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Ten programmes for home dress-makers who want to extend their skill and keep up to date with fashion trends
Fashion comments: Joanne Brogden
Demonstration: Ann Ladbury
Fitting: Beryl Rouse

(Accompanying booklet: see page 22)

Contributors

Fashion Commentator:
Joanne Brogden
Dressmaker:
Ann Ladbury
Fitter:
Beryl Rouse
Programme Arranged By:
Iris Furlong
Director:
Jeremy Johnston
Series Editor:
Beryl Radley

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

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

This week: City Boss
In this country, for the first time, real moves are being made to give our cities one-man-rule-not just rubber-stamp mayors for a year, but leaders with full executive authority.
In Canada, Montreal was once a roaring vice-ridden city until a little French-Canadian lawyer named Jean Drapeau set to work. He helped write a newspaper series that exposed the vice. Then he was co-prosecutor at the enquiry into the police force that followed.
The city had found a champion.
The people immediately made him mayor - and he has been back to the City Hall four times, the last time with an incredible ninety-four per cent of the vote. Mayor Drapeau has given Montreal the modern metro it had argued over for fifty years, a concert hall shelved for twenty-five years, a vast underground shopping complex - and Expo 67, the world fair that won him international acclaim.
But now the bills are due. Man Alive caught up with Mayor Drapeau as he faced a city deficit of nearly $30-million (£11-million) - and the first real questioning of his poor record on housing and social welfare. Have we in Britain anything to learn from the policies and actions of this feudal man with a near dictatorial authority, or is he, as one newspaper charged, 'high on prestige, low on compassion'?
(Colour)

Contributors

Subject:
Jean Drapeau
Director:
James Kenelm Clarke
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

Tonight: the 1937 production The Firefly
Starring Jeanette MacDonald
with Allan Jones, Warren William

Romance and intrigue in nineteenth-century Madrid, featuring Rudolph Friml's famous music including 'The Donkey Serenade'.

This is the third of Jeanette MacDonald's spectacularly successful M.G.M. films to be seen on The Hollywood Musical. Tonight, instead of Nelson Eddy, she is partnered by Allan Jones, whose son, Jack Jones, can be seen on BBC-2 on Friday evening.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Frances Goodrich
Screenplay:
Albert Hackett
Based on the book and lyrics by:
Otto A. Harbach
Producer:
Hunt Stromberg
Director:
Robert Z. Leonard
Nina Maria:
Jeanette MacDonald
Don Diego:
Allan Jones
Major de Rougement:
Warren William
Innkeeper:
Billy Gilbert
Marquis de Melito:
Douglas Dumbrille
General Savary:
Henry Daniell
Etienne:
Leonard Penn
King Ferdinand:
Tom Rutherford
Lola:
Belle Mitchell
Secret Service Chief:
George Zucco
Duval:
Corbett Morris
Wellington:
Matthew Boulton
Coachman:
Manuel Alvarez Maciste
Juan:
Robert Spindola

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

BBC Two England

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