The four-page supplement of 1973 Open University programmes, as printed in Radio Times, is obtainable on request from Information Services (Ref EP), [address removed]
Starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
with Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd
Three soldiers meet for a reunion ten years after the war is over.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
[with] Lionel Morton, Dave and Toni Arthur, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
(Colour)
Every vet has his own ideas about running a practice. What can you get for your money?
In January Eugen Schuhmacher died. He was one of the great German wildlife film makers. As a tribute to him we are reshowing this outstanding film, a result of his incredible seven-year odyssey, started in 1959, through the world's last wildernesses in search of vanishing animals such as orang-utans, Indian rhinos, Asiatic lions, Komodo dragons.
Commentary by Anthony Smith
(From Bristol)
Nearest place to home where the sun still shines, especially for those with no Empire left to rule.
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and the progress of Parliament.
In order to gain a place in the final for the first time since 1948 Eastern Counties have to overcome the current champions.
(Colour)
A second chance to see this serial in four parts based on the unfinished novel by R.L. Stevenson, dramatised by Tom Wright.
A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, poetry, film, dance, comedy, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird
Among the main events:
With 100 Kazoos
(British premiere)
For some contemporary composers, audience participation can produce a new kind of excitement. David Bedford conducts the first performance in this country of an unusual work, in which a chamber ensemble of musicians will be joined by 100 kazoos, played by the studio audience.
One street beyond justice or love
Mrs Carol Rumens wrote a sequence of poems during the time she was living on the New Addington housing estate near Croydon. Tonight she will read some of the poems that came out of that experience: and the studio audience will be invited to discuss questions raised by her work, about municipal housing in particular, and the quality of the environment in general.
Soft Machine
A group of four musicians whose brand of music defies categorisation, unique in having performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, a Henry Wood Promenade concert, and at rock centres throughout Europe and the USA.
They are Mike Ratledge, keyboards; Hugh Hopper, bass guitar; John Marshall, drums; Karl Jenkins, keyboard, oboe, saxophone.
10.10 Mass
The artistic director of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Robert Cohan, has been working with composer Vladimir Rodzianko on a new work, which combines dance and singing in a new form of music theatre. Mass is a fusion of Cohan's choreography and Rodzianko's score which will be sung by the dancers themselves.
The Sisters
A film adaptation of one of the stories from Dubliners by James Joyce:
with [see below]
Plus showgirls and shepherdesses, matadors and generals, ostriches, bears and turkeys: some unique fairground sculpture by master carvers that will be shown in the Full House studio.
The Sisters: adapted by John McGahern
(Radio Times People: page 4)
Match your musical wits against Polly Elwes, Richard Baker, Robin Ray
Chairman Joseph Cooper
Weather
(Colour)
Starring Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott
After six gruelling years in a chain gang for someone else's crime, Lonnie Wilson returns home to claim from the lovely Melinda his reward for silence.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
