Story: The Magic Hole by CLIFF ROBERTS. Presenters
Delia Morgan , Stuart McGugan
The Braniff Airways World Doubles Championship
Further coverage of top players competing for £100,000 prize money.
Eight of the best tennis partnerships in the world compete in The Grand Hall at Olympia, the first time this majestic setting has been used for tennis and the first time the World Doubles Championship has been staged in Europe. Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT PETER WEST and BOB HOWE Introduced by David Vine
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
in The Adventurer
, Charlie cuts quite a dash as a man-about-town on the make.
Written and directed hy CHARLES CHAPLIN Music composed and directed by DENNIS WILSON
or How to See the Beauty of Maths. The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures for Young People by Professor Christopher Zeeman. Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University.
A series of six programmes
In which Professor Zeeman runs a gambling school, and shows his audience how to get the better of the insurance man. With the aid of game theory, we discover whether it is a better bet to be a hawk or a dove, and what happens to bullies and retaliators in the struggle for survival.
Presented for television by HILARY HENSON
James Bolam as Jack Susan Jameson as Jessie in The Way it was in Murviansk by JAMES MITCHELL
' You were great Jack ... marvellous even. But you weren't real ' - ' You never asked for reality bonny lass. You asked for votes.'
Cast in order of appearance
Producer ANDREW OSSORN Director TERENCE WILLIAMS
Theme tune (RESL 311. from record shops
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A new film by ROBIN LEHMAN, set in New York, which takes a (mostly) humorous look at the strange pets that people keep-varying from a pet toad and a pet cheetah to a cow that its owner takes for a regular drink in the 'local'.
Directed by ROBIN LEHMAN
starring Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Lord Chalfont has chosen the story of a world well lost for love as his kind of movie. In 1889 Lieutenant Count Sixten Sparre deserted from the Swedish army and ran away to Denmark with Elvira Madigan, a tightrope dancer. After an idyllic summer, seeing no future for their love, they chose to die together in the forest.
Screenplay and direction by Bo Widerberg
(Swedish film with English sub-titles) Films: pages 16-17
from Earl's Court William Woollard looks round the 25th London International Boat Show.
The theme this year is the Royal Navy. A special feature will be the replica of the famous mast of HMS Ganges which will be manned by sailors complete with the Button Boy. 83 feet above the ground.
Canoes, dinghies, luxury boats and hire cruisers will be among the exhibits included.
Television presentation PETER HYLTON CLEAVER
By the Banks of the Wensum
The first in a series of three dramatised social history documentaries written and narrated by RONALD FLETCHER
For nearly 50 years, Parson Wood forde. of Weston Longville in Nor-folk. kept a diary. It survives in the Bodleian Library as one of the most graphic day-to-day accounts of late 18th-century English country life.
Film cameraman A. E. CLARIDGE Film editor IAN BROWN
Producer Christopher LEWIS
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Frank Windsor tells Gabriel-Ernest by SAKI
' I don't sleep at night: that's my busiest time.'
' What do you feed on?' Van Sheele asked.
' Flesh said the boy and he pronounced the word with slow relish.
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Producer FRANCES WHITAKER Rpt)