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Highlights of this afternoon's match, the first international of the season, in which the England XV, who figured so prominently in the International Championship battle of last season, faced the redoubtable 1967 'All-Blacks'.
Bill McLaren reports from Twickenham.
Introduced by Keith Macklin.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Keith Macklin
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Director:
Alan Mouncer

Alan Whicker at a South Sea Island Coronation
The Most Happy People - they're just fantastic...
Flame dancers whirl, drums throb, guests feast on thirteen thousand sucking pigs, and in a festive mixture of Polynesia and Ruritania a King is crowned. Once ruled by Queen Salote, Tonga - remote coral island set upon the seas of the South Pacific - is tonight's world for Alan Whicker, observing the joys, pangs, and charms of a unique Victorian pageant - with South Sea island overtones!
See page 6
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Whicker
Producer/Director:
Paul Watson

Release ...into the world of films, plays, books, art, and music.

Penny for a Song
The world premiere of a new opera by Richard Rodney Bennett: a look behind the scenes at the Sadler's Wells rehearsals.

Marcel Marceau talks about the art of the mime.

Fritz Lang the famous film director talks about his films, and particularly "M", revived last week.

(Colour)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Marcel Marceau
Interviewee:
Fritz Lang
Producer:
Colin Nears
Editor:
Lorna Pegram

by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Starring Keith Barron as Jim
This week: Jim Freaks Out
featuring Suzy Kendall, Patrick Newell, Robert Gillespie, Barry Fantoni, Victor Platt, Janine Martin, Peter Thompson
(First shown on BBC-1)

Contributors

Writer:
Dick Clement
Writer:
Ian La Frenais
Story Consultant:
Kingsley Amis
Incidental Music:
Jack Emblow
Design:
Ken Sharp
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Jim:
Keith Barron
[Actress]:
Suzy Kendall
[Actor]:
Patrick Newell
[Actor]:
Robert Gillespie
[Actor]:
Barry Fantoni
[Actor]:
Victor Platt
[Actress]:
Janine Martin
[Actor]:
Peter Thompson

A master-class with Nadia Boulanger.

"I cannot give talent. I cannot take away talent. I can give them more and better means to express themselves, that is all."
Nearly every Wednesday afternoon for the past sixty-one years this great French musician, whose eightieth birthday it is today, has held music appreciation classes in her apartment in Paris. Started when she was only eighteen, her weekly class has become the most celebrated of its kind in the world.
With Patrice Fontanarosa (violin).
Commentary by Kenneth van Barthold.

(Shown in a shortened version on September 16)

Contributors

Teacher/Musician:
Nadia Boulanger
Violinist:
Patrice Fontanarosa
Narrator:
Kenneth van Barthold
Producer/Director:
Anthony Wilkinson

Written and produced by Jack Whittingham.
Starring Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms
with Geoffrey Keen, Howard Marion Crawford

An object warning to all those who smuggle 'birthday presents' through the Customs.

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Jack Whittingham
Director:
Pat Jackson
Simon Scott:
Tony Britton
Jean Scott:
Sylvia Syms
Colonel Wilson:
Geoffrey Keen
George Bates:
Howard Marion Crawford
Bill Thompson:
Jack Watling
Sir John Dell:
Walter Fitzgerald
Chief Customs Officer:
John Welsh
Assistant Customs Officer:
Ian Bannen

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