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An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
[with] Julie Stevens, Johnny Silvo, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Bobby Orr
Today's guest Roy Castle

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Cant
Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Johnny Silvo
Musician:
Jonathan Cohen
Musician:
Spike Heatley
Musician:
Bobby Orr
Guest:
Roy Castle
Director:
Michael Grafton-Robinson
Executive Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

Starring Gregory Peck
with Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

The action, adventure and deep emotion of A.J. Cronin's famous story of a missionary in 19th-century China.
This Week's Films: page 9

Contributors

From the story by:
A.J. Cronin
Director:
John M. Stahl
Fr Francis Chisholm:
Gregory Peck
Dr Tulloch:
Thomas Mitchell
Rev Angus Mealy:
Vincent Price
Mother Maria-Veronica:
Rosa Stradner
Francis (as a child):
Roddy McDowall
Rev Hamish MacNabb:
Edmund Gwenn
Mgr Sleeth:
Cedric Hardwicke

Hazor, a huge, forgotten Biblical city. was rediscovered by Professor Yigael Yadin, the man who excavated Massada. In this programme he tells how he used the Bible to make a Middle Eastern site reveal its secrets.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Professor Yigael Yadin
Narrator:
Magnus Magnusson
Presented by:
Antonia Benedek

It's a way we have in the Baabaas
The Barbarian club's Easter tour of Wales is now a well-established tradition. Today they returned to Cardiff Arms Park for the first time since that spectacular victory over New Zealand. With them, their chief 'alickadoo' (official) Brig Glyn Hughes, their 80-year-old President who celebrates his 50th year with the club this season. Bill McLaren describes the best of the action at Cardiff RFC Ground.

(Colour)

Contributors

Commentator:
Bill McLaren
TV Presentation:
Dewi Griffiths
Series Producer:
Alan Mouncer

Chairman Brian Redhead
This week with Hilary Pritchard and Michael Parkinson
A new series in which guest personalities help or hinder members of the public to guess the Password.
An addict's game - for punsters and crossworders.

(Colour)

Contributors

Chairman:
Brian Redhead
Panellist:
Hilary Pritchard
Panellist:
Michael Parkinson
Devised by:
Mark Goodson
Devised by:
Bill Todman
Director:
Peggy Walker
Producer:
Cecil Korer

by Colette
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Michael Voysey
Starring Yvonne Mitchell, Scott Antony, Brenda Bruce

Lea is nearing the end of her career as a fashionable Parisian courtesan. For seven years she has been having an affair with Cheri, son of her friend Charlotte.

Contributors

Author:
null Colette
Dramatised by:
Michael Voysey
Lea:
Yvonne Mitchell
Cheri:
Scott Antony
Charlotte:
Brenda Bruce

The first of a series of five widely differing ballets from Prague, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Frankfurt.

Czechoslovak Television's film version of the current Prague National Theatre production
The series comes from the Royal College of Art, London, where Professor Stuart Hood gives students the opportunity of talking to the people who made these European ballet films.
Talking about Romeo and Juliet are Josef Svoboda, stage designer, and Petr Weigl who directed both the stage production and the film.

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Stuart Hood
Panellist:
Josef Svoboda
Panellist:
Petr Weigl
Producer:
Margaret Dale
Choreography (Romeo and Juliet):
Miroslav Kura
Music (Romeo and Juliet):
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo:
Bohumil Reisner
Juliet:
Michaela Vitkova
Mercutio:
Vlastimil Harapes
Tybalt:
Pavel Zdichynec
Nurse:
Eva Landova

Starring Humphrey Bogart
with Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter

A dying newspaper makes a desperate bid for survival with a hard-hitting campaign against a ruthless underworld czar.

This Week's Films: page 9

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Richard Brooks
Ed Hutcheson:
Humphrey Bogart
Mrs Garrison:
Ethel Barrymore
Nora:
Kim Hunter
Frank Allen:
Ed Begley
Burrows:
Warren Stevens
Thompson:
Paul Stewart
Rienzi:
Martin Gabel
Schmidt:
Joseph de Santis

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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