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A classic 1926 adventure film, presented with its original 'Vitaphone' orchestral soundtrack.
Weary of the treachery of his wife and mistress, the dying Don Jose advises his son Juan to take all from women and yield nothing. John Barrymore plays the notorious Don who, ten years on, becomes involved in the poisonous politics of the Borgias and proves he is a faithful, as well as successful, lover of women.
Screenplay by ROSS MEREDYTH Directed by ALAN CROSLAND
Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Jose
Unknown:
John Barrymore
Play By:
Ross Meredyth
Directed By:
Alan Crosland
Don Juan/Don Jose:
John Barrymore
Adriana Delia Varnese:
Mary Astor
Pedrillo:
Willard Louis
Lucretia Borgia:
Estelle Taylor
Cesare Borgia:
Warner Oland
Donati:
Montagu Love
Rena, Adriana's maid:
Helena Costello
Beatrice:
Jane Winton
Maia, Lucretia's maid:
Myrna Loy

A series of 12 programmes starring Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin in an entertainment of comedy, jokes and music with Gabrielle Glaister , Nick Wilton and Ben Thomas and Jonathan Cohen with the Play Away Band
Designer GWEN EVANS. Musical director JONATHAN COHEN. Producer JOHN SMITH Series producer ANN REAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Floella Benjamin
Unknown:
Gabrielle Glaister
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Unknown:
Ben Thomas
Unknown:
Jonathan Cohen
Designer:
Gwen Evans.
Director:
Jonathan Cohen.
Producer:
John Smith
Producer:
Ann Reay

starring
Ann Sheridan , Sterling Hayden
In this enchanting romantic comedy directed by Douglas Sirk , three boys set out to find a wife for their widower father, lumberjack and part-time preacher Will Hall. Their choice is Vermilion O'Toole, dance hall entertainer supreme - but arranging the match proves to be no easy matter.
Screenplay by RICHARD MORRIS Produced by ROSS HUNTER
Directed by DOUGLAS SIRK . Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Sheridan
Unknown:
Sterling Hayden
Directed By:
Douglas Sirk
Unknown:
Richard Morris
Produced By:
Ross Hunter
Directed By:
Douglas Sirk
Vermilion O'Toole:
Ann Sheridan
Will Hall:
Sterling Hayden
Newton Cole:
Philip Reed
Rose:
Lee Patrick
Corney:
Lee Aaker
Petey:
Harvey Grant

James Hutton , Geologist
A powerful intuition and a keen eye focused on the scenery of his native Scotland allowed 18th-century naturalist James Hutton to understand the Earth as a heat machine and to be the first to estimate its great age. Presented by Professor Gordon Craig
Producer STUART CARTER
Executive producer ANDREW CRILLY A BBC/Open University production

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hutton
Unknown:
James Hutton
Presented By:
Professor Gordon Craig
Producer:
Stuart Carter
Producer:
Andrew Crilly

The programme that brings together BBC2's Whistle Test and Radio l's In Concert for a regular run of TV rock concerts with stereo sound.
This week Wang Chung on stage at The Gold Diggers, Chippenham. Introduced by Steve Blacknell
Director DAVID G. CROFT
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
For the best effect, viewers with stereo Radio 1 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones are an alternative.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wang Chung
Introduced By:
Steve Blacknell
Director:
David G. Croft
Producer:
Michael Appleton

Tonight's Arena Special tells the extraordinary story of two of the legendary figures of American 'gospel' -the music whose emotional impact and burning conviction lie at the heart of much of today's popular music.
Thomas A. Dorsey , 'father' and virtual inventor of gospel music, haunted the sinful world of the blues singers as 'Georgia Tom', before turning his music over to God in the early 1920s. In doing so, he remarks, '... I was thrown out of some of the best churches'.
Willie Mae Ford Smith suffered similar setbacks, both as a woman evangelist in a predominantly male world and from those who considered her music too spirited to be truly religious. '... You make us sick with that stuff - you might as well be Bessie Smith or one of those Smith sisters!' Tonight's film features some astonishing scenes of gospel revivalism in 'Mother' Smith's Antioch Baptist Church, while the Massed Gospel Choirs Convention honours 84-year-old 'Doctor' Dorsey who crowns the proceedings with an impassioned reading of his classic song 'Precious Lord take my hand'.
Director GEORGE T. NIERENBERG Arena editor ALAN YENTOB

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas A. Dorsey
Unknown:
Bessie Smith
Director:
George T. Nierenberg
Editor:
Alan Yentob

and Power
The last of five programmes
Men still have most of the power in private and public life.
Robert Key , mp, and women attending a TUC conference in Birmingham talk about the nature of male power and what prevents women from challenging it effectively.
To give up their power men need to change their attitudes fundamentally. A few are doing so - among them the members of a London Men's Group which has been meeting for six years. Commentary KENNETH BRANAGH
Film editor TERRY WILLIAMS Producer BERNARD ADAMS
Book: Men.... an investigation into the emotional male by Philip Hodson , £2.95 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Key
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Editor:
Terry Williams
Producer:
Bernard Adams
Unknown:
Philip Hodson

starring Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Aumont Valentina Cortese
Truffaut's affectionate celebration of film-making is set in the Victorine Studios in Nice where Meet Pamela is being shot. Truffaut himself plays the harassed director faced with making a film with a star with a history of nervous breakdowns, another who cannot remember two consecutive lines of dialogue, financial backers who impose impossible shooting schedules and a series of emotional crises among the cast and crew.
Screenplay by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
JEAN-LOUIS RICHARD and SUSAN SCHIFFMAN Directed by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
(A French film with English subtitles) Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacqueline Bisset
Unknown:
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Unknown:
Valentina Cortese
Unknown:
Francois Truffaut
Unknown:
Jean-Louis Richard
Unknown:
Susan Schiffman
Directed By:
Francois Truffaut
Julie:
Jacqueline Bisset
Alexandre:
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Sévérine:
Valentina Cortese
Bertrand:
Jean Champion
Lilianne:
Dani
Alphonse:
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Stacey:
Alexandra Stewart
Ferrand:
Francois Truffaut
Odile:
Nike Arrighi
Joelle:
Nathalie Baye

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