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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:
Robert Dougall
Translator:
Ruth Leeds
Producer:
Bill Northwood

by Jules Romains.
translated by Harley Granville-Barker.
Starring Leonard Rossiter, John Le Mesurier
with Mavis Villiers, Renee Houston
See page 12

Contributors

Author:
Jules Romains
Translated by:
Harley Granville-Barker
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Producer:
Cedric Messina
Director:
Herbert Wise
Madame Parpalaid:
Mavis Villiers
Dr. Knock:
Leonard Rossiter
Dr. Parpalaid:
John Le Mesurier
Jean:
Jimmy Gardner
Town crier:
James Grout
M. Bernard:
Graham Armitage
M. Mousquet:
Robert Gillespie
Mariette:
Mercia Mansfield
Farmer's wife:
Pat Nye
Madame Pons:
Rosalind Atkinson
First country fellow:
Malcolm Taylor
Second country fellow:
Lawrence James
Madame Remy:
Renee Houston
Scipio:
Patrick Godfrey
Nurse:
Dilys Watling

A review of the sciences.
Introduced by Bryan Kendrick.

Windows of the Soul
Everyone knows that the pupils of our eyes react to light. Tonight's film shows some absorbing psychological experiments at the University of Chicago, which suggest our eyes can tell scientists things we might prefer to keep secret with Dr. Eckhard H. Hess, Chairman of the Psychology Department, University of Chicago.

Elixir of Youth
In Rumania, more than forty thousand people have been given gerovital H3, in the belief that it will make them younger, by Dr. Ana Aslan. Dr. Alex Comfort comments on a film about this mass experiment.

Contributors

Presenter:
Bryan Kendrick
Item presenter (Windows of the Soul):
Dr. Eckhard H. Hess
Subject (Elixir of Youth):
Dr. Ana Aslan
Narrator (Elixir of Youth):
Dr. Alex Comfort
Producer:
Peter Loizos
Producer:
Dick Gilling
Series Editor:
Gordon Rattray Taylor

A thriller in six parts by Margot Bennett.
Tom Masefield now knows that Lamarck-alias Schraaft-has a sinister hold over Hamud Faizi. Trevor forces Masefield to use his police rank to deceive the manager of the bank.

Contributors

Writer:
Margot Bennett
Designer:
John Hurst
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
Richard Martin
Bank Manager:
Kevin Manser
Trevor:
Philip Madoc
Miss Lindsay:
Pamela Binns
Masefield:
John Bown
Tessa:
Suzanne Neve
Polly:
Sheila Fearn
George:
Malcolm Rogers
Max:
Tony Caunter
Guido:
Patrick O'Connell
Kassell:
Carl Jaffe
Spiro:
Peter Hawkins
Josef:
Kenton Moore
Lamarck:
Vladek Sheybal
Nicholls:
Dallas Cavell
Copley:
Corin Redgrave
Brown:
James Locker
O'Neill:
Declan Mulholland
Hamud Faizi:
Ian Thompson
Mr. Stewart:
Richard McNeff
Mr. Frederick:
Peter Evans
Mac:
John Maxim

Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell.

and watch
Plunder
A weekly raid on the archives of BBC television.
Tonight's edition includes:

Danny Kaye on children the world over.

Philip Harben makes a 'conceit of conies' from An Elizabethan Evening

A Vintage Brains Trust with Dr. Bronowski, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Alan Bullock

and a song from Petula Clark

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Tuohy
Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Michael Wale
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell

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