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Six films of his jaunt in the sun last August.

"You cannot get away from the feeling that you're in some sort of Hollywood film set... it's like twenty cobblestone Clovellys all bunged into one"
From the South and West

Taxco is a picturesque silver-mining town scattered over the side of a mountain halfway between Mexico City and Acapulco. Today it is almost exactly as it was in the eighteenth century. In out-of-season Acapulco, with the temperature in the 100s, Johnny explores the beaches, takes a trip in a glass-bottomed boat, and watches the remarkable diving boys at the 150ft. Quebrada Cliff.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Johnny Morris
Producer:
Brian Patten

by Honore de Balzac
Dramatised in four parts by David Turner

Eugene has fallen in love with Goriot's daughter Delphine. Desperately in need of money, he has almost agreed to Vautrin's plan for murder.
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
David Turner
Designer:
Michael Young
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Paddy Russell
Vautrin:
Andrew Keir
Eugene:
David Dundas
Goriot:
Michael Goodliffe
Gondureau:
Michael Robbins
Poiret:
Michael Bilton
Mile. Michonneau:
Cynthia Etherington
Delphine:
June Ritchie
Victorine:
Anna Cropper
Mme. Couture:
Betty Cooper
Bianchon:
David Weston
Mme. Vauquer:
Pat Nye
Sylvie:
Patsy Rowlands
Servant:
Piers Rogers
Therese:
Elizabeth Digby-Smith
Baron von Nucingen:
Walter Gotell

"After all, our readers are human beings..."
Alan Whicker looks at Two Sides of Fleet Street

As a nation, we have an enormous appetite for newsprint: we read more, per head, than any country in the world.
Of our nine national dailies perhaps the two most influential are at opposite ends of the scale: Cecil King's Daily Mirror, read by more than a quarter of the population... Lord Thomson's Times, read by everyone who 'matters'... Yet in today's television-educated age, popular and quality papers draw closer together.
What do they say about their role, their power, their influence - the men on the inside who decide what you read? What are they like, what do they think - the men behind the headlines?
See page 37
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Whicker
Producer:
Fred Burnley

The internationally famous duo sing songs of many lands.
This week's star guest, Donovan

One record - 'Cinderella Rockafella' - made Esther and Abi instant stars in Britain. But they have been at the top on the Continent for some years, and their music covers a wide and multilingual range. Each week they'll have a guest star, and the first is Donovan, who is such an admirer of Esther that he has given her one of his new songs, 'Lord of the Reedy River' - a song which he had said he would give to no one. She sings it tonight, accompanied by Donovan and Abi on their guitars.
(Colour)

Contributors

Singer:
Esther Ofarim
Singer/Guitarist:
Abi Ofarim
Singer/Guitarist:
null Donovan
Musical Director:
Johnny Pearson
Sound:
Len Shorey
Design:
Peter Brachacki
Production:
Stanley Dorfman

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

Satyajit Ray
The distinguished Indian film director introduces his latest film Mahanagar, just opened in London; and looks back over his career since he made his first film, Pather Panchali, on Sundays and holidays with a few friends and little money.

Rome Goes Pop
A filmed impression of the first European International Festival of Pop Music which took place in Rome last week. Artists taking part include Julie Driscoll, Donovan, The Pink Floyd, and groups from Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Japan

The Shaughraun
The play the Abbey Theatre is bringing from Dublin to the World Theatre season in London was written in the mid-nineteenth century by a fantastic Irishman, Dion Boucicault. Cyril Cusack, who stars in the play, describes the life and work of Boucicault and introduces an excerpt from the play in performance in Dublin.

(Colour)

Contributors

Speaker:
Satyajit Ray
Singer (Rome Goes Pop):
Julie Driscoll
Singer/Guitarist (Rome Goes Pop):
null Donovan
Musicians (Rome Goes Pop):
Pink Floyd
Item presenter (The Shaughraun):
Cyril Cusack
Producer:
Colin Nears
Editor:
Lorna Pegram

Starring Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland, Beulah Bondi

A gangster on the run finds temporary refuge in a social centre at Christmas time in America.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Orin Jannings
Based on a story by/Producer:
Milton Holmes
Director:
Henry Levin
Director:
Gordon Douglas
Joe Miracle:
Glenn Ford
Jenny Jones:
Evelyn Keyes
'Early' Byrd:
John Ireland
Mrs. Hangale:
Beulah Bondi
Rickle:
Percy Kilbride
Barney Teener:
Roman Bohnen

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