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from Penshurst Placo, Kent
Songs of the past ombine with 20th-century electronic instruments in one of England's finest baronial halls. STEELEYE SPAN step into history when they sing from 'he 14th-century Baron's Hall of Penshurst Place.
Producer BARRY BEVINS (Manchester)

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Producer:
Barry Bevins

Mr Heath addresses the nation, 13 December 1973: 'I want to speak to you simply and plainly about the grave emergency now facing our country ...' The three-day week was added to the oil shortage and railway disruption.
A film of how four people and their families faced up to a second darkest hour; how they carried on working or were laid off; how they voted; how they hoped things would turn out; and how they finally met at winter's end to look back on it all and consider the future.
A pipe-fitter, a shopkeeper, an insurance clerk and a small-business man in the winter of 1973-4. Directors PETER CARR. STEVE ROBERTS Executive producer WILL WYATT

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Heath
Directors:
Peter Carr.
Directors:
Steve Roberts

Tony Bilbow reviews two family films for Easter-The Optimists with Peter Sellers and Swallows and Amazons based on Arthur Ransome's book. A preview of the film version of Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford which has its Charity Premiere in London next week.
Philip Jenkinson looks at earlier attempts to bring Scott Fitzgerald and his novels to the screen including The Last Time I Saw Paris, Beloved Infidel and Tender is the Night.
William Hall, film correspondent of London's Evening News, reports from Ceylon, where Dimitri de Grunwald has been making a 5th-century epic The God King.
Producer BARRY BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Unknown:
Arthur Ransome
Unknown:
Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Robert Redford
Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson
Unknown:
Scott Fitzgerald
Producer:
Barry Brown
Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson

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