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A Rubovian legend by Gordon Murray.
Presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre
(BBC film)

Contributors

Writer/director/puppets:
Gordon Murray
Puppet player:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppet player:
Bob Bura
Puppet player:
John Hardwick
Puppet player:
Violet Lamb
Puppet player:
James Beattie
Puppet player:
Roy Skelton
Puppet player:
Derek Nimmo
Music:
Patrick Harvey
Settings and costumes:
Andrew Brownfoot

Gordon Pirie direct from Rome

Olympic Athletic Finals
Live each afternoon
Recorded highlights in Olympic Sportsview each evening

Athletics
3.0 Men's 400 m. Hurdles (Heats)
3.45 Ladies' Long Jump FINAL Olympic Champion: E. Krzesinska (Poland) Olympic Record: 20 It. 10 ins. E. Krzesinska. Melbourne, 1956
4.0 Men's 100 m. (Second round Heats)
4.35 Men's 800 m. (Heats)
4.50 Men's Putting the Weight FINAL Olympic Champion: Parry O'Brien (U.S.A) Olympic Record: 60 ft. 11 ins. P. O'Brien, Melbourne, 1956
5.20 Ladies' 80 m. Hurdles (Semi-finals)
5.40 5,000 m. (Heats)
Commentators, David Coleman and Norris McWhirter at the Stadio Olimpico

Contributors

Commentator:
David Coleman
Commentator:
Norris McWhirter

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
John Morgan
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Polly Elwes
Singer:
Robin Hall
Singer/guitarist:
Jimmie Macgregor
Associate producer:
Antony Jay
Associate producer:
Tony Essex
Associate producer:
Gordon Watkins
Assistant editor:
Alasdair Milne
Editor:
Donald Baverstock

[Starring] Dan Duryea in the film drama Smoke Jumpers
with Dean Jagger and Joan Leslie
A skilled team of fire-fighters is called to a blazing forest. But this turns out to be much more than a routine job.

Contributors

Cliff Mason:
Dan Duryea
Chief Anderson:
Dean Jagger
Peggy:
Joan Leslie

Pete Murray invites you to measure your sense of humour against Joan Heal, Alan Melville, Ted Ray, Barry Took in a cartoon contest devised by Frank Wayne and Mace Neufeld.
At the organ, Harold Smart

Contributors

Chairman:
Pete Murray
Panellist:
Joan Heal
Panellist:
Alan Melville
Panellist:
Ted Ray
Devised by:
Frank Wayne
Devised by:
Mace Neufeld
Organist:
Harold Smart
Producer:
Brian Marber

David Attenborough introduces Travellers' Tales
The sight and sound of strange people and places from all over the world.

In 1958 Per Host cruised in a schooner through the tropical islands of the Caribbean in a search for nesting flamingoes.

Contributors

Presenter/series edited by:
David Attenborough
Filmmaker:
Per Host
Film editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston

An adventure in six episodes by Michael Pertwee.
[Starring] Catherine Boyle and Peter Dyneley
with Michael Aldridge, Noel Howlett and John Lee

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Pertwee
'Golden Girl' theme composed by:
Jack Jordan
Settings:
Harry Smith
Producer:
Ronald Marsh
Carstairs:
Edward Judd
Lesseps:
Gordon Daisley
John Redfield:
John Lee
Katie Johnson:
Catherine Boyle
Joe Francis:
Peter Dyneley
Manservant:
Malcolm Watson
Detective-Inspector McEwan:
Michael Aldridge
Barstow:
Noel Howlett
Police Sergeant:
Rio Fanning
Garage Man:
Colin Fry

Patrick Moore talks to Sir Harold Spencer Jones F.R.S.
The former Astronomer Royal about measuring distances which are literally astronomical. The greatest distance ever measured is that of a recently discovered galaxy whose light takes five thousand million years to reach the earth.
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick Moore
Guest:
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
Animations:
Alfred Wurmser
Director:
Peter Bennet Stone
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

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Olympic Sportsview
10.35 direct from the BBC Television Studio in Rome

Introduced by David Coleman with the BBC Olympic Team of Commentators
News... Action... Personalities from the Olympic Games

Tonight's programme includes:
Athletics 5,000 m. (Heats) Men's 100 m. (Heats) Men's 800 m. (Heats) Ladies' Long Jump Final Men's Shot Putt Final
Swimming Men's 200 m. Butterfly (Heats) Ladies' 400 m. Freestyle (Heats)
Presented by the BBC Sportsview Unit in collaboration with RAI-TV

BBC Television

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