News Review (taking a break with tradition) Takes a Late Holiday
A look at a five-year plan for a new Mediterranean holiday area, with some ideas for the future and a commentary in vision for the deaf and hard of hearing
Written and produced by Bill Northwood
followed by Weather
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When Cousteau and his team go whaling, their aim is to tag not to kill. This can be dangerous when your targets are the 20-ton Finback or the bigger, and reputedly savage, Sperm Whales.
When they decide to tag a baby Sperm it is a dangerous and exciting exercise
Give Whales a Chance: page 6
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In the opening concert of the new Windsor Festival Yehudi Menuhin conducts
The Bands of the Coldstream and Welsh Guards in a performance of 'The Royal Palace Music' by Sir Arthur Bliss, 'The Water Music' and 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' by Handel, Sir William Walton conducts his march 'Crown Imperial' given in the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle
The Royal Fireworks Music is accompanied by a firework display designed by John Piper
The return of David Dimbleby : page 9
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Was the legend of the Bishop true? After suffering so much, how could he forgive? Why were these years of agony his Golden Years? John Leonard Wilson, Bishop of Birmingham, returns to Singapore and revisits his old places of torture - Changi Prison and the YMCA building, HQ of the Japanese secret police. He meets again Elizabeth Choy, a fellow prisoner, and Professor Ogawa, a former Imperial Japanese Army officer.
(From BBC Midlands)
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by David Hodson
[Starring] Amanda Barrie as Janet, Jeremy Lloyd as Bob
Bob and Janet are so 'with it' that they change clothes and even their personalities to suit whichever of their friends they invite to dinner. But tonight they have forgotten whom they have invited
"If the play took its title's social agony and torture to improbable lengths, it did so amusingly, with cheerful good humour" (Times)
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Starring Terry Scott
with June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth
[and] Rex Garner, Carol Friday, Donald Tandy, Jim Collier, Felix Bowness, The Jo Cook Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers
In which Terry takes a look at habits, both good and bad, and has a shot at breaking some old ones.
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A weekly look at the cinema with stars - previews - and a dig into the past
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
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