Listings
: News Review
The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visuallyPresenter, Robert Dougall with Joan Turner
followed by The Weather
(Colour)
Contributors
: Music, Music, Music
Starring The George Mitchell Singersfeaturing John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer
with The Television Toppers
and The Scaffold
[with] Margaret Savage, Delia Wicks, Penny Jewkes, Les Rawlings, The Islanders
(John Boulter, Dai Francis, and Tony Mercer are in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Victoria Palace, London)
(Colour)
Contributors
: Civilisation: 4: Man - The Measure of all Things
A personal view by Kenneth Clark'The architect Leon Battista Alberti addressed man In these words: "To you is given a body more graceful than other animals, to you power of apt and various movements, to you most sharp and delicate senses, to you wit, reason, memory like an immortal god."'
The early Renaissance saw Alberti and the other men of his time emerge as confident individuals, taking delight in art and ideas. Sir Kenneth Clark visits Florence, where European thought was first given a new impetus by the re-discovery of the classical past, and continues his journey to the palaces of Urbino and Mantua, centres of Renaissance civilisation.
(Repeated on Friday at 9.5 p.m.)
(Colour)
Contributors
- Civilisation: The Measure of all Things 50 minutes
: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Willi BoskovskyConducted by Georg Solti
play Richard Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel" and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
The Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world's great orchestras, recently made one of its rare visits to London to give the final concert of a tour spent mainly in Japan.
Tonight's programme, recorded on that occasion, is the first orchestral concert to be televised in colour from the Royal Festival Hall.
(Colour)
Contributors
: Fit-Ups
or Positively The Last PerformanceA film of life in one of the last of the Irish road-shows
"Existence as portable as the props, Travelling light, living in transit, always thinking of that next town just ahead."
Written and produced by Maurice Leitch
From Northern Ireland
The entertainers portrayed in this film are a rapidly dying breed, and are possibly the last surviving family in Ireland to dispense a nightly three-hour brew of blood and thunder melodrama. The Courtneys play in a wooden and canvas booth and their audience sits on benches on the grass to watch such dramas as East Lynne, Murder in the Old Red Barn, and The Caryl Chessman Story.
(Colour)
Contributors
: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
A series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin featuring a regular company of crazy characters and a bewildering array of guests.(Colour)
(Produced for N.B.C.)
Contributors
: News Summary
(Colour): Film Night
Late Night Line-Up's weekly look at the cinema with stars-previews - and a dig into the pastIntroduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
(Colour)
Contributors
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