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Hussein - The Survivor King
They put acid in his nose drops, poisoned his food, machine-gunned his car. Assassins have been trying to kill Hussein ever since he became King of Jordan at 17. He has survived war with Israel and fought a civil war with Palestinians. At 42, he is one of the best known but most isolated leaders in the Middle East. Now, once again, he is one of the central figures in the moves towards a peace settlement.
In this profile Jack Pizzey talks to Hussein at his palace in Amman. The King is also shown in the desert with his Bedouin tribes, on army manoeuvres, and at his summer palace on the Gulf of Aqaba.
Very revealing ... (THE OBSERVER) Remarkably fresh and lively ...
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
A first-class all-you-ever-wanted-to-know documentary ... (DAILY MAIL) Producer JEREMY BENNETT

Contributors

Talks:
Jack Pizzey
Producer:
Jeremy Bennett

Team Play: Last of seven programmes for player, coach and spectator Introduced by DAVID VINE , with RAY Williams (Welsh Rugby Union) and DON RUTHERFORD (Rugby Football Union); and students from the Cardiff College of Education.
Directed by JOHN RICKWORD. Produced by .ram DOBSON
BBC Bristol (First shown on BBC1N

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Vine
Unknown:
Ray Williams
Directed By:
John Rickword.

Cardiff v The All Blacks
' Who beat the All Blacks? ' Cardiff did in 1953-a fact that BLEDDYN WILLIAMS and his team will never forget.
On this, the second match of their tour, the New Zealanders will very quickly be reminded of the fervour and quality of Welsh rugby when they play a Cardiff side that, in domestic competition this year, has shown its ability to win and win well. Englishman BARRY NELMES will do his utmost to lead the 1978 side into the Welsh song book as his predecessor did 25 years ago.
Commentator at the National Rugby Ground, Cardiff Arms Park NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Director DEWI GRIFFITHS
Series producer BILL TAYLOR
Followed by Rugby League results

Contributors

Unknown:
Bleddyn Williams
Unknown:
Barry Nelmes
Director:
Dewi Griffiths

Two weeks ago on The World About Us 'Yumi Yet' showed how Papua New Guinea leapt in one bound from an almost stone-age tribal culture to political independence and a seat at the UN. Now Ileksen takes the story one stage further: only two years after independence Papua New Guinea held its first General Election to elect a British-style parliamentary Government.
Although some candidates still wear tribal paint and feathers, they soon show they have nothing to learn about the hustings - they took to the platform and the loudhailer with the skill of old campaigners and gave us a lesson in well-mannered 'Ileksen-eering.'
Film cameramen DENNIS O'ROURKE , GARY KILDSA Film editor PETER BERRY
Producer DENNIS O'ROURKE
Presented by DAWN A. SWERLING Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and MICHAEL ANDREWS

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis O'Rourke
Editor:
Peter Berry
Producer:
Dennis O'Rourke
Editors:
Anthony Isaacs

by EMILY BRONTË
The BBC2 Classic Serial dramatised in five parts Part 5 by HUGH LEONARD
Heathcliff, relentless in his desire for revenge, has outwitted the dying Edgar. He has imprisoned Catherine at Wuthering Heights refusing to release her until she marries Linton.
For cast see page 85
Music composed and conducted by CARL DAVIS
Lighting DENNIS CHANNON
Script editor BETTY WILLINGALE Designer DICK COLES
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Director PETER HAMMON

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Leonard
Conducted By:
Carl Davis
Conducted By:
Lighting Dennis Channon
Editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Dick Coles
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
Peter Hammon

Arrest; Damages; Protest
Rent Act; Legal Aid; Divorce Presented by Nick Ross
A series which investigates the law, the lawyers and the courts in action.
Reporters Norma Shepherd and Mike Dornan , with specialist advice from Michael Molyneux , look into the way the British legal system affects each and every one of us.
Director ROSALIND GOLD
Executive producer PETER CHAFER Producer HENRY MURRAY

Contributors

Presented By:
Nick Ross
Reporters:
Norma Shepherd
Reporters:
Mike Dornan
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Producer:
Peter Chafer
Producer:
Henry Murray

Ronald Harwood tells the story of the circumstances and events which inspired "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold" and, through the history of these books, draws a picture of one of the most accomplished English writers of the 20th century.
Underneath the comic surface of Evelyn Waugh's writing there is a great sense of sadness at the ridiculous and pointless ways in which human life is spent and wasted. Beneath his formidable public personality and outspoken behaviour, he concealed enormous sensitivity, melancholy and nostalgia for lost happiness and beauty.

(Feature p15)

Contributors

Presenter/Writer:
Ronald Harwood
Subject:
Evelyn Waugh
Writer:
John Selwyn Gilbert
Designer:
Christine Ruscoe
Photography:
Colin Waldeck
Film Editor:
Charles Chabot
Executive Producer:
Bill Morton
Producer:
John Selwyn Gilbert
Participant:
Hugh Burden
Participant:
Gerald Cross
Participant:
Norman Ettlinger
Participant:
Dominic Guard
Participant:
Leo McKern
Participant:
David Wood

starring
Jackie Gleason , Carol Channing
Tony Banks , a retired gangster, living in Los Angeles with his wife, is greatly disturbed by the visit of his former henchmen, and even more worried when he learns that ' God', boss of his former gang, wants him to murder ' Blue Chips' Packard before he can turn state's evidence.
Directed by OTTO PREMINGER. Films: p 25 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jackie Gleason
Unknown:
Carol Channing
Unknown:
Tony Banks
Directed By:
Otto Preminger.
Tony Banks:
Jackie Gleason
Flo Banks:
Carol Channing
Angie:
Frankie Avalon
Tower guard:
Fred Clark
Leech:
Michael Constantine
Man:
Frank Gorshin
Stash:
John Phillip Law
Senator:
Peter Lawford
Warden:
Burgess Meredith
'God ' ':
Groucho Marx

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