with Rita Hayworth
' I'm old-fashioned ' sings Fred Astaire in convincing style but the famous feet do a dazzling routine to the Latin rhythm of Xavier Cugat 's orchestra in this musical romance set in the Argentine.
Music by JEROME KERN
Lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER
Directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER
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Starring Brian Cant who invites you to join his guests in an entertainment of comedy and music, with Floella Benjamin, Mark Robertson, Alex Norton, Delia Morgan Jonathan Cohen and the Play Away Band
also starring Cyd Charisse
with Janis Paige, Peter Lorre
Cole Porter's musical version of Ninotchka includes 'Paris loves lovers' and 'All of you' as well as some spectacular dance numbers for Fred Astaire as the American who falls in love with a Russian in Paris.
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Chapeltown in Leeds. Back-to-back housing, high unemployment and low morale. A group of enthusiastic 12-year-olds, encouraged and guided by a dedicated teacher, is preparing for their school's annual
Christmas production, a musical version of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Producer GERRY TROYNA. BBC Manchester
Presented by Jeremy James
For one weekend last summer, the most powerful computers in the world came together in Linz, Austria, to find out which was the strongest of them all - the World Computer Chess Champion. Is it possible that one day quite soon a computer will play chess better than any human being?
Joint British Champion Bill Hartston challenges the European Champion which, in its more serious moments, is the atomic reactor computer at Harwell. Professor Richard Gregory explains the workings of human mind and eye and you at home can join in a test designed to reveal what a human being can do which a computer, hopefully, cannot!
Weather
In 1979 an extraordinary thing happened at the Edinburgh Festival. A totally unknown theatre company, playing Richard III and The Caucasian Chalk Circle in a language no one in the audience understood, took the critics by storm. It was the Rustavellian Theatre Company from Georgia - Georgia in the USSR - not the American home of peanuts and Presidents! The company played in their own language, Georgian, which has been tenaciously protected in spite of Georgia's absorption into the Russian body politic. The theatrical world was astounded. One man was not astounded, for he had known the Georgians for many years. He is an ex-diplomat, ex-politician, ex-guerrilla fighter, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, and it is he who traces the background of the Rustavellian Theatre Company deep into the Caucasus.
with Rhythm on 2
featuring John Williams, Herbie Flowers, Kevin Peek, Tristan Fry, Francis Monkman
The second part of a concert given by Sky earlier this year. Including 'Fifa', 'Carrillon' and 'Dies irae' among others.
Recorded by arrangement with Mel Bush and Peter Lyster-Todd at the Hammersmith Odeon
(Rpt)
Based on a short story by Tolstoy, set in the 1850s when imperialist Russia was dealing with insurgents in the Caucasus, this film is a celebration of endurance.
Against a wild and mountainous landscape two men, captive and captor, Imperialist officer and brigand chief, confront each other in a battle of wills.
The famous feature film starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, James Caan as Sonny Corleone, Richard Castellano as Clemenza, Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen, Sterling Hayden as McCluskey, John Marley as Jack Woltz, Richard Conte as Barzini, Diane Keaton as Kay Adams, Al Lettieri as Sollozzo
Long Island, just outside New York City, 1945: Don Corleone's daughter, Connie, is to be married. For the 'Godfather' it is a time of celebration - the war is over and America is up for grabs. Guests come from far and wide, pledging gifts to the bride and groom - while asking favours which the Godfather is bound to grant on this special day. Thus begins one of Hollywood's classic movies, creating a vivid portrait of Italian-American 'family' life while examining the nature of power at its most evil and corrupt.
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