Story: "Cinderella" by Dick Bruna

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More items of interest, information and investigation for collectors about collecting.

Paintings at Auction: Barrie Penrose tries a little speculation and soon discovers the hard way that auction rooms are not all paved with gold.

Bronzes: Bronze has been a sculptor's medium since before the sixth century BC. Jeremy Cooper traces its evolution with some fine examples from all periods.

Arthur Negus answers viewers' questions
Hugh Scully introduces the programme

(From Bristol)

Collector's World will be back in the New Year

John Hillaby uses the South Downs as a springboard, a practice-ground for his longer walks abroad. Over miles of glorious Sussex countryside we follow the track of one of the oldest highways in Britain.
From Harting to Beachy Head, Hillaby shows us the delights of open country, orchid-strewn forests; picturesque villages and smugglers' haunts. We share his observations as a naturalist; his recounting of local tales and superstitions; his blisters and his beer.

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A season of Hollywood musicals from the golden era of the 30s tonight starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald

Ernst Lubitsch's spectacular, lavish and enormously expensive film from Lehar's operetta.

The king of mythical Marshovia orders a royal guard to woo a wealthy widow in order to keep her vast resources in the bankrupt country.
The guard willingly pursues the widow to Paris where he mistakes her for one of the light ladies of the famous Maxim's.
There, the widow proves a discouragingly hard conquest - especially when she discovers the reason for his flattering attentions...

(This Week's Films: page 9)

by Julian Mitchell.
With John Le Mesurier as Sir Henry and Elizabeth Spriggs as Eleanor.

A deadly flu bug threatens to wipe out the world. A British-made drug can cure the flu, but it leaves the takers impotent...
(Elizabeth Spriggs is an Associate member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

with John Edmunds
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