Starring Bob Hope
with Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan

Damon Runyon's gallery of shady New York characters provides an ideal setting for Bob Hope - in the title role as a third-rate tipster who has to find $10,000 before Christmas Day, or face the wrath of gang leader Moose Moran.
With the aid of his Broadway accomplices the Kid puts an audacious plan into action and becomes his own Santa Claus!
(Philip Jenkinson: page 9)

A grand tour of some of the world's outstanding zoos with Anthony Smith

A zoo that's looking to the future One hundred and twenty-six years ago a zoo in a park on the outskirts of a Continental seaport began to exhibit, to an often incredulous public, strange beasts and creatures from foreign lands, including some from Belgium's African territories.
Today that same zoo is in the centre of Antwerp alongside the city's main square, dominated by the railway station, overshadowed by the loss of an Empire -yet Antwerp is becoming a modern zoo in an old place with an up-to-date Dolphinarium and a distinguished animal breeding record.
(from Bristol)

A series of film reports by Trevor Philpott

In the basic motorway network of Britain, planned in the 1950s, one vital artery is still missing - the London/South Wales motorway, the M4. With luck it may be completed in 1971, over six years late. Seventy-two miles of open country between the Severn Bridge and Maidenhead became the most bitterly contested strip of land in the history of motorway building.

What kind of people are they who fought the engineers, the industrialists, the Ministry of Transport? How do they defeat so much power and expertise again and again. Were they heroes or villains-'the guerilla fighters of the M4'?

A repeat of the best work done in Review during the past season.

How to Stage Fights
William Hobbs is Fight Director of the National Theatre. He has won acclaim for his thrilling skirmishes in Zeffirelli's stage production of Romeo and Juliet, for fights in the National's Othello, in the stage musical The Four Musketeers, and the film HMS Defiant. Review finds out how Hobbs makes his clashes look authentic without cutting the cast to ribbons. To show how his technique differs from the famous duels of Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks, he has produced for Review a new version of the Romeo fight.

The Original Peter
is an entertainment for television devised by Mike Westbrook and John Fox.
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band and singer Norma Winstone are the focal point of a mass of activity - sword-swallowers, wrestlers, athletes, tattooists, and other less easily identifiable characters, all performing simultaneously in the studio.

(Engraving by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)

On the last of three visits to his own garden Percy Thrower deals with work in the greenhouse - seed sowing and growing geraniums and fuchsias from cuttings.

by Jean Benedetti

The year: 1909. Mussolini is 21. He has been arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to deportation... but powerful forces are working on his side.

Starring Val Doonican in the final show of the current series
with Jimmy Tarbuck, Marian Davies

The Gillian Lynne Dancers
The Adam Singers
Directed by Cliff Adams

Starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer with Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere

A boxer trapped by his unscrupulous promoter tries to weigh the importance of fame and fortune against his principles of fair play. John Garfield gives a realistic portrayal as the tough prizefighter whose search for success leads to total disillusionment.
(Philip Jenkinson: page 9)