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Story: "Hiccups" by Malcolm Carrick

(Repeated today on BBC2 at 3.45)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author (Hiccups):
Malcolm Carrick
Presenter:
Sarah Long
Presenter:
Lionel Morton
Pianist:
John Gould
Director:
Carole Ward
Producer:
Peter Ridsdale Scott

A film starring Leslie Howard, David Niven
with Rosamund John

The story of aircraft-designer R.J. Mitchell whose inspired determination gave Britain World War II's most formidable fighter - the Spitfire - just in time to meet the enemy onslaught.

Contributors

Produced and directed by:
Leslie Howard
R.J. Mitchell:
Leslie Howard
Geoffrey Crisp:
David Niven
Diana Mitchell:
Rosamund John
Commander Bride:
Roland Culver

For this highly original production from Australia cartoonist Bruce Petty created an incredible assembly of wheels, cogs, pulleys and string on which the money game is played with all the fervour and drama of a major sporting event.

See the amazing economics machine in action as six contestants battle for the championship - no holds barred. And remember it's the same game in which we are all involved!

An Australian Broadcasting Commission production

Contributors

Conceived and directed by:
Bruce Petty
The Government:
Noel Ferrier
The Foreigner:
Joseph Furst
The Employer:
Alfred Sandor
The Underdeveloper:
John Cheung
The Financier:
Alastair Duncan
The Worker:
Chris Haywood
Umpire:
Nat Levison
Commentator:
Ken Howard
Commentator:
Martin Royal

featuring The Mansudai Dance Company
An artistic entertainment by a skilful and dedicated troupe from Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. These artists perform for the first time in England a colourful programme of exotic dances, acrobatics and comedy.
Introduced by Philip Oakes

Televised by arrangement with Victor Hochhauser Ltd

(Colour)

Contributors

Entertainers:
The Mansudai Dance Company
Presenter:
Philip Oakes
Producer:
Don Sayer

told by Malcolm Muggeridge

She carried the Red Flag at miners' parades while a teacher at a girls' school; associated with Trotskyites; fought in the Spanish Civil War. Yet T.S. Eliot, Gide, Camus and Iris Murdoch agree that her book "Waiting on God" is a spiritual classic.
In Holy Week 1938 Christ entered her being once and for all. But she refused to join the Church and thus, as Gide put it, became the patron saint of all outsiders. This young Frenchwoman died in England 30 years ago, and is buried in a pauper's grave.
Among those taking part:
Andre Weil, her brother, a leading mathematician
Jacques Soustelle, politician and one-time associate of De Gaulle

(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Interviewee:
Andre Weil
Interviewee:
Jacques Soustelle
Composer:
Michael Dress
Film Cameraman:
Jean-Pierre Lemoine
Film Editor:
Peter Orton
Producer:
Vernon Sproxton
Voice of Simone Weil:
Jill Balcon

Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
with Charles Bronson, Robert Webber

Dr Edward Hewitt is the respected principal of a small private school. But his passionate affair with the beautiful and unconventional Laura Reynolds threatens to destroy his career - and his marriage.

Contributors

Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Laura Reynolds:
Elizabeth Taylor
Dr Edward Hewitt:
Richard Burton
Claire Hewitt:
Eva Marie Saint
Cos Erickson:
Charles Bronson
Ward Hendricks:
Robert Webber
Larry Brant:
James Edwards
Judge Thompson:
Torin Thatcher
Walter Robinson:
Tom Drake
Phil Sutcliff:
Doug Henderson
Danny Reynolds:
Morgan Mason

BBC Two England

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