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7 40 'Crash Course'

8.5 The Labour Market

8.30 Leeds

8.55 Curriculum Design and Development

9.20 18th century Speculators

9.45 International Aid

10.35 Maths: Complex Analysis

11.0 Food Co-operatives in Vermont

11.25 The Exception and the Rule

12.15 Digestion

12.40 Metals with Wings

1.5 The Universe Today

1.30 The Gower Coast

1.55 Lyell on Etna

2.20 Coal Power

starring
Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Robert Young
In the first of two star vehicles for the incomparable Joan Craw ford, she plays Anni, a cafe singer with ambitions to break into high society. This romantic comedy is notable for its sense of style and a sympathy for the ' Cinderella ' character, evoked by the woman director.
Screenplay by TESS SLESINGER and BRADBURY FOOTE Produced by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Directed by DOROTHY ARZNER
. Films: page 13 and at 4.40
Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford
Jack Carson , Zachary Scott
Joan Crawford won the ' Best Actress' Oscar for her performance in this magnificently compelling melodrama. She plays Mildred Pierce , a career woman who builds up a successful business. But her private life develops into a series of tragedies - culminating in the murder of her second husband.
Screenplay by RANALD MACDOUGALL from the novel by JAMES M. CAIN Produced by JERRY WALD
Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ
. Films: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Crawford
Unknown:
Joan Craw
Play By:
Tess Slesinger
Unknown:
Bradbury Foote
Produced By:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Directed By:
Dorothy Arzner
Unknown:
Mildred Pierce
Unknown:
Joan Crawford
Unknown:
Jack Carson
Unknown:
Zachary Scott
Unknown:
Joan Crawford
Unknown:
Mildred Pierce
Unknown:
Ranald MacDougall
Novel By:
James M. Cain
Produced By:
Jerry Wald
Directed By:
Michael Curtiz
Anni:
Joan Crawford
Giulio:
Franchot Tone
Rudi Pal:
Robert Young
Contessa Di Meina:
Billie Burke
Admiral Monti:
Reginald Owen
Maddelena Monti:
Lynne Carver
Count Armalia:
George Zucco
Maria:
Mary Phillips
Nobili:
Paul Porcasi
Pietro:
Dickie Moore
Alberto:
Frank Puglia
Mildred Pierce:
Joan Crawford
Wally Faye:
Jack Carson
Monty Beragon:
Zachary Scott
Ida:
Eve Arden
Bert Pierce:
Bruce Bennett
Veda Pierce:
Ann Blyth
Kay Pierce jo:
Ann Marlow
Dr Gale:
Mannart Kippen
Mrs Forrester:
Barbara Brown
Mr Williams:
Charles Trowbridge
Ted Forrester:
John Compton

The River Ure is one of Yorkshire's wildest and cleanest stretches of water. From the rocky streams of the Dales to the fertile Vale of York, it nurtures a whole encyclopedia of wildlife. Angling writer and naturalist Brian Morland takes us on a journey of discovery along the Ure, which he has known all his life and whose wildlife and nature he is now fighting to protect.
Film editor BOB GEOGHEGAN Producer KEN COOPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Morland
Editor:
Bob Geoghegan
Producer:
Ken Cooper

A series of eight programmes
Narrated by David Attenborough

A thousand years ago in the dense jungles of north-west Cambodia, successive God-Kings built ever-finer and more spectacular temples. So great was their achievement that there is today nowhere to be compared with Angkor for the number, size and perfection of its monuments.

Book (same title £15.50, from bookshops)

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Angkor in the 1960s filmed by:
Hugh Gibb
Film Editor:
Michael Goldsmith
Producer:
Michael MacIntyre

Robert Erskine presents the last of three programmes in which everyday life in classical times is recreated from letters of the period. The Honourable House
' Will your true brotherliness have the goodness to send me some asparagus from day to day, as the vegetables here are all rotten and disgust me? '
A letter from the thousands found in an Egyptian rubbish heap which provide vivid images of the Roman Empire in decline around AD 600. A combination of high taxes and inflation resulted in the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, with land being the surest investment.
Written and presented by ROBERT ERSKINE
Studio lighting HENRY BARBER Studio sound JOHN HARTSHORN Designer BRYAN ELLIS Director BRIAN MORGAN Producer TONY TYLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Erskine
Presented By:
Robert Erskine
Unknown:
Henry Barber
Unknown:
John Hartshorn
Designer:
Bryan Ellis
Director:
Brian Morgan
Producer:
Tony Tyley
Victor:
Peter Jeffrey
George:
Clive Swift
Melas:
Timothy Bateson
Anoup:
Steve Hodson
Justus:
Frank Cullen

Since the Russian invasion of Afghanistan almost two years ago, neighbouring Pakistan has been actively bolstered by the west as a front-line state against Soviet domination. Yet Pakistan itself has entered a fifth year under the harsh military rule of President Zia Ul Haq. Through a selection of films first shown on BBC2's Newsnight, Bernard Falk examines some aspects of life in Pakistan today.
From the Afghanistan border he reports on the forgotten millions - the largest refugee problem in the world, and how Pakistan has come to terms with it. He visits the north-west frontier town whose only industry is armed resistance, and talks at length to General Zia about his rigid and unpopular martial law regime and the chances of a return to democracy.
Producer PAUL WOOLWICH Editor GEORGE CAREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Zia Ul Haq.
Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Editor:
George Carey

starring
Boris Karloff
Henry Daniell , Bela Lugosi
Boris Karloff is at his sinister best in Val Lewton 's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson 's macabre tale about grave-robbing in 19th-century Edinburgh. Henry Daniell is the unfortunate Dr MacFarlane who falls under the evil domination of Gray, a procurer of cadavers for dissection. Bela Lugosi is also on hand as Gray's blackmailing assistant and this was the last appearance together of these two grandmasters of screen horror.
Screenplay by PHILIP MACDONALD , CARLOS KEITH Produced by VAL LEWTON Directed by ROBERT WISE
. Films: page 13 and at 11.40
Theatre of Blood starring
Someone is killing the leading theatre critics of London in a peculiarly hideous way. Each death, bizarrely, parodies a death in a separate Shakespeare play. The police are baffled. Surely the only person with a grudge of such magnitude is ham Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart , and he committed suicide years ago ... Vincent Price excels in the role of the hand of vengeance in this stylish British chiller. ,
Screenplay by ANTHONY GREVlLLE-BELL Based on an original idea by STANLEY MANN and JOHN KOHN
Produced by JOHN KOHN and STANLEY MANN Directed by DOUGLAS HICKOX Films, page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Henry Daniell
Unknown:
Bela Lugosi
Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Val Lewton
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Bela Lugosi
Unknown:
Philip MacDonald
Unknown:
Carlos Keith
Produced By:
Val Lewton
Directed By:
Robert Wise
Unknown:
Edward Lionheart
Play By:
Anthony Grevllle-Bell
Unknown:
Stanley Mann
Unknown:
John Kohn
Produced By:
John Kohn
Unknown:
Stanley Mann
Directed By:
Douglas Hickox
Gray:
Boris Karloff
Joseph:
Bela Lugosi
MacFarlane:
Henry Daniell
Meg:
Edith Atwater
Fettes:
Russell Wade
Mrs Marsh:
Rita Corday
Georgina:
Sharyn Moffett
Street singer:
Donna Lee
Richardson:
Robert Clarke
Gilchrist:
Carl Kent
Boy:
Jack Welch
Salesman:
Larry Wheat
Mrs Mary McBride:
Mary Gordon
Horse trader:
Jim Moran
Maid:
Ina Constant
Edward Lionheart:
Vincent Price
Edwina Lionheart:
Diana Rigg
Peregrine Devlin:
Ian Hendry
Trevor Dickman:
Harry Andrews
Miss Chloe Moon:
Coral Browne
Oliver Larding:
Robert Coote
Solomon Psaltery:
Jack Hawkins
George Maxwell:
Michael Hordern
Horace Sprout:
Arthur Lowe
Meredith Merridrew:
Robert Morley
Hector Snipe:
Dennis Price
Inspector Boot:
Milo O'Shea
Sergeant Dogge:
Eric Sykes
Rosemary:
Madeline Smith
Maisie Psaltery:
Diana Dors
Mrs Sprout:
Joan Hickson
Mrs Maxwell:
Renee Asherson
Policeman:
Bunny Reed
Policeman:
Peter Thorxton
Vicar:
Charles Sinnickson
Maid:
Brigid Erin Bates

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