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7.40 Foundation Maths - Review

8.5 Religious Responses

8.30 Pure Maths: Rings

8.55 Concrete

9.20 Army

9.45 Tawny Owls

10.10 A Policeman's Lot

10.35 Maths: Linear Programming

11.0 Urban Education

11.25 World War II

11.50 Limestone Deposition

12.15 Politics of Revolt: Poland

12.40 Telephone Switching: 2

1.5 Jude the Obscure

1.30 Hormones and Homeostasis

1.55 Micro-fossils

2.20 The Digital Computer

Starring Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady, Brian Donlevy

Lee Travis, a former Confederate prisoner and now in the Union Army, is sent to bring law and order to the town of Colton, Arizona. But Travis has another job to do - one that the Union Army does not know about.

Films: page 9

Contributors

Director:
Lesley Selander
Lee Travis:
Howard Keel
Jill Wyler:
Yvonne de Carlo
Dan Shelby:
John Ireland
Molly:
Marilyn Maxwell
Tom Rile:
Scott Brady
Mayor Smith:
Brian Donlevy
Sheriff Grover:
Barton MacLane
Ike Clanton:
James Craig
Roy:
Roy Rogers Jr
Curly:
Reg Parton
Stage driver:
Montie Montana

From the novel by Sybille Bedford dramatised in five parts by Robert Muller
Starring Claire Bloom, Irene Handl, Jeremy Brett, Jenny Agutter, Richard Hurndall, Angela Pleasence, Geoffrey Whitehead, Robin Bailey
with John Fraser as Julius von Felden and Flora Robson as the Narrator

By a trick the Army persuaded Baron von Felden to return Johannes to Benzheim, and Gabriel was killed trying to prevent it. Clara and Gustavus, now married, have settled in with the Baron.

Contributors

Author:
Sybille Bedford
Dramatised by:
Robert Muller
Producer:
Ron Craddock
Director:
Derek Martinus
Narrator:
Flora Robson
Sarah Merz:
Claire Bloom
Julius von Felden:
John Fraser
Grandpapa Merz:
Cyril Shaps
Grandmama Merz:
Irene Handl
Eduard Merz:
Jeremy Brett
Friedrich Merz:
Leonard Fenton
Gottlieb:
Richard Hurndall
Cousin Markwald:
Jack Lynn
Grand-uncle Emil:
Harold Berens
Melanie Merz:
Jenny Agutter
Houseboy:
Robert von Kaphengst
Head station official:
Terence Conoley
Station official:
Gertan Klauber
Cabbie:
Roy Evans
Clara von Felden:
Angela Pleasence
Gustavus von Felden:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Count Bernin:
Robin Bailey

A shortened version of this morning's ceremony when HM The Queen took the salute on Horse Guards Parade, London, at the annual Parade in celebration of her official birthday by the Household Division.

The Queen's Colour of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards was trooped.

Contributors

Commentator:
Tom Fleming
Commentator:
Major John Smiley
Television Outside Broadcast Producer:
Philip S. Gilbert

Tonight's edition of 2nd House explores in verse, drama, cartoon, documentary and song how our views of wedlock have been shifting in recent times from the Victorian belief in a life-long union entailing absolute fidelity.

Including two short plays:

1: The Mayor of Casterbridge
A chapter from Thomas Hardy's novel adapted by Peter Prince

2: Comrades
One act from August Strindberg's play adapted by Jeremy Brooks

Also appearing are the poets James Simmons, Alan Jackson, Roger McGough and Adrian Henri with Elaine Stritch reading poems by Dorothy Parker, plus interviews with married couples, with Daily Mirror columnist Marjorie Proops and Dr Prudence Tunnadine of the Institute of Psycho-Sexual Medicine.

Contributors

Poet:
James Simmons
Poet:
Alan Jackson
Poet:
Roger McGough
Poet:
Adrian Henri
Reader:
Elaine Stritch
Interviewee:
Marjorie Proops
Interviewee:
Dr Prudence Tunnadine
Author (The Mayor of Casterbridge):
Thomas Hardy
Adapted by (The Mayor of Casterbridge):
Peter Prince
Susan:
Susan Tebbs
Michael:
Struan Rodger
Author (Comrades):
August Strindberg
Adapted by (Comrades):
Jeremy Brooks
Bertha:
Jane Asher
Axel:
Ronald Pickup
Producer:
Tony Cash
Editor:
Bill Morton

by Dilip Hiro
Authors from the Commonwealth explore their changing societies in six new plays.

Young Subodh is making yet another hopeless application for a job. Perhaps his higher caste friend Tarun can pull strings to help him. But when a friend returns from their village with bad news, Subodh is forced to question a system which starves and kills.

Preview: p 13

Contributors

Writer:
Dilip Hiro
Script Editor:
Alan Seymour
Designer:
Peter Seddon
Producer:
Anne Head
Director:
Mark Cullingham
Subodh Nayak:
Dev Sagoo
Tarun Bose:
Robert Ashby
Anil Roy:
Roshan Seth
Gour:
Billy Uddin

Starring Jean Simmons

A young country girl is given a job as part-time secretary by an ex-bootlegger in his off-Broadway night club.

Films: page 9

Contributors

Director:
Robert Wise
Anne Leeds:
Jean Simmons
Rocco:
Paul Douglas
Tony Armotti:
Anthony Franciosa
Ivy Corlane:
Julie Wilson
Crystal:
Dan Blondell
Patsy St Clair:
Neile Adams
Leon:
J Carrol Naish
Hussein Mohammed:
Rafael Campos
Mrs Shea:
Zasu Pitts

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