Educating Archie

by Peter Brough

with a foreword by Fred Russell

To upwards of 12,000,000 regular radio listeners, here and overseas, the name "Archie Andrews" automatically conjures up visions of a cheeky schoolboy, whose weekly adventures with his "master", Peter Brough, have provided the liveliest family entertainment the BBC has given us since the days of "I.T.M.A." It is surely one of Peter Brough's greatest achievements that a ventriloquist's dummy should not only have become a national figure, but also be accepted as a real person by countless listeners. Now, for the first time, the full romantic tale of the creation and exploitation of the £30,000-a-year doll has been told - by the man who has guided, and shared, Archie's rise to fame and fortune. Peter Brough here gives a fascinating account of his early struggle for recognition in theatreland; of the setbacks and heartbreaks he experienced before "Archie Andrew" finally succeeded in capturing the imagination of the British public, culminating in the winning, for two years out of three, of the coveted National Radio Award.

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The Television Annual for 1958

Edited by Kenneth Bailey

Here is the eighth edition of THE TELEVISION ANNUAL, the only British annual reviewing the whole field of BBC and ITA television, published for viewers, for all engaged in the TV industry and for everyone else interested in the amazing progress of this exciting modern medium of entertainment and information. Packed with exclusive articles and brilliant pictures, this latest issue makes a superb souvenir of the year's television . . . Once again, the pick of the television pictures have been selected, and over 160 fine photographs provide a record of the TV year that alone make the annual a "must" for every viewer.

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Television Jubilee

The Story Of Twenty-Five Years of BBC Television

by Gordon Ross

The story of the pioneer days, told in the early chapters, is absolutely fascinating; while the last chapter looks forward into the future of colour television. Television Jubilee is a mine of anecdotes and good stories about television personalities. The author's research has lead the wholehearted and generous support of everyone at the BBC.

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Face To Face

Edited and introduced by Hugh Burnett

with portraits by Feliks Topolski

Just over fourty years ago, the BBC launched a television series that was to prove a landmark in broadcasting. It was called Face to Face; its interviewer was John Freeman and it brought a whole range of outstanding and famous people to the screen. The viewing public had seen nothing like it before: interviews that gently but insistently probed the lives and personalities of people of outstanding achievement.

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for this books Introduction & more

Face To Face

Edited and introduced by Hugh Burnett

with portraits by Feliks Topolski

Thirty-five prominent persons reveal themselves in these pages, including such diverse figures as Cecil Beaton, Albert Finney, King Hussein, Augustus John, Carl Gustav Jung, John Huston, Jomo Kenyatta, Martin Luther King, Otto Klemperer, Henry Moore, Bertrand Russell, Dame Edith Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh, among others.
These interviews, which have been called "the most revealing and dramatic penetrations of character ever produced," are accompanied by Feliks Topolski's brilliant portraits of the persons being interviewed. Topolski's genius at capturing character is equal to that of John Freeman's, and the large art-book format of Face to Face makes it possible to enjoy both. It is a book to have, a book to show, a book to give.

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Talking About Television

by A. P. Higgins

What follows is most of what's written in the foreword of this booklet

With this booklet and its companion volume, Talking about the Cinema, we continue our series of educational publications which began with Film Teaching in which we invite practising teachers to describe some of the work they have done in the field of film and television studies. It should perhaps once more be emphasised that the following account is offered as a description of one man's individual approach to his subject and not as a prescription for how such work should be done.' And so it goes on...

This book contains a nice little section about comedy. And if you're going to mention comedy (in 1966) then you have to mention Galton & Simpson. You can't mention Galton & Simpson without mentioning Hancock or Steptoe - complete with illustrations of both

16mm Catalogue

by Warner Pathé

This is the latest catalogue from the Warner-Pathé 16mm. Entertainment Film Library. Listed and described, in over one hundred pages, is a selection of 16mm films unequalled in the U.K. for their sheer scope and quality. Films to laugh at and cry over. Films that thrill - and inform. A vast range to satisfy every possible type of audience - hospitals, schools, film societies, etc.

Licence Fees: The licence fees for The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man are listed as costing £10.00 and £5.00 respectively, for one day's exhibition. Each additional day's licence fee is 50% of the first day licence fee.

Both The Rebel (one paragraph and a pic) and The Punch and Judy Man (three paragraphs, no pic) are featured in the catalogue