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“There’s too much pop music on the radio. Two hours are devoted to it every Saturday morning and an hour every Sunday morning followed by more in the afternoon. And in the mid-week we have programmes like Get With It and Go Man Go. I’m all for music, but not this stuff.” - (Mrs) F Hall, Folkestone, Kent.

Stanley Baker, now producing and starring in Zulu in Natal, South Africa is making sure his film crew do not get too homesick. “I have built a replica of a London pub,” he said. “It is called the Pig and Whistle - and it has darts and shove ha’penny to go with the beer.”

A £10,000 film about Dylan Thomas, made by TWW, has been rejected by the ITV network. Instead, it will be shown on the BBC. Richard Burton appears in the film and speaks the commentary. The film has been selected as Britain’s documentary entry for the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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Television highlights: World in Action - a report from Zermatt on the typhoid crisis. Blue Peter. What’s My Line?

Radio highlights: Memory, Dreams and Imagination. Talking About Music.

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@capnthommo Ah, the immortal Mrs Trellis

@HannahHowe one day someone is going to publish her collected letters.