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Hooray for Hollywood?
Gavin Millar talks to screenwriter Christopher Isherwood , playwright Neil Simon and producer David Puttnam about living and working in the movie capital.

Contributors

Talks:
Gavin Millar
Unknown:
Christopher Isherwood
Unknown:
Neil Simon
Producer:
David Puttnam

Isaac Bashevis Singer winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature
This 74-year-old, unpretentious writer emigrated from Warsaw to New York before the Second World War. Yet he still writes in Yiddish and has his work translated.
This programme was made in 1974 when Melvyn Bragg visited him in New York.
Two of his short stories were adapted for television by BERNARD KOPS.
Why the Geese Shrieked and The Boy Philosopher
Producers TONY CASH, BEN REA
Executive producer BILL MORTON

Contributors

Singer:
Isaac Bashevis
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Producer:
Bill Morton
Isaac B Singer (as a boy):
David Sassini
Israel J Singer, his brother:
Frank Baker
Rabbi Singer, his father:
Cyril Shaps
His mother:
Estelle Kohler
Neighbour:
Lesley Nunnerley

London Counties v The All Blacks Internationals from each of the home countries combine with other top London-based players to form a strong Counties side. The England selectors will be particularly interested in the return of PETER WARFIELD to top representative rugby and the performance of the uncapped BILLY BUSHELL , while Scotland cannot ignore the pairing of ALAN LAWSON and RON WILSON at half-back.
With only a week to go to the international against Ireland, the New Zealanders will place great importance on their performance in this match.
Commentator at Twickenham
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Series producer BILL TAYLOR
Followed by Rugby League results

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Warfield
Unknown:
Billy Bushell
Unknown:
Alan Lawson
Unknown:
Ron Wilson

Edge of the Blizzard
1: Kings of the Sea and the Air
Two thousand kilometres south of Australia, Macquarie Island lies isolated in the stormy Southern Ocean - a life-raft for millions of penguins, seals and albatrosses. Here they come ashore to breed.
Tonight's World About Us is the first of two films on the spectacular inhabitants of this bustling animal metropolis.
King penguins were once boiled down for their oil in giant pressure cookers. Now protected, these birds again crowd Macquarie's beaches living in a carefully ordered society in which giant petrels, great skuas, and feral cats have a vital role to play.
Narrated by JOHN HEDGES
Produced (or the Australian Broadcasting Commission by DAVID PARER
BBC TV presentation by KEENAN SMART Series editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hedges
Unknown:
David Parer
Editors:
Michael Andrews

by REBECCA WEST
The BBC2 Classic Serial Dramatised in five parts by KEN TAYLOR starring Felicity Dean Elizabeth Shepherd George Coulouris
John Normington , Peter Eyre
1: A trip to Paris to visit her grandfather, the exiled Count Diakonov, once the Tsar's Minister of Justice, is to plunge young Laura Rowan into a world of revolutionary intrigue.
Lighting HOWARD KING
Script editor BETTY WILLINGALE Designer PAUL JOEL
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Director JOHN GLENISTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Taylor
Unknown:
Felicity Dean
Unknown:
Elizabeth Shepherd
Unknown:
George Coulouris
Unknown:
John Normington
Unknown:
Peter Eyre
Editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Paul Joel
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Director:
John Glenister
Laura:
Felicity Dean
Tania:
Elizabeth Shepherd
Edward:
John Lee
Helene:
Sally Travers
Nikolai:
George Coulouris
Katinka:
Brigid MacKay
Aglaia:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Sofia:
Anne Blake
Kamensky:
John Normington
Berr:
Michael Hall
Madame Berr:
Yona Gailit
Susie Staunton:
Barbara D'Arcy
Pyotr:
Michael Golden,
Chubinov:
Peter Eyre

with John Pitman
Alice became the first waitress at the Oriental Club in London in 1916 when all the waiters went off to fight the First World War. The Oriental was founded in 1824 as a social club for distinguished servants of the East India Company who were used to the luxury of Eastern living.
Few of the British Raj members are still alive, but at 90, Alice soldiers on, reporting for duty at
5.30 every morning. Alice never married. The Club has been her life. ' She's unique,' say the members. 'Quite simply, Alice is the Oriental.'
Producer ADAM CLAPHAM Director JOHN BIRD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Pitman

conducts
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Live from Los Angeles
This is Giulini's first season as principal conductor of one of the world's great orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Choral Symphony, whose theme is the Brotherhood of Man, is Giulini's appropriate choice for this first-ever satellite relay with stereo sound from Los Angeles. The soloists are:
Carol Neblett (soprano)
Claudine Carlson (mezzo-soprano) Robert Tear (tenor) Simon Estes (bass)
Introduced by MICHAEL BERKELEY
A simultaneous broadcast with R3
Presented for television by KCET Los Angeles
Directed by KIRK BROWNING
For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
BBC Music Guides, £1.00 from bookshops

Contributors

Soprano:
Carol Neblett
Mezzo-Soprano:
Claudine Carlson
Bass:
Simon Estes
Introduced By:
Michael Berkeley
Television By:
Kcet Los Angeles
Directed By:
Kirk Browning

starring Charlotte Rampling Sam Waterston , Robie Porter
Vacationing in Europe two young American students join forces with the beautiful and unconventional Marty - who tells them her mother predicted she would marry two men - ' at the same time
Directed by JAMES SALTER. Films: page 19 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlotte Rampling
Unknown:
Sam Waterston
Unknown:
Robie Porter
Directed By:
James Salter.
Marty:
Charlotte Rampling
Bert:
Robie Porter
Taylor:
Sam Waterston
Claude:
Pascale Roberts
Liz:
Edina Ronay
Ann:
Gillian Hills
Silvano:
Mario Cotone

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