“Gale Is Dead” wins awards

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32879, 30 March 1972, Page 4

“Gale Is Dead” wins awards

8.8.C.-2’s “Man Alive” documentary “Gale Is Dead” won three out of seven major awards at the twelfth Monte Carlo Television Festival—the Silver Nymph for the best documentary, the U.N.D.A. International Catholic Association Award, and the critics* prize for the best programme entered for the festival. "Gale Is Dead" was first shown on 8.8. C.-2 in May, 1970, where it received considerable praise from both critics and public and was quickly repeated on 8.8. C.-l in June, 1970. It told the story of Gale, a good looking, intelligent girl bom in March, 1950, and who died in January, 1970, aged 19, a drug addict.

Directed by Jenny Barraclough, "Gale Is Dead” has also been bought and shown

in countries -in Europe, in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the United States. Jenny Barraclough has already won an award this year for another "Man Alive” production, The Society of Film and Television Arts special award for factual production, for “Women In Prison.” The 8.8. C.-Universal Coproduction "Snow Goose” starring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter has also won a Silver Nymph Award. The Paul Gallico story, adapted by him for television was seen on 8.8. C.-2 at Christmas.

"The Snow Goose” was produced for the 8.8. C. by Innes Lloyd and directed by Patrick Garland. It will screen from CHTV3 tomorrow evening.

CHTV3 Today

2.00 pan.: News. 2,03: On Camera. 2.46: The Doctors. Drama. 338: The Debbie Reynolds Show* Comedy /repeat! 333 c Anfthal World. Wildlife. v 4.18: The Adventures of Gumby. 434: Play School. 4.44: Loopy de Loop. 4.51: Skippy. Adventure. 5.16: The Flintstones. Cartoon (repeat). 5.43: News, weather. 5.46: Daniel Boone. Western. 6.40: In Your Garden. John Oliver 7.00: Network news. 732: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.45: Coronation Street. 8.17: The Outcasts. Western. 9.15; Newsbrief. 9.17; Gallery. Current affairs. 937: The Spanish Farm. Four-part serial—part one. 10.49: Late news, weather. Tomorrow 2,00 pjn4 News. 2.03: The Point Narrated by Dustin Hoffman. 3.15: Room 222, Drama. 3.40: Nancy. Comedy. 4.04: Sesame Street. 5.04: Funny Company (repeat). 5.09: Looney Tunes. 5.17: The Adventures of Parsley 532: The Bugs Bunny Show (repeat) 5.43: Western Civilisation. History. 6.02: News, weather6.05: The Governor and JJ. Comedy. 630: This Week in Britain. 635: An Upper Room. Reconstruction of early Christian gathering on Maundy Thursday. 7.00: Network news. 730: Weather. The South Tonight. 7.40: Hogan’s Heroes. Comedy. 8.05: The Snow Goose by Paul Galileo. 8 54* Newsbrief 8.56: Film (1959) — "Northwest Frontier" (Kenneth Moore, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfred Hyde-White). Drama. 11.01: Ute news, weather. 11.07: Variety Special — “The Shirley Barney Show (Noel Harrison, Paul Ankar, Bob Hughes).

THURSDAY

NATIONAL LINK [lncluding 3YA Christchurch “°7o XeM Dunedin (750 kfloherta); and 3YZ Greymouth (920 kilhertz).] 7 p.m.: N.Z.B.C. Sports News. 7.5: On The Happy Side with Bing Crosby and his Friends. 7.30: The Sackcloth Season—Lenten talks by the Rev. Father Charles Harrison. 7.40: The Romantic Strings of Andre Kostelanetz. 8.0: The Und of the Shamrock. 8.30: Weather and News. 9.0: Napier City Band. Conductor Uurie Moloney. 9.30: The Archers. 10.30: N.Z.B.C. News, Comment,’ Weather. 10.45: The Mystery of Holy Week: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth: A talk for Maundy Thursday by the poetess Ruth Pitter. 11.0: 8.8. C. News and Commentary 11.15: Continuous. 3YC, CHRISTCHURCH (960 kilohertz) 7 p.m.: Rosemary Miller (piano)—Bartok: Eight Im-

provisations on Hungarian Folk Songs (N.Z.B.C.L 7.16: Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away. 730: Heinrich Schuetz: Passion Oratorio: Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. 8.0: Paillard Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Francois Paillard. 9.0: The Wine Dark Sea—An Exercise in Understanding. 937: Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy (1949). 10.0: The Reith Lectures: Only Connect, by Richard Hoggart. 1049: Tchaikovsky: suite No. 4: Mozartiana, Op. 61. 3ZB, CHRISTCHURCH (1100 kilohertz) 7.2 p.m.: Hit Wave! 8.30: Thursday Night with George Taylor, 10.30: Looking Back. (1400 kilohertz) 7.30 pju„- Things are Swinging. 10.0: From the Top Pops. FRIDAY NATIONAL UNK 7 pm.: Stop Messing About. 7.30: Time for Music