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The Gangster City
The story of Chicago's most notorious gangsters of the 1920s and 30s, with comments from: Bill Lambie
Chicago Crime Commission
Jack McPhaul , crime reporter
Emmett Dedmon , Chicago historian Art Hodcs , jazz pianist
Earl Rook , Prohibition agent John Kobler , crime writer
Clifford Manning , eye-witness to the murder of ' Hymie '
Weiss Madeline Bushbaum , funeral parlour telephonist on the day of the St Valentine's Day massacre, 1929 Jay Robert Nash , crime columnist and expert on John Dillinger and including extracts from the 1932 feature film Scarface
Producer ROGER MACDONALD Executive producer BARRY BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack McPhaul
Unknown:
Emmett Dedmon
Unknown:
Art Hodcs
Pianist:
Earl Rook
Unknown:
John Kobler
Unknown:
Clifford Manning
Unknown:
Weiss Madeline Bushbaum
Unknown:
Jay Robert Nash
Unknown:
John Dillinger
Producer:
Roger MacDonald
Producer:
Barry Brown

A Birthday Celebration: part 2 Lawrence Durrell's Egypt
In a sequel to the Greek Spirit of Place, Peter Adam takes Lawrence Durrell (who celebrates his 70th birthday this year) back to the setting of his four famous novels. ' After 30 years, I return to Egypt to see again places which either from a literary or a personal point of view meant something to me or marked me or moved me, and to see what traces, if any, remain of that extravagantly coloured world I painted in The Alexandria Quartet.'
The journey starts in Alexandria and follows the Nile to Upper Egypt, to Aswan and Abu Simbel. Durrell revisits the Coptic monasteries of Wadi Natrun , the oasis of Fayum, Luxor and the Valley of the Kings. He talks about his beliefs, his craft and his experiences as a writer, and evokes Egypt's two landscapes - the desert and the great river.
Film cameraman COLIN WALDECK Producer PETER ADAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Adam
Unknown:
Lawrence Durrell
Unknown:
Abu Simbel.
Unknown:
Wadi Natrun
Unknown:
Colin Waldeck
Producer:
Peter Adam

A journey in jazz with the Mike Westbrook Orchestra
The New Orleans jazz funeral is the inspiration behind Mike Westbrook's composition The Cortege: the solemn procession to the graveyard, the funeral service, and then the joyful parade back to town - the Wake, the reaffirmation of life.
The piece also draws on Westbrook's experience of travelling through Europe as a working musician, and incorporates his settings of European poetry sung in the original language by Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton.
Our programme follows The Cortege on the road from Leeds to Sheffield, Coventry and Warwick, sampling both the concert performances, and the traditionally nomadic life of the jazz musician.
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Musicians:
Mike Westbrook Orchestra
Singer:
Kate Westbrook
Singer:
Phil Minton
Editor:
Nigel Perry
Sound:
Peter Rose
Lighting:
Alan Hitchcock
Lighting:
Chris Symons
Producer:
Tony Staveacre

(Folle a tuer)
Starring Marlene Jobert, Tomas Milian

After a spell in a sanatorium, Julie is found a job as governess to the orphaned nephew of a rich industrialist who turns out to be a thoroughly objectionable little boy. One morning, while watching Thomas play in the park, Julie finds herself looking into the muzzle of a gun. Within minutes, she and the child have been kidnapped and a nightmare situation begins to unfold...

(A French film with English sub-titles)

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Producer:
Raymond Danon
Director:
Yves Boisset
Julie:
Marlene Jobert
Thompson:
Tomas Milian
Thomas:
Thomas Waintrop
George:
Victor Lanoux
Mostri:
Michel Lonsdale
Walter:
Michel Peyrelon
Police inspector:
Jean Bouchaud

Passing Days
A brilliantly satirical award-winning cartoon about a little man who just wants to read his paper in peace but is constantly invaded by policemen, demonstrators, salesmen, kids and even his wife's lovers.
Animated and directed by NEDELJKO DRAGIC

Contributors

Directed By:
Nedeljko Dragic

Presenters PETER SNOW ,JOHN TUSA and DONALD MACCORMICK bring you the major events of the day, and the pictures, interviews and analysis that explain their significance. From the programme's team of correspondents: film reports shot in Britain and around the world on the issues and topics which are making the headlines.
Producers JOHN HOLME , JOHN MAHONEY and TONY HALL
Directors MIKE CATHERWOOD , JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
HOWARD ANDERSON. NICK GUTHRIE Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID LLOYD

Contributors

Presenters:
Peter Snow
Presenters:
John Tusa
Presenters:
Donald MacCormick
Producers:
John Holme
Producers:
John Mahoney
Producers:
Tony Hall
Directors:
Mike Catherwood
Directors:
John Wilkinson
Unknown:
Howard Anderson.
Unknown:
Nick Guthrie
Editor:
Paul Norris
Editor:
David Lloyd

BBC Two England

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