The third day's play at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
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From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
Family Affairs
The Ones Who Coped
Four people who worked extra hard on Bank Holiday describe how their job went yesterday.
Families of Other Lands
Betty Ross, with the help of film, describes life in a small town in Mexico.
Introduced by Gwen Farrow.
Windsor World Camp
Today 4,000 Girl Guides from sixty nations are 'At Home' to 10,000 Guide visitors and to Roma Fairley with outside broadcast cameras.
From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC Television Film)
From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
Did you know that a bird can tie a knot? This film shows you exactly how the weaver bird does it. You can see warthogs too; these animals are so greedy they walk on their knees to keep close to the grass on which they feed!
(Previously shown in evening transmission on April 5)
Adapted by C.E. Webber from the book 'The Sign of the Dolphin' by Irene Byers.
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Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - Politics - People
Cinema-Theatre-Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Rory McEwen
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[Starring] Joan Davis in the film Confidence
Joan's husband is reluctant to run for President of the City Council. Her plan to give him confidence is only too successful and she fears that she has created a Frankenstein's monster.
Dave Morris invites you to join him in a weekly get-together to meet Joe Gladwin as 'Cedric,' Fred Ferris as 'The Wacker,' Leonard Williams as 'Pongo' Bleasdale, Frank Bass as 'Snuffy' Hargreaves, Tom Harrison as The Secretary, Billy Smith as The Steward and The Singing Clubmen.
From the BBC's North of England studios
(Fred Ferris appears by permission of the Management of the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield)
Jack Payne presents Say It with Music
featuring Shirley Bassey, Larry Adler, Bruce Trent, Elizabeth Larner, John Fraser, Freddie Randall and his Band, The Wilf Todd Trio, The Tommy Linden Dancers, The George Mitchell Choir.
by Colin Morris.
[Starring] William Franklyn with Gene Anderson
The action of the play takes place in Italy during November, 1943.
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Colin Morris is an amazingly versatile writer. He has made a notable reputation as the author of some of BBC Television's best documentary programmes. Before that he made another in the theatre with his long-running farce Reluctant Heroes. And his play tonight, which actually pre-dates both these disparate reputations, is again in an entirely different vein. The only factors common to all three sections of his work are a careful theatrical craftsmanship and his accurate ear for dialogue.
Italian Love Story, set in 1943, deals with the situation in a war-torn Italian village as it is discovered by a British officer, Captain Bracken, and the remnants of an infantry company who take it over from the retreating Germans. Bracken finds it far from easy to bring order to a community of several thousand people who are liberated but leaderless, relieved but confused. They are divided by personal and political antagonisms, and united only by hunger. Those with reliable experience in handling local affairs were obviously Fascists and are being ruthlessly dealt with by the Partisans, and Bracken - chiefly through his growing romantic interest in a young woman at the villa where he billets himself - is drawn more intimately than he had intended into their affairs' His concern assumes the proportions of a dilemma when he is ordered to withdraw his men to the main British position. That would abandon the village to the prospect of renewed German occupation and the inevitable devastation of a second Allied attack. (K.A.H.)
A play by Colin Morris.
At 8.45 Tonight
A weekly magazine of films and film personalities introduced by Peter Haigh and Derek Bond.
This week's edition includes an excerpt from "Love in the Afternoon", starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, and Maurice Chevalier.
(Film by courtesy of Associated British-Pathe)
