The best of the week's news film.
Weather
Albert Oeming runs the largest zoo in Canada. In his vast game farm in Alberta even rhinoceros, giraffe and lion appear to have adapted well to the snows of the Canadian winter.
The film follows Oeming on one of his journeys to the Arctic as he collects animals in danger of extinction in order to breed them in his unusual zoo.
A National Geographic Society film by Metromedia Producers Corporation (from Bristol)
The new series of Music Now, edited and introduced by John Amis.
Vaughan Williams Centenary including a performance of his 3 Shakespeare Songs sung by Cantores in Ecclesia directed by Michael Howard.
What makes Hans Keller tick?
A visit to the Northern Sinfonia in Carlisle and Newcastle upon Tyne with Malcolm Arnold directing the premiere of his Viola Concerto, soloist Roger Best.
(Radio Times People: page 4)
by Emile Zola
Dramatised in five parts by David Turner
The mining company has decided to impose lower rates to defray the cost of safety work. The miners, incensed by this cut in wages, have declared a strike.
The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act requires local authorities to make available a whole range of aids and services to the disabled.
With the help of specialists and a number of disabled people Television Doctor looks at a few of these aids.
Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
Guest stars Neville King, The Monarchs, Eric and Cedric
Featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage, Andy Cole
with The Television Toppers
and Les Rawlings, Penny Jewkes, Delia Wicks
and Rina Brown, Rene Coll
(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing at the Victoria Palace, London, and at the Grand Theatre, Leeds)
and Weather
with Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow Sheridan Morley, Ray Taylor.