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An Indian film with English sub-titles.

When a wealthy landowner believes that his son's wife is a saint it brings his family nothing but misery.
(to 17.05)

Contributors

Director:
Satyajit Ray
Based on a theme of:
Rabindranath Tagore
Kalikinkai:
Chadi Biswas
Doyamoyee:
Sharmila Tagore
Umaprasad:
Soumitra Chatterjee
Taraprasad:
Purnendu Mukherjee
Harasundari:
Karuna Bannerjee
Khoka:
Arpen Choudhury

A weekly raid on the archives of BBC television.
Introduced by Michell Raper.
This edition includes:

Billy Graham at Wembley
A brief glimpse of his last crusade in London. (1955)

Opening of the Festival of Britain
A BBC newsreel (1951)

Press Conference on Africa (1952)
With The Rt. Hon. Henry Hopkinson, Minister of State for the Colonies, and Peter Abrahams of Drum.

Inventors Club: Elizabethan edition (1953)
With Master Wainwright of the Tower of London.

This week's guest, Vilem Tausky

Contributors

Presenter:
Michell Raper
Guest:
Vilem Tausky

by Arnold Bennett.
Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Paul.
Starring Kenneth More

A bitter attack has been made upon Raingo in the House of Lords. He has emerged triumphant, but ironically Delphine has disappeared.
(First shown last Tuesday)

Contributors

Author:
Arnold Bennett
Dramatised by:
Jeremy Paul
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Peter Hammond
Sam Raingo:
Kenneth More

Written, narrated, and directed by Derrick Knight.
A film profile of the life and work of The Watersons four young singers of British traditional folk music.
Featuring Elaine Waterson, Norma Waterson, Mike Waterson, John Harrison and their songs.
Made for the BBC by Derrick Knight and Partners Ltd.

Contributors

Written, narrated, and directed by:
Derrick Knight
Singer/subject:
Elaine Waterson
Singer/subject:
Norma Waterson
Singer/subject:
Mike Waterson
Singer/subject:
John Harrison

by N.F. Simpson
A comedy series
With Pauline Devaney as Middle Paradock, Edwin Apps as Bro Paradock

Contributors

Writer:
N.F. Simpson
Music composed and conducted by:
Stanley Myers
Designer:
Raymond Berger
Producer:
Stuart Allen
Middle Paradock:
Pauline Devaney
Bro Paradock:
Edwin Apps
Antique dealer:
Frank Williams
Big, bluff, chatty man:
Frank Newell
Short, neat, sharp man:
Dudley Foster
Nora:
Maureen O'Reilly
Albert:
Michael Robbins
Consultant:
John Barron
Client:
Robin Parkinson
Caretaker:
Blake Butler
TV Commentator:
Fyfe Robertson

A serial in six parts by Peter O'Donnell.
Ambrose gets Dominique Into an office from which she can keep watch on Feinster. But the 'office' proves to be a photographic studio, and Dominique is posing almost naked when Feinster walks in.
(First shown last Sunday)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter O'Donnell
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
Christopher Barry

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

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