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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

Contributors

Commentators:
Dan Maskell
Commentators:
John Barrett
Commentators:
Peter West
Introduced By:
David Vine

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

Contributors

Directed By:
Dennis Wilson
The adventurer:
Charlie Chaplin
The suitor:
Eric Campbell
The girl:
Edna Purviance
The father:
Henry Bergman

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

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Christopher Zeeman
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

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bolam
Unknown:
Jack Susan Jameson
Unknown:
James Mitchell
Director:
Terence Williams
Ashton:
Geoffrey Rose
Mrs Thoburn:
Llzzie McKenzie
Jimmy Thoburn:
Brian Appleton
Stan Liddell:
Roger Avon
Mr Purdie:
Alan Fox
Miss Laidlaw:
Catherine Terris
Mrs Burns:
Cilla Mason
Matt:
Malcolm Terris
Geordie Watson:
Ian Cullen
Sarah Lytton:
Rosalind Bailey

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

Contributors

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

Contributors

Screenplay and direction:
Bo Widerberg
Elvira Madigan:
Pia Degermark
Count Sixten Sparre:
Hommy Berggren
Kristoffer:
Lennart Malmer
Little girl:
Nina Wederberg
Cook:
Cleo Jensen

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

Contributors

Unknown:
William Woollard
Unknown:
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

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Fletcher
Unknown:
Parson Wood
Editor:
Ian Brown
Producer:
Christopher Lewis
Parson Woodforde:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Nancy Woodforde:
Llza Ross
DuQuesne:
Alan) Helm
Mr Walker:
Ronald Cunllffe
Mr Smith:
Charles Haggith
Ben Legate:
Michael Burrell
Moonshine Buck:
Geoffrey Hinsliff

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.
Director JOHN longley
Producer FRANCES WHITAKER Rpt)

Contributors

Producer:
Frances Whitaker

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