Listings
: No Limits
Hear new sounds, see new videos, films and features.Associate producer JONATHAN KING Production PETER HAMILTON BBC Manchester
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Hamilton
: The Cuckoo Sister
by VIVIEN ALCOCK dramatised in four parts by JULIA JONES1: Kate longs for the return of her sister, kidnapped from her pram many years before. Executive producer PAUL STONE Director MARILYN FOX
Contributors
Unknown:
Vivien
Alcock
Producer:
Paul
Stone
Director:
Marilyn
Fox
: European Gala Concert
from Guildhall, City of London, in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales To celebrate the UnitedKingdom Presidency of the EEC, this concert, given before a distinguished audience, brings together music by English, German and Italian composers. It includes BENJAMIN BRITTE 'S song cycle 'Les illuminations sung by Heather Harper , a transcription of a BOCCHERINI chamber piece by LUCIANO BERio and concludes with BEETHOVEN'S Fourth Symphony.
Introduced by Richard Baker BBC Symphony Orchestra leader RODNEY FRIEND conducted by Lothar Zagrosek Trumpeters of the Life Guards Sound VIC GODRICH
Lighting PETER WEBB Directed by RON ISTED Presented by the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY in association with BRITISH OLIVETTI LTD
A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn of TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away.
Stereo headphones provide a statable alternative.
Contributors
Unknown:
Benjamin
Britte
Sung By:
Heather
Harper
Unknown:
Luciano
Berio
Introduced By:
Richard
Baker
Conducted By:
Lothar
Zagrosek
Directed By:
Ron
Isted
: Rugby Special
Ireland v RomaniaIntroduced from Dublin by Nigel Starmer-Smith
After last year's 'Wooden Spoon' in the Five Nations
Championship, the Irish will hope for a much improved performance against the powerful Romanians.
Television presentation by RTE Series producer HUW JONES
Contributors
Unknown:
Nigel
Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Huw
Jones
: Go with Noakes
with John Noakes of Blue Peter paddlers Must Wear Life-jacketsJohn enters the toughest canoe race in Ireland, over ten weirs on the swollen River Liffey.
'If your canoe breaks in two,' said organiser LARRY WARD , 'you can swim to the finish.' Film editor PETER MARSH Producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Noakes
Unknown:
Larry
Ward
Editor:
Peter
Marsh
Producer:
David
Brown
: The Railway Children: The Meeting
by E. NesbitDramatised by Denis Constanduros.
A boy injured on a paper chase is trapped in the tunnel. Bobbie, Peter and Phyl try to rescue him as the train approaches.
Contributors
Author:
E.
Nesbit
Dramatised by:
Denis
Constanduros
Producer:
Campbell
Logan
Director:
Julia
Smith
Mother:
Ann
Castle
Father:
Frederick
Treves
Bobbie:
Jenny
Agutter
Peter:
Neil
McDermott
Phyllis:
Gillian
Bailey
Jim:
Christopher
Witty
Signalman:
Bart
Allison
Perks:
Gordon
Gostelow
Old gentleman:
Joseph
O'Conor
Dr Forrest:
John
Ringham
Stationmaster:
Brian
Hayes
: Alice in Wonderland
by LEWIS CARROLLA film re-creation by JONATHAN MILLER
The first showing for nearly 20 years of Jonathan Miller 's remarkable interpretation of Lewis Carroll 's masterpiece. In its claustrophobic and at times frightening view of Victorian adult society, the film has none of the whimsy so often generated by Alice. Commissioned for the Music and Arts Department it's a film which deserves its status as one of the most original and imaginative dramas of the last 50 years. Cheshire Cat PRIMROSE and MARK ALLINGTON
DAVID BATTLEY , FREDA DOWIE
GEOFFREY DUNN , AVRIL ELGAR
NICHOLAS EVANS , PETER EYRE
GORDON GOSTELOW
JULIAN JEBB , CHARLES LEWSON
JO MAXWELL-MULLER
TONY TENT
Music by ravi SHANKAR with LEON GOOSSENS
Film editor PAM BOSWORTH Directed and produced by JONATHAN MILLER
Contributors
Unknown:
Lewis
Carroll
Unknown:
Jonathan
Miller
Unknown:
Jonathan
Miller
Unknown:
Lewis
Carroll
Unknown:
Mark
Allington
Unknown:
David
Battley
Unknown:
Freda
Dowie
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Dunn
Unknown:
Avril
Elgar
Unknown:
Nicholas
Evans
Unknown:
Peter
Eyre
Unknown:
Gordon
Gostelow
Unknown:
Julian
Jebb
Unknown:
Charles
Lewson
Unknown:
Jo
Maxwell-Muller
Music By:
Ravi
Shankar
Unknown:
Leon
Goossens
Produced By:
Jonathan
Miller
Mouse:
Alan
Bennett
Frog footman:
John
Bird
White Rabbit:
Wilfrid
Brambell
Mad Hatter:
Peter
Cook
Dodo:
Finlay
Currie
Mock Turtle:
John
Gielgud
March Hare:
Michael
Gough
Dormouse:
Wilfrid
Lawson
Queen of Hearts:
Alison
Leggatt
Alice:
Anne-Marie
Mallik
Duchess:
Leo
McKern
Gryphon:
Malcolm
Muggeridge
Catepillar:
Michael
Redgrave
King of Hearts:
Peter
Sellers
: Crackerjack
Introduced by Eamonn Andrews with Leslie CrowtherPeter Glaze , Pip Hinton Jillian Comber Vie Perry
Guest stars
Peter and Gordon and Double or Drop Music by BERT HAYES AND HIS OCTET Designer PETER BRACHACKI Producer JOHNNY DOWNES Double or Drop is devised by EAMONN ANDREWS
Contributors
Introduced By:
Eamonn
Andrews
Unknown:
Leslie
Crowther
Unknown:
Peter
Glaze
Unknown:
Pip
Hinton
Unknown:
Jillian
Comber
Unknown:
Vie
Perry
Music By:
Bert
Hayes
Producer:
Johnny
Downes
Unknown:
Eamonn
Andrews
: Wheldon Talking
Introduced by Cliff Morgan After a career as a presenter, producer and Controller of Programmes,Sir Huw Wheldon , who died in March, became one of the BBC's most loved and respected managing directors.
Responsible for forming many of the BBC's present programme policies, he instigated such series as Civilisation, Alistair Cooke 's History of America and Bronowski's Ascent of Man.
With an eye for talent, he also gathered around him a band of exceedingly creative programme-makers.
Above all he was a Welshman with a sense of fun and, as he demonstrates in conversation with Frank Gillard ,
Michael Parkinson and Bill Moyers , an unrivalled and gifted raconteur. Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer JENNY CROPPER
Contributors
Introduced By:
Cliff
Morgan
Unknown:
Sir Huw
Wheldon
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
Unknown:
Frank
Gillard
Unknown:
Michael
Parkinson
Unknown:
Bill
Moyers
Editor:
David
Lee
Producer:
Jenny
Cropper
: Going for a Song
Customers and connoisseurs explore the world of Antiques with Max Robertson Resident connoisseur Arthur NegusGuest connoisseur Roger Warner
Customers Joyce Blair Humphrey Lyttelton Director PAUL SMITH Producer JOHN KING
Contributors
Unknown:
Max
Robertson
Unknown:
Joyce
Blair
Unknown:
Humphrey
Lyttelton
Director:
Paul
Smith
Producer:
John
King
: Face to Face
Adam Faith and John Freeman'It gets 'em when you look kind of casually soulful and sad, and sing about sorrowful things. Sometimes when I'm singing a song of that sort I cry inwardly.'
(SUNDAY PICTORIAL)
'I've become a star through a little black disc with a hole in the middle.'
(SUNDAY DISPATCH)
'Those girls scare the wits out of me ... I got a scar right round my neck where one of 'em caught me.'
(DAILY SKETCH)
'I do get a bit nervous at times. I went to a psychiatrist once. He had a bash at me - couldn't find anything.'
(DAILY MIRROR)
Drawings by FELIKS TOPOLSKI Produced by HUGH BURNETT
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Freeman
Unknown:
Feliks
Topolski
Produced By:
Hugh
Burnett
: Juke Box Jury
Presenting popular records with the opinions of Nina and Frederik, Jill Ireland, David McCallum.In the chair David Jacobs.
Contributors
Chairman:
David
Jacobs
Panellists:
Nina and
Frederik
Panellist:
Jill
Ireland
Panellist:
David
McCallum
Devised by:
Peter
Potter
Presented by:
Stewart
Morris
: The Forsyte Saga: Encounter
by John Galsworthy.Dramatised by Vincent Tilsley.
Starring Kenneth More, Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Susan Hampshire
The First World War has come and gone and the Forsytes' England will never be the same again.
Contributors
Author:
John
Galsworthy
Dramatised by:
Vincent
Tilsley
Title music:
Eric
Coates
Producer:
Donald
Wilson
Director:
James Cellan
Jones
Smither:
Maggie
Jones
George:
John
Barcroft
Winifred:
Margaret
Tyzack
June:
June
Barry
Jo:
Kenneth
More
Irene:
Nyree Dawn
Porter
Jon:
Martin
Jarvis
Soames:
Eric
Porter
Prosper Profond:
Christopher
Benjamin
Michael Mont:
Nicholas
Pennell
Bramling:
John
Dunn-Hill
Fleur:
Susan
Hampshire
Annette:
Dallia
Penn
Holly:
Suzanne
Neve
Val:
Jonathan
Burn
: Peter Grimes
An opera in three acts and a prologue derived from the poem of GEORGE CRABBEMusic by BENJAMIN BRITTEN Words by MONTAGU SLATER The moving and powerful tragedy of an East Anglian fisherman, whose uncompromising independence leads to disaster.
Scene: The Borough, a small fishing town on the east coast about 1830
Prologue: a Court Room in the Moot Hall
Act 1, Scene 1: The Borough, a few days later
Scene 2: inside The Boar, the same evening
Act 2, Scene 1: The Borough, some weeks later
Scene 2: Grimes's hut
Act 3, Scene 1: The Borough, three days later
Scene 2: the same a few hours later
Children from
LEISTON MODERN SCHOOL
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted by Benjamin Britten
A crucial breakthrough in the presentation of opera on TV.... indisputably authoritative
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
As a document the recording is priceless and beyond criticism
(TV MAIL)
Staged by JOAN CROSS
Costumes JUANITA WATERSON Director BRIAN LARGE
Producer JOHN CULSHAW
Recorded at The Maltings, Snape
Contributors
Music By:
Benjamin
Britten
Unknown:
Montagu
Slater
Leader:
John
Georgiadis
Conducted By:
Benjamin
Britten
Unknown:
Juanita
Waterson
Director:
Brian
Large
Producer:
John
Culshaw
Peter Grimes:
Peter
Pears
Boy (John), his apprentice:
Simon
Laing
Ellen Orford:
Heather
Harper
Captain Balstrode, retired merchant skipper:
Bryan
Drake
Auntie, landlady of The Boar:
Elizabeth
Bainbridge
Main attractions of The Boar: First niece:
Jill
Gomez
Second niece:
Anne
Pashley
Bob Bowles, fisherman and methodist:
Gregory
Dempsey
Swallow, a lawyer:
Owen
Brannigan
Mrs Sedley:
Ann
Robson
The Rev Horace Adams:
Robert
Tear
Ned Keene, apothecary and quack:
David
Bowman
Hobson:
Michael
Rippon
Dr Crabbe:
Monti
de Lyle
: That Was the Week That Was
This was the last TW3, as it became known. It lasted two years only. It opened new areas and styles in television satire. It made David Frost internationally famous and created a television legend. David Frost with Millicent MartinKenneth Cope , David Kernan Roy Kinnear , Bernard Levin Al Mancini , Lance Percival William Rushton
Musical numbers staged by DAVID HARDING
Designer MICHAEL YOUNG Producer NED SHERRIN
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Frost
Unknown:
David
Frost
Unknown:
Millicent
Martin
Unknown:
Kenneth
Cope
Unknown:
David
Kernan
Unknown:
Roy
Kinnear
Unknown:
Bernard
Levin
Unknown:
Al
Mancini
Unknown:
Lance
Percival
Unknown:
William
Rushton
Unknown:
David
Harding
Designer:
Michael
Young
Producer:
Ned
Sherrin
: Ella Fitzgerald Sings
presenting one of the world's greatest jazz singers accompanied by the Johnnie Spence Orchestra and the Tommy Flanagan TrioMusical arrangements by BUDDY BREGMAN , MAX HARRIS
OLIVER NELSON , MARTY PAICH
NELSON RIDDLE , ALAN ROPER Designer MELVYN CORNISH
Production TERRY HENEBERY
Contributors
Unknown:
Johnnie Spence
Orchestra
Unknown:
Tommy
Flanagan
Arrangements By:
Buddy
Bregman
Arrangements By:
Max
Harris
Arrangements By:
Oliver
Nelson
Unknown:
Marty
Paich
Unknown:
Nelson
Riddle
Unknown:
Alan
Roper
Designer:
Melvyn
Cornish
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