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starring Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordova, with Barry Fitzgerald, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker.

The life and times of Texas Guinan, one of America's most famous night-club entertainers during the 1920s with such popular songs as "It had to be you", "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", "Ida", and many others.

(Colour)
(to 16.50)

Contributors

Writer:
Claude Binyon
Writer:
Frank Butler
Musical Director:
Robert Emmett Dolan
Producer:
Joseph Sistrom
Director:
George Marshall
Texas Guinan:
Betty Hutton
Bill Kilgannon:
Arturo de Cordova
Mike Guinan:
Barry Fitzgerald
Cherokee Jim:
Charles Ruggles
Cadden:
Albert Dekker
Callahan:
Bill Goodwin
Nick:
Mikhail Rasumny
Wacko Smith:
Ted Mapes
Mother Guinan:
Mary Phillips

Great Zoos of the world
A grand tour of some of the outstanding European and American zoos with Anthony Smith

This largest and oldest Swiss zoo is one of the richest and most up-to-date in Europe. Its director, Dr. Ernst Lang, is dedicated to the ideal that a zoo is a place where animals can live and breed rather than just exist and eventually die. The number of Basel-bred animals exported annually to other zoos is far greater than the number of new animals brought into the zoo, and the lengthening list of 'firsts' is further evidence of Basel's success.
The first European Indian Rhino was born here, and Goma, the first European gorilla, now lives with her parents, brothers, and sisters as a family unit in a section of the extensive new air-conditioned Ape House. Next year the collection of fish and reptiles will move to a three-quarter million pound Vivarium-an example of modern zoo thinking which will push Basel even further ahead.
from the South and West
(Colour)

Contributors

Subject:
Dr. Ernst Lang
Producer:
Peter Bale
Series editor:
Nicholas Crocker

by Nikos Kazantzakis
Dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman

The Greek village of Lycovrissi in Anatolia leads a quiet and comfortable existence under Turkish rule. But not all the Greeks in the area are in such an easy situation.
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Nikos Kazantzakis
Dramatised by:
Jack Pulman
Script Editor:
Lennox Phillips
Costumes:
Joyce Mortlock
Lighting:
Gerry Millerson
Designer:
Peter Kindred
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Hugh David
Pope Fotis:
John Franklyn Robbins
Loukas:
Clive Cazes
The Agha:
George Pravda
Youssoufaki:
Yasmin Singh
Nikolis:
Edward Burnham
Yannakos:
Edwin Richfield
Kostandis:
Freddie Earle
Katerina:
Monica Vassiliou
Pope Grigoris:
John Phillips
Panayotaros:
John Turner
Manolios:
Aharon Ipale
Captain Fortounas:
John Tate
The Archon:
Francis de Wolff
Old Ladas:
George Coulouris
Michelis:
Michael da Costa
Martha:
Elsie Wagstaff
Mother Penelope:
May Warden
Lenio:
Diana Quick

with Magnus Magnusson
Outside broadcast cameras return to Silbury to see the results of the final three weeks' excavation. At the end of July's Chronicle Professor Richard Atkinson was about to investigate the pit lying in the last four feet of untouched material, between the end of the tunnel and the geometrical centre of Silbury's inner mound.
Tonight's programme shows whether these closing days of skill and patience have revealed the ultimate truth about Silbury Hill and provided answers to all the questions Professor Atkinson posed before the dig began two years ago.
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Archaeologist:
Professor Richard Atkinson
Director:
David Collison
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

from The Talk of the Town in the heart of London.
Kenneth Williams introduces
Tonight's star, Georgie Fame
from Australia, Trisha Noble
from Spain, The Del Reys
from Switzerland, The Duo Ream
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter/Special material:
Kenneth Williams
Singer:
Georgie Fame
Singer:
Trisha Noble
Performers:
The Del Reys
Performers:
The Duo Ream
The Cabaret Orchestra under the direction of:
Alyn Ainsworth
Special material:
John Law
Designer:
Andrew Dimond
Producer:
John Street

The story of John Weston Thomas, craftsman Carpenter and joiner, merchant seaman, gunsmith, miniaturist, teacher, shipbuilder, maker of Welsh harps - John Weston Thomas has been all these things. Now. at forty-six, he is a craftsman with few equals in Wales or indeed in Great Britain.
You think at the time, well, this it good, this is a masterpiece. But when you look at it again later, you see a little flaw and you think, oh! I could do better than that
Written and produced by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas from Wales

Contributors

Subject:
John Weston Thomas
Narrator:
David Parry-Jones
Writer/producer:
Gethyn Stoodley Thomas

Gerald Harrison talks to boys and girls at Maidenhead, Berks, and Cradley, near Halesowen, Worcs.
Does it matter how you look? Does your appearance have any bearing on what you are? In this programme children turn their usual perceptive eye on whether appearance really is skin-deep: and in doing so they cast a searching glance or two at some of our more obvious characteristics.
"There are too many holes in the girls' dresses today-they must be draughty". Thirteen-year-old-girl
"If you have a Prime Minister you don't want him to look scruffy and set a bad example to the country". Nine-year-old-boy
"I have got a next-door neighbour and he looks what he is - he's bossy". Eleven-year-old-boy
(from the North)
(Colour)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Gerald Harrison
Producer:
Bob Mozley

In which about 150 people of varied ages, outlook, and opinions listen to-and freely discuss-Novel On Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith. After the discussion she gives her reactions to some of the comments made.
Somewhere among the audience, Anthony Blond, John Bowen, A. S. Byatt, Maurice Edelmann, M.P., Giles Gordon, Illtyd Harrington
Referee, Paddy Feeny

(Colour)

Contributors

Panellist:
Stevie Smith
Interviewee:
Anthony Blond
Interviewee:
John Bowen
Interviewee:
A. S. Byatt
Interviewee:
Maurice Edelmann
Interviewee:
Giles Gordon
Interviewee:
Illtyd Harrington
Referee:
Paddy Feeny
Interviewer:
James Mossman
Research:
Martin Hoyle
Production assistant:
Robin Drake
Producer:
John King

starring Robert Newton, Simone Simon
with William Hartnell, Marcel Dalio

Two famous French stars, Simone Simon and Marcel Dalio, who both starred in several Hollywood films of the period, are featured in tonight's movie. Simone Simon plays Camelia, an orphan employed as a 'mermaid' in a fairground sideshow. Marcel Dalio is a French detective charged with recovering the smuggled money which has come into the possession of Mallinson (Robert Newton), a railway signalman.
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Rodney Ackland
Screenplay:
Frederick Gotfurt
Screenplay:
Victor Skutezky
Based on the novel Newhaven-Dieppe by:
Georges Simenon
Director:
Lance Comfort
Mallinson:
Robert Newton
Camelia:
Simone Simon
Brown:
William Hartnell
Dupre:
Marcel Dalio
Betty:
Margaret Barton
Tatera:
Edward Rigby
Mrs. Brown:
Joan Hopkins
Mabel:
Kathleen Harrison

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