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A monthly programme about archaeology and history with Magnus Magnusson.

Diagnosis - A.D. 70
How can you possibly diagnose an illness suffered 2,000 years ago?
Dr. Charles Newman, Harveian Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians, can do this from one of the most remarkable finds of recent years-nearly 200 wooden carvings of the Roman period. Many show details of ill health and were brought to the source of the Seine by pilgrims in search of a cure.
Lady Brogan, an authority on Roman Gaul, discusses with Magnus Magnusson what these carvings also reveal about daily life then.

Iron Age Autopsy
This film by the Danish Television Service examines the strange case of the incredibly well-preserved bodies found in the Danish peat bogs. Why should the victims have been strangled and then thrown naked into moorland pools 2,000 years ago?

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Interviewee (Diagnosis - A.D. 70):
Lady Brogan
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

A thriller in six parts by Arden Winch.
Starring Michael Bryant, Rosalie Crutchley, Joseph O'Conor

At a party given by his chief, De Lacelle, James realises the worldwide extent of the I.S.C. He manages to micro-film some secret files - unaware that De Lacelle is watching.

Contributors

Writer:
Arden Winch
Designer:
Lionel Radford
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
Rex Tucker
James:
Michael Bryant
Bus conductor:
Bernard Forest
Colonel Sparrow:
Joseph O'Conor
Inga Swynnerton:
Rosalie Crutchley
Jean:
Marian Diamond
Walters:
Roy Spencer
Nurse:
Jill Cary
Lord Arnold:
Henry Longhurst

Starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders

A newspaper tycoon promises a directorship to the first of his three assistants to solve a New York murder case.

Contributors

Scenario:
Casey Robinson
Based on the novel by:
Charles Einstein
Director:
Fritz Lang
Producer:
Bert Friedlob
Edward Mobley:
Dana Andrews
Dorothy Kyne:
Rhonda Fleming
Mark Loving:
George Sanders
Lt. Burt Kaufman:
Howard Duff
Jon Day Griffith:
Thomas Mitchell
Walter Kyne:
Vincent Price
Nancy Liggett:
Sally Forrest
Harry Kritzer:
James Craig
Mildred Donner:
Ida Lupino

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