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A Mediterranean voyage in this exciting and famous aircraft-carrier.
Landing on the flight-deck and catapult take-offs, helicopter rescues at sea, ships steaming at high speed within a few feet of each other, destroyer and submarine screens at work-all part of the complex life on board a modern aircraft-carrier which you can see in this film.
Cameramen, Ken Westbury, Jimmy Court
Also Royal Naval cameramen

The BBC wishes to acknowledge the co-operation of the Captains, Officers, and crews of H.M.S. Ark Royal, Cavendish, Salisbury and Torquay, the Royal Naval Air Station at Hal-Far, Malta, and R.F.A. Tideflow.

Contributors

Commentator:
Barrie Edgar
Technical adviser:
Lt.-Commander David Pennick, R.N.
Cameraman:
Ken Westbury
Cameraman:
Jimmy Court
Editor:
Mac Errington
Editor:
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Producer:
John Warrington

The story in war and peace of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C. and of the Ryder-Cheshire Mission for the Relief of Suffering.
Written and directed by Ian Curtis.
A West Region Film Unit production
Leonard Cheshire is the famous war-time bomber pilot, who watched the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and later founded the Cheshire Homes.

Contributors

Subject:
Group Captain Leonard Cheshire
Narrator:
Leo Genn
Film cameraman:
George Shears
Film cameraman:
Bill Morris
Film cameraman:
Dennis Trowler
Film cameraman:
James Saunders
Film cameraman:
M. Darira
Film cameraman:
M. Wiesiolek
Film cameraman:
W. Jablonski
Film cameraman:
Roman Wionczeic
Sound recordist:
Howard Smith
Sound recordist:
Keith Denton
Film editor:
Constance Dunn
Research:
John Drummond
Research:
Catherine Dove
Writer/director:
Ian Curtis

A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
including
Leila Asks Chris about the Origins of Easter.

How Other Children Live: 3: A Day at Avalon
A film produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Trace
Presenter:
Leila Williams
Presented by:
John Hunter Blair

by Andre Obey.
Translated by Arthur Wilmurt.
[Starring] Leo McKern
(See Junior Radio Times)

Contributors

Author:
Andre Obey
Translated by:
Arthur Wilmurt
Settings:
Richard Henry
Producer:
Joy Harington
Noah:
Leo McKern
Mrs Noah:
Betty Hardy
Shem:
Patrick Godfrey
Ham:
Neville Jason
Japheth:
David Hemmings
Naomi:
Lesley Nunnerley
Sella:
Patricia Cree
Ada:
Marian Diamond
The Bear:
Giles Phibbs
The Lion:
Bob Stevenson
The Monkey:
Anthony Wilson
The Elephant:
John Flint
The Elephant:
Neville Irons
The Cow:
Robin Dowelll
The Cow:
Timothy Harley
The Tiger:
David Hart

with Geoff Love and his Orchestra, The King Brothers.

Contributors

Pianist:
Russ Conway
Musicians:
Geoff Love and his Orchestra
Singers:
The King Brothers
Dancer/choreography:
Douglas Squires
Dancer:
Mavis Traill
Dancer:
Pamela Proud
Continuity:
Ken Hoare
Designer:
Audley Southcott
Producer:
James Gilbert

Introduced by Peter Scott with Heinz Sielmann and Gerald Durrell.

H.M. King Leopold III arranged to celebrate a hundred years of Belgian rule in the Congo by sending a large team of scientists and technicians, under the auspices of the Fondation Internationale Scientifique, to film the wild life there. Heinz Sielmann, the director of the film, shows some of the material he shot and tells the story behind it. He also introduces a short excerpt from the British version issued by Twentieth Century-Fox under the title Lords of the Forest showing for the first time wild gorillas in their natural surroundings.
Appearing in the programme is N'Pongo, the baby gorilla from Gerald Durrell's Jersey Zoological Park.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Guest/filmmaker:
Heinz Sielmann
Guest:
Gerald Durrell
Presented for television by:
Christopher Parsons
Designer:
Desmond Chinn
Executive producer:
Eileen Molony

Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
featuring Sidney James
with Brian Oulton, Honor Shepherd, Robert Dorning, Elizabeth Fraser, Annabelle Lee, Arthur Milliard, Gwenda Ewen, Laura Thurlow, Laurie Webb.

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Simpson
Writer:
Ray Galton
Choreography:
Eleanor Fazan
Incidental Music:
Wally Stott
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Anthony Aloysius Hancock:
Tony Hancock
Sidney Balmoral James:
Sidney James
Gregory Chandler:
Brian Oulton
[Actress]:
Honor Shepherd
Mr Hathway:
Robert Dorning
Muriel:
Elizabeth Fraser
Edie:
Annabelle Lee
Clarence:
Arthur Mullard
[Actress]:
Gwenda Ewan
[Actress]:
Laura Thurlow
[Actress]:
Laurie Webb
The pianist:
Bert Waller

by Frank Baker.
[Starring] Margaret Rutherford with Noel Purcell and Joan Hickson
The action of the play takes place in the neighbourhood of Primrose Hill, London. Time. The present
See Round and About

Contributors

Writer:
Frank Baker
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Amv Carr:
Margaret Rutherford
Peter O'Connor:
Noel Purcell
A Clergyman:
Stringer Davis
Mrs Finch:
Olive Sloane
Suzy:
Antonita Dias
Linda Carr:
Pauline Yates
Geoffrey Sims:
Donald Churchill
Mrs Deakin:
Joan Hickson
Dr Thomas:
Hamilton Dyce
Leslie:
Keith Faulkner
Mr Barker:
Stuart Saunders
A Librarian:
Greta Wood

A story of the village of Oberammergau, its people, and the preparations for the Passion Play.
Filmed by the Bavarian Television Service
Written, produced and directed by Alan Sleath.

Contributors

Cameraman:
Walter Umlauf
Sound recordist:
Heinz Barth
Film editor:
Keith Latham
Writer/producer/director:
Alan Sleath

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