starring Spencer Tracy

An old man fishes in the Caribbean Gulf Stream. He has gone eighty-four days without a catch. On the eighty-fifth day, alone in his boat, his bait is taken by a huge fish and for two whole days he struggles to gain mastery over it...
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followed by The Weather
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Introduced by Cliff Morgan

The First Match of the 1968-69 International Championship
The reigning champions - France - today begin their quest to become the first side ever to win the International Championship outright, three times in a row.
Champions in both 1966-67 and 1967-68, when they pulled off the 'grand slam' by beating all four other countries, they today play Scotland who lost all four of their International fixtures last season. Nevertheless, the start to an International season is always intriguing in its 'unknown quantities.'
From Stade Colombes, Paris
Television presentation by the French Television Service

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by Anne Bronte
Dramatised in four parts by Christopher Fry
Starring Janet Munro

Gilbert is learning the secrets of Helen's marriage through her diary. Huntingdon, her husband, bored with country life, has invited his city friends to Grassdale.
(For cast see Thursday at 10.20)
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Four thousand years ago, in Western Europe, men with crude stone tools carved intricate patterns over the great stone tombs of their dead. Tonight in Chronicle two artists, Patrick Carey and Peter Rawstorne, see if it is possible with the eye of imagination to get behind the abstract forms of this art to the mind of the Stone Age men who created it. Patrick Carey's film, Mists of Time, explores the world of magic of the ancient artists. Peter Rawstorne's exhibition of tracings reflects the strange designs and patterns they used to create this world.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson

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A nostalgic view of Brighton as seen through the eyes of a couple from their first visit as teenagers through later visits into old age

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starring Julie Felix
with special guests, Jim Dale, The Pentangle

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The weekly arts magazine

'I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust'
Like T. S. Eliot's plays, those of Edward Albee reveal madness, panic, and violence behind the commonplaces of ordinary dialogue. But they are also funny; and sharp satirical attacks on contemporary American society.
A Delicate Balance, the latest play by this famous American playwright, opens next week at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Tonight the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? talks about his work and his attitudes to the world around him.

Queue for a Dream
In 1948 in Britain, 1,500-million visits were paid to the cinema: in 1968 the figure will have been barely one-sixth of that
Have all the dream palaces been written off for Bingo? The industry thinks not: new, smaller cinemas are being built, and there are signs that people are going back to the movies. If there is a new kind of cinema, will there be a new kind of British film?
Release looks at the cinema queue and asks what makes you stand in the rain.

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Late Night Line-Up's Saturday diversion which this week features Sons and Lovers

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Starring Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell

A man branded a coward finds himself in a town threatened by violence.
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