Starring Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, and Rudy Vallee
Four ex-GIs living by their wits will go to almost any lengths to avoid regular employment - until a pretty ex-WAVE comes along and finds romance with one of them.
from Lord's
with Percy Thrower
A second look at the gardens of Sissinghurst Court, Kent
Although on a smaller scale than its more celebrated neighbours, this is in the best tradition of private English country gardens.
Craghead is a small mining village in Co Durham struggling to survive in a nuclear age. A grimy pit, a few terraced streets of grit-blackened brick, and in the air a smell of coal...
June 1968: as the manager and men work hard to raise the coal output, with their families hoping for a future, the rumour is closure. Can their efforts avert this end? Is there a future for the village of Craghead?
Starring Val Doonican
with special guests: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Julie Felix, The Gabrieli String Quartet
The Gillian Lynne Dancers
The Adam Singers
Directed by Cliff Adams
(First shown on BBC1)
by Roy Minton
[Starring] John Gregson as Jack and Jeremy Burring as Ben
In the front room a party is in full swing. Jack, a merchant seaman in his late 40s, climbs the stairs, opens the door - and finds himself face to face with Ben, a 10-year-old boy...
(John Gregson is in "The Secretary Bird" at the Savoy Theatre, London)
The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman
Some months ago Review launched a nationwide competition inviting young composers to set the W.B. Yeats poem 'Those dancing days are gone' to original music. There were over 150 entries.
Tonight the winners will be announced, the winning entries will be performed, and the judges will give their views on the competition as a whole:
Richard Rodney Bennett, composer
Mike D'Abo, pop singer and composer (until recently with Manfred Mann)
Peter Dickinson, composer and musicologist
George Martin, musical arranger (for the Beatles among others)
In the chair Lennox Berkeley, composer
(How can you listen to that rubbish?: page 10)
(Colour)
Starring Doris Day, Rex Harrison
with John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall and Natasha Parry
Did the American wife of a British financier actually receive threatening telephone calls, or was it her method of getting more attention from her busy husband?
After the success of the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much Doris Day was accepted as a serious actress. In tonight's psychological thriller, set in London, she stars opposite Rex Harrison.
Introduced by Tommy Vance
featuring Procol Harum, established performers whose music has steadily improved while their following has declined just as steadily.
Also a new group - Affinity, proteges of jazzman Ronnie Scott.
BBC2 Colour Trade Tests Monday to Saturday
10.0 am Service Information; 10.20 Colour Receiver Installation film: 11.0 (Sat only) Colour film; 11,30 Service Information, as available; 11.35 Colour film; 12.5 pm Colour Receiver Installation film; 2.5 (Sat only) Colour film; 2.30 Service Information, as available; 2.35 Colour film; 3.10 Colour Receiver Installation film; 3.30 Colour film; 4.30 Colour film; 5.30 Colour film; 6.15 (Mon-Fri only) Tuning Information followed by colour film; (Sat only) Colour film.
(Subject to programme commitments and engineering work)
