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Story: "The Clock Struck Five" by Barbara Mary

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Carole Ward
Presenter:
Johnny Ball
Author (The Clock Struck Five):
Barbara Mary
Photographer:
James Matthews-Joyce
Pianist:
Martin Goldstein
Designer:
Kassy Baxter
Scripted and directed by:
Peter Charlton
Series Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Tourists. Please Note. This is Private Property ...reads a notice outside one of Jersey's magnificent manor houses. To most tourists Jersey means scenery, sea and sunshine, rich retired and cheap cigarettes. The Portuguese immigrant workers there see the island in a different light.
Portugal, Europe's most underdeveloped country, provides the bulk of the vital work-force that services the leisure industries that make paradise possible. But to a Portuguese waiter it's a very odd sort of paradise.

Contributors

Narrator:
Paul Vaughan
Director:
Colin Thomas

Introduced by David Jones

Songs to Remember
The lives of the great composers have always been ready pickings for the film industry. Review follows the fortunes of Beethoven, Chopin and company, from neglect through suffering and seduction to inevitable triumph, in the persons of Dirk Bogarde, Alan Badel, Cornel Wilde, Richard Tauber and many others.

Art in Revolution
Probably the most important and certainly the most neglected of the great early 20th-century art movements took place during the first ten years of the Russian Revolution. Review uses material from the recent exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, and also rare early film, reconstructions of theatre sets, fashion designs and graphics to help recreate those turbulent years.

The Fred Karno Story
Fred Karno was a circus acrobat who adapted the slapstick of the circus ring to the music-hall stage; he launched Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Will Hay and many others; he invested his large fortune in a fun-palace on the Thames - the 'Karsino'; he became bankrupt and died in obscurity in Bournemouth.
Review tells of Fred Karno's extraordinary story with the help of two of his contemporaries, Jack Melville and Sandy Powell, and films the demolition of the Karsino.

(David Jones is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Jones
Director (Songs to Remember):
Sheldon Larry
Director (Art to Revolution)/Producer:
Peter Adam
Interviewee (The Fred Karno Story):
Jack Melville
Interviewee (The Fred Karno Story):
Sandy Powell
Director (The Fred Karno Story)/Producer:
Tony Staveacre

Mild and bitter humour, with sweet and sour songs that will tickle your palate - if you get the drift of: Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow, The Fivepenny Piece and their guest Bryan Pringle
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Performer:
Henry Livings
Singer:
Alex Glasgow
Musicians:
The Fivepenny Piece
Guest:
Bryan Pringle
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Director:
Nick Hunter

BBC Two England

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