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for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Baker
Translator:
Ruth Leeds
Producer:
Bill Northwood

Around the World in Song.
Dai Francis and Tony Mercer are appearing in 'The Black and White Minstrel Show' at the Victoria Palace, London

Contributors

Soloist:
Dai Francis
Soloist:
Tony Mercer
Soloist:
Don Cleaver
Soloist:
Margaret Savage
Musical director:
Robert De Cormier
Staged by:
Douglas Squires
Drawings:
Tony Hart
Lighting:
Jimmy Purdie
Costumes supervised by:
Betty Aidiss
Designer:
Brian Tregidden
Producer:
Travers Thorneloe

by Honore de Balzac.
dramatised in four parts by Anthony Steven.
'Monsieur Cesar Birotteau, Companion of the Legion of Honour, and Madame Birotteau request the pleasure of your company at a grand ball'.
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
Repeated on Wednesday at 8.25 p.m.

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Story Editor:
Michael Voysey
Designer:
Archie Clark
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Michael Barry
Cesar Birotteau:
Morris Perry
Constance Birotteau:
Gwen Watford
Sarah:
Camilla Hasse
Ferdinand du Tillet:
Alan Rowe
Claudine:
Diana Day
Cesarine Birotteau:
Isobel Black
Jean-Paul Grindot:
John Baddeley
Abram Gobseck:
Felix Felton
Charles Claparon:
Emrys James
Molineux:
Donald Bisset
Pierre Cayron:
Bruce Wightman
Anselme Popinot:
John Noakes
Raoul Roguin:
Mark Dignam
Vauquelin:
Peter Ashmore

An insight into the lives of thirteen individual Americans.

Sante Amadio has been inside America for nearly fifty years. His father brought him to the New World from Italy when he was a boy, in search of a good life. Now Sante works at the Ford motor plant near Detroit. And he has found the happy life his father sought.
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Contributors

Subject:
Sante Amadio
Photography:
Dick Bush
Film editor:
Alan Martin
Sound recordist:
Malcolm Feuerstein
Title music played by:
The Shake Keane Eight
[Title music] composed and conducted by:
John Everard
Opening commentary read by:
John McGavin
Produced and directed by:
Brian Lewis

Fifty minutes in a company of two-accompanied by an orchestra.
First transmission September 26, 1964

Contributors

Entertainer/Original lyrics and material:
Joyce Grenfell
Music:
Richard Addinsell
Musical arrangements and orchestral direction by:
William Blezard
Director:
John Street

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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