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The last programme in a series about best-known images in art.

Radio Times readers were asked to write in with their suggestions for the most outstanding painting or sculpture missing from the team that has been suggested.
The four artists with the most votes are Renoir, Botticelli, Dali, and Michelangelo, but the final result is not being announced until tonight, when a speaker specially chosen for the subject will introduce the 'twelfth man.'

(Colour)

Contributors

Producer:
Leslie Megahey

Exactly 70 years ago this week, three lighthouse-keepers vanished mysteriously from the remote Hebridean Flannan Isles. The islands have generated mystery ever since St Flannan, according to legend, landed there in a stone boat 1,300 years ago.
Tonight Finlay J. Macdonald tells his story of the Flannan Isles.
(From Scotland)
(The crofter's son returns to Flannan: page 4)
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Finlay J. MacDonald

Television's fastest spectacular bringing back the Magic of the Minstrels

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage, Andy Cole, Peter Kaye
with The Television Toppers
and Les Rawlings, Elspeth Hands, Delia Wicks, Les Want, Jean McGuire, Benny Garcia, Stromboli and Silvia
Guest star Semprini

(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing in "Magic of the Minstrels" at the Victoria Palace, London, and in The Black and White Minstrel Show at the New Theatre, Hull)
(Colour) (First shown on BBC1)

Contributors

Singers/Dancers:
The Mitchell Minstrels
Singer:
John Boulter
Singer:
Dai Francis
Singer:
Margaret Savage
Singer:
Andy Cole
Comedian/Presenter:
Peter Kaye
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Singer:
Les Rawlings
Dancer/Choreography:
Elspeth Hands
Dancer:
Delia Wicks
Singer:
Les Want
Singer/Dancer:
Jean McGuire
Singer:
Benny Garcia
Fire-eating act:
Stromboli and Silvia
Pianist:
null Semprini
Orchestra leader:
Freddie Clayton
Orchestra conducted by/Vocal arrangements:
George Mitchell
Orchestra conducted by/Orchestrations:
Alan Bristow
Additional Material:
Alan Field
Additional Material:
Peter Robinson
Settings:
Martin Collins
Devised and produced by:
George Inns

Starring Nikolai Cherkasov

The second part of Ivan the Terrible tells how Ivan returns to Moscow to face his enemies - Metropolitan Philip, and Euphrosyne who is plotting to have her son Vladimir proclaimed Tsar.
Eisenstein was fascinated by colour, and the last section of the film - transmitted in colour for the first time - shows the striking way in which he employs colour to increase dramatic tension.

(This Week's Films: page 11)

Contributors

Photography:
Andrei Moksvin
Photography:
Eduard Tisse
Music:
Sergei Prokofiev
Writer/Director/Producer:
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible:
Nikolai Cherkasov
Euphrosyne:
Serafima Birman
Vladimir:
Pavel Kadochnikov
Metropolitan Philip:
Andrei Abrikosov
Archbishop Pimen:
Alexander Mgebrov
Alexei Basmanov:
Ambrosi Buchma

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