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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael de Morgan
Producer:
Bill Northwood

The happy story - almost a fairy story - of four children, two girls and two boys, of mixed English, Hindu, Pathan and Tibetan parentage, played out against the exotic backdrop of the snow-peaked Himalayas: children whose broken lives would never have been mended but for the loving kindness of one man, a Scotsman, Dr John Anderson Graham, who planted a seed which grew into a Lollipop Tree.

(Where they mend broken lives: page 5)

Contributors

Narrator:
Cliff Richard
Music:
John Mayer
Director:
Tony Mayer
Presented by:
Bob Saunders
Executive Producer:
Brian Branston

From the Royal Festival Hall, London, a performance of Symphony No 9 by Gustav Mahler in which Georg Solti conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend
Introduced by Donald Mitchell and John Warrack
Mahler's ninth is a work of epic proportions which the composer never heard in performance. It was written in 1909, two years before his death and received its premiere in 1912.

(Colour)

Contributors

Composer:
Gustav Mahler
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Musicians:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Rodney Friend
Presenter:
Donald Mitchell
Presenter:
John Warrack
Director:
Brian Large

by N.J. Crisp
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth Valerie Murray

Gypsies led by Samuel Brown (Salvin Stewart, above) arrive in the Hardy neighbourhood - to the horror of many residents. A public meeting is called to discuss the 'problem.' But protest can go too far.

Contributors

Writer/Series devised by:
N.J. Crisp
Series devised by/Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Lighting:
John Dixon
Script Editor:
Geoffrey Tetlow
Designer:
John Hurst
Director:
Viktors Ritelis
Samuel Brown:
Salvin Stewart
Len Storey:
Jack Woolgar
Don Storey:
Jonathan Kaye
John Hardy:
Marius Goring
Jo Hardy:
Ann Morrish
Det-Sgt Ashe:
Michael Farnsworth
Burton:
Godfrey James
Mrs Storey:
Dorothy Gordon
Police Inspector Brent:
Kenton Moore
Byers:
David Garfield
Sandra Hughes:
Valerie Murray
Lane:
Bill Hepper
Det Chief Insp Fleming:
Victor Winding
Coleman:
Peter Gray

Tony Bilbow interviews husband and wife team Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes, star and director of The Raging Moon which has just opened in London.
Philip Jenkinson shows vintage clips and asks, Whatever became of...?'

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Philip Jenkinson
Interviewee:
Nanette Newman
Interviewee:
Bryan Forbes
Director:
Philip Crump
Producer:
Barry Brown
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

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