starring
Spike Milligan , Barbara Shelley
A village postman is transferred to a busy London post office, but his energetic activities in the cause of speed and efficiency cause some unexpected problems.
DirectedbyRobertlynn
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On a Different Track
This is the success story of the railways of France. It began with the purchase of two locomotives from Stephenson, and continues today with the building of a new £800-million track between Paris and Lyon and 180-mph trains to run on it. Investment in improving the quality of their railways is paying off. France has increased its passengers every year over the last seven years. Should we invest money on the same scale?
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES . Written and produced by CHRISTOPHER LA Fontaine (Kpt)
DAVID VINE continues a series on ten popular sports. 5: Archery
With ROY AND RACHEL FENWICK and other members of the Grand National Archery Society.
Directed by JOHN RICKWORD
Produced by JOHN DOBSON BBC Bristol
Tonight from BBC N Ireland: Social Workers
Belfast was recently declared ' an area of special social need'. This film shows some of the problems facing social workers in North and West Belfast.
Film editor chbis WADE Producer MIKE TOPPIN
Series co-ordinator FRANK GILLARD
Jethro Tull from Madison Square Garden, New York Introduced by Anne Nightingale
Weather
Television visits radio's favourite contest of musical knowledge between Frank Muir , John Amis and Denis Norden , Ian Wallace
Questions set by musical chairman Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE
The Belle of Amherst
A play based on the life of Emily Dickinson by WILLIAM LUCE starring Julie Harris
' I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year.'
Emily Dickinson wrote these lines in 1845 when she was 14 years old. The setting for the play is Amherst, Massachusetts. It is 1883. Emily is now 53 years old, a recluse, dressed all in white ... The greatest and best-loved of all American women poets, Emily Dickinson was also one of the most enigmatic. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, she never married, but chose to spend over 20 years of her life in virtual seclusion, writing some 1,000 letters and almost 1,800 poems. Yet behind the popular myth of shy recluse was a woman who wrote about life with remarkable insight and depth of feeling.
In The Belle of Amherst William Luce has allowed Emily to tell her own story, skilfully blending poems and extracts from her letters with words of his own.
JULIE HARRIS won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Emily Dickin son in the original stage play on Broadway when the critics said:
An overwhelming, meticulous adventure full of passion and poetry and heart
(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Touching and sensitive with just the right mix of radiance and ache
(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)
A perfectly detailed cameo (BOSTON GLOBE) Directed by CHARLES s. DUBIN. Produced by MIKE MERRICK and DON GREGORY
Executive producer: In Performance PETER ADAM. Preview: page 29
The Colgate World Matchplay Championship
HARRY CARPENTER introduces highlights from today's semi-final rounds played at Wentworth.
Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Truffaut's romantic portrait of two English sisters who love the same Frenchman for 20 years was based on the second novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, author of Jules et Jim. It is a haunting, bittersweet story set at the turn of the century in Paris and Wales. Anne, in Paris to study sculpture, meets Claude and, thinking that he will be the ideal husband for her sister Muriel, invites him to stay with her family in Wales.
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Weather
starring Ralph Richardson
Margaret Leighton , Jack Hawkins Bank clerk David Preston arrives home at seven o'clock one evening - 24 hours late! He cannot remember where he has been or what he has done but during the time he was missing his Social Club funds were stolen and the Club steward murdered ...
Directed by RALPH RICHARDSON
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(First showing on British television)
