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.
In which Danny Kaye and his special guests, Louis Armstrong, The Kessler Twins entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra with Harvey Korman, Joyce Van Patten, The Tony Charmoli Dancers, The Earl Brown Singers.A programme recorded in the U.S.A.
A tribute to Nikolai Cherkasov
Written, directed, and produced by Sergei M. Eisenstein.
A Russian film with English sub-titles.
Starring Nikolai Cherkasov
Young Ivan incurs the wrath of the landowners while attempting to unite Russia and finds himself in a precarious position.
from the Victoria and Albert Museum with Robert Erskine.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851. This first programme of the series looks at some of the objects, including a huge silver-gilt table centre designed by Prince Albert himself, which were first seen in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
A Comic Tale dramatised by John Hawkesworth
With Iain Cuthbertson, Mike Pratt
and Keith Buckley as Tom Crabbe, Michele Dotrice as Vicky Crabbe, Michael Latimer as Philip Hardacre, Christopher Matthews as Monkhouse Lee
(Mike Pratt is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
A comedy series by Richard Waring.
Starring Richard Briers as George Starling and Prunella Scales as Kate Starling
(First shown on BBC-1)
rounds off the weekend
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.
