A medieval musical starring The Bee Gees
with Eleanor Bron, Pat Coombs and Julian Orchard
and special guest stars Blind Faith, Frankie Howerd, Lulu, Spike Milligan, Vincent Price
Once upon a time...
Devised and written by Barry and Maurice Gibb

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Introduced by Peter Scott
Every autumn wild Bewick's swans leave their breeding grounds in Arctic Siberia - home of polar bears and reindeer, of snowy owls and Arctic foxes - and fly across Europe to winter at Slimbridge on Severnside.
From the studio window of his home at the Wildfowl Trust, Peter Scott looks out on his 'Swan Lake,' while concealed cameras bring into close-up the way in which each individual bird can be identified.
(from Bristol)

Starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker

A man wakes up in a Welsh fishing village, suffering from amnesia following a motor accident. In his search to pick up the threads of his life he becomes increasingly alarmed as he discovers he has not just one wife - but several!
Rex Harrison plays the multiple bigamist with all his usual charm in this sophisticated comedy.
(Holiday Films: pages 13 and 15)
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with Nana Mouskouri and The Athenians.
Special guest stars Margot Fonteyn with Desmond Kelly, and Michel Legrand making his first appearance on British TV.
(Desmond Kelly appears by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
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or How to Keep Pretoria Clean
Black men collect the rubbish of Pretoria in the Republic of South Africa.
This film is about the potential of the human spirit. If a lousy job has to be done let us run like Kip Keino, entertain like Danny La Rue, and end the day with a jolly requiem.

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A Television Literary Quiz
Alan Brien asks Eleanor Bron, Michael Holroyd, Bernard Levin, V. S. Pritchett for their opinions and reactions

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An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860
starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson
Introduced by Billy Russell
Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.
(The handsomest hall in town: page 11)
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A new production from the team that made the award-winning film The Goshawk: based on Jack London's dramatic short story about a man facing the terrifying pros of freezing to death. His only companion is a wild husky dog.
The year is 1898, the time of the Gold Rush, and the scene a remote area of the Klondike. For this man, his very life hung on his ability To Build a Fire.

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by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto based on the English version by Edward Agate
with Geraint Evans, Elizabeth Harwood and Michel Molese
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
leader John Brown
conductor Charles Mackerras

(Gillian Ramsden appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
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by Jean-Paul Sartre
A second chance to see this dramatisation in 13 parts by David Turner
Starring Michael Bryant, Daniel Massey

Mathieu's unit has been deserted by the officers, and the men are getting drunk awaiting capture. After initially hesitating Mathieu decides to join them to prove a kinship he does not feel.
(Part 13: tomorrow, 10.20 pm)
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Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
with Anne Francis, Dean Jagger

Spencer Tracy plays the one-armed stranger who gets off the express train at the little Western town of Black Rock - the first passenger for four years to do so. Tracy's purpose is to find a man whose son saved his life in the war, but all he encounters is a sinister wall of silence...
(Holiday Films: pages 13 and 15)
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