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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:
Michael De Morgan
Translator:
Ruth Leeds
Producer:
Bill Northwood

A serial in six parts by Peter O'Donnell.

Ambrose and Dominique hope they have shaken Feinster into handing over the stolen pearls, but instead he hands over something more troublesome...
(Repeated next Saturday evening)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter O'Donnell
Designer:
Richard Henry
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
Christopher Barry
Ambrose Frayne:
Derek Fowlds
Dominique Frayne:
Jeanne Roland
Charles Charles:
Henry McGee
Roger Curran:
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Hector Frayne:
Sam Kydd
Cornelia:
Bridget Armstrong
Feinster:
John Bryans
Inspector Roth:
Campbell Singer
Butler:
James Fairley
M. Brienne:
Ivor Salter
Japanese girl:
null Poulet-Tu
Cokey Brock:
Victor Maddern
Doreen:
Margaret Nolan
Police Constable:
George Lee
Crozier:
John Sharp

Four programmes exploring the mysterious second life each of us lives in sleep.

After all the theorising, have dreams anything to do with the business of living for ordinary healthy people?
Introduced and devised by Norman MacKenzie from his book Dreams and Dreaming.

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Norman MacKenzie
Speaker:
A Consultant Psychiatrist [name uncredited]
Speaker:
Michael Ayrton
Producer:
Maurice Harvey

A review of the sciences.
Introduced by Colin Riach.

Towers of Ilium
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen, the detailed results of whose work have only recently become available.

The Exploding City
By A.D. 2,000 more than half the world's population may be living in cities. The population of some of them may exceed 60 million. This is one of the main preoccupations of the World Institute of Ekistics, founded in London this month.
With Lord Llewelyn-Davies, Architect, and Chairman of the Centre for Environmental Studies; Constantinos Doxiadis, Greek architect

Contributors

Presenter:
Colin Riach
Speaker (The Exploding City):
Lord Llewelyn-Davies
Speaker (The Exploding City):
Constantinos Doxiadis
Producer:
Anthony Isaacs
Presented by:
Dick Gilling
Executive Producer:
Gordon Rattray Taylor

by Hugh Whitemore.
Starring Kenneth More as Kenneth Shreeve
with Michael Forrest as Fallow, Ken Wynne as Crashaw
See page 14

Contributors

Writer:
Hugh Whitemore
Music:
Derrick Mason
Music conducted by:
Marcus Dods
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Producer:
Cedric Messina
Director:
Bill Hays
Kenneth Shreeve:
Kenneth More
Fallow:
Michael Forrest
Crashaw:
Ken Wynne

A dramatic reconstruction in eight parts by the Irish Television Service written by Hugh Leonard.
Produced and directed by Louis Lentin for Telefis Eireann
(Part 2: Monday at 10.30)
See page 15

Contributors

Writer:
Hugh Leonard
Co-ordinator:
Ray McAnally
For the series - Designer:
Alpho O'Reilly
For the series - Film Director:
Michael Garvey
Produced and directed by:
Louis Lentin
Newscaster:
Maurice O'Doherty
John McCarthy:
John O'Shea
Sergeant Hearn:
Traolach Ohaonghusa
Sir Roger Casement:
Conor Farrington
Sir Mathew Nathan:
Cecil Barror
Professor Eoin MacNeill:
Eddie Golden
P.H. Pearse:
Eoin O Suilleabhain
Tom Clarke:
Jim Norton
Lord Wimbourne:
Aiden Grennell
[Actors]:
Members of the Defence Forces of the Irish Republic
Reporter:
Peadar Bartishell
Reporter:
Pat Nolan
Reporter:
Gerry Alexander
Reporter:
Maurie Taylor

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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