Starring Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott
with Wilfrid Hyde White, Nicole Maurey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams

Hilarious consequences follow the return of a best-selling author from a desert expedition when he determines to run his home-life like a Bedouin Arab.
(This Week Films: page 11)

The world's last great frontier has fallen to the tourist. Under the leadership of Peter Scott, the first-ever party of British tourists set foot recently on the Antarctic continent - 40 sightseers first-footing in the snows of the great white south.
Who were they? Why did they go? What did they see? Is Antarctic tourism a threat to the wildlife of the only unspoilt continent?
(From Bristol: first shown on BBC1)
(Penguin City, a story of the Antarctic spring: tomorrow, 7.25 pm)

The star of the Western Chato's Land, Jack Palance, and the film's director, Michael Winner, talk to Maureen Bartlett on location in Almeria, Spain.
Philip Jenkinson looks at some vintage musicals featured in the current Films and Filming nostalgia edition.

by Honore de Balzac
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Tyzack

Hector is faced with ruin and has been spirited away by Bette. However, Bette's plans have suffered their first setback through the death of the Marshal just before she was to marry him.

It is more than 3,000 years since the scribes of Genesis told their story of man's earthly paradise - but they were borrowing from an even older story which also told of gods forming man from clay, of forbidden fruit and of a goddess called 'Lady of the Rib.' This original paradise was set in a land called 'Dilmun' - a 'lost' civilisation which once ranked in importance with the legendary Sumer and the great civilisations of the Indus valley.
For the last 18 years a Scotsman, Geoffrey Bibby, and a team of Danish archaeologists have been excavating in the island of Bahrain. Some of their findings have led to an extraordinary historical detective story, which Magnus Magnusson tells tonight. With clues 5,000 years old he follows a trail through deserted temples, buried cities, warrior gods, fresh water springs on the sea-bed, skeletons of snakes and the hundred thousand burial mounds of Bahrain.

(Colour)

The dynamic blonde American star of 'Peter, Paul and Mary' fame sings some of the best of traditional and contemporary song-writing, including her number one hit 'Leaving on a jet plane,' and songs by Bob Dylan, Elton John and Rod McKuen.
Accompanied on piano by Paul Griffin
(This Week's Sounds: page 12)

Why was it made? What has been its impact?
'Le Chagrin et la Pitie' was shown last night on BBC2. Tonight Marcel Ophuls, its director, will be among those discussing this frank documentary.

and Weather

Starring Jack Palance, Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz

An American adventurer returns to a Mexican fishing village - the scene of his one-time affair with the wife of a local fisherman; she now has a 5-year-old son.
(This Week's Films: page 11)