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A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest. The interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic-plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
With Peter Woods

Contributors

Newsreader:
Peter Woods
Editor:
Bill Northwood

What are the Church, the State and voluntary groups doing for drop-outs and dossers and those with nowhere to live and nowhere to work? What more can be done to help them?
Joan Bakewell, in the second of two programmes about people in need, talks to a group of homeless people and those who are trying to help them, including David Ennals, former MP and now director of CHAR, and Rev Bill Kirkpatrick of Centrepoint, Soho.
(The Affirmative Way, with Joan Bakewell: Tuesday at 11.45 pm, BBC1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Panellist:
David Ennals
Panellist:
Rev Bill Kirkpatrick
Director:
Peter Armstrong
Producer:
Shirley Du Boulay

Professor William Watson and Magnus Magnusson continue their journey across revolutionary China in this second of two films. To put in context the newly discovered art treasures now on display in London, they visit one of the world's greatest Buddhist shrines, are the first Europeans to descend into a recently excavated tomb of a T'ang princess who died in 701, explore the ancient capital, Sian - for centuries the largest city in the world.
The film moves from the golden age of the Han emperors to the 700-year-old Forbidden City of Kublai Khan.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Professor William Watson
Presenter:
Magnus Magnusson
Film Cameraman:
Phil Meheux
Film Editor:
Jonathan Crane
Producer:
Michael Gill

A four-part serial by Colin Morris
Starring Ronald Pickup, Virginia McKenna

In 1925, Jack Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, is a young man looking forward to a bright future. His ideas, however, do not always agree with those his mother has for him.

Contributors

Writer:
Colin Morris
Lighting:
Geoff Shaw
Sound:
Derek Miller-Timmins
Designer:
Oliver Bayldon
Producer:
Anthony Read
Director:
Ben Rea
Jack:
Ronald Pickup
Greenfield:
Dennis Edwards
Margaret, Countess of Suffolk:
Virginia McKenna
Drill Sgt:
Alastair Meldrum
Batman:
Iain Blair
Adjutant:
Eric McCaine
Senior Subaltern:
Robert Mill
First Cockney:
Norman Mitchell
Second Cockney:
Nigel Stevens
Mimi Crawford:
Veronica Lang
Betty:
Margot Thomas
Harry Barnes:
Graham Weston
Captain McColm:
Vincent Ball
Reporter:
Alan Tucker
Sam:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Duke:
Fredric Abbott
Second shearer:
Reg Lye
Willy:
Walter Sparrow
Greville Howard:
Anton Darby

An affectionate tribute to celebrate their 25th anniversary.
In 1948 three Austrian refugees and an Englishman formed a partnership which was to transform the musical public's attitude to chamber music.
Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof and Martin Lovett are seen playing Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; rehearsing with Sir Michael Tippett; and relaxing with their families.
Introduced by John Amis

BBCtv/Bavarian Television

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Amis
Director:
Roy Tipping
Subject:
Norbert Brainin
Subject:
Siegmund Nissel
Subject:
Peter Schidlof
Subject:
Martin Lovett
Musicians:
Amadeus Quartet
Conductor:
Sir Michael Tippett

Written by Eddie Braben
starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
Eric and Ernie's guests: Robert Morley, Vicky Leandros, New World

Scene: The tomb of Tutankhamun as three intrepid explorers prepare to enter the unknown...
Morley: Shoulders to the door and heave! Heave! The tomb of Tutankhamun.'
Ernie: 'I do not like this place. It's horrible.'
Eric: 'We played a theatre like this a couple of weeks ago.'
Morley (in awe): 'The Egyptian Empire.'
Eric: 'No, I think it was the Liverpool Empire...'

(First shown on BBC1)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Eddie Braben
Orchestra Director:
Peter Knight
Designer:
Victor Meredith
Producer:
John Ammonds
Comedian:
Eric Morecambe
Comedian:
Ernie Wise
Guest:
Robert Morley
Singer:
Vicky Leandros
Musicians:
New World
[Actress]:
Ann Hamilton
[Actor]:
Reg Lye
[Actress]:
Janet Webb

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John

Critics anonymous. An official film is made about the work of the heroic hospital war units. Hawkeye and Trapper decide to set the record straight.

Contributors

Director:
Lee Philips
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Major Frank Burns:
Larry Linville
General Clayton:
Herb Voland

BBC Two England

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