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The last in the series in which CLIFF MORGAN and CARWYN JAMES examine the history of Rugby Union Football. The Way Ahead
Mini-rugby, coaching, violence, amateurism, sponsorship - so many factors affect the well-being and the future of the game.
Producer DEW CRIFFITHS BBC Cymru/Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Carwyn James

Who were these people who gave us our language, our monarchy, even the name of England itself? They ruled here for 600 years, but until recently very little was known about our ancestors' day-to-day existence. Now, thanks to current archaeology, we are learning a great deal more and from all parts of the country.
Beautiful to look at. (Daily Mail) Instructive. (Daily Telegraph)

Contributors

Producer:
Kenneth Shepheard
Series Editor:
Bruce Norman

Scotland v New Zealand
The first match between the countries was played 74 years ago and New Zealand are as yet unbeaten.
There have been many exciting encounters though, and none more so than last year when New Zealand sealed the match with a dramatic try in injury time. Scottish hopes were dashed that day, but it was with optimism that the Scots XV took the field yesterday - could they gain an historic victory? Introduced from Murrayfield by NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Commentator BILL MCLAREN
Director BILL MALCOLM
Series producer BILL TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentator:
Bill McLaren
Director:
Bill Malcolm
Producer:
Bill Taylor

continues a short season of films for all the family.
Today starring Don Ameche
Betty Grable , Carmen Miranda
A Latin American extravaganza starring Betty Grable , the GI's favourite pin-up, as an heiress who falls in love with an Argentine rancher. The film includes an exciting horse-race, lavish production numbers, moonlight romance and, of course, the dazzling debut of the Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda.
Music and lyrics by MACK GORDON and HARRY WARREN Produced by DARRYL F. ZANUCK Directed by IRVING CUMMINGS Films: page 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Ameche
Unknown:
Betty Grable
Unknown:
Carmen Miranda
Unknown:
Betty Grable
Unknown:
MacK Gordon
Unknown:
Harry Warren
Produced By:
Darryl F. Zanuck
Directed By:
Irving Cummings
Ricardo Quintano:
Don Ameche
Glenda Crawford:
Betty Grable
Carmen Miranda:
Carmen Miranda
Binnie Crawford:
Charlotte Greenwood
Casino:
J Carrol Naish
Don Diego Quintano:
Henry Stephenson
Helen Carson:
Katharine Aldridge
Tito Acuna:
Leonid Kinskey
Esteban:
Chris-Pin Martin

Peter Hobday investigates the lifting of exchange controls and the effects on your earnings, your savings and your company. Also, Arthur Levitt , Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, argues why you should invest your money not in the City of London, but on Wall Street.
Deputy editor CLIVE SYDDALL Editor PAUL ELLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Arthur Levitt
Editor:
Clive Syddall
Editor:
Paul Ellis

Afro-rock: Sweet Sound of Honey Until recently black music' usually meant Tamla Motown. Now, after the breakthrough of Jamaican reggae, comes Afro-rock - a whole new vocabulary of young, exciting sounds from Africa.
This is the story of just one African country - Kenya, where music is fundamental to living. For the Kenyan bands, though, the living isn't always so easy. The bands are eager to reach an international audience. They are trying to do this by creating a music that makes imaginative use of traditional themes and rhythms, yet appeals to the Western ear.
They dream of the day when Afro-rock music will be as popular in our discos as American soul.
Producer RICHARD TAYLOR
Series editor ANTHONY ISAACS

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Taylor
Editor:
Anthony Isaacs

Owain Arwel Hughes conducts and introduces the music of Bach, Bruch, Elgar, Kodaly, Verdi, Wagner, with Josephine Barstow , David Rendall The Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus leader EDWIN PALING chorus-master JOHN CURRIE
An outside broadcast from the City Hall, Glasgow
Produced by JOHN VERNON

Contributors

Unknown:
Owain Arwel Hughes
Unknown:
Josephine Barstow
Unknown:
David Rendall
Chorus-Master:
John Currie
Produced By:
John Vernon

A film about the life and work of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) Written and narrated by David Thompson with Henry Moore and Bridget Riley
' Seurat to me has always been one of the great draughtsmen of the world - someone to whom drawing, light and three-dimensional form, and trying to express it on a flat surface-this is what he struggled to do from a student and came through to do in the end marvellously.' (HENRY MOORE )
This week a major exhibition of Post-Impressionist painting opens at the Royal Academy. This film explores the development of one of the most influential artists of the generation which followed the Impressionists. Seurat's revolutionary approach to painting, the scientific technique of applying paint in small dots which was his hallmark, the beauty of his drawings and his profound approach to his subject matter, have always made him a force to be reckoned with not only by his contemporaries, but by modern artists like Henry Moore and Bridget Riley. with the CIRQUEGRUSS A L'ANCIENNE,Paris
Photography
JOHN TURNER and RICHARD ADAMS Film recordists
COLIN MARCH and RON BROWN Film editor ROY FRY Producer ANN TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Georges Seurat
Unknown:
David Thompson
Unknown:
Henry Moore
Unknown:
Bridget Riley
Unknown:
Henry Moore
Unknown:
Henry Moore
Unknown:
Bridget Riley.
Unknown:
John Turner
Unknown:
Richard Adams
Unknown:
Ron Brown
Producer:
Ann Turner

by VERA BRITTAIN
An autobiography 1913-1925 Dramatised in five parts by ELAINE MORGAN 2: Buxton 1914
Owing to the outbreak of the First World War, Vera Brittain 's father has refused to let her take up her hard-won place at Oxford. To Vera the war seems little more than an exasperating interruption to her ambitions.
Music composed and conducted by GEOFFREY BURGON
Studio lighting DAVE SYDENHAM Script editor BETTY WILLINGALE Designer SALLY HULKE
Producer JONATHAN POWELL
Directed by MOIRA ARMSTRONG
(For cast see Tuesday at 7.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Brittain
Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
Vera Brittain
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Unknown:
Dave Sydenham
Editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Sally Hulke
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Directed By:
Moira Armstrong

starring
Alan Arkin
Sally Kellerman
As Barney Cashman sinks into middle-age and a ' contented' marriage, he feels the need for one last fling - an extra-marital affair. But his attempts at being a ' red hot lover' are doomed, as each encounter becomes comically disastrous rather than happily amorous as he had hoped.
Screenplay by NEIL SIMON
Produced by HOWARD W. KOCH Directed by GENE SAKS
(First showing on British television) Films: page 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Arkin
Unknown:
Sally Kellerman
Unknown:
Barney Cashman
Unknown:
Neil Simon
Produced By:
Howard W. Koch
Directed By:
Gene Saks
Barney Cashman:
Alan Arkin
Elaine Navazio:
Sally Kellerman
Bobbi Michele:
Paula Prentiss
Jeanette Fisher:
Renee Taylor
Cashier:
Bella Bruck
Charlotte:
Sandy Balson
Mel:
Frank Loverde
Bert:
Burt Conroy
Jesse:
Charles Woolf
Mickey:
Ben Freedman
First waiter:
Buddy Lewis
Second waiter:
Mousey Garner

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