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Outside broadcast cameras bring you the whole of this afternoon's match at Cardiff Arms Park

The final International of the season and everything to play for -if Wales win they take the Championship and the Triple Crown; if they draw, the title is shared with Ireland. If England win they share the Championship with Ireland, who have patiently waited some five weeks for confirmation of their final placing.
Wales, whose aspirations to the Grand Slam, Championship, and Triple Crown titles have only been halted by the draw against France, must be slight favourites to win, though the potential of England's attack-as proved against France and Scotland-should keep the match on a knife-edge balance.

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Contributors

Commentator:
Bill McLaren
TV presentation:
Dewi Griffiths

starring Dale Robertson, Jeanne Crain
with Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight of 1897 draws to Carson City every outlaw of the territory, eager for the pickings. But Brett Stanton has bigger ideas!
A great deal of care has been taken to ensure authenticity in the settings of the period and details concerning the fight. The boxing style itself has changed so radically since 1897 that John Day and Gil Perkins, who are seen as Corbett and Fitzsimmons, trained industriously for their boxing scenes to create the authentic style. Gil Perkins is a veteran film stunt-man who has staged some of the most exciting fights in screen history, including that between John Wayne and Randolph Scott in The Spoilers, seen in The Western series on BBC-tv.
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Contributors

Producer:
Leonard Goldstein
Director:
Harmon Jones
Brett Stanton:
Dale Robertson
Linda Culligan:
Jeanne Crain
John Ringo:
Richard Boone
Gar Stanton:
Lloyd Bridges
Cynthia London:
Carole Matthews
Phil Ryan:
Carl Betz
Jim London:
Whitfield Connor
Sheriff Gifford:
Hugh Sanders

Gordon Wilkins covers the 17th East African Safari Rally

The Safari is the roughest rally of the year. It is run in equatorial heat over roads often deep in mud or blocked by floods and falling stones. This Easter the Safari ran for more than 3,000 miles from Mombasa and the beaches of the Indian Ocean to the Mountains of the Moon on the farthest frontiers of Uganda and the Congo. The event has never been won by a European, and many drivers from Britain - among them Tony Fall, Pat Moss-Carlsson, and John Sprinzel - left the starting ramp in Nairobi last week in an all-out bid to take the top prizes away from East African crews for the first time. This is the story of what happened to them.

(See page 43)
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Contributors

Presenter:
Gordon Wilkins
Driver:
Tony Fall
Driver:
Pat Moss-Carlsson
Driver:
John Sprinzel
Director:
Tony Salmon
Associate Producer:
John Mills
Producer:
Brian Robins

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

The Mexican Railway Company has been formed. The Melmottes are to spend Easter with the Longestaffes in the country. The Carburys are staying near the Longestaffes to help Sir Felix in his pursuit of Marie.
(For cast see Thursday at 10.30 p.m.)
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Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Dramatised by:
Simon Raven
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Augustus Melmotte:
Colin Blakely
Lady Carbury:
Rachel Gurney

A series of highly personal films
Lord Campbell of Eskan tycoon and socialist undertakes a critical examination of the profit motive

Business is for people, not people for business. I believe that much of the antagonism towards business and businessmen in our society is the fault of my business colleagues. Far too many of them will keep insisting, supported by economists and politicians, that business should be left alone, to make the biggest possible profit
The decisions of businessmen affect every one of us. At last a successful tycoon reveals the principles that have guided his business career and how he personally has been able to reconcile socialism and capitalism.
Lord Campbell talks to businessmen and workers, union leaders, left-wing politicians, and right-wing journalists. He concludes that there is a deep and dangerous split in our society between idealism and materialism which can and must be healed.
Business can never be loved but it can be respected. It is up to businessmen whether business is worthy of understanding and respect (Michael Brennan as Volpone)
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Contributors

Presenter:
Lord Campbell
Executive producer:
Anthony de Lotbiniere
Director:
Nicholas Garnham

The weekly arts magazine

A Theatre for the People
The annual World Theatre Season opens on Monday at the Aldwych Theatre, London. The first visiting company is Theatre de la Cite from Lyons, directed by Roger Planchon. One of the greatest contemporary theatrical figures in France, Planchon's purpose in founding a theatre in an industrial suburb of Lyons was to bring serious drama to the people. His success has been phenomenal.
Release visited Planchon in Lyons rehearsing the plays he is bringing to London, and this film shows how he and his company are creating a real theatre for the people.
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Muriel Spark
The author of Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and many other distinguished novels, is one of the writers short-listed for the £5,000 award for the best novel of 1968. Mrs. Spark now lives in Rome, and Rome is the setting for her latest novel The Public Image and for this Release film about her life and work.

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Contributors

Subject (A Theatre for the People):
Roger Planchon
Director (A Theatre for the People)/producer:
Colin Nears
Subject:
Muriel Spark
Director (Muriel Spark):
Gavin Millar
Producer:
Darrol Blake
Producer:
Christopher Martin
Editor:
Lorna Pegram

Starring Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming

A man wrongly imprisoned for five years is determined to find who in fact committed the robbery and benefited from the spoils.

Robert Parrish's first feature as a director (he started his film career as an actor and then for twelve years worked as assistant to George Stevens) is a taut, economical thriller in the best Hollywood tradition. The complex plot is unravelled without a wasted shot or word, and the characterisation is well drawn and convincingly natural.

Contributors

Screenplay:
William Bowers
Based on a story by:
Jerome Cady
Director:
Robert Parrish
Producer:
Sam Wiesenthal
Producer:
W.R. Frank
Rocky:
Dick Powell
Nancy:
Rhonda Fleming
Delong:
Richard Erdman
Castro:
William Conrad
Cobb:
Regis Toomey
Darlene:
Jean Porter

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