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Battle for the Acropolis
Living with the 20th century is rapidly destroying the fragile remains of the world's ancient civilisations and a year ago UNESCO appealed for funds to save the monuments of the Acropolis. To save them from damage from tramping tourists and from a corroding network of ancient steel, slowly expanding inside the historic marble, which has turned the buildings into potential time-bombs. A documentary classic. (THE LISTENER) SerieseditorBRUCENORMAN
Written and produced by ROY DAVIES (Rpf)

Contributors

Produced By:
Roy Davies

Northampton v Llanelli
In their centenary year Northampton, having started badly, are now beginning to show improved form. They will have to be at their best, however, to take on the might of Llanelli, whose high scoring record always makes them an attractive side to watch.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH reports from Franklins Gardens.
Director Huw Joseph Producer HUW JONES
Rugby scores on Ceefax

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith

concludes a short season of films for all the family.
Today starring June Allyson, Peter Lawford

1927: an era when girls were Shebas and the boys were Sheikhs and life on a university campus was full of romance, flirtation, comedy and music and where the right boy and the right girl always ended up together. Well so it is, in this enchanting and vivacious musical.

(First showing on British television)
Films: page 29

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Screenplay:
Betty Comden
Screenplay:
Adolph Green
Producer:
Arthur Freed
Director:
Charles Walters
Connie Lane:
June Allyson
Tommy Marlowe:
Peter Lawford
Pat McClellan:
Patricia Marshall
Babe Doolittle:
Joan McCracken
Bobby Turner:
Ray McDonald
Danny:
Mel Torme
Peter Van Dyne, III:
Robert Strickland
Coach Johnson:
Donald MacBride
Pooch:
Tom Dugan
Prof Burton Kennyon:
Clinton Sundberg
Beef:
Loren Tindall
Cora, the cook:
Connie Gilchrist

A digest of the news of the week and other matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
With Richard Baker
Editor RICHARD GAMBLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Editor:
Richard Gamble

William Davis reports on the people and the events that affect your money, your savings and your business affairs.
Each week in The Money Programme there are reports from companies in the news, and on how decisions that their bosses make affect jobs, prices and future prospects.
Deputy editor CLIVE SYDDALL Editor PAUL ELLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
William Davis
Editor:
Clive Syddall
Editor:
Paul Ellis

Told by Laurens van der Post
For several days and nights writer Laurens van der Post and his granddaughter Emma walked through the bush and slept under the stars in the midst of an African wilderness. Accompany them were Ian Player, an almost legendary ranger, and a guide and keeper of Zulu history, Magqubu Ntombela. At night around their fire they heard the haunting cry of baboons bunted by lions and leopards. By day they were able to approach, as only a small party can to within 30 yards of a rhino family and a herd of dangerous African buffalo.
What is the impact of Africa on someone seeing and experiencing it for the first time? What is it like to be on watch alone beside a fire in a true wilderness? Above all, does this kind of simple king point the way to a closer and deeper understanding of why we need wild animals even more than they need us for their survival?
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurens van der Post
Unknown:
Emma van der Post
Unknown:
Ian Player
Unknown:
Magqubu Ntombela
Film Editor:
Tom Poore
Series Editor/Producer:
Peter Jones
Series Editor:
Anthony Isaacs

Owain Arwel Hughes conducts and introduces the music of Brahms, Chabrier, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Verdi, Villa Lobos, Wagner. With
Teresa Cahill, Michael Rippon
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra leader DENNIS SIMONS : and the Huddersfield Choral Society From St George's Hall, Bradford
Produced by JOHN VERNON

Contributors

Unknown:
Owain Arwel Hughes
Unknown:
Michael Rippon
Leader:
Dennis Simons
Produced By:
John Vernon

[Starring] Harry Andrews as Tolstoy, Alan Dobie as Ivan Ilyich
also starring Rosemary Leach, Annette Crosbie

A sudden waking in the night, the presence of something in an empty room-what is it? The voice of despair? ...or death?

Starting from that key experience in the life of the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, this film explores Tolstoy's beliefs, his 'conversion', the havoc of his love life, and his concern with death - as seen through a dramatisation of his celebrated story The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Colin Nears
Pianist:
Patrick Harvey
Photography:
John Else
Designer:
Bernard Lloyd-Jones
Film Editor:
Angus Newton
Executive Producer:
Bill Morton
The Tolstoy Sequences - Tolstoy:
Harry Andrews
The Tolstoy Sequences - Sergei:
Patrick Stewart
The Tolstoy Sequences - Tatyana:
Ingrid Hafner
The Tolstoy Sequences - Sofya Andreyevna:
Annette Crosbie
The Tolstoy Sequences - Ilya:
-Jim Norton
The Tolstoy Sequences - [Actor]:
David Cole
The Tolstoy Sequences - [Actor]:
Timothy Stark
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Ivanych:
Jonathan Newth
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Gerasim:
Tony Meyer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Yekaterina Nikolayevna:
Joan Ogden
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Ivan Yegorovich:
Roy Spencer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Marya Sergeyevna:
Susan Field
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Mikhail Mikhailovich:
Vernon Dobtcheff
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Petrovich:
Robin Halstead
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Lisa Ivanovna:
Fiona Fullerton
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Volodya:
Clifford Abrahams
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Anna Petrovna:
Rosemary Leach
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Mikhail Danilovich:
John Gabriel
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Priest:
Alfred Hoffman
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Ivan Ilyich:
Alan Dobie
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Clerk:
Eric Francis
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
Iain Rattray
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
George Romanov
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - [Actor]:
Diane Daniels
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - The Voice:
John Moffatt
Narration:
Michael Smee

by VERA BRiTTAiN , dramatised m five parts by ELA:NE MORGAN
An autobiography 1913-1925
5- 1918 Vera nursed in France throughout the great German offensive but was forced by her mother's illness to return to London. After the death of her muehtoved brother Edward, she resumed nursing, finding that she must begin all over again.
Music composed and conducted by GEOFFREY BURGON
Studio fighting MVE SYBENHAM Script editor BETTY wiLUNGtH Designer SALLY HULKE
Producer JONATHAN POWELL
Directed by MOiRA ARMSTRONG
(For cast see Tuesday at 7.40 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Brittain
Conducted By:
Geoffrey Burgon
Designer:
Sally Hulke
Producer:
Jonathan Powell
Directed By:
Moira Armstrong

Starring Shashi Kapoor
Eighteen-year-old Siddhartha rebels against his wealthy background, in search of a more meaningful existence. The quest takes him through strange encounters until the final one with the old ferryman who teaches him the 'secret of life'. This adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel is distinguished by Sven Nykvist's stunning images of the landscapes of ancient India.
Written and directed by CONRAB ROOKS (First showing on British television) Films: page M

Contributors

Unknown:
Shashi Kapoor
Unknown:
Hermann Hesse
Unknown:
Sven Nykvist
Directed By:
Conrab Rooks
Siddhartha:
Shasm Kapoor
Kamala:
Simi Garewal
Govinda:
Romesh Sharma
Kamaswami:
Pincho Kapoor
Vasudeva:
Zul Vellani
Siddhartha's father:
Amrik Singh
Siddhartha's mother:
Shanti Htranand
Siddhartha's son:
Kunal Kapoor

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