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Isaac Stern, one of the world's ace violinists, last week made one of his all too rare appearances at the Royal Festival Hall when he was soloist in Sibelius Violin Concerto
With the London Symphony Orchestra leader John Georgiadis conducted by Andre Previn
The programme includes Bernstein's overture "Candide"
Introduced by Antony Hopkins

Commentary by Peter Scott
Their wings hum at 80 beats a second. They can fly backwards, must feed about every ten minutes, and have brilliant iridescent colours. No wonder they fascinate people: some even give them shower baths and cut their toe-nails, while others analyse their amazing flight by filming in ultra slow motion.
(from Bristol)

(Colour)

by Mrs Gaskell
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Voysey

Osborne has been sent away from Hamley Hall by the Squire, but Mrs Hamley is pining for him.

An old wall comes down and the camera catches every detail of its destruction and the mood of its destroyers.

from The Talk of the Town
Introduced by Roy Hudd
with Alfredo, The Black Abbots, Don Maclean, The Stupids, Henny Youngman
Tony Mansell's Coffee Set
Burt Rhodes and his Orchestra

(Henny Youngman is in the Des O'Connor Show at the London Palladium)

It's difficult to know how common infertility is, but something like one in ten couples who want a child fail to have one.
Two specialists who run infertility clinics describe what can go wrong and how they can help many of these couples to have children.

Alan Bennett - humorist and playwright looks back over his week. 'The programme may be selected from the following: Whither the Novel? - several prominent used-car dealers discuss where they would put E.M. Forster; "Bride of Wittgenstein" with Oliver Reed as Gilbert Ryle; The Wonderful World of Irving Wardle.'

(Alan Bennett appears by permission of his Auntie Cissie Turner)

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