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starring
The Marx Brothers and Lucille Ball
In this version of a successful Broadway comedy, Groucho plays a bankrupt stage manager who tries to put on a new play and stay in a hotel - without any money.
Screenplay by MORRIE RYSKIND From the play by JOHN MURRAY and ALLEN BORETZ Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN Directed by WILLIAM A. SEITER and at 3.15
The Rebel
I starring
Tony Hancock
George Sanders Paul Massie
Anthony Hancock , office-worker and one among thousands of bowler-hatted commuters, is a frustrated artist. As the unacknowledged Gauguin of the London suburbs, Hancock escapes to the Left Bank in Paris where his talent is sure to be recognised.
Sreenplay by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON Based on the original story by TONY HANCOCK. ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Produced by w. A. WHITTAKER Directed by ROBERT DAY
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Contributors

Unknown:
Morrie Ryskind
Play By:
John Murray
Produced By:
Pandro S. Berman
Directed By:
William A. Seiter
Unknown:
Tony Hancock
Unknown:
George Sanders
Unknown:
Paul Massie
Unknown:
Anthony Hancock
Unknown:
Alan Simpson
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Story By:
Tony Hancock.
Story By:
Alan Simpson
Story By:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
A. Whittaker
Directed By:
Robert Day
Gordon Miller:
Groucho Marx
Harry Binelli:
Chico Marx
Faker Englund:
Harpo Marx
Christine:
Lucille Ball
Hilda Manney:
Ann Miller
Wagner:
Donald MacBride
Anthony Hancock:
Tony Hancock
Sir Charles Brouard:
George Sanders
Paul:
Paul Massie
Margot:
Margit Saad
Carreras:
Gregoire Aslan
Jim Smith:
Dennis Price
Mrs Crevatte:
Irene Handl
Manager of art gallery, London:
Mervyn Johns
Manager of art gallery, Paris:
Peter Bull
Office manager:
John Le Mesurier
Waitress:
Liz Fraser
Josey:
Nanette Newman
Madame Laurent:
Marie Burke

starring with Vengeance
When Jess Harper shoots outlaw Joe Morgan he faces the wrath of the dead man's sweetheart. Written by RAY BUFFUM and ROD PETERSON Directed by JOE KANE (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jess Harper
Unknown:
Joe Morgan
Written By:
Ray Buffum
Directed By:
Joe Kane
Slim:
John Smith
Jess:
Robert Fuller
Daisy:
Spring Byington
Mike:
Dennis Holmes
Joe:
John Milford
Gladys:
Fay Spain

from the Royal Albert Hall , London Introduced by Ray Moore
Launched in 1975, the Schools Proms have now become a regular three-day event during the autumn season.
Teachers, tutors, conductors and musical directors accompany their talented youngsters to London from all over the country to perform a variety of musical styles.
This programme consists of highlights from the 1985 season and features:
WARDLE YOUTH BAND
SOUTH GLAMORGAN
YOUTH ORCHESTRA
EAST NORFOLK SCHOOLS'
BIG BAND
BEARSDEN BRASS QUINTET
WOKING CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
LUDLOW SCHOOL CHOIR
KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE,
STOURBRIDGE, FLUTE QUARTET
MOSSLEY HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL
BAND, COUNTY OF AVON
SCHOOLS' ORCHESTRA, WIGAN
YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH
ORCHESTRA with guest soloists
John Harle (saxophone) Felix Schmidt (cello)
Concert staged by LARRY WESTLAND Lighting GEORGE JAKINS Sound BRIAN STRUGNELL Producer KEN GRIFFIN
(The Schools Proms are organised by Music for Youth in conjunction with The Rank Organisation and Commercial Union Assurance.)

Contributors

Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Introduced By:
Ray Moore
Soloists:
John Harle
Cello:
Felix Schmidt
Producer:
Ken Griffin

Jeremy James introduces coverage of the Canberra Cruise's World Bridge
Trophy, in which four top international players compete for a cash-prize and an individual trophy as the ship steams towards Portugal. From Italy Arturo Franco
From Pakistan Zia Mahmood From France Christian Mari
From England Robert Sheehan Jeremy Flint comments on play and tactics.
Director LINDA MCCARTHY Producer MARK PATTERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Arturo Franco
Unknown:
Zia Mahmood
Unknown:
Christian Mari
Unknown:
Robert Sheehan
Unknown:
Jeremy Flint
Director:
Linda McCarthy
Producer:
Mark Patterson

Presented by Russell Davies Exhibition: the Quai d'Orsay, a converted railway station in Paris, has now been opened as Europe's most thorough permanent museum of 19th-century art and culture. Eric Griffiths reviews the museum and asks whether such a mixture of cultural, scientific and sociological material really provides any new insights into the past. Dance: Wayne Eagling has produced a new version of Beauty and the Beast for the Royal Ballet, with music by Vangelis and designs by book-illustrator Jan Pienkovski.
Art: the dividing line between commercial and high art has always been a difficult one;
Peter Blake looks back on his art for advertisements and promotions, and asks whether we are not too narrow-minded in our prejudice towards non-inspirational art.
Assistant producer DAISY GOODWIN Director ALEX MARENGO Producer KEVIN LOADER JOHN ARCHER

Contributors

Presented By:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Eric Griffiths
Unknown:
Wayne Eagling
Unknown:
Jan Pienkovski.
Unknown:
Peter Blake
Producer:
Daisy Goodwin
Director:
Alex Marengo
Producer:
Kevin Loader
Producer:
John Archer

The second of three programmes featuring the music of California
Two Pioneers
Two of California's leading composers introduce and take part in new performances of their music.
Terry Riley 's In C and Morton Subotnik 's
The Key to Songs
San Francisco in the 1960s was a place of extraordinary cultural ferment. For young composers, the Mecca of new music was the Tape Music Center, and there in 1964 In C was first performed. With its hypnotic repeated patterns of sound and simple haunting melodies, In C was a key work in the birth of the influential musical movement known as 'Minimalism'.
Twenty years later,
The Key to Songs is the latest work of Morton Subotnik , America's leading pioneer of electronic music and, like Terry Riley , a graduate of the Tape Music Center. It combines the amplified sounds of pianos, strings and mallet instruments with the synthesised notes of a computer to create music of dazzling virtuosity.
Lighting cameraman
PHILIP BONHAM-CARTER Sound BRUCE GALLAWAY Film editor JEFF SHAW
Executive producer DENNIS MARKS Director MICHAEL MACINTYRE

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Riley
Unknown:
Morton Subotnik
Unknown:
Morton Subotnik
Unknown:
Terry Riley
Editor:
Jeff Shaw
Director:
Michael MacIntyre

starring Sabine Azema Fanny Ardant Pierre Arditi
Andre Dussollier
When her lover, Simon, is pronounced dead by a doctor, Elisabeth feels her own life is over. Yet only minutes later Simon walks downstairs, apparently none the worse. For Elisabeth their love and life together are a miracle, but Simon becomes obsessed with his experience of death. Resnais's passionate study of the power of love in the face of death is counterpointed by HANS-WERNER HENZE 'S elegiac music.
Derek Malcolm introduces two haunting films by Alain Resnais.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sabine Azema
Unknown:
Fanny Ardant
Unknown:
Pierre Arditi
Unknown:
Andre Dussollier
Unknown:
Hans-Werner Henze
Introduces:
Derek Malcolm
Unknown:
Alain Resnais.
Elisabeth:
Sabine Azema
Judith:
Fanny Ardant
Simon:
Pierre Arditi
Jerome:
André Dussollier
Doctor:
Jean Daste
Anne:
Geneviève Mnich
Specialist:
Jean-Claude Weibel
Michel Garenne:
Louis Castel
Juliette:
Francoise Rigal
Madame Vigne:
Francoise Morhange

Screenplay by JEAN GRUAULT Produced by GERARD LEBOVICI Directed by ALAIN RESNAIS
(A French film with English subtitles. First showing on British television) and at
(L'annge dernière à
Marienbad) starring
Delphine Seyrig
Giorgio Albertazzi
In a vast baroque hotel
7 a man and a woman meet. The man claims they met last year in Frederiksbad, or maybe Marienbad. She was, he says, on the verge of leaving her husband. She denies it, but gradually the three of them become involved in an inexorable ritual played out against the timeless formal gardens and salons of a fashionable spa. Hailed by some critics as a masterpiece and denounced by others as an elaborate hoax, Resnais's elliptical version of the eternal triangle must be one of the most controversial films ever made.
Screenplay by ALAIN ROBBEGRILLET Produced by PIERRE COURAU and RAYMOND FROMENT
Directed by ALAIN RESNAIS
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Contributors

Play By:
Jean Gruault
Produced By:
Gerard Lebovici
Directed By:
Alain Resnais
Unknown:
Delphine Seyrig
Unknown:
Giorgio Albertazzi
Play By:
Alain Robbegrillet
Produced By:
Pierre Courau
Directed By:
Alain Resnais
Woman:
Delphine Seyrig
Man:
Giorgio Albertazzi
Husband:
Sacra Pitoeff

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