continues the season of feature films starring
Jeanette MacDonald , Nelson Eddy Opera star Marcia Mornay promises to marry the celebrated impresario who has made her famous, only to fall hopelessly in love with someone else.
Screenplay by NOEL LANGLEY from the play by RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG Music by SIGMUND ROMBERG Producer and director ROBERT Z. LEONARD
(Block and white). Films: page 19
A Mediterranean Prospect
The Mediterranean Sea is said to be slowly dying. Every town from Athens to Alexandria, from Barcelona to Beirut uses it as a dump for raw sewage and industrial effluent. But, after determined efforts, something is being done.
Creators of Modern Philosophy
A series in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today. 14: Philosophy and Literature with Iris Murdoch , former Fellow of Philosophy, St Anne 's College, Oxford.
IRIS MURDOCH, a novelist of international reputation, was for 15 years a tutor in philosophy at Oxford University. In this programme she discusses the difference between writing novels and writing philosophy, and looks in general at the relationship between philosophy and literature.
Series prepared by bryan MAGEE Director TONY TYLEY
Executive producer JANET HOENIG Book (same title), £7.50, from bookshop*
On the Fence
Christian religion centres on one man's death. Christians claim that this death has implications for everyone, believers and unbelievers.
Tonight this claim is considered by Harry Newton
Director JAMES MURRAY Producer ANGELA tilby
(Tomorrow at 6.25 pm: C. F. D. Moule )
The last of seven films
Narrated by Robert Robinson Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevtushenko. once called the " angry young man of Russian literature is now 45. In Moscow, he regularly fills sports arenas when he reads from his work. Earlier this year he came to Britain to read from a new book of poems, The Face Behind the Face.
In this film he is seen reading to audiences around the country, and talking about the life of a poet in the Soviet Union today.
Film editor HEATHER SMALL Producer PETER FOGES
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Opera Month continues with the Glyndebourne Festival Production of Mozart's great comedy.
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE (in the original Italian)
THE GLYNDEBOURNE CHORUS MARTIN ISEPP (harpsichord)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA led by RICHARD LAYTON conducted by Bernard HaitLnk
Producer PETER HALL Designer john BURY
This production supported by a grant from National Westminster Bank. Sound GRAHAM HAINES
Lighting TOMMY THOMAS , ROBERT BRYAN English sub-titles GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE Executive producer HUMPHREY BURTON Television presentation JOHN VERNON (For cast list see Radio 3 page 28)
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Act 2
The Tennis Championships of Monte Carlo featuring the Men's Singles Semi-finals
The world's greatest tennis players, including BJORN BORG , GUILLERMO VILAS , VITAS GERULAITIS, ILIE NASTASE and defending Champion RAUL RAMIREZ , meet in Monaco for this crucial tournament in the World Championship of Tennis, with prize money totalling$175,000.
JOHN BARRETT reports from the Monte Carlo Country Club.
TV presentation FRENCH TELEVISION SERVICE
A spectacular feature film of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris
Starring Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron, Lee Remick
Queen's Bench Seven - QB VII - at the Royal Courts of Justice is the setting for a courtroom drama on an epic scale. Leon Uris's story of the Jewish writer who is sued for libel by an eminent surgeon covers a period of 30 years and travels from Germany in 1945 through post-war London, Warsaw, Kuwait, California and Israel. American author Abe Cady, in a best-selling novel, has accused Polish-born Dr Adam Kelno of performing horrifying experiments on concentration camp victims. Kelno is obsessed with proving his innocence. As the court battle progresses, old agonies are re-lived, ancient wounds re-opened. The film is in two parts. Tonight traces the beginning of the story. Tomorrow, the court case is resolved.
Screenplay by EDWARD ANHALT
Produced by DOUGLAS CRAMER s. Directed by TOM GRIES
(For cast see part 2 tomorrow, 10.25 pm) Films: page 19
