[Starring] Dolores Gray
with Charles Trenet, Juanita Garcia, Gilles Sala and his Trio, Roger Baurieux and his Monseigneur Violins and the Bluebell Girls.
(The film shown on February 12)
The history of Islam, the Mohammedan world, is written in the stones of its ancient buildings. This finely photographed film traces the path of the Islamic civilisation as it reached across North Africa leaving its mark through the centuries on mosques, palaces and towns, and spreading at its height to the lovely cities of Southern Spain.
A short film from Switzerland in which children sing and play musical instruments.
(to 16.05)
The film story of an expedition twenty years ago under the direction of the late Frank Smythe to the top of mighty Kamet above the source of the Ganges in the Himalayas.
(to 18.00)
A chronicle in five parts of fifty years of show business.
(Second performance: Tuesday, July 17)
Written by Martin Chisholm.
A programme in celebration of the centenary of the News Agency founded in London by Julius Reuter in 1851.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.
Martin Chisholm writes on page 5
(sound only)
