Starring Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin

In 1830 tough Kentucky mountain men Jim Deakins and Boone Caudill join a keelboat expedition from the frontier town of St Louis up the Missouri River into unknown territory.
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An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
Carol Chell , Don Spencer
Have you ever seen a 250-horsepower caterpillar? Brian comes across one when Play Away is away today in Gloucestershire. Don. watches some racehorses on their early morning gallops, while Carol meets some children racing their own go-karts.
Producer ANN REAY
Director ANNE GOBEY
BBC Record No RBT 19, with songs and games from Play Away, is available from all record shops, price 95p. The Bold Bad Bus, £1.60, from bookshops

A film impression of the colourful and exciting life of Hong Kong, its countryside and islands, during the 1973 Arts Festival. Taking part: The New Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by seiji OZAWA
Margot Fonteyn and Atticio Labis The Menuhin Chamber Ensemble Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Eartha Kitt , Julie Felix Fou Ts'ong
Delilah and The Matata
Director FRED BURNLEY

A look at the way four people and their families faced up to the events of a winter of crisis.

A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament. Presented by PETER HILL
EditorMICHAEL PAYNE

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Wales Youth v England Youth
The outstanding Welsh fly-half Phil Bennett began his international career with the Welsh youth side, and many of the senior internationals of the future will meet in today's youth international at St Helen's Rugby Ground, Swansea.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH describes the best of the action.
Director JOHNNIE WATHERSTON Series producer BILL TAYLOR

Chairman David Jacobs Panel: Isobel Barnett Kenneth Williams William Franklyn and Nanette Newman and a guest celebrity
Devised by MARK GOODSON , BILL TODMAN Director MICHAEL GOODWIN Producer ERNEST MAXIN

The opera by Sergei Prokofiev based on LEO TOLSTOY 'S classic novel in the new English version by EDWARD DOWNES
This new production by The Australian Opera, chosen for the first performance in the new Sydney Opera House was first shown on BBC2 last September.
Prokofiev wrote War and Peace during the Nazi invasion of Russia. His experiences during those years drew him to Tolstoy's epic story and resulted in an opera containing some of his finest music.
CHORUS OF THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA and THE ELIZABETHAN TRUST
SYDNEY ORCHESTRA conducted by Edward Downes
ProducerSAM WANAMAKER DesignerTOM LINGWOOD
Introduced by Lord Harewood
Presented for TV by JOHN VERNON A BBCtv/ABC co-production

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starring Olivia de Havilland with Mark Stevens
Leo Genn , Celeste Holm
A young woman realises one morning that she is in a mental home but can remember nothing of the five preceding months. The horrors of life in an institution are offset by the efforts of the staff, fighting against frustration and officialdom, to help the unfortunate inmates.
Director ANATOLE LITVAK
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