starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie.

Betty Grable, pin-up queen of the forties, stars in this light-hearted blend of comedy, music, and romance. A slender plot about two Americans who land on a Pacific island, mistaking the delectable Miss Grable for one of the native girls, provides a framework to support some spectacular dance numbers staged by Hermes Pan.

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with Percy Thrower

This evening Percy Thrower considers the best varieties to plant to achieve the best effects.
(from BBC Midlands. Next week: Growing Fuchsias)
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Introduced by Cliff Morgan

This match will provide the Sixth Springboks with the strong opposition of a representative fifteen drawn from the wealth of Rugby Union talent of Leicestershire, the East Midlands, Notts, Lincs, and Derby.
During the last Springboks tour Midland Counties (East) drew 3-3 with the tourists, and back in 1931 they were the only team to beat the South Africans. Their squad includes players like Budge Rogers from Bedford, Bob Taylor at number 8, Brian West, David Powell, and skipper Pat Briggs.

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asks astronomer Patrick Moore in this series of highly personal films.

For more than 12 years Patrick Moore has been putting forward the conventional views of modern astronomy in books and on television. Next week he will be back in the space studio reporting on the Apollo 12 moon landing. But tonight he steps off that platform to question whether orthodox views should be as readily accepted as they are.

Is the sun really a hot flaming body dashing about the sky? Have astronauts really proved that the earth and the moon are round? Might not the universe be enclosed by a giant magnet? Is not the ultimate man already living on Saturn in the form of an incandescent egg, 40-feet tall.

These ideas and more are put forward in a cheerful, convincing, and fearless way by a number of 'independent thinkers.' Patrick Moore feels that the conventionalists (and he includes himself) would do well to listen to their ideas and at least to emulate their outlook on life.

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Introduced by Ray Alan
featuring Jacqueline Harbord, Reg Park
Special guest artists Clive Dunn, Bernard Ford and Diane Towler, Alain and Margaret, Adrienne Erdos
The Ice Show Dancers
Guitar soloist Freddie Phillips
The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Programme presented in association with Gerald Palmer and the Tom Arnold Organisation

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Fyfe Robertson takes a personal look back at TV programmes and issues of the past seven days

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by Donald Wilson
Starring John Neville, Susan Hampshire, Margaret Tyzack and John Standing

John Churchill owed much to James II. But the King was clearly determined to destroy the Protestant religion and the laws of England, so John decided to support William of Orange and the Revolution of 1688.
(Repeated: Friday 8.25 pm)
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Written by Stuart Hood
The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman

Throughout history writers have challenged the beliefs and conventions of the society in which they have lived. In so doing they have often risked imprisonment, exile, or death.
What is the position of the writer in the Soviet Union today in this respect? In the week of the anniversary of the Revolution Review is devoted to this subject.
The novelist Anatoli Kuznetsov, who fled from the Soviet Union to England this summer, talks to James Mossman about the position of the writer in Soviet society. Poems, extracts from novels, and statements by Russian writers and officials are read by Christopher Bidmead, Peter Copley, Rosalie Crutchley, Colin Douglas, Margery Mason, Anthony Newlands, Michael Pennington
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starring Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons
with Bill Travers, Belinda Lee

The plans of a murderer go badly wrong when he attempts to rid himself of a young servant girl who is blackmailing him.
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