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World Theatre presents: Volpone
(See top of page and page 4)
Donald Wolfit as "Volpone" with Esmond Knight, Carl Bernard and Jane Griffiths in the comedy by Ben Jonson.
Adapted for television from Sir Donald Wolfit's acting version.
Volpone or The Fox
[Starring] Cecil Trouncer
The scene is laid in Venice.
(Second performance)
The Alchemist
Starring Alan Dobie, Patsy Rowlands, John Warner
Face and his confederates, Subtle and Doll Common, get up to every trick, squeezing money out of the gullible and the greedy. These lead to outrageous complications which resolve only as the play ends.
From the Midlands
See page 21
Volpone: Part 1
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
For Schools
Previously shown on Tuesday
(to 11.35)
Volpone: Part 1
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
Introduced by Geoffrey Whitehead.
For Schools
(Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.)
(to 14.35)
Volpone: Part 3
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
For Schools
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.
(to 14.35)
Volpone: Part 2
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
For Schools
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.
(to 14.35)
For Schools and Colleges
(Shown on Monday)
(Repeated on Friday - not Scottish)
9.38 Exploring Your World: Into the Air
(Shown on Monday)
10.0-10.20 History 1917-1967: America Gets Involved
Written and produced by John Radcliffe.
How the Americans retire into isolationism between 1919 and 1941 and how after their experience of the Second World War they accept a world role in 1945.
Introduced by Brian Redhead.
(Repeated on Thursday)
11.0 Drama: Volpone: Part 1
by Ben Jonson
(Shown on Tuesday)
11.35 Middle School Physics: The Camera and the Eye
(Shown on Tuesday)
(Repeated next Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday)
12.0-12 25 For Sixth Forms: Colonialism: 3: Fighting for Freedom
(Shown on Monday)
For Schools and Colleges
by Ben Jonson.
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
The famous exploits of a confidence trickster in a world of money-madmen.
(Repeated on Wednesday)
4.15-4.35 Middle School Physics: Light - Waves or Particles?
(Shown on Monday)
(Repeated on Wednesday, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday next week)
For Schools and Colleges
Shown on Monday
Repeated on Friday (not Scottish)
9.38 Exploring Your World: Man Becomes Airborne
Shown on Monday
10.0-10.20 History 1917-1967: The Cold War
Written and produced by John Radcliffe.
How after 1945 the world became divided into two armed camps; how in the '50s the Cold War deepened; and how in the '60s relations between the Soviet bloc and the West have begun to improve.
Introduced by Brian Redhead.
Repeated on Thursday
11.0 Drama: Volpone: Part 2
by Ben Jonson.
Shown on Tuesday
11.35 Maths Today: Relations
Shown on Monday
12.0-12.25 For Sixth Forms: Colonialism: 4: The Consequences of Decolonisation
Shown on Monday
For Schools and Colleges
by Ben Jonson.
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
The famous exploits of a confidence trickster in a world of money-mad men.
(Repeated on Wednesday)
4.15-4.35 Middle School Physics: The Camera and the Eye
Introduced by Bill Trotter.
(Shown last week)
(Repeated on Thursday and Friday)
For Schools and Colleges
by Ben Jonson.
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
The famous exploits of a confidence trickster in a world of money-mad men.
(Repeated on Wednesday)
4.15-4.35 Middle School Physics: The Camera and the Eye
(Shown on Monday)
(Repeated on Wednesday, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday next week)
Gold! Gold!! Gold!!!
Gold is just a metal - one of the more useless. Yet its attraction is enormous. People have fought and killed for it; crossed continents, climbed mountains and gone to the depths of the earth for it. The gleam in the quartz, the flash in the pan, the 1,000-to-one chance of finding a nugget - how and why do they do it?
The story is romantic, surprising and full of grand delusions. Why do we dig gold out of a hole in the ground, carry it across the-world, and bury it in other holes with guards over it? Gold is no longer officially money. There are millions of tons of it lying in vaults around the world, yet nobody can touch it. How did we got into this insane situation? As BEN JONSON said, Gold is but muck
Film editor JOHN BUSH
Written and produced by SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Open University
6.50 Hartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson
7.15 The Noble Savage
7.40 Topology: Covering Surfaces
8.5 Barnacle Geese
8.30 Evolution by Natural Selection
8.55 Social Integration: Family Comedy
9.20 Maths: Conic Sections
9.45 A Poet and Politics
10.10 Pressure Die-Casting
10.35 Organic Chemistry: Azodyes
11.0 A Portrait of Summer School
11.25 Kinetics of a Gas Reaction
11.50 Biology: Respiratory Mechanism
12.15 Physics: Reflections on Waves
12.40 Perceptions of the IMF
1.5 Trading on Uncertainty
1.30 Maths Methods: Differential Equations
Open University
A surface which can be wrapped around a second surface is called a ' covering surface ' - but which surfaces can cover which other surfaces?
12.35 Managing the Managers: Michael Jones , Jewellers
This firm in Northampton is run as a co-operative. The issue of bonuses highlights some of the distinctive features of the firm.
1.5 Bartholomew Fair bu Ben Jonson Bartholomew Fair was for three centuries London's most important event. The programme looks at its economic importance and the way the fair helped spread new ideas and was a centre of popular culture and entertainment.
Saturday Cinema: The Honey Pot
Rex Harrison
Susan Hayward Cliff Robertson
Taking his cue from Ben Jonson 's play
Volpone, international playboy Cecil Fox pretends he is dying and summons three of his former lovers to discover what they really think of him. A madcap millionairess accompanied by her nurse, a penniless princess and a fading film star duly arrive to pay homage. But Fox and his confidential secretary, McFly, have a few surprises in store for them....
Screenplay by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Based on the play Mr Fox of Venice by FREDERICK KNOTT from the novel The Evil of the Day by THOMAS STERLING
Produced by CHARLES K. FELDMAN Directed by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
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O Rare Ben Jonson!
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