Starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen
Priscilla, a little girl staying with her grandfather in India, inadvertently helps the natives to rescue their chieftain from arrest.
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Starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen
Priscilla, a little girl staying with her grandfather in India, inadvertently helps the natives to rescue their chieftain from arrest.
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with Brian Cant
Sailing down the Clyde on the paddle-steamer Waverley - Toni is on her way to the small isle of Cumbrae where 'people use boats like other people use buses.' By the shores of Loch Lomond, Brian meets a monster and he also tells a very tall fishing story.
(A BBC record, RBT 19, with songs and games from Play Away, available from all record shops, price 95p)
(Colour)
A series featuring a selection of BBCtv programmes viewers have particularly asked to see again.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
Excavations on Santorini - a volcanic island 60 miles north of Crete in the Aegean - have revealed a Minoan city buried, like Pompeii, under a preserving mantle of volcanic ash. Does it hold the clue to Atlantis - Plato's legend of a lost idyllic land? Chronicle cameras try to find the answer.
In the London borough of Hillingdon house-owners are up in arms about proposed new council housing.
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament
Weather
from Ravenhill, Belfast
Argentina in recent years has proved itself to be one of the strongest up-and-coming rugby nations. In tours there by Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the home countries achieved victory in only one of the six internationals played. This afternoon's match against a talented Ulster side could provide many surprises.
A brisk stroll down the funnier side of Fleet Street featuring Julian Orchard, Anna Quayle, William Rushton
and Norman Chappell, Barbara Evans, Roland MacLeod, Paul McDowell
with special guest John Bird
An anthology for November, highlighting some of the month's events in music, theatre, visual arts, books, and film.
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg
Among the main events:
The Merry-go-Round
From the Royal Court Theatre, scenes from Peter Gill's adaptation of an early play by D. H. Lawrence, with Derrick O'Connor as Harry Hemstock and Susan Tracy as Rachel Wilcox
In the studio, Melvyn Bragg talks to two contributors to a new collection of essays on Lawrence: Barbara Hardy, Head of the English Department at Birkbeck College; and author Alan Sillitoe
The Floating World
From the Victoria and Albert Museum, an exhibition of Japanese popular prints, which conjure up a dream-like world of beautiful but weird landscapes, warriors, exotically-dressed women, fantasy, and nightmare.
Edwin Mullins presents a selection of pictures with music specially written by Karl Jenkins of the 'Soft Machine.'
Clay
A film for Hallowe'en: an adaptation of one of the stories from James Joyce's Dubliners
Adapted by Simon Raven
with
Children's games for Hallowe'en: the water for a journey, the ring for a wedding, the book for the church and clay for a death...
Georges Brassens
From the new Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, a rare appearance in this country of the singing poet of Montparnasse.
Welsh Dylan
An exhibition celebrating aspects of Dylan Thomas's life in Wales opens in Cardiff next week, the 20th anniversary of his death.
For 2nd House, Anthony Hopkins reads 'Fernhill,' and 'Don't go gentle into that good night.'
by Henry James
Dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman
(Shown last Thursday)
(Colour)
Selections from the series starring Eleanor Bron, John Bird and Barrie Ingham
Written by Michael Frayn and Eleanor Bron with John Bird
Weather
Starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland
with Leif Erickson, Andi Garrett, Sarah Lane
Teenager Libby Mannering is left to look after little sister Tess when their parents go away for the night. To while away the time they make mischievous telephone calls at random, one of which brings a desperate murderer to their isolated country home seeking to silence them - for ever.
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