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National Art-Collections Fund
If you have visited a museum then there is an excellent chance that something you enjoyed seeing would not have been there but for the National Art-Collections Fund. Michael Reinhold looks at the Fund, past, present and future, in its 70th year.

Arthur Negus answers viewers' questions
Hugh Scully introduces the programme
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugh Scully
Reporter (National Art-Collections Fund):
Michael Reinhold
Expert:
Arthur Negus
Director:
Robin Drake
Director:
Paul Smith
Producer:
John King

In tonight's programme John Hillaby returns to his native Yorkshire, to the moors and dales of his boyhood.

He strides across the North Riding, Sutton Bank, Malham Cove, Ilkley Moor and into Leeds - vividly describing his walk and opening a whole range of speculation about our activities and the future of the countryside under his feet.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Hillaby
Director:
Roy Davies
Executive Producer:
Bridget Winter

Tonight's film in a short season of Hollywood musicals from the golden era of the 30s stars Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan and Harry Langdon

In this unusual and charmingly ingenious film which switches deftly from light opera to serious drama, Bumper, a tramp, saves a girl from suicide after she has quarrelled with her lover. The girl has lost her memory and as the tramp takes care of her he finds himself falling in love.

Contributors

Director:
Lewis Milestone
Bumper:
Al Jolson
June Marcher:
Madge Evans
Mayor Hastings:
Frank Morgan
Egghead:
Harry Langdon
Sunday:
Chester Conklin
Mayor's secretary:
Tyler Brooke
Orlando:
Tamniany Young
John:
Burt Roach
Acorn:
Edgar Connor
Apple Mary:
Dorothea Wolbert
Ma Sunday:
Louise Carver

by Hugh Leonard.

Wealthy Johann Schultz lies close to death in an Irish monastery and the vultures gather - including the four, ill-assorted relatives of his dead wife who are his sole heirs.

Contributors

Writer:
Hugh Leonard
Lighting:
John Treays
Script Editor:
Richard Broke
Designer:
Kenneth Sharp
Producer:
Mark Shivas
Director:
Michael Apted
Hartigan:
Geoffrey Golden
Alacoque:
Maureen Aherne
Haymes:
Philip Stone
Ellie:
Brenda Fricker
Ignatius:
Kevin Flood
Dympna:
Ronnie Masterson
Malaventura:
Aideen O'Kelly
Canavan:
Donal Neligan
Ulric:
Denys Hawthorne
Alice:
Rosaleen Linehan
Superior:
Martin Dempsey
Mother Superior:
Elizabeth Begley
The German:
John Bryans
Schultz:
Kenneth Colley
Buonasera:
John Rogan
Superintendent:
Peter Adair
Suspect:
Kenneth Sicklen

featuring Salena Jones, Doris Troy, Esther Marrow
guest David Snell

Everybody fluffed up and got in touch.
Doris Troy's description of what happened in a smoky club in Birmingham when three welltempoed ladies stood up to sing for half an hour.
From Opposite Lock Club, Birmingham

Contributors

Singer:
Salena Jones
Singer:
Doris Troy
Singer:
Esther Marrow
Harpist:
David Snell
Director:
Mike Begg
Producer:
Philip Lewis

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