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and Weather for Farmers
Introduced by John Cherrington.

Kennedy Stewart discovers from a farm director, George Marwick, that Swannay Farm on the Orkney Isles - part of the seven 'Crofting Counties' - untypically produces farmhouse cheese, on a large scale.

From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Item presenter:
Kennedy Stewart
Interviewee:
George Marwick
Film cameraman:
John Bird
Sound recordist:
Ron Hooper
Film editor:
Henry Fowler
Producer:
Gordon Mosley

[Starring] Randolph Scott, Ann Richards
with George 'Gabby' Hayes

An error, made when the State boundaries were drawn up, leaves a strip of land outside the law: and when the notorious James and Dalton Brothers move in, this land soon earns the name of Badman's Territory.

Contributors

Director:
Tim Whelan
Mark Rowley:
Randolph Scott
Coyote:
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Henryette Alcott:
Ann Richards
Col Farewell:
Ray Collins
John Rowley:
James Warren
Bill Hampton:
Morgan Conway

A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.
In this edition:

Katina Paxinou in Athens
The great tragic actress performing in the ancient Greek amphitheatre and interviewed with her husband Alexis Minotis actor and leading Greek producer.
'Her exposition of the magic of her craft was both electrifying and illuminating'. (Time and Tide)

and
Gerard Hoffnung
A glimpse at the fantasy world of the musical cartoonist.
'A brilliant exploitation of the camera's capacity to give static objects the dimension of music. Hoffnung's musical instruments danced about the screen...' (Western Mail)

Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.

Contributors

Interviewee (Katina Paxinou in Athens):
Katina Paxinou
Interviewee (Katina Paxinou in Athens):
Alexis Minotis
Cartoonist/musician:
Gerard Hoffnung
Film editor:
Allan Tyrer
Programme edited and introduced by:
Huw Wheldon

by L.H. Evers.
Adapted and produced in six parts by Dorothea Brooking.

Contributors

Author:
L.H. Evers
Adapted by/Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Film Cameraman:
Leonard Newson
Film Editor:
Larry Toft
Designer:
Robert MacGowan
Anton Smertzer:
Michael Meier
Frau Smertzer, his mother:
Stella Textor
Stephan Smertzer, his father:
John Abineri
Ben:
Geoffrey Bettenay
Prof:
Michael Luckie
Stanley:
Peter Hempson
Tommo:
Kevin Brennan
Spider:
Edwin Finn
Evans:
Maurice Travers

In Lapland with Mai Zetterling

Every year the people of Lapland meet at Jokkmok in the Arctic Circle to celebrate Candlemas. Mai Zetterling went to make this film of their gay festival.
(Last shown in April 1961)

Contributors

Presenter/Director:
Mai Zetterling
Photography:
Gunnar Fischer
Writer:
David Hughes
Editor:
James Colina

Mawredd a Thosturl Crist
Fe'n gwahoddir i ymuno mewn myfyrdod a mawl dan arweiniad Y Tra Pharchedig H. J . Charles
Deon Llanelwy
Yr emynau wedi eu recordio gan Gantofion Gogledd Cymru
Arweinydd, James Williams Organydd, William Bacon
Y rhaglen yng ngofal
Y Parch. GLYN PARRY-JONES
Recordiad y BBC
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
(to 18.45)

Contributors

Unknown:
H. J Charles
Unknown:
Deon Llanelwy
Unknown:
James Williams
Unknown:
William Bacon

Members of the public put questions to a team of distinguished experts.
The great minds are: Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Bernard Braden, Kenneth Horne
In the chair, McDonald Hobley

Contributors

Panellist/from an idea by:
Jimmy Edwards
Panellist:
Ted Ray
Panellist:
Bernard Braden
Panellist:
Kenneth Horne
Chairman:
McDonald Hobley
Director:
Sydney Lotterby
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Starring David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald
with Roland Culver
Very few people mourn the passing of Edwina Black and 'death from natural causes' is the doctor's opinion. But later, when certain information reaches Scotland Yard, enquiries are re-opened.

Contributors

Director:
Maurice Elvey
Producer:
Ernest Gartside
Gregory:
David Farrar
Elizabeth:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Ellen:
Jean Cadell
Police Inspector:
Roland Culver
Dr. Prendergast:
Harcourt Williams

Introduced by Eric Robinson and featuring this week Music of the Twenties
With Dennis Lotis, Stephanie Voss, Benny Lee, Douglas Squires, Jean Muir, Pauline Innes, Geoffrey Chard and The George Mitchell Singers.
See page 11

Contributors

Presenter/the orchestra conducted by:
Eric Robinson
Singer:
Dennis Lotis
Singer:
Stephanie Voss
Singer:
Benny Lee
Dancer/Numbers staged by:
Douglas Squires
Dancer:
Jean Muir
Dancer:
Pauline Innes
Singer:
Geoffrey Chard
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Musical associate:
Alan Bristow
Settings:
Lionel Radford
Producer:
Graeme Muir

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