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Introduced by Harry Carpenter.
The killer instinct, it is often said, makes great fighters. When two men meet and they both have it, it makes a great fight.
Newark, New Jersey: June 10, 1948
Rocky Graziano v. Tony Zale - World Middleweight Championship

Few Europeans have become world champions - they normally return across the Atlantic after reaching their peak as fighters with a place in the record books as runner-up. Tony Zale met one of the exceptions.
Jersey City: September 1, 1948
Tony Zale v. Marcel Cerdan

Contributors

Presenter:
Harry Carpenter
Producer:
Bob Duncan

Starring Dick Emery
with Deryck Guyler, Clovissa Newcombe, Rosemary Chalmers, Pam Oswald, Heinz Bernard
and featuring Take Five

Contributors

Script:
David Cumming
Script:
Dick Clement
Script:
John Esmonde
Script:
Bob Larbey
Choreography:
Malcolm Clare
Orchestrations:
Dennis Wilson
Musical director:
Harry Rabinowitz
Producer:
Dennis Main Wilson
Comedian:
Dick Emery
[Actor]:
Deryck Guyler
[Actress]:
Clovissa Newcombe
[Actress]:
Rosemary Chalmers
[Actress]:
Pam Oswald
[Actor]:
Heinz Bernard
Singers/Dancers:
Take Five

by Thomas Mann.
Dramatised by Jack Pulman.
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
(Repeated on Thursday at 10.10)
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Contributors

Author:
Thomas Mann
Dramatised by:
Jack Pulman
Designer:
Roderick Laing
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Michael Imison
Pastor Pringsheim:
Richard Bebb
Christian:
Kenneth Griffith
Frau Consul:
Jean Anderson
Thomas:
Nigel Stock
Holfstede:
R. Ogilvie Crombie
Old Johann:
Philip Holles
Ida Jungmann:
Selma Vaz Dias
Consul Johann:
William Fox
Grunlich:
Roger Croucher
Morten Schwarzkopf:
John Golightly
Frau Schwarzkopf:
Lala Lloyd
Herr Schwarzkopf:
John Rae

From the National Brass Band Festival.
Organised by "The People"
featuring the Champion Band of 1965, The Fairey Band, playing this year's Test Piece: Triumphant Rhapsody by Gilbert Vinter.
Items from the Festival Concert played by the Massed Bands of B.M.C. Morris Motors Band, Cammell Laird Works Band, Cory Workmen's Band, C.W.S. (Manchester) Band, The Fairey Band, G.U.S. (Footwear) Band, Tullis Russell Mills Band.
Guest conductor, Pierino Gamba
Giant tuba played by Ron Snyder
Introduced by John Dunn.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
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Contributors

Presenter:
John Dunn
Musicians:
The Fairey Band
Musicians:
B.M.C. Morris Motors Band
Musicians:
Cammell Laird Works Band
Musicians:
Cory Workmen's Band
Musicians:
C.W.S. (Manchester) Band
Musicians:
G.U.S. (Footwear) Band
Musicians:
Tullis Russell Mills Band
Guest conductor:
Pierino Gamba
Tuba player:
Ron Snyder
Television Presentation:
Bill Duncalf

A top League football match brought to you each Saturday on BBC-2.
Kenneth Wolstenholme reports with outside broadcast cameras from a well known League ground.
Today's match will be announced on BBC-tv from 4.0 onwards

Contributors

Presenter/Commentator:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
TV Presentation:
John McGonagle

Late Night Line-Up rounds off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell.
and
Plunder
A weekly raid on the archives of BBC Television.
Tonight's edition includes: Algernon Blackwood telling an eerie story; Arthur Askey in the Chamber of Horrors; Alan Bullock on Hitler; The Archdruid of Wales in an excerpt from The Secret Arts; Elisabeth Schumann, Speaking Personally

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Tuohy
Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Nicholas Tresilian
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Storyteller (Plunder):
Algernon Blackwood
Performer (Plunder):
Arthur Askey
Speaker (Plunder):
Alan Bullock
Speaker (Plunder:
The Secret Arts): The Archdruid of Wales
Speaker (Plunder:
Speaking Personally): Elisabeth Schumann

BBC Two England

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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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