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The Cowdray Park Gold Cup
Outside Broadcast cameras were at the final of the premier tournament of Britain's most aristocratic sport-polo.

The Water Ballet
A team of American girl swimmers who are on their way to Tokyo to give demonstrations of synchronised swimming during the Olympic Games display their art in the new swimming pool at the Crystal Palace.

Gordon Wilkins asks Can We Shape the Car to the City?
Speakers include: Alec Issigonis, B.M.C.; Peter Ware, Rootes; Harry Webster, Standard-Triumph; John Alden, Vauxhall Motors

Contributors

Presenter:
Gordon Wilkins
Speaker:
Alec Issigonis
Speaker:
Peter Ware
Speaker:
Harry Webster
Speaker:
John Alden
Producer:
Brian Robins
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Producer:
Bob Duncan
Producer:
Bill Fitzwater
Producer:
Ken Ashton
Cameraman:
Butch Calderwood
Sound:
Maurice Everett
Film Editor:
Bert Meadows
Film Editor:
Roy Fry
Studio Director:
Tom Conway
Associate Editor:
Phil Pilley
Editor:
Christopher Brasher

with Paul Tortelier on the Cello Sonata in A major, Op. 69 by Beethoven
Fourth of six programmes with the French virtuoso teaching, playing, and talking about music.
"The cello is designed to play an aristocratic personality"
"In music there is no beginning and no end; there are only colours"

The cellists, Jennifer Ward Clarke, Peter Willison
The pianist, Geoffrey Parsons
(Tortelier master class on Boccherini's Cello Concerto in B flat major: August 6)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Tortelier
Cellist:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Cellist:
Peter Willison
Pianist:
Geoffrey Parsons
Designer:
Eva Swiderska
Producer:
John Drummond

BBC Two England

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