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Starring Eric Portman, Godfrey Tearle

An RAF bomber fails to return from a raid on Stuttgart. Six of the crew manage to bate out over occupied Netherlands, and this tense, finely observed drama follows their hazardous progress to the coast, hunted by the Nazis but aided by the Dutch people.
(Black and white)
Films: page 18

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Michael Powell
Writer/Producer/Director:
Emeric Pressburger
Sir George Corbett:
Godfrey Tearle
Tom Earnshaw:
Eric Fortran
Frank Shelley:
Hugh Williams
Geoff Hickman:
Bernard Miles
John Glyn Haggard:
Hugh Burden
Bob Ashley:
Emrys Jones
Els Meetens:
Pamela Brown
Jet van Dieren:
Joyce Redman
Jo de Vriens:
Googie Withers
Burgomaster:
Hay Petrie
Burgomaster's wife:
Selma Vaz Dias
Pieter Sluys:
Arnold Marle
De Jong:
Robert Helpmann
Priest:
Peter Ustinov
Organist:
Alec Clunes

A series of 12 programmes starring Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin in an entertainment of comedy, jokes and music with Nick Wilton and Heather Williams and Jonathan Cohen with the Play Away Band
Designer GWEN EVANS
Musical director JONATHAN cohin Producer JEREMY SWAN
Series producer ANN reat 0 BACK PAGE: 94

Contributors

Unknown:
Floella Benjamin
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Unknown:
Heather Williams
Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Designer:
Gwen Evans

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A ten-part series in Modern Greek for beginners. With Chris Serle and Katla Dandoulakl 5: Buying Things
The language needed for shopping in Greece. Shopping Greek-style: changing patterns from village to town to city.
Consultant DAVID A. HARDY
Film editor RICHARD SIDWELL
Assistant producer MARK SPRINT Producer TERRY DOYLI
Book (same title), cassettes and records from booksellers
For information about opportunities to learn Greek in your area. contact: EnglandandWales:BroadcastSupport Services [number removed]; Northern Ireland: Media Follow-up [number removed]: Scotland: Network [number removed].
• HELPLINES: page 83

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle
Unknown:
Katla Dandoulakl
Unknown:
David A. Hardy

Presented by Jeremy James
Commentary by Jeremy Flint
(Bridge Correspondent The Times) The first semi-final
Buchanan (Scotland) v Southampton
The club pairs are aided by experts: JANE AND TONY PRIDAY plus IRVING ROSE and VICTOR MOLLO.
Director LINDA MCCARTRY
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE bazalgettc
The hands in this programme can be seen during the week on Ceejax p 258 Grand Slam Bridge Set. £6.90 from booksellers

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy James
Commentary By:
Jeremy Flint
Commentary By:
Victor Mollo.
Director:
Linda McCartry
Producer:
Peter Bazalgette

Scotland v New Zealand from Murrayfield
New Zealand will be determined to maintain their unbeaten record against the Scots.
BILL MCLAREN commentates, and NIGEL STARMER-SMITH previews the second international to be played next Saturday against England as well as bringing news and views of the rest of the weekend's rugby.
Producer BILL MALCOLM
Series producer HUW JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Starmer-Smith

An extended series of cinéma vérité documentary films. The Family
A series of 13 programmes
In 1974 producer Paul Watson introduced to television the Wilkins of Reading.
9: The Wilkins have just been to Majorca. On their return Karen gives them Sunday lunch and hears about their first trip abroad.
Directors FRANC boddau. PAUL WATSON

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Watson
Unknown:
Paul Watson

Starring Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
from the novel by Philip Roth
with Mark Linn Baker, Paulette Smit

'You're not so nice and polite in your fiction. You're a different person.'

Philip Roth's masterly novel about writers and writing, conflicts of family, race and art, has been specially dramatised for Arena. Nathan Zuckerman learns some unexpected lessons about himself and his aspirations to become a great writer, when he spends a night in the troubled household of his hero, the distinguished E.I. Lonoff. And who is the young woman with the shadowed eyes - and the mysterious past?

Cast in order of appearance: [see below]

Contributors

Screenplay/From the novel by:
Philip Roth
Screenplay/Director:
Tristram Powell
Music:
George Fenton
Film Cameraman:
Kenneth MacMillan
Film Editor:
Angus Newton
Executive Producer:
Michael Gill
Series Editor:
Alan Yentob
Nathan Zuckerman:
Mark Linn Baker
Hope Lonoff:
Claire Bloom
E.I. Lonoff:
Sam Wanamaker
Taxi driver:
Harriet Wilson
Amy Bellette:
Paulette Smit
Dr Zuckerman:
MacIntyre Dixon
Judge Wapter:
Joseph Wiseman
Mrs Zuckerman:
Rose Arrick

A Newsnight Special
After Grenada could Nicaragua be next? The CIA is already supporting a guerrilla war against it. And 2,000 US marines will stage an amphibious landing next door in Honduras this month. With the war in El Salvador escalating, Julian O'Halloran reports on the chances of a bigger conflagration.
Film camera NICK LERA Sound CLIVE COBLEY
Picture editor DUNCAN HERBERT Producer TOM ROBERTS

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian O'Halloran
Editor:
Duncan Herbert
Producer:
Tom Roberts

The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena
Highlights of this evening's second semi-final to decide the line-up for tomorrow's final.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentator DAN MASKELL
JOHN BARRETT , MARK COX
Producers
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON , ALASTAIR SCOTT

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barry Davies
Commentator:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
Johnnie Watherston
Unknown:
Alastair Scott

What You Need starring
A down-and-out finds a pedlar who gives him just what he needs for the future, but not the knowledge of what it holds.

The Four of Us are Dying starring
Arch Hammer can look like anyone he wants to - a talent that gives him dreamlike freedom - until it becomes a nightmare.
What You Need written by ROD SERLING Directed by ALVIN GANZER The Four of Us are Dying Written by ROD SERLING Directed by John Brahm

Contributors

Written By:
Rod Serling
Directed By:
Alvin Ganzer
Written By:
Rod Serling
Fred Renard:
Steve Cochran
Pegott:
Ernest Truex
Arch Hammer:
Harry Townes

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