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An exciting and colourful spectacular featuring the romantic music of Rumania by eighty dancers and musicians on their first visit to this country
Introduced by Doina Tanasescu
Televised by arrangement with Leslie A. Macdonnell

(Colour)

Contributors

Dancers/musicians:
The Rumanian National Dance Company and Orchestra
Director:
Petre Nastorvici
Conductor:
Victor Predescu
Presenter:
Doina Tanasescu
Staged by:
Philip Hindin
Presented for television by:
John Vernon

James Cameron's own series of documentary films

This really is H.M.S. Claustrophobia. The sky and the sea are up there somewhere, I suppose, but you hardly ever see them. It's like going off for a cruise in the Underground. I hardly know if it's day or night. It hardly seems to matter anyway...
James Cameron lands on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle somewhere out in the South China Sea. Down in her depths he meets the men who serve her, struggling to come to terms with the knowledge that she is needed no more.
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(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
James Cameron
Produced and directed by:
Richard Marquand

by Henry James
dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman
starring Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett
Having refused Goodwood's proposal of marriage, Isabel has come to England and met Lord Warburton. He too has fallen in love with her.
Repeated on Thursday at 9.55 p.m.
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Henry James
Dramatised by:
Jack Pulman
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Isabel:
Suzanne Neve
Lord Warburton:
Edward Fox
Henrietta:
Sarah Brackett
Ralph:
Richard Chamberlain
Mr. Touchett:
Alan Gifford
Constance:
Susan Tebbs
Mrs. Touchett:
Beatrix Lehmann
Mr. Bantling:
Angus MacKay
Receptionist:
Richard Young
Caspar Goodwood:
Edward Bishop
Porter:
Howard Charlton
Madame Merle:
Rachel Gurney

The international singing star from Greece in the fourth of a new series of six programmes
accompanied by The Athenians
and with her special guest from Portugal, Amalia Rodrigues who sings fado, the national songs of her country

(Colour)

Contributors

Singer:
Nana Mouskouri
Musicians:
The Athenians
Singer:
Amalia Rodrigues
Design:
David Chandler
Director:
Brian Whitehouse
Producer:
Yvonne Littlewood

The weekly arts magazine

When The Cheering Dies...
Mexico City will be left with a new look: Mexican architects have been joined by English and American graphic designers to create a new look to large parts of the city. The first Release film from Mexico looks at the design story - everything from the giant Palace of Sport to the paper wind-mills sold in the streets
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W. H. Auden
An interview with one of the most renowned poets of the English-speaking world on the occasion of the publication next Monday of his Collected Longer Poems.

(Colour)

Contributors

Director (When The Cheering Dies)/producer:
Darrol Blake
Interviewee:
W. H. Auden
Producer:
Colin Nears
Editor:
Lorna Pegram

starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day
with Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter

Sharing a party line can have its frustrations, as bachelor girl Jan Morrow discovers! She finds that whenever she wants to use the phone Brad Allen, the philandering song-writer with whom she shares the line, is always talking to one of his girl-friends. When they finally come face to face at a dance Brad is too scared to 'face the music' and so pretends to be Rex Stetson, a simple Texan...
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Stanley Shapiro
Screenplay:
Maurice Richlin
Based on a story by:
Russell Rouse
Based on a story by:
Clarence Greene
Director:
Michael Gordon
Producer:
Ross Hunter
Producer:
Martin Melcher
Brad Allen:
Rock Hudson
Jan Morrow:
Doris Day
Jonathan Forbes:
Tony Randall
Alma:
Thelma Ritter
Tony Walters:
Nick Adams
Marie:
Julia Meade
Harry:
Allen Jenkins
Pierot:
Marcel Dalio
Mrs. Walters:
Lee Patrick
Singer at piano:
Perry Blackwell

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