Starring Fredric March
with Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan
The story of one of the most famous explorers of all time - and in particular the dramatic discovery of the New World.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
Third day
The final two hours' play from Lord's
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
David Holmes reviews week-by-week the moves made by the politicians and examines the part played by government in the lives of us all.
Second of five programmes
Presented by Rene Cutforth
In March 1918 Britain and France faced defeat by Germany. The Germans were 60 miles from Paris. If Paris fell the war would end. To ensure the secrecy of their planned offensive, the Germans invented a new code - ADFGX. The only way the Allies could combat the Germans' superior strength was to break the code and know exactly where the attack would come. The codebreaking battle behind the lines was to be more decisive than the battle at the Front.
Taking part in this programme are the German who invented ADFGX and the Frenchman and the American who tried to break it.
Written and produced by Bruce Norman
A personal view by Kenneth Clark
This, the second in the series of thirteen programmes, has been filmed in the monasteries, abbeys and cathedrals of France. The sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th century is traced by Kenneth Clark from the first manifestations at the Abbey of Cluny to its high point, the building of the Cathedral of Chartres.
'Our intellectual energy, our contact with the great minds of Greece, our ability to move and change, our belief that God may be approached through beauty, our feeling of compassion, our sense of the unity of Christendom - all this, and much more, appeared in those hundred marvellous years.'
(Book £4.75. paperback ã2.25: see p 54)
A weekly series of concert performances by some of the best entertainers in a wide spectrum of today's musical taste.
This week: John Denver
Accompanied by Mike Taylor (guitar), Richard Kniss (bass)
The American star will be singing many of his own compositions including probably his biggest hit 'Leaving on a Jet Plane.'
(This Week's Sounds: page 11)
Introduced by David Blackmore
At this time of year the thoughts of most pony-owners and club riders are on the gymkhanas they've entered throughout the summer.
But before you can take your pony to the show and hope to win it has to be prepared.
(Colour)
by Mary McMinnies
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Ray Lawler
The Purdoes have settled down to life in Grusnov. With the help of Gisela, Milly has made her first purchase on the Black Market.
Sheridan Morley talks to Robert Altman, the American director of M*A*S*H*, Brewster McCloud, McCabe and Mrs Miller and now Images made in Ireland last year.
Philip Jenkinson looks at vintage 'private eye' films.
Starring Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Ernst Lubitsch's last film was a Ruritanian comedy romance in the tradition of Trouble in Paradise. The glamorous Betty Grable is the mistress of Bergamo, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, in fine swashbuckling form, plays a colonel in the invading Hungarian army who falls for her charms.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
