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For children of seven to nine.
Introduced by Tom Gibbs.

Port Holiday: 5
The end of the holiday.

A Smuggler's Song
by Rudyard Kipling.

For Schools
Repeated on Thursday at 9.40 a.m.
(to 11.55)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Gibbs
Poet (A Smuggler's Song):
Rudyard Kipling
Reader (A Smuggler's Song):
Charles E. Stidwill
Film cameraman:
Eric Deeming
Film editor:
Robert Hill
Director:
Joy Whitby
Producer:
Claire Chovil
Script (Port Holiday):
Barbara Willard
Film cameraman (Port Holiday):
John McGlashan
Marejke:
Antonia Moss
Piet:
Kaflan Kaye
Laurens:
Edward Fox

Along the route of this 1,500-mile motor journey from Texas to California we see the wheat and oil, cowboys and Indians, mountains and deserts of this least-populated quarter of the United States.
BBC film for Schools
Previously shown in February 1962
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.
(to 14.25)

Contributors

Cameraman:
Hannen Foss
Sound recordist:
Bill Searle
Film editor:
John Walker
Producer:
Tim Slessor

Before the gramophone or radio, songs became 'pop' through the barrel organ
Little was known about dinosaurs until 1822
Kenneth Kendall and top experts, with some young friends, probe facts and fancies of all kinds.
See page 27

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Designer:
Peter Mavius
Research:
Nadine Wood
Research:
Joanne Symons
Director:
Clive Parkhurst
Producer:
John Irwin

It's Rolf Harris
with Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, The King Brothers

Contributors

Presenter:
Rolf Harris
Musicians:
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
Singers:
The King Brothers
Music directed by:
Norman Percival
Designer:
Christopher Pemsel
Director:
Terence Hughes
Producer:
Bryan Sears

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
with Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Brian Redhead.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Reporter:
Christopher Brasher
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Reporter:
Brian Redhead
Associate Producer:
Jack Gold
Associate Producer:
Derrick Amoore
Associate Producer:
Kevin Billington
Associate Producer:
John Lloyd
Associate Producer:
Kenneth Corden
Assistant Editor:
Elizabeth Cowley
Editor:
Peter Batty

A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.

Doug has trouble with an old love affair, and Alan with a new one. Iris breaks in on Stan's night out.

Contributors

Series created by:
Hazel Adair
Series created by:
Peter Ling
Script:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Designer:
Julia Trevelyan Oman
Producer:
Morris Barry
Director:
David Giles
Mrs Beatty:
Sonia Dresdel
Gussie:
Frances Bennett
Vivien:
Patricia Haines
Doug:
Lawrence James
Jenny:
Pauline Munro
Alan:
Basil Moss
Adrian:
Robert Desmond
Stan:
Johnny Wade
Iris:
Louise Dunn
Ben:
Bill Kerr
Sheila:
Joanna Vogel
Terry:
Jimmy Ray
Barry:
Robin Hawdon
Alison:
Betty Cooper

Starring Theodore Bikel
with Carrol O'Connor, Arthur O'Connell
An elderly peanut vendor meets fierce resistance when he tries to help the residents of a slum neighbourhood to free themselves from the tyranny of an unscrupulous landlord who controls the properties.

Contributors

Producer/director:
Sam Peckinpah
Nicholas Simonakis:
Theodore Bikel
Leonard Barsevick:
Carrol O'Connor
Dan Ryan:
Arthur O'Connell

Highland pageantry as seen in more than fifty towns and cities of Canada and the U.S.A. during their recent coast-to-coast musical conquest of North America.

The Pipes and Drums Regimental Band and Dancers of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) by permission of the Commanding Officer,
Lieutenant-Colonel N. G. A. Noble, M.C.

A hundred-man display featuring Fanfare Trumpeters, Scottish Country Dances, Foursome Reel, Argyll Broadswords and Massed Bands March Past

From the Royal Albert Hall, London
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Contributors

Performers:
The Pipes and Drums, Regimental Band and Dancers of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch
Bandmaster:
D.R. Beat, L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M.
Drum major:
R. Dean
Pipe Major:
J. Anderson
Band Sergeant Major:
D. MacLean
Commentator:
Robert Beatty
Presented for television by:
Reg Perrin

In 1959 C. P. Snow gave his now famous lecture on The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Tonight he examines why his modest proposals became a jumping-off point for a violent debate all over the world.

A shortened version of a Friday Evening Discourse given at the Royal Institution last November
BBC-TV Science and Features presentation

See page 27

Contributors

Speaker:
C. P. Snow
Drawings of C. P. Snow by:
Michael Ayrton
Director:
Tom Conway
Presented for television by:
Philip Daly

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