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: Saturday Cinema: Woman and the Hunter (Triangle on Safari)
Starring David Farrar, Ann SheridanTension between three members of an African hunting party leads to tragedy.
Today's film was photographed on the spot in Kenya. Its director, George Breakston, an ex-actor turned producer, has a great many location pictures in Africa and the Far East to his credit. Another of his movies, "Scarlet Spear," will shortly be shown on BBC-tv.
(Colour)
(to 16.25)
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: The News and Sport
followed by The Weather(Colour)
: Rugby Special: The International Championship 1968-69: The Calcutta Cup: England v. Scotland
Introduced by Cliff MorganThe seventy-sixth Calcutta Cup match was played today. On the last occasion at Twickenham (in 1967) this fixture produced no less than 41 points with England winning 27-14.
Scotland have not won at Twickenham since 1938 and last year at Murrayfield Scottish Rugby reached despair yet again when England came from behind after being six points down to snatch victory and leave Scotland with the "wooden spoon".
Today's fixture matched an England XV supremely confident after their impressive victory over France against a Scottish side who after their promising win in Paris in the first International of the season later succumbed to the superior talents of Wales and Ireland.
(Colour)
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: Imperial Palace: Part 2: Negotiation
by Arnold BennettDramatised in four parts by Michael Voysey
Starring Roy Dotrice
Gracie has left the Imperial Palace. Sir Henry Savott has put forward his merger proposition to Evelyn for his consideration. Violet Powler is about to join the staff as a floor housekeeper.
(Repeated on Thursday at 10.25 p.m.)
(Colour)
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: One Pair of Eyes: Return to the River Kwai
A series of highly personal filmsJohn Coast author and ex-P.O.W. goes back to Thailand to Return to the River Kwai
In company with three of his former Japanese captors, John Coast revisits the scenes of his enforced labour along the banks of the River Kwai. Here, twenty-five years ago, thousands of British lives were sacrificed by the Japanese to drive a railway line through the jungle from Bangkok to Burma.
If it had not been for the now famous film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" few people would remember their epic struggle for survival. But ironically, just because of the film, fact and fiction have become somewhat confused.
Tonight's film is a personal and evocative account of just what did happen during the building of this infamous railway.
See page 31
(Colour)
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: Once More with Felix
Starring Julie Felixwith special guests, Dusty Springfield, Tom Springfield, The Sandpipers, Atahualpa Yupanqui
(Colour)
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: Release
The weekly arts magazineRembrandt - Painter of Man
1969 is the third centenary of Rembrandt's death. The first of a series of exhibitions to mark the occasion opens at the British Museum on Thursday.
Release takes this opportunity to show the distinguished film about Rembrandt's life and work directed by the Dutch film-maker Bert Haanstra.
Edward Bond
"The most important British playwright to emerge in the 1960s" is how The Observer's Theatre Critic described Edward Bond whose season of plays is now running at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Yet he is perhaps best known as the author of Saved which caused violent revulsion in some critics and members of the public and provoked an unprecedented summons by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
His latest play "Early Morning" opened last Thursday, and a scene from it will be shown in this Release item in which Bond talks to Ronald Eyre.
(Colour)
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: News Summary
(Colour): Colour Me Pop
Late Night Line-Up's Saturday diversion featuring Caravan(Colour)
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: Midnight Movie: The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Starring Melina Mercouri, Keith Michell, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Flora RobsonA Regency rake falls in love with an unscrupulous gypsy and together they try to deprive his younger sister of her lawful inheritance.
(Colour)
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