Denis Tuohy and Joan Bakewell choose and introduce highlights from some of the programmes seen on BBC-2 during August.

A dramatisation in eight episodes by Michael Voysey.
Based on the works of R.S. Surtees.
[Starring] Jimmy Edwards in The Hunting, Eating, Eccentric, Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks
with Angela Baddeley as Mrs. Jorrocks
(Repeated on Tuesday at 9.15)

When the volcano on Tristan exploded in 1961 it drove into exile the tiny community that lived there; their life on the island had remained virtually unchanged for 150 years.
This film tells the story of a pre-Victorian people suddenly forced to a reckoning with twentieth-century England, their reactions to it, and the repercussions after they had returned home.
From the West
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with The George Mitchell Choir

(John Boulter and Dai Francis are in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Victoria Palace, London)

A thriller serial in six parts by Ken Hughes.
Starring Charles Tingwell, Veronica Strong, James Maxwell, Dallia Penn

Harry, aware that a top-secret tape has been substituted for the blank one he stole for Smith, stands trial on espionage charges which carry the death penalty.
(Previously shown last Sunday)
[Repeat]

A late look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.

Elia Kazan's production of Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd
Starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal
with Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick