A fun-filled festival of the best work of the immortal team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, made during comedy's golden age.
Also featuring the comic talents of Vivian Oakland, Tiny Sandford, Jimmy Finlayson,
Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Lillian Elliot and Edgar Kennedy.
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starring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor.

Poverty forces the Carraclough family to sell Lassie, their beloved collie. But neither distance nor chains can stop Lassie finding her way back.
Screenplay by Hugo Butler. Based on the novel by Eric Knight.

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(Ceefax subtitles)

Starring Jessie Matthews, John Gielgud
The film which established Jessie Matthews as an international star was this lively treatment of J.B. Priestley's novel.
When a spinster, a joiner and a rebellious schoolmaster join a concert party, the result is unexpected success for the troupe.

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Another chance to enjoy the historic visit of the Bolshoi Ballet Company.

Les Sylphides
with Natalya Bessmertnova, Lyudmila Semenyaka, Nina Semizorova and Aleksei Fadeyechev

Spartacus Act 2
with the brilliant young Irek Mukhamedov in the title role, Natalya Bessmertnova as his wife, Phrygia Aleksei Lazaryev as Crassus, Alia Mikhalchenko as Aegina
A ballet with choreography by Yuri Grigorovich to music by Khachaturian

Divertissements
Pas de deux: Sleeping Beauty
with Nina Ananiashvili and Leonid Nikonov
Dance of the Indian Dolls from The Nutcracker
with Maria Zubkova and Alexander Valuyev
Solor's variation from La Bayadere
with Mikhail Tsivin
Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake
with Nina Semizorova and Aleksei Fadeyechev
Adagio from The Golden Age
with Natalya Bessmertnova and Irek Mukhamedov
Spring Waters pas de deux
with Maria Bylova and Leonid Nikonov
Grand pas from Don Quixote
with Lyudmila Semenyaka and Yuri Vasyuchenko

Artistic director and chief choreographer Yuri Grigorovich
Conductor Alexander Kopylov
Orchestra of London led by Rolf Wilson
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Earlier this year 600 amateurs competed for the BBCtv and Radio Times Awards for Amateur Film and Video Makers with prizes totalling £9,000. Today, and over the next three days, Sue Robbie presents a selection of the semi-finalists and on Friday the winners will be announced. Today film director Angela Pope comments on the entries.
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When 'Rummy' jumped the final fence in the 1973 Grand National, he was still 15 lengths behind Crisp - a seemingly impossible handicap.
(R)

The Gateway Masters Bowls Tournament from Beach House Park, Worthing

Two matches tonight, both of which decide who goes through to the semi-finals. David Bryant plays Alf Wallace and in the other group Wynne Richards meets Peter Fong from Fiji.

[On the Piste] follows the fortunes of two sets of skiers - a group of accident-prone beginners in Soll, and members of the aristocratic and expensive Downhill Only Club in the faded elegance of Wengen.
Also featured are some of the more uninhibited aspects of life apres-ski.
(R)
An Aspect Film and Television production for BBCtv
(Ceefax subtitles)

Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp

Velvet Brown wins a hunter in a raffle and decides to turn him into a champion racehorse with the help of her young friend Mi. Their dreams are fulfilled when the animal is entered in the Grand National - the greatest steeplechase in the world. Enid Bagnold's warm and gentle classic story about family life in the country.

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(Ceefax Subtitles)

A gala concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presenting a blend of classical music and songs from My Fair Lady. In the first of two programmes Kiri Te Kanawa sings favourite arias of Mozart, Gounod, Charpentier and Puccini. With the London Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Davis, conducted by John Mauceri.

A dramatised version of Jack Parham's book about flying a very small, very slow aeroplane around southern England in the 1930s.

His experience of that time profoundly influenced artillery targeting methods during and after the Second World War, but this film conveys his sense of joy and wonder at flying simply for fun.

BBC Southampton

A look ahead to a new season of outstanding productions.

continues a season of films by the master of American comedy.
Tonight also starring Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte

Danny Rose is Broadway's strangest agent, managing a collection of bizarre and unlikely acts including Lou Canova, an over-the-hill Italian crooner. Lou's mistress is Tina Vitale, a lady with Mafia connections. When she refuses to attend Lou's big break concert, Danny takes it upon himself to change her mind - and that's when trouble starts.

(First showing on British television)
(Black and white)
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(Ceefax subtitles)

Starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor

Marguerite Gautier is known in Paris as the Lady of the Camellias because of her love of the delicate blossoms.
Beautiful and extravagant, Marguerite lives a gay life despite her delicate health, until one day she meets the handsome, young Armand Duval, who has worshipped her from afar.
So begins one of the world's great love stories in which Garbo gives a radiant performance, superbly supported by the young and handsome Robert Taylor.

(Black and white)
('Anna Karenina' tomorrow at 12.00 midnight)
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