Starring Ezio Pinza as Feodor Chaliapin, Roberta Peters as Elsa Valdine, Tamara Toumanova as Anna Pavlova, Anne Bancroft as Emma Hurok, Isaac Stern as Eugene Ysaye, Byron Palmer as Gregory Lawrence, David Wayne and the voice of Jan Peerce
The story of the famous impresario Sol Hurok and the many international musical stars who appeared under his management.
(Colour)
(This Week's Films: page 9)
Another chance to see last week's programme.
Introduced by Cyril Aldred
H. G. Hurrell, Dartmoor naturalist and owner of Atlanta the seal.
Commentary by Hugh Falkus.
Looking at feet and at some of the commonest troubles.
A second chance to see last week's programme
Jonathan Power's record of the mothers of Islington in their fight for a children's playground.
Bill Abernethy's job is an eternal treasure hunt.
and Weather
An equation that proves we must plan our future recreation.
A film written and directed by John Taylor.
The German novelist and writer Hermann Hesse died in 1962, a Nobel Prize-winner - but since his death he has become the centre of an extraordinary cult, and he is now revered as a patron-saint of young America.
This film (Germany's entry for the 1971 Italia Prize) shows Hesse as he really was, and also shows what, in modern America, he has come to stand for.
Introduced by Cliff Morgan
This year Bridgend and Loughborough Colleges join 13 top Scottish clubs in the endeavour to wrest the title from Gala.
This week: James Last and his Orchestra
(James Last appears by arrangement with Harold Davison)
(This Week's Sounds: page 11)
Bob Godfrey illustrates the attitudes and techniques of the split-second world of film cartoon.
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Dramatised in six parts by Bill Craig
Starring Andrew Keir as John Guthrie
with James Grant as Ewan Tavendale, Roddy McMillan as Uncle Tam and Vivien Heilbron as Chris.
'But a worse thing came as that slow September dragged to its end. A thing I would never tell a soul.'
(BBC Scotland)
and Weather
Sheridan Morley talks about Diamonds are Forever, now on release, to Jill St John, and announces the results of Film Night's Academy Awards poll.
Philip Jenkinson shows more vintage films requested by viewers.
Starring Ginger Rogers Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery
Chicago, 1927. Roxie Hart finds herself on trial for murder. She plans to use the trial as a full-scale publicity stunt but when the key defence witness dies suddenly her plan seems to have backfired.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
