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Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week: Maxine Daniels, Rory McEwen

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer:
Maxine Daniels
Singer/guitarist:
Rory McEwen
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
A weekly school report.
[Starring] Professor Jimmy Edwards
See page 5

Contributors

Writer:
Frank Muir
Writer:
Denis Norden
Incidental music composed and conducted by:
Alan Yates
Production:
Douglas Moodie
Headmaster:
Jimmy Edwards
Pettigrew:
Arthur Howard
Matron:
Elizabeth Fraser
Taplow:
John Hall
Lumley:
John Stirling
Schoolmasters:
Philip Howard
Schoolmasters:
John Scott

A new play by Arthur Hailey.
(A telerecording presented by arrangement with the CBC)

Tonight's play is by Arthur Hailey, who wrote those two spellbinders Flight into Danger and Course for Collision. It is set in India in the present day, and provides something of a postscript to the recent series of Sunday-night plays The English Family Robinson. It shows a group of Canadian scientists working side by side with their Indian colleagues in building a new atomic energy plant which will, when in operation, provide the power for the pumps which bring water to a large area threatened by drought. But the scientists are having trouble in meeting their production date. Odd things happen, and the atomic reactor's trial run is continually being postponed. As the play opens, another attempt is being made to carry out the trial run. If this should fail, there can be only one explanation....

Contributors

Writer:
Arthur Hailey
Designer:
Rudi Dorn
Producer:
Paul Almonds
Supervising Producer:
Sydney Newman
Nell MacFayden:
Murray Westgate
Chuck Shearing:
Bernard Slade
Dr. Howard Gibson:
John Drainie
Suraj Surabhai:
Lloyd Bochner
Arjun Ghanshyam:
Robert Walker
Laura Gibson:
Katherine Blake
Kundaswami:
Gilly Fenwick
Julian Shaw:
Patrick McNee
Lieut Kirpal Singh:
Leonard White
Evelyn MacFayden:
Sandra Scott
Maxine Shearing:
Jill Foster
Kamala/Other parts played by:
Parvathi Basrur
Ira/Other parts played by:
Reba Bash
Mohammed/Other parts played by:
Ian Hewitson
Other parts played by:
Louis Negan
Other parts played by:
John Grima
Other parts played by:
Brendan Dillon
Other parts played by:
Stephen Lord

Many of life's misunderstandings could be cleared up by a face-to-face meeting between those who labour under them and those who have some of the answers. In this programme a Bishop confronts four people of very different ages and occupations, who have pointed questions to ask about the impact of the Church on the life of today.
The Rt. Rev. Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Birmingham is questioned by a schoolgirl, a medical student, a works manager, a trade union official.
Introduced by William Purcell.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
William Purcell
Guest:
The Rt. Rev. Leonard Wilson
Questioner:
A schoolgirl [name uncredited]
Questioner:
A medical student [name uncredited]
Questioner:
A works manager [name uncredited]
Questioner:
A trade union official [name uncredited]
Director:
Philip Lewis

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