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2: Making Sense
Narrated by HUGH DAVID
A simple statement of what it feels like to be a child growing up from babyhood to the age of five. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Film editor ERIC MIVAL
Producer EURFRON GWYNNE JONES.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh David
Producer:
Eurfron Gwynne Jones.

Every society has its own idea of beauty. This series of films looks at some of them.
At the Court of King Solomon
' Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet. Thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks.'
We shall never know what the beauties described in the Song of Solomon were really like, but perhaps the face of Lea Avraham , a Yemeni dancer, gives us an idea as she prepares for the stage role as King Solomon's daughter.
Producer ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Unknown:
Lea Avraham
Producer:
Anthony Isaacs

It Always Rains on Sunday introduced a new element of contemporary social realism to the postwar British cinema.
7.50 Gaumont British News
Nov 1947: The Royal Wedding
8.0
It Always Rains on Sunday starring Googie Withers
Jack Warner, John McCallum
For Rose Sandigate the day looks like being just another wet Sunday - until she finds a convict hiding in the Anderson shelter in the yard.
Director ROBERT HAMER
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Contributors

Unknown:
John McCallum
Unknown:
Rose Sandigate
Director:
Robert Hamer
Rose Sandigate:
Googie Withers
George Sandigate:
Edward Chapman
Vi Sandigate:
Susan Shaw
Doris Sandigate:
Patricia Plunkett
Alfie Sandigate:
David Lines
Morry Hyams:
Sydney Tafler
Sadie (his wife):
Betty Ann Davies
Lou (his brother):
John Slater
Bessie (his sister):
Jane Hylton
Solly (his father):
Meier Tzelniker
Tommy Swann:
John McCallum
Whitey:
Jimmy Hanley
Dicey:
Alfie Bass
Det-Sgt Fothergill:
Jack Warner

Cleo Laine and John Dankworth entertain from their home in Wavendon, Bucks, with guitarist John Williams.
Frequently distracted by intruders in the shape of John Bird and William Rushton they endeavour to put together ideas for their forthcoming television studio spectacular.
PAUL HART (piano); DARYL RUNSWICK and DAVE MARKEE (basses) ALLAN GANLEY (drums)
Script JOHN BIRD
Sound GRAHAM HAINES. Lighting BILL JONES Director RICK GARDNER. Producer DON SAYER

Contributors

Unknown:
Cleo Laine
Unknown:
John Dankworth
Guitarist:
John Williams.
Unknown:
John Bird
Unknown:
William Rushton
Piano:
Paul Hart
Piano:
Daryl Runswick
Piano:
Dave Markee
Basses:
Allan Ganley
Unknown:
Graham Haines.
Director:
Rick Gardner.
Producer:
Don Sayer

Introduced by Rene Cutforth
A programme from the BBOtv Archives for each of the past 25 years: 1962
Pop Goes the Easel
An exciting early film by Ken Russell from the Monitor series, which looks at four ' Pop Artlists' of the 60s.
With PETER BLAKE , DEREK BOSHIER
PAULINE BOTY , PETER PHILLIPS
Film cameraman KEN HIGGINS Film editor ALLAN TYRER Director KEN RUSSELL
Producer huw WHELDON. (B lack and white)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rene Cutforth
Unknown:
Ken Russell
Unknown:
Peter Blake
Unknown:
Derek Boshier
Unknown:
Pauline Boty
Unknown:
Peter Phillips
Unknown:
Ken Higgins
Editor:
Allan Tyrer
Director:
Ken Russell
Producer:
Huw Wheldon.

The Queen in Northern Ireland
At the end of the Royal Jubilee celebrations
Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh spent two days in Northern Ireland.
Tonight we look back on two historic days for the Province. Reporter Brian Walker
A Northern Ireland News Dept production

Contributors

Reporter:
Brian Walker

BBC Two England

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