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The Natural History Museum is a place of enthusiasts, the hundreds of children who swarm through the public galleries each day and the 350 naturalists employed by the museum.

This programme is a chance to look behind the scenes of a well-known institution.

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
Peter Goodchild
Producer:
Christopher La Fontaine

(La Vie en Mouvement)
The animal world has an infinite variety of methods of locomotion which are often spectacular, ingenious and beautiful, and sometimes just odd.
Commentary spoken by Max Bellancourt
An Eolis Films Paris/BBC-tv Bristol production

Contributors

Narrator:
Max Bellancourt
Music:
Georges Prost
Director:
Gerald Calderon
English Adaptation:
Fae Hall
English Adaptation:
Barry Paine

Leader William Armon
and featuring Moira Anderson
The Roy Gunson Dancers
The Tony Mansell Singers

Contributors

Musicians:
Mantovani and his Concert Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
William Armon
Singer:
Moira Anderson
Dancers:
The Roy Gunson Dancers
Singers:
The Tony Mansell Singers
Choreographer:
Roy Gunson
Designer:
Robert MacGowan
Producer:
John Street

by Evelyn Waugh
Adapted in seven parts by Barry Took
Starring Harry Worth as William Boot

Despite complications in obtaining his passport and visas, William Boot, unwilling war correspondent of the Daily Beast, finally makes his way to Ishmaelia. On the way he meets the mysterious Mr Baldwin...

with Sheila Hancock as Mrs Stitch, Brian Oulton as Salter, Kenneth J. Warren as Lord Copper, John Junkin as Baldwin, James Beck as Corker, Gerald Flood as John Boot
and in order of appearance: [remaining cast]

Contributors

Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Adapted by:
Barry Took
Design:
Roger Murray-Leach
Producer:
Michael Mills
William Boot:
Harry Worth
Mrs Stitch:
Sheila Hancock
Salter:
Brian Oulton
Lord Copper:
Kenneth J. Warren
Baldwin:
John Junkin
Corker:
James Beck
John Boot:
Gerald Flood
Hotel valet:
Ken Wynne
Robert:
Philip Lennard
Slatternly woman:
Eileen May
First Consul:
Bruce Callender
Second Consul:
Jules Walter
Delivery boy:
Robert Forbes
Cuthbert:
Hugh Latimer
First Customs Officer:
John Leslie
Second Customs Officer:
Richard Pescud
Ship's Steward:
Derek Griffiths
French Administrator:
Neville Barber

by Julian Bond
with Zena Walker as Mary Drew, Hildegard Neil as Helen Barlow
Guest star George Cole as Arthur Drew

Back in London, Richard Drew refuses to back a business venture set up by his younger brother, Arthur - who replies with a viciously resentful but accurate back-log of home truths.

(George Cole is in "The Philanthropist" at the May Fair Theatre, London)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Julian Bond
Snooker advice and sequence:
Herbert Holt
Producer:
Stella Richman
Director:
Alastair Reid
Richard Drew:
Kenneth More
Mary Drew:
Zena Walker
Helen Barlow:
Hildegard Neil
Arthur Drew:
George Cole
Receptionist:
Veronica Lang
Miss Haverford:
Eve Pearce
Jock:
Anthony Edwards
Fred:
David Steuart
Peter:
Marc Neighbour
Paul:
Spencer Plumridge
Vic:
Victor Winding

Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell
with Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
A season of Billy Wilder's most celebrated comedies

Billy Wilder turned Marilyn Monroe into a major star when he cast her as 'the girl upstairs' in this adaptation of George Axelrod's famous play about the middle-aged man faced with temptation in the shapely form of a beautiful, uninhibited blonde.

Contributors

Screenplay/Director:
Billy Wilder
Screenplay/Based on a play by:
George Axelrod
The Girl:
Marilyn Monroe
Richard Sherman:
Tom Ewell
Helen Sherman:
Evelyn Keyes
Tom MacKenzie:
Sonny Tufts
Krukulik:
Robert Strauss
Dr Brubaker:
Oscar Homolka
Plumber:
Victor Moore
Mr Brady:
Donald MacBride
Miss Finch:
Carolyn Jones
Miss Morris:
Marguerite Chapman
Waitress:
Doro Merande

BBC Two England

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