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Story: Farmer Joe's Farm written by DEBORAH MANLEY Pictures by COLIN AND MOIRA MACLEAN Presenters
Sarah Long , Ben Thomas
A special Bank Holiday double-bill Double Crossbones starring
Donald O'Connor , Helena Carter
Davy, a young clerk, decides to become a pirate when he is falsely accused of dishonesty. He proves to be the most inept ' gentleman of fortune' in buccaneering history.
Screenplay by OSCAR BRODNEY Producer LEONARD GOLDSTEIN Director CHARLES T. BARTON and at 3.15
On the Double starring Danny Kaye with Dana Wynter , Wilfrid Hyde White Diana Dors , Margaret Rutherford
Danny Kaye stars as General Mackenzie Smith , a key figure in ! the planning of D-Day, and also as his lookalike, Pfe Ernie Williams, who is forced to ' replace ' him when the General is shot at by spies. The reluctant double soon finds himself the object of assassination attempts, kidnaps and amorous entanglements!
Screenplay JACK ROSE , MELVILLE SHAVELSON Produced by JACK ROSE
Director MELVILLE SHAVELSON. Films: p 19
The Great
Railway Cavalcade
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first inter-city railway, opened for business 150 years ago, just a year after Stephenson's Rocket had won the Rainhill Locomotive Trials which proved that steam engines could work a regular railway service.
This weekend replicas of Rocket, Novelty and Sans Pareil re-create those famous trials on the original stretch of track at Rainhill as part of a spectacular railway pageant which includes 30 preserved steam locomotives. Among them the famous Flying Scotsman, the racing Hardwicke of the 1880s, Lion of 1838, once the star of the film
The Titfield Thunderbolt and the recently-restored Duchess of Hamilton, some say the most beautiful engine ever built. Also on view are historic railway vehicles and the transport of tomorrow, the Advanced Passenger Train.
Brian Redhead and David Jenkinson of the National Railway Museum provide a layman's guide to this unique cavalcade representing a century and a half of Britain's railway history.
Rocket 150 event organised by BRITISH RAIL LONDON MIDLAND REGION Engineering manager ROMILLY MEAGER Videotape editor IAN O'SHAUGHNESSY
Production assistants
KEITH STEWART , ADAM LOW Outside broadcast directed by MARTIN L. BELL
Book, The Rainhill Story, hardback £6.00, paperback £3.95, from bookshops
A Pattern of Building Written and presented by Alec Clifton-Taylor
3: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Tewkesbury, close to the junction of the Severn and Avon, grew up to serve the monastery. Built of the local Cotswold limestone, the Abbey Church still contains some of the most beautiful monuments of the English Middle Ages - ' the Westminster Abbey of the feudal baronage '. In contrast to the wealth of the monastery, the humbler dwellings of the towns-people were made of wood and plaster. One of the survivors is the House of the Nodding Gables - ' a faintly intoxicated-looking building with overhanging storeys making their obeisance to passersby ALEC CLIFTON-TAYLOR explains.
A new BBC2 star. (SPECTATOR) ... if anyone were to succeed in talking to a brick wall, it would be Alec Clifton -Taylor. (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Producer DENIS MORIARTY
Book (same title), £7.25, from bookshops
with Tony Soper
A series of seven guides to birds 6: Cuckoo
'Just a wandering voice ' according to Wordsworth-and that's how most of us recognise our best-known summer visitor. But what does a cuckoo look like? How exactly does it get other birds to foster its young? And what other sounds does it make besides 'cuckoo'?
Photography MAURICE TIBBLES Film editor NORMAN BURGESS
Producer DILYS BREESE. BBC Bristol
(Bird of the Week. Friday 11.50 am, R4,
from Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Wales.
The third programme of a new series in which Peter Alliss plays golf and talks with well-known people.
His guest today is Max Faulkner , one of only four British golfers to win the Open Championship since the war.
Television presentation ALASTAIR SCOTT Producer DAVID KENNING
(The Abduction from the Seraglio)
A comic opera by Mozart
The chorus and orchestra of the BAVARIAN STATE OPERA conducted by Karl Böhm
Producer AUGUST EVERDING
The story concerns the attempts of Belmonte, a Spanish gentleman, to rescue his fiancée, Constanze, from the Pasha Selim's harem. Introduced by ELAINE PADMORE
(Sung in German with English sub-titles) Recording by courtesy of BAVARIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION
For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off rv sound and position their speakers on cither side of the screen, but a few feetaway. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative at 7.50-8.5* News and Sport; Weather
For the first time, Nancy Mitford's four surviving sisters appear in one programme to describe how close her brilliant novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, are to upper-class life as it was lived between the wars and 3.ft6F
Pamela shows us Gloucestershire, where Lord Redesdale, immortalised as 'Uncle Matthew' in the books, brought up six daughters and one son. Diana, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, lives in Paris, where Nancy spent the latter part of her life. Jessica, herself a distinguished author, now lives in California, a seasoned rebel and left-wing sympathiser. Finally, Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire, puts in perspective the turbulent Mitford family.
There are contributions from their nephew, Jonathan Guinness, and Nancy's French admirer, 'The Colonel'.
Weather
The second of three films by Sid Perou that trace the story of rock climbing from its simple beginnings to the world of today's dedicated rock athlete.
New Extremes: Yorkshireman Peter Livesey relives the criticism and acclaim of his great climbs.
Film editor BRYAN JONES
Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH
The Sun Alliance
PGA Championship from Royal St Georges, Sandwich
HARRY CARPENTER introduces highlights of the final round and talks to the winner. Commentators PETER ALLISS CLIVE CLARK and ALEX HAY
Television presentation
RICHARD TILLING and ALASTAIR SCOTT Editor DAVID KENNING