Entertaining friends from a different culture.
Introduced by Antony Hopkins , CBE from the Royal Albert Hall , London In this, the first programme recorded at this year's Schools Prom, we feature a typical cross-section of music-making from the musicians of tomorrow.
The Schools Prom is organised by THE TIMES in conjunction with COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE
Director DEREK JEWELL
Producer LARRY WESTLAND Lighting BERT OATEN Sound JEFF BAKER
Television presentation KEN GRIFFIN
Starring Kathryn Grayson
also starring Gordon MacRae
Sigmund Romberg's famous operetta about El Khobar, a mysterious Robin Hood leader of the Riffs. In this version Kathryn Grayson plays the General's daughter who is taken hostage first by an anthropologist in disguise and then by villainous Sheik Yousseff.
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This week: Outdoor Life Avercamp (1585-1634) Winter Scene at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Avercamp painted only winter scenes. In this picture everyone has taken to the ice. Written and presented by Edwin Mullins
Director DENIS MORIARTY
(Tomorrow: Renoir's ' Luncheon of the Boating Party ')
followed by Weather
with special guest artist
From the Theatre Royal, Glasgow Moira Shearer introduces The Scottish Ballet production of Bournonville s romantic masterpiece - a colourful, spectacular ballet containing magnificent mime, ingenious theatrical tricks, and ending with a sparkling tarantella.
Fishermen, townsfolk and children played by artists of THE SCOTTISH BALLET
Music by GADE, HELSTED, PAULLI and LUMBYE
Choreography by AUGUST BOURNONVILLE
Reproduced by poul GNATT
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by TREVOR WILLIAMS conducted by Bramwell Tovey
Programme associate PETER DARRELL Producer JAMES HUNTER
A sing-along of Country Music tunes at The Snape Maltings led by Pete Sayers, Ginny Brown, Raymond Froggatt, Philomena Begley, The Mintings and George Hamilton IV
A series of 13 programmes
Written and presented by Robert Kee
Nearly a million men, women and children died in the great potato famine which devastated Ireland between 1845 and 1849. Another million emigrated, mainly to America. The British Government's attempts to help proved largely ineffectual.
The seeds were thus sown of a deep and lasting bitterness against the British, which was to have a profound effect on the later development of Irish Nationalist feeling. Through the words of eyewitnesses Famine is an account of this watershed in Irish history.
A Christmas mixture of cockney comedy and seasonal songs is the result when London's Derek Brimstone joins Lancashire group Fivepenny Piece in a seasonal celebration from Stockport's Poco-a-Poco Theatre Club.
BBC Manchester
Weather
[starring] Walter Matthau
also starring Carol Burnett
'When you've reached my age and your friends are beginning to worry about you, blind dates are a way of life,' declares Tillie Schlaine before being introduced to Pete Seltzer at a party by her match-making friend, Gertrude.
In this witty and moving comedy-drama, Walter Matthau plays the wise-cracking advertising researcher, Pete. Carol Burnett, in her first major screen role, is his reluctant girlfriend and eventual wife, Tillie.
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