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Story: "Milly-Molly-Mandy on a Wet Day" by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Told by Anne Cunningham

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author (Milly-Molly-Mandy on a Wet Day):
Joyce Lankester Brisley
Storyteller:
Anne Cunningham
Presenter:
Chloe Ashcroft
Presenter:
Brian Cant

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Henry Higgins - Bullfighter
Four years ago Man Alive made a report about a young English-man living in Spain. Henry Higgins - a bullfighter.
Jeremy James talked to him in his moments of triumph and despair as he struggled against massive and dangerous odds to become a bullfighter whom the Spanish would admire. Now he has succeeded. He has become a matador and a biography has been written about him.
Tonight's Man Alive shows Henry Higgins in his struggle to the top and asks him now whether it was all worthwhile.

Contributors

Interviewee/Subject:
Henry Higgins
Interviewer:
Jeremy James
Producer:
Richard Thomas
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox

with Johnny Morris
From its sources in the Swiss Alps down to the North Sea, Johnny explores the towns and countryside around this great river.

'Switzerland in late summer - there tumbles winter's old snow -the sweat of a mountain. You become so mesmerised by the sensational scenery it's a long time before you realise that there aren't many people about.'
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Johnny Morris
Producer:
Brian Patten

Starring Paul Muni
with Glenda Farrell, Preston Foster, Helen Vinson

An ex-serviceman, down on his luck, is forced at gunpoint to help a man rob a till. Caught with two dollars, he is sentenced to the nightmare of the chain gang.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Howard J. Green
Screenplay:
Brown Holmes
Based on the novel by:
Robert E. Burns
Director:
Mervyn Le Roy
James Allen:
Paul Muni
Marie:
Glenda Farrell
Helen:
Helen Vinson
Linda:
Noel Francis
Peter:
Presto Foster
Barney Sykes:
Allen Jenkins
The Judge:
Berton Churchill
Bomber Wells:
Edward Ellis
The Warden:
David London
Rev Alien:
Hale Hamilton
Alice:
Sally Blane
Mother:
Louise Carter

The residents on a council estate near Croydon, Surrey, were recently invited by the BBC to make their own TV programme.
They chose as their subject Community and Communications and tonight you can see the result - a programme devised, presented and produced entirely by people from the estate.

BBC Two England

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