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with Rosemary McRobert and Paul Maxwell.

You and the Law
Lord Birkett and Dudley Perkins

What's Fashion
Iris Ashley and Polly Elwes

Why not a Venetian Blind?
Stephen Garrett

Hyacinths for Christmas
Cliff Lewis

Contributors

Presenter:
Rosemary McRobert
Presenter:
Paul Maxwell
Item presenter (You and the Law):
Lord Birkett
Item presenter (You and the Law):
Dudley Perkins
Item presenter (What's Fashion):
Iris Ashley
Item presenter (What's Fashion):
Polly Elwes
Item presenter (Why not a Venetian Blind?):
Stephen Garrett
Item presenter (Hyacinths for Christmas):
Cliff Lewis
Editor:
Ann Shead

by Sophocles in a translation by Kenneth Cavander.
Starring Richard Pasco, Alan MacNaughtan, Alan Howard
For Schools

Contributors

Author:
null Sophocles
Translation by:
Kenneth Cavander
Designer:
Charles Lawrence
Producer:
Ronald Eyre
Philoctetes:
Richard Pasco
Neoptoiemos:
Alan Howard
Odysseus:
Alan MacNaughtan
Sailor:
Barry Boys
Sailor:
Jeremy Geidt
Sailor:
Richard Mayes
Sailor:
Michael Robbins
Sailor:
Nicholas Selby
Sailor:
Eric Thompson
Sailor:
Kenneth Watson
Hercules spoken by:
John Glen

A comedy by C. E. Webber.
With Hazel Hughes

Contributors

Writer:
C. E. Webber
Designer:
Austen L. Spriggs
Producer:
Gerald Wiltshire
Mrs Tupper:
Hazel Hughes
Hotel Porter:
John Barrett
Page:
Sam Jephcott
Manager:
John Gare Pitt
Biddy:
Laurie Morton
Mr Angus:
Gordon Phillott
Boy:
Lindsay Scott-Patton
Gypsy:
Edward Kelsey
Mr Cooper:
Roger Winton
Mrs Cooper:
Honora Burke
Miss Brown:
Hilary Bays

This month's edition includes:
From Spotter to Specialist
and film of Bewdley to Woofferton by steam and diesel
Great Northern Saddle Tank
Today's guest: W. G. Smith
Introduced by Peter Cranmer.
From the Midlands.

Contributors

Devised and filmed by:
John Adams
Devised and filmed by:
Patrick Whitehouse
Guest:
W. G. Smith
Presenter:
Peter Cranmer
Producer:
Peggy Bacon

A programme of Scottish songs and dances.
With Jim McLeod and his Band, Duncan Robertson, Bobby Watson, The Deeside Dancers, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor, The Scottish Junior Singers (Conductor, Agnes Duncan) and The Clan Hay Dancers.
Introduced by Alastair McIntyre.
From Scotland

Contributors

Musicians:
Jim McLeod and his Band
Singer:
Duncan Robertson
Dancer:
Bobby Watson
Dancers:
The Deeside Dancers
Singer:
Robin Hall
Singer/guitarist:
Jimmie Macgregor
Singers:
The Scottish Junior Singers
[Singers] conductor:
Agnes Duncan
Dancers:
The Clan Hay Dancers
Presenter:
Alastair McIntyre
Designer:
Douglas Duncan
Producer:
Alan Rees

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings and Cy Grant.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer/Guitarist:
Cy Grant
Associate Producer:
Gordon Watkins
Associate Producer:
Tony Essex
Associate Producer:
Ned Sherrin
Associate Producer:
Peter Batty
Assistant Editor:
Antony Jay
Editor:
Alasdair Milne

Written by Eric Sykes.
Starring Eric Sykes
Featuring Hattie Jacques
Guest star, Leo McKern
with Bernard Hunter, Eric Phillips, Annie Leake, Shirley Patterson, Joan Hurley, Eva Hall, Bob Todd.
(Last shown in April)

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Sykes
Incidental music:
Gordon Franks
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Director:
Philip Barker
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson
Eric:
Eric Sykes
Harriet Sykes:
Hattie Jacques
Tommy Grando:
Leo McKern
[Actor]:
Bernard Hunter
[Actor]:
Eric Phillips
[Actress]:
Marjorie Gresley
[Actress]:
Annie Leake
[Actress]:
Shirley Patterson
[Actress]:
Joan Hurley
[Actress]:
Eva Hall
[Actor]:
Bob Todd

A science-fiction thriller in seven episodes by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
Starring Esmond Knight with Peter Halliday, Patricia Kneale and Noel Johnson

The year is 1970, and it is the eve of the opening of a new giant radio-telescope. Professor Reinhart's staff are making routine tests, when something unexpected cuts across the usual background static of outer space, and across all their lives.

Contributors

Writer:
Fred Hoyle
Writer:
John Elliot
Producer:
Michael Hayes
Producer/Designer:
Norman James
Film Cameraman:
Peter Sargent
Film Editor:
Agnes Evan
John Fleming:
Peter Halliday
Harrie:
John Nettleton
Professor Reinhart:
Esmond Knight
Judy Adamson:
Patricia Kneale
Harvey:
John Murray-Scott
Whelan:
Bernard Kilby
J.M. Osborne:
Noel Johnson
General Vandenberg:
Donald Stewart
Secretary to Osborne:
Brenda Peters
Dennis Bridger:
Frank Windsor
Grace:
Mary Chester
Newsreader:
Peter King
Interviewer:
Kenneth Kendall
Jenkins:
Terry Lodge
Oldroyd:
John Barrett

What hope is there for wild life in the face of advancing civilisation? This notable film by Michael and Bernard Grzimek shows the animals of Africa, and their neighbours the pygmies, at home-and the threats that hang over them.
From the West

Contributors

Director:
Michael Grzimek
Director:
Bernard Grzimek

Please have them play it again - And I'll remember just when I heard that lovely song before... (Sammy Cahn)
Kenneth Allsop talks to Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen about how they write and sell their hit songs which include: 'Three Coins in a Fountain', 'Love and Marriage' and 'All the Way'.

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Allsop
Interviewee:
Sammy Cahn
Interviewee:
Jimmy van Heusen
Producer:
Ned Sherrin

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