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Contributors
Presenter:
John
Edmunds
Producer:
Bill
Northwood
As part of Sir William Walton's 70th birthday celebrations, a concert of his own music was given last week by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Outside broadcast cameras were at the Royal Festival Hall to record his Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten conducted by Andre Previn,
Concerto for viola and orchestra with Yehudi Menuhin (solo viola) conducted by Sir William Walton.
Introduced by Antony Hopkins
Contributors
Presenter:
Antony
Hopkins
Conductor:
Sir William
Walton
Musicians:
The London Symphony
Orchestra
Conductor:
Andre
Previn
Violaist:
Yehudi
Menuhin
Director:
Brian
Large
The career of Col. Sir Hugh Boustead reads like an adventure from the Boys' Own Paper
He joined the Navy at 13, deserted to fight on the Western Front, went on to fight with the White Russians, became an Army boxing champion, had a go at Everest - and commanded the Camel Corps.
He left the Army to become eventually a Political Agent in the richest sheikdom in the world.
Contributors
Subject:
Sir Hugh
Boustead
Writer/Narrator:
Jim Douglas
Henry
Producer:
Ramsay
Short
The role of the Pharaoh is one of the most distinctive aspects of the ancient civilisation of the Nile Valley. Tutankhamun himself enjoyed only a short reign. But the institution that he represented left its stamp on every part of Egyptian life. Introduced from the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum by Cyril Aldred, Keeper of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum.
Contributors
Presenter:
Cyril
Aldred
Narrator:
Eric
Porter
Director:
Paul
Jordan
Executive Producer:
Paul
Johnstone
One of the most distinguished poets writing in the English language today has spent all his life as a priest in Wales. In tonight's film he reads a number of his poems and talks of his beliefs and of the relationship between his work as a priest and as a poet.
(BBC Wales)
(Easter Holiday People: page 4)
(Colour)
Contributors
Presenter/Reader:
R.S.
Thomas
Producer:
John
Ormond
Thomas Hardy's words, and summer in an unspoiled Wessex.
Contributors
Director:
Ian
McMillan
Producer:
Derrick
Knight
by George Eliot
Dramatised in six parts by Alexander Baron
Starring Robert Hardy
and introducing Martha Henry.
Mirah is now settled with Mrs Meyrick. Gwendolen and Grandcourt have married.
Contributors
Author:
George
Eliot
Dramatised by:
Alexander
Baron
Script Editor:
Michael
Voysey
Producer:
David
Conroy
Director:
Joan
Craft
Gwendolen:
Martha
Henry
Mr Grandcourt:
Robert
Hardy
Sir Hugo Mallinger:
David
Langton
Daniel Deronda:
John
Nolan
Lady Mallinger:
Patricia
Hastings
Mirah Lapidoth:
Vanessa
Miles
Mrs Meyrick:
Megs
Jenkins
Kate Meyrick:
Sarah
Craze
Mab Meyrick:
Diane
Grayson
Mordecai:
John
Bennett
Ezra Cohen:
Robert
Wilde
Mrs Cohen:
Jessie
Robins
Lady Pentreath:
Dorothy
Black
Mr Vandernoodt:
Noel
Davis
Mr Buchan:
Antony
Webb
Miss Fenn:
Rosamund
Nelson
Cantor:
Nathaniel
Conroy
Choir:
The Emmanuel Fisher
Singers
Singer - in concert
with The Treorchy Male Voice Choir, The Blossoms
(First shown on BBC1. Sounds, page 10)
Contributors
Singer:
Tom
Jones
Singers:
The Treorchy Male Voice
Choir
Musicians:
The
Blossoms
Orchestra directed by:
Johnnie
Spence
Special Material:
Ronnie
Cass
Producer:
Stewart
Morris