Starring John Derek, Diana Lynn, George MacReady

Robin, Earl of Huntingdon, son of Robin Hood, attempts to reorganise his father's men to oppose the cruet oppression of King John.

Ever since 1922 when Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood swung across the enemy battlements and climbed the ivy-clad tower to the room in which Maid Marian was imprisoned, the exploits of the Outlaw of Sherwood Forest have fascinated the filmgoing public. Sixteen years later Errol Flynn, that handsome swashbuckler who lunged, parried, and thrust his way through so many costume dramas, appeared in the role - with Basil Rathbone as his adversary, Sir Guy of Gisbourne.

Today's film centres round Robin Hood's son who gets into just as many adventures as his renowned father. The movie's director, Gordon Douglas, has directed many such Hollywood adventures, and it is interesting to note that he made a very different kind of Robin Hood film a few years later - Robin and the Seven Hoods, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr.
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from Ascott Manor, Bucks by arrangement with the National Trust
with Yvonne Marlowe and Percy Thrower
from the Midlands
Percy Thrower writes on page 36
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Michael Frostick covers the world of motoring

When he was County Surveyor of Dorset, John Leeming made a study of the causes of every road accident in the county. His day-to-day records over a period of twenty years showed that road improvements were a better lifesaver than speed limits.
Now in retirement at Buckfastleigh on the edge of Dartmoor, John Leeming has written a book based on his Dorset experiment, and it attacks the way in which motorists are blamed for road accidents. He claims that instead of engineering skid-proof surfaces and safer cross-roads, authority finds it easier and cheaper to punish the motorist. Britain has fewer road accidents than any comparable country in the world. Can John Leeming's methods reduce the accident rate still further?

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followed by The Weather
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British mansions, castles, houses and gardens through the centuries are viewed from a helicopter, with commentary by Sir John Betjeman. Show more

and The highlights of the 115th Boat Race: Oxford v. Cambridge
Introduced by Cliff Morgan

Over this traditional weekend for Rugby Club tours, the most notable visitors to Wales are the Barbarians and the London Welsh XV, a team which this season has contributed five players to the Welsh squad as well as consolidating its position as one of the leading and most entertaining club sides in Great Britain. Aberavon, for their part, provided Wales with players for all but one of last season's Internationals.

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by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

London in the 1870s is gripped in a fever of speculation. The latest figure to emerge at the centre of this scene is Augustus Melmotte, a man reputed to possess a large fortune.
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by John Betjeman
The first film in a series with a new perspective on Britain

The Englishman's castle has been his home. So has the stately palace and the Georgian terrace, the village cottage and the industrial back-to-back, the suburban semi and the tower block. And with his home, there's usually been a garden - formal and elegant, or a Capability Brown landscape, or just a patch of lawn at the back.
In this film, John Betjeman surveys house and garden through the centuries from an unusual vantage-point. His bird's-eye view is romantic, poetic, and sometimes quite outspoken.
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featuring The Gordon Beck Trio

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Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini, marxist, poet, novelist, and film-maker, is at the age of forty-seven earning a place as one of the great Italian film directors. His reputation in this country is based largely on Acca tone and The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
On April 3 two new films of his opened in London: Oedipus Rex, a version of Sophocles' classic tragedy, and Theorem-which was the sensation of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. There it received enormous critical praise. In Rome, however, after a short but record-breaking run it was seized by the police and impounded as 'obscene.' Later the courts declared the film 'could not be considered obscene because of its artistic value.'
Release shows excerpts from both films and talks to Pasolini, Franco Rossolini the producer, and Terence Stamp who stars in Theorem.

£5,000 for a Novel
The second programme in the Release series featuring in depth some of the authors on the short list for the largest literary prize ever known in this country.

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Starring Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

Bored with seventeenth-century society life, Lady Dona St. Columb moves from London to her Cornish estate and finds love and adventure with a daring French pirate who has been using her house as his headquarters.
This film - lavishly equipped with gorgeous sets and elaborate costumes - is another of the many Daphne du Maurier novels adapted for the screen. Others include Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, and My Cousin Rachel.
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