestra and an Elizabethan Pavane is transformed by the sounds of 1920s dance music.
The programme begins with Alfred Brendel as soloist in a work equally original in its departure from tradition - Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No 4 in G. BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting BILL JONES
Producer RODNEY GREENBERG
(Part of the concert given on 9 August)
Who decides how we are informed? What are the values, methods and motives of those who select and shape the information we receive? George Scott questions the power and privilege of modern communicators - The Editors of newspapers, books and periodicals, radio and television.
Research SALLY HARDCASTLE Director DAVID TAFT
Producer ELWYN PARRY-JONES