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A weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
A pamphlet giving notes of these exercises (price 9d.) and a folder for Women's Television Notes (price 2s.) may be obtained, post free, from [address removed] (Crossed postal order, please-not stamps.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by:
Ann Shead
Presented by:
Desmond O'Leary

by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley
For Older Children.

In which fortune smiles upon David and Dora who enjoy "an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time", upon Uriah Heep, who goes up in the world; but not upon the folk at Yarmouth, who sustain two tragic losses.

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on November 9, 1956)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Producer:
Douglas Allen
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Mrs. Crupp:
Vi Stevens
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins
Miss Dora Spenlow:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Miss Clarissa Spenlow:
Nora Nicholson
Miss Lavinia Spenlow:
Joan Hickson
Housemaid:
Rosalie Westwater
Jip:
Champion Golden Days Penn Rose of St Lucia
Agnes Wickfield:
Mary Watson
Uriah Heep:
Maxwell Shaw
Daniel Peggotty:
George Woodbridge
Ham Peggotty:
Andrew Downie
Clara Peggotty:
Edna Morris
Mrs. Gummidge:
Mabel Constanduros
Mr. Barkis:
Meadows White

Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment and some of its more unusual aspects.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.
This week's letter "J"
with Celia Johnson, Max Jaffa, Margaret Johnston, The Johnston Brothers and a special feature on Jazz with Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, Dill Jones, and working together for the first time in A-Z the three choreographers: Beryl Kaye, Irving Davies and Paddy Stone

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Melville
Based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by:
Wolf Mankowitz
Performer:
Celia Johnson
Violinist:
Max Jaffa
Performer:
Margaret Johnston
Vocalists:
The Johnston Brothers
Musicians:
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen
Pianist:
Dill Jones
Choreographer:
Beryl Kaye
Choreographer:
Irving Davies
Choreographer:
Paddy Stone
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson
Designer:
Stephen Taylor
Research:
W. Macqueen-Pope
Research:
Peter Noble
Compiled by:
Ken Smith
Producer:
Bryan Sears

by Sir Walter Scott
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley
[Starring] Maxine Audley and Robin Bailey

The action takes place in Cumnor, Oxfordshire, and the surrounding countryside, at Sayes Court near Deptford, and at Greenwich
Time, 1575

Contributors

Author:
Sir Walter Scott
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Producer:
Chloe Gibson
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Edmund Tressilian:
Paul Eddington
An old man:
Peter Bathurst
Wayland Smith:
Alan Edwards
Dr. Doboobie:
John Wood
Richard Varney:
Anthony Newlands
Walter Raleigh:
Stuart Hutchison
Edmund Blount:
Howard Lamb
Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex:
Manning Wilson
His secretary:
Edward Brooks
Tracey:
David Ritch
Dr. Masters:
Bernard Archard
Bowyer, Usher of the Black Rod:
James Roughead
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester:
Robin Bailey
Elizabeth I, Queen of England:
Maxine Audley
Amy Robsart:
Ann Firbank
Other parts played by:
Owen Berry
Other parts played by:
Madge Brindley
Other parts played by:
Clive Goodwin
Other parts played by:
McArthur Gordon
Other parts played by:
Patricia Key
Other parts played by:
Raymond Lloyd
Other parts played by:
Derek Nimmo
Other parts played by:
James Page
Other parts played by:
Graham Roe
Other parts played by:
Lionel Wheeler

Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks, drawing upon his own experiences, describes six major battles of the 1939-1945 war.
The programme includes British, American, and German newsreel shot during the action, and specially filmed contributions from: General Maxwell D. Taylor, General James M. Gavin and Colonel Reuben H. Tucker of the U.S. Army.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks
Interviewee:
General Maxwell D. Taylor
Interviewee:
General James M. Gavin
Interviewee:
Colonel Reuben H. Tucker
Film editor:
Keith Latham
Producer:
Huw Wheldon

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