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Tonight Miss Bassey sings:
"On A Wonderful Day Like Today", "I Get A Kick Out of You", "Who Can I Turn To?", "You'd Better Love Me", "As I Love You", "He Loves Me", "With These Hands", "A Lot of Living To Do", "The Liquidator", "La Bamba", "You Can Have Him", "The Second Time Around", "The Lady is a Tramp", "Somewhere".

Contributors

Singer:
Shirley Bassey
Orchestra directed by:
Kenny Clayton
Producer:
Stewart Morris

The Claws of the Griffin
On a hot night in July A.D. 1500 a series of savage murders decimated the Baglioni family. The story of the downfall of this handsome and ambitious Renaissance family is told tonight in the actual palaces and streets of Perugia where it happened.

Dragons' Bones
No medieval dragon trailed greater clouds of misunderstanding than the great reptiles of a hundred-million years ago. Dr. Alan Charig of the Natural History Museum, London, describes to Magnus Magnusson his recent expedition to find dinosaur remains in Lesotho.

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Contributors

Script (The Claws of the Griffin):
Michael Adams
Interviewee (Dragons' Bones):
Dr. Alan Charig
Interviewer (Dragons' Bones):
Magnus Magnusson
Director:
Kenneth Shepheard
Director:
David Collison
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

by Joseph Conrad.
A Simple Tale dramatised in two parts by Alexander Baron.
(Repeated on Wednesday at 10.45 p.m.)
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Contributors

Author:
Joseph Conrad
Dramatised by:
Alexander Baron
Designer:
Richard Henry
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Gerald Blake
The Minister:
Llewellyn Rees
Toodles:
Robert Mill
Assistant Commissioner:
Richard Hurndall
Chief Inspector Heat:
Edwin Richfield
Winnie Verloc:
Mary Webster
Winnie's mother:
Ailsa Grahame
Stevie:
Dennis Waterman
Adolph Verloc:
Nigel Green
Wurmt:
Roy Denton
Mr. Vladimir:
David Collings
Ossipon:
Philip Madoc
Plain-clothes detective:
Peter Thornton
Karl Yundt:
Reginald Barratt
Michaelis:
George Pravda
The Professor:
John Cater
Countess:
Pauline Loring
Guest at Elsley House:
Dorothy Edwards
Guest at Elsley House:
Harriet Petworth

A thriller in six parts by Victor Canning.
Starring Terence Longdon, Isobel Black
with Peter Arne, Hugh Cross, Hamilton Dyce, Noel Johnson and John Phillips

British Security plan to substitute false data for Raikes to deliver to the Embassy. But the scheme fails hopelessly when the Tintoc chief suddenly advances the date of the raid.
(Repeated on Friday at 8.5 p.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Victor Canning
Fight arranged by:
Peter Diamond
Designer:
Jeremy Davies
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Director:
Eric Hills
Raikes:
Terence Longdon
Hendrix:
Noel Johnson
Sandra:
Isobel Black
Rawlings:
Hamilton Dyce
Barnton:
John Phillips
Charlie:
Harry Littlewood
Crook:
David Jarrett
Pharaoh Two:
Robert Jennings
Stine:
Moris Farhi
Janos:
Alex Marchevsky
Worth:
Peter Arne
Man in van:
Peter Diamond
Butler:
Stan Simmons
Chairman:
Hugh Cross

Starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch

G K. Chesterton's Father Brown, the priest who spends his spare time as an amateur detective, attempts to reform a master criminal.

Contributors

Script:
Thelma Schnee
Script:
Robert Hamer
Based on the stories by:
G.K. Chesterton
Director:
Robert Hamer
Producer:
Vivian A. Cox
Executive Producer:
Paul F. Moss
Father Brown:
Alec Guinness
Lady Warren:
Joan Greenwood
Flambeau:
Peter Finch
The Bishop:
Cecil Parker
Inspector Valentine:
Bernard Lee
Parkinson:
Sidney James
Inspector Dubois:
Gerrard Oury
Bishop's secretary:
Ernest Clark
Herald:
Austin Trevor
Auctioneer:
Noel Howlett
Maharajah:
Marne Maitland

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