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by J.B. Priestley
[Starring] Irene Worth
A further series of short plays specially written by famous authors featuring distinguished English and Continental actresses in solo performances
Linda Carfield was on a night plane from New York that crashed at London Airport and she lost all consciousness in the terror of the disaster. She had planned to stay at Pulteney's Hotel, and when she recovers some kind of consciousness apparently there she is, in a bedroom of the hotel...
(Next week: Fenella Fielding in 'The Autograph ' by Aldo Nicolaj)
(Colour)

[Article]
"A Touch of Venus" starts again this evening with the first of a further seven plays, each providing a star role for one of a galaxy of actresses, some of whom are rarely seen on TV, including three European stars of great distinction - Mai Zetterling, Genevieve Page, and Lila Kedrova who appear in engaging plays by the Italian writer Aldo Nicolaj. The series opens with a specially written script by J.B. Priestley which fully employs the potentials of the television medium, and provides an ideal part for the actress of his choice, Irene Worth.

Contributors

Writer:
J. B. Priestley
Designer:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Hal Burton
Linda Carfield:
Irene Worth

Achievement... Happiness... Tragedy... Stress...
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, John Percival, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: From Castro to Coke
It is ten years since Cuba became Castro's Cuba and this week, as the government-inspired ceremonies celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 'Glorious Revolution,' refugee planes from Havana will land in Miami twice a day - as they do every day. Miami - American playground: a frightening combination of golden sand and blaring architecture - and, for a quarter of a million Cubans to date, gateway to a new life.
The United States is a country founded on a concept of taking in those who have fled from other places. The latest ingredient to be added to this multi-racial melting-pot is the confused, penniless, Spanish-speaking Cuban refugees.
Within a year or two the young, adapting as they always do, reach for all-American clothes, ideas, and behaviour. But for their parents the adaptation sometimes seems impossible. The American government struggles to cope with the problem. Some American people have found a new focus for race hatred, and still - twice a day - a refugee plane lands in Miami with families who have been stripped of everything but the clothes they wear before they were allowed to leave Cuba - for the land of coke.
Report by John Percival
(Colour)

Contributors

Reporter:
John Percival
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

Tonight: the 1950 production of Summer Stock (If You Feel Like Singing)
starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly
with Phil Silvers, Eddie Bracken, Gloria de Haven, Marjorie Main

A theatrical company take over a barn for rehearsal, on condition that they put in a number of hours each day on farm work. This was the last film that Judy Garland made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that discovered her.
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
George Wells
Screenplay:
Sy Gomberg
Music and lyrics:
Harry Warren
Music and lyrics:
Mack Gordon
Producer:
Joe Pasternak
Director:
Charles Walters
Jane Falbury:
Judy Garland
Joe D. Ross:
Gene Kelly
Orville Wingait:
Eddie Bracken
Abigail Falbury:
Gloria De Haven
Esme:
Marjorie Main
Herb Blake:
Phil Silvers
Jasper G. Wingait:
Ray Collins
Sarah Higgins:
Nita Beiber
Artie:
Carleton Carpenter
Harrison I. Keath:
Hans Conried

The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests.
(Colour)

Contributors

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

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