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It's no use trying to conduct like an old man when you're a young one, or the other way round. The only thing you can do is to be perfectly honest to the condition that you're in at the moment. Colin Davis in conversation with Walter Todds reflects on his musical life and on some of the experiences which have shaped his career and conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

With Thomas Hemsley, Alexander Young, Hugo D'Alton
and Eli Goren, Trevor Connah, John Coulling, Alan Dalziel

Contributors

Interviewee/Conductor:
Colin Davis
Interviewer/Producer:
Walter Todds
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Eli Goren
Baritone:
Thomas Hemsley
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Mandolinist:
Hugo D'Alton
Violinist:
Eli Goren
Violinist:
Trevor Connah
Viola:
John Coulling
Cellist:
Alan Dalziel
Director:
Denis Moriarty

This film tells the true story of Mrs Helen Robinson's fight with the King of the Marlins.
Mrs Robinson is 71; her ambition was to catch a giant black marlin weighing over 1,000 pounds.
She travelled from her home in Miami, Florida, to Cairns in North Queensland to begin the struggle off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Apart from Mrs Robinson and her fishing friends Ted Smits and Vie Dunaway, the cast includes the giant marlin, the exotic and deadly butterfly cod, and Hugo the killer whale.

Contributors

Subject:
Helen Robinson
Fisherman:
Ted Smits
Narrator:
Vie Dunaway
Producer:
Brian Branston

by George Eliot
Dramatised in six parts by Alexander Baron

and introducing Martha Henry

After returning Gwendolen's necklace Daniel Deronda came back to England, where he saved a young Jewess, Mirah, from drowning. Gwendolen, also back in England, has received a letter from Grandcourt.

Contributors

Author:
George Eliot
Dramatised by:
Alexander Baron
Script Editor:
Michael Voysey
Costumes:
Elizabeth Agombar
Lighting:
Peter Catlett
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Joan Craft
Mrs Davilow:
Yvonne Coulette
Gwendolen:
Martha Henry
Mirah Lapidoth:
Vanessa Miles
Mrs Meyrick:
Megs Jenkins
Mab Meyrick:
Diane Grayson
Kate Meyrick:
Sarah Craze
Mr Grandcourt:
Robert Hardy
Daniel Deronda:
John Nolan
Isabel Davilow:
Ann-Marie Reed
Mrs Gascoigne:
Elizabeth Bradley
Rev Gascoigne:
Edward Jewesbury
Lydia Glasher:
Iris Russell
Sir Hugo Mallinger:
David Langton
Lady Mallinger:
Patricia Hastings
Mr Lush:
Roger Booth
Mr Vandernoodt:
Noel Davis

A film portrait of Aneurin Hughes, a Welsh countryman. His work is to chop down trees, but his delight is to make exquisite wood carvings - and to sing.

Contributors

Subject:
Aneurin Hughes
Producer:
Gareth Wynn Jones

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
featuring Dai Francis, Ted Darling, Andy Cole, Les Rawlings, Elspeth Hands, Penny Jewkes, Dorothy Ogden and The Clem Vickery Vellum Stompers
with The Television Toppers
(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing at the Victoria Palace, London, and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle)

Contributors

Singers/Dancers:
The Mitchell Minstrels
Singer:
Dai Francis
Singer:
Ted Darling
Singer:
Andy Cole
Singer:
Les Rawlings
Dancer:
Elspeth Hands
Singer/Dancer:
Penny Jewkes
Singer:
Dorothy Ogden
Musicians:
The Clem Vickery Vellum Stompers
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Choreographer:
Roy Gunson
Orchestra conducted by/Vocal Arrangements:
George Mitchell
Orchestra conducted by/Orchestrations:
Alan Bristow
Orchestrations:
Norman Percival
Make-Up:
Cecile Hay-Arthur
Costumes:
Verity Lewis
Lighting:
Geoffrey Shaw
Sound:
Adrian Stocks
Designer:
Martin Collins
Designer:
J Roger Lowe
Producer:
Ernest Maxin

Line-Up takes a last look at the week with James Cameron, Kenny Everett, Roy Hudd, P. J. Kavanagh... and others.

Contributors

Performer:
James Cameron
Performer:
Kenny Everett
Performer:
Roy Hudd
Performer:
P. J. Kavanagh
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

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