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Introduced by Cliff Michelmore

Cross-Channel ferries cost more per mile than any in the world. A Danish company says it can run them at half the present cost. Will this price war help the holiday motorist? Michael Frostick investigates.

Leicester builder Tom Wheatcroft has spent more than ten years and a private fortune buying and restoring many of the world's most famous single-seater racing cars. Barrie Gill visits his museum at Donnington Park.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Michael Frostick
Interviewee:
Tom Wheatcroft
Reporter:
Barrie Gill
Director:
Tony Salmon
Director:
Peter Cleaver
Producer:
John Mills
Editor:
Brian Robins

Geraint Evans rehearses students in scenes from Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'
Translation by Edward J. Dent
With Caroline Friend, Jennifer Dakin, Christopher Booth Jones, Bernard Lyon, Julian Pike

In the second of his three classes Sir Geraint, whose portrayal of Figaro is well known, shows the thought and work needed to give life to a character, and how singers must work together on stage.

Contributors

Presenter/Teacher:
Geraint Evans
Translation by:
Edward J. Dent
Singer:
Caroline Friend
Singer:
Jennifer Dakin
Singer:
Christopher Booth Jones
Singer:
Bernard Lyon
Singer:
Julian Pike
Repetiteur:
Robin Stapleton
Design:
Lesley Bremness
Producer:
Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
Director:
David Buckton

The first semi-final
From the League of Champions: Rex Williams v Fred Davis
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Weeks
Snooker player:
Rex Williams
Snooker player:
Fred Davis
Referee:
Sydney Lee
Commentator:
Ted Lowe
Director:
Jim Dumighan
Producer:
Reg Perrin

Her life and work dramatised by Robin Chapman

In the life
In 'Je ne parle pas francais.'
In 'Sun and Moon'

Contributors

Dramatist:
Robin Chapman
Sound:
Brian Hiles
Lighting:
Sam Barclay
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Rosemary Hill
Director:
Alan Cooke
Katherine:
Vanessa Redgrave
John Middleton Murry:
Jeremy Brett
D.H. Lawrence:
Michael Williams
Frieda Lawrence:
Jacki Harding
Chummie:
Richard Kay
Doctor:
Norman Ettlinger
Raoul:
Joseph Blatchley
Dick:
Malcolm Stoddard
Mouse:
Pamela Moiseiwitsch
Girl:
Corinna Marlowe
Waiter:
null Alba
Madame:
Yvonne Bonnamy
Garcon:
Andrew Lane
Mother:
Phyllida Law
Father:
Bruce Purchase
Nurse:
Jeanette Lewis
Sun:
Gregory Cooke
Moon:
Pascal King
Old lady:
Marie Makino
Old man:
Sidney Johnson

A series of six programmes
Introduced by Joan Bakewell
[with] Gary Hamilton, Demetrius Christopholus and Peter Blake from the London production of Hair

The reasons for wearing wigs and the methods of making them have hardly changed - only styles have.

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Guest:
Gary Hamilton
Guest:
Demetrius Christopholus
Guest:
Peter Blake
Series devised by:
Janet Arnold
Costume designer:
John Bloomfield
Producer:
Margaret McCall
Lord Foppington:
Bryan Pringle
Foretop:
Tim Wylton
Samuel Pepys:
Peter Sallis

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