starring Tyrone Power Alice Faye, Al Jolson
A cabaret singer's rise to stardom and her unfortunate love and marriage to a worthless man.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
Ian Grimble tells the story of the only English king to be called 'The Great.'
(BBC Scotland)
(Colour)
Gerald Durrell, author and honorary director of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.
Commentary by Hugh Falkus.
Television Doctor takes three typical accidents and explains the dos and don'ts that could help you save a life.
An anatomy of two cases of American small-town law and justice.
David Holmes on the political scene.
Narrated by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
This special documentary, the story of an expedition to Kenya by a group of young winners of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, is also the story of the spread of the Award scheme throughout the world.
Thirty-four young people from 16 countries, including Fiji, New Zealand, Ghana and the United States, joined forces last summer in a demanding programme of activities which included climbing Mount Kenya and work on a community building project in the remote Saburu country.
In a prologue to the film The Duke of Edinburgh outlines the philosophy and aims of the Award he created 16 years ago.
Louis Hayes (drums), Niels-Henning Oersted Pedersen (bass)
(Oscar Peterson appears by arrangement with Harold Davison)
Victory could mean the Welsh title for the Londoners.
(Colour)
Stanley Setty made macabre history when he was murdered in 1949. His was the first corpse to be dropped from an aeroplane.
Identifying his torso and linking his death with the man who was tried for his murder raised unique forensic problems. Professor Francis Camps, the famous pathologist, opens his records to re-create some of the highlights of the murder.
Four young people have taken up the arts of engraving and etching, and print a special edition of a book made by hand at every stage.
(Colour)
by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Dramatised in six parts by Bill Craig.
With James Grant as Ewan Tavendale, Roddy McMillan as Uncle Tam and Vivien Heilbron as Chris.
"It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one. And I wasn't sure, not for days, what things we'd dreamt and what actually done."
(BBC Scotland)
Sheridan Morley reviews new releases including "Buck and the Preacher" and talks to its star Harry Belafonte.
Philip Jenkinson shows clips from the German Film Archive, now part of a retrospective season at London's National Film Theatre.
starring Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy
An ex-Confederate officer plots revenge on the inhabitants of Blue Springs, Arizona, where his pregnant wife died through lack of care.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
(Colour)
