(to 7.20)
starring
Marlene Dietrich John Wayne
When bar singer Bijou arrives in Boni-Komba on the South Sea island circuit, her appearances at the Seven Sinners club prove a great distraction to the local American naval base.
Screenplay by JOHN MEEHAN and HARRY TUGEND. based on an original story by LADISLAS FODOR and LASLO VADNAI
Produced by JOE PASTERNAK Directed by TAY GARNETT and at 2.40-4.10 pm
Destry Rides Again starring
Marlene Dietrich James Stewart
Thomas Jefferson
Destry, a seemingly shy sheriff, lands the job of taming the roughneck town of Bottle Neck. His biggest problem is not the brawling townsfolk, but the glamorous Frenchy - singer at the local saloon.
Screenplay by FELIX JACKSON ,
GERTRUDE PURCELL and HENRY MYERS Based on the novel by MAX BRAND Produced by JOE PASTERNAK
Directed by GEORGE MARSHALL
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Chris Serle presents a Holiday Special of golden moments from the BBC you may have missed, forgotten or never seen before.
With the help of guest Ian McCaskill's sock and some seaweed, discover some of the secrets behind Bank Holiday weather forecasting.
Ruth Madoc says Hi-de-Hi! and you can discover what holiday camps of the 50s were really like. All you need for the Bank Holiday: a visit to Fawlty Towers. How to make Blackpool rock. A browse through brochures with Steptoe and Son. A trip to
Benidorm, a human cannon-ball and a rare chance to see where Muffin the Mule puts his carrots. In fact.... the best of the Beeb - Bank Holidays from the 30s to the 80s.
starring
Humphrey Bogart Ava Gardner
Edmond O'Brien
Harry Dawes , a fading Hollywood director, discovers flamenco dancer Maria Vargas in a tawdry Madrid night-club and turns her into a star. Maria, however, soon tires of the tinsel world she has conquered....
Screenplay by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Produced by FORREST E. JOHNSTON Directed by JOSEPH L. MANKlEWICZ
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(R)
Introduced by Michael Berkeley
Tonight BBC2 visits the Royal Albert Hall , London for one of the highlights of this year's season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.
The London Sinfonietta leader NONA LIDDELL under the baton of one of Britain's most highly-regarded conductors of the Younger generation
Simon Rattle , performs a special Bank Holiday
Programme devoted to American music.
The concert features works by four of the USA's most
Popular composers, Charles Ives , Aaron Copland , George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.
Before the concert American composer Carl Davis offers a Personal view on the unique sound of 20th-century American music. At 7.30 pm
BBC2 joins Radio 3 in stereo at the Albert Hall. Gershwin
Overture: Strike Up the Band Copland
Appalachian Spring Ives
Central Park in the Dark;
Three Places in New England
8.25-8.45 Interval
(on television only)
Carl Davis explores the influence of jazz on American concert music, and Simon Rattle and members of the London Sinfonietta discuss the delights and challenges facing classical musicians playing in a jazz idiom.
Part 2
Ives
The Unanswered Question
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Ronald Brautigam (solo piano) Bernstein
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Sound BRIAN STRUGNELL Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER
Assistant producer PETER MANIURA Executive producer DENNIS MARKS Director DODNEY GREENBERG
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo
Radio 3 may wish to turn ojj iv sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen. but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.
An Edwardian romance by Francis Brett Young, dramatised in five parts by James Andrew Hall
Edie tells Jonathan that she has been meeting Harold and that she is leaving to study in Germany.
Helped by Rachel, Jonathan saves the life of a child but is then forced to stand trial before the Medical Committee. He finds an ally in Rachel's friend, John Morse - and he needs all the help he can get, as the Committee is headed by Dr Craig!
(Ceefax Subtitles)
;tarring Kirk Douglas \dolphe Menjou
Norld War I. Ordered nto an attack against in impregnable German )osition, French troops all back after only a few yards. General Mireau, who sees every skirmish in terms of his own prestige, decides to court martial three men for cowardice. Their commander, Colonel Dax, does his best to defend them and discovers that political fighting can be just as deadly as the front line.
Screenplay by STANLEY KUBRICK CALDER WILLINGHAM and JIM THOMPSON
Based on a novel by HUMPHREY COBB Produced by JAMES B. HARRIS Directed by STANLEY KUBRICK
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