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Ten programmes about the relationship between international trade and finance and international power politics.

The present pattern of international trade and the international monetary system were both set up after the war. How much longer can they survive without fundamental change?
Introduced by Roger Opie.
(First shown on BBC-1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Opie
Director:
David Hargreaves
Producer:
Howard Smith

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

Contributors

Newsreader:
John Timpson
Newsreader:
Peter Woods

A view of the pop scene
Stuart Hall with Peter Worsley traces the development of pop music from Vera Lynn to the present day, shows how music that belongs solely to the younger generation has grown up, and how that music reflects the changing ideals and feelings of adolescents.
Pop music is more than a noise adults don't like - it expresses the experience, values, and emotions of adolescents and their culture
With Mick Jagger, Bill Haley, Alexis Korner, Pete Townshend of 'The Who'

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stuart Hall
Presenter:
Peter Worsley
Interviewee:
Mick Jagger
Interviewee:
Bill Haley
Interviewee:
Alexis Korner
Interviewee:
Pete Townshend
Special music:
The Pink Floyd
Producer:
Richard Broad

by George Abbott and Philip Dunning
Tales of the Twenties

"Welcome to the Paradise Club" - that's what the band is playing when Scar Edwards, an up-town gangster, comes to have a show-down with Steve Crandall who operates in the Broadway area. Scar doesn't get much of a welcome, he is carried out of the Club with a slug in his back.
With Scar Edwards out of the way, Steve Crandall and his gang are going to take over New York. But Dan McCorn, a Broadway dick, has other ideas. He discovers that Scar's girl is working at the Club...

Contributors

Author:
George Abbott
Author:
Philip Dunning
Dances arranged by:
Hilary Pritchard
Title Music:
Ron Grainer
Script Editor:
Andrew Brown
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Harry Moore
Director:
Gilchrist Calder
Steve:
Paul Maxwell
Dolph:
Al Garcia
Porky:
Michael Balfour
O'Connell:
Jack Le White
Nick:
Al Mancini
Pianist:
Norton York
Lil:
Stella Tanner
Roy:
Ronald Rubin
Pearl:
Carolyn Jones
Ruby:
Jeana Franks
Mazie:
Hilary Pritchard
Joe:
Alan Selwyn
Billie:
Wanda Moore
Scar:
Arne Gordon
Dan:
Neil McCallum
Benny:
Walter Henry
Larry:
Jerry Elboz
Mike:
Bob Raymond
Jazz Group:
Norton York and the New Yorkers

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Brian King
Presenter:
Sheridan Morley
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

BBC Two England

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More