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Umbrellas have been a status symbol for thousands of years.
Switzerland possesses the steepest rack-and-pinion railway in the world up the mountain called Pilatus.
Kenneth Kendall and top experts, with some young friends, probe facts and fancies of all kinds.

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Research:
Nadine Wood
Research:
Joanne Symons
Designer:
Peter Mavius
Director:
Clive Parkhurst
Producer:
John Irwin

Some Ideas
A tropical garden under the stairs, a garden room, a window garden to block an ugly view, a luxuriant backyard, a central courtyard, a garden focused on a single tree....
Cecil Beaton, Joan Bakewell, John Brookes, Hazel Lyon, Elizabeth Wilmot

Some Tools
Roy Hay

Some Pros and Cons
Wilfrid Blunt, Colin Wilson

Contributors

Panellist (Some Ideas):
Cecil Beaton
Panellist (Some Ideas):
Joan Bakewell
Panellist (Some Ideas):
John Brookes
Panellist (Some Ideas):
Hazel Lyon
Panellist (Some Ideas):
Elizabeth Wilmot
Item presenter (Some Tools):
Roy Hay
Item presenter (Some Pros and Cons):
Wilfrid Blunt
Item presenter (Some Pros and Cons):
Colin Wilson
Designer:
Peter Cory
Production assistant:
Anne-Marie Gardner-Stewart
Director:
Sheila Innes
Producer:
Beryl Radley

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
With Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Brian Redhead.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Reporter:
Christopher Brasher
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Reporter:
Brian Redhead
Associate Producer:
Derrick Amoore
Associate Producer:
Kevin Billington
Associate Producer:
John Lloyd
Associate Producer:
Kenneth Corden
Associate Producer:
Michael Tuchner
Assistant Editor:
Elizabeth Cowley
Editor:
Alasdair Milne

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

from The Palace Theatre Club Offerton, Stockport.
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Donald Peers introduces The Bachelors, Joan Turner, Arthur Worsley, David Hughes, Morton Fraser and his Harmonica Gang, Kevin Kent, Malcolm Riddel, Peter Marsh.

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald Peers
Band:
The Bachelors
Singer/comedienne:
Joan Turner
Ventriloquist:
Arthur Worsley
Singer:
David Hughes
Harmonicists:
Morton Fraser and his Harmonica Gang
Singer:
Kevin Kent
Performer:
Malcolm Riddel
Performer:
Peter Marsh
Orchestra conducted by:
Harry Hayward
Settings:
Stuart Furber
Director:
Stan Parkinson
Producer:
Albert Stevenson

with Johnny Morris
In four programmes he describes a journey he made last year in Japan.
'On the surface.... it has copied the worst of the Western world.... but behind the steel and concrete top dressing the East is as East as ever it was'.
First shown on South and West transmitters on March 4

10.10-10.35 Look: a programme on sea-shells and shellfish. Introduced by Peter Scott.
(Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

Narrator:
Johnny Morris
Cameraman:
James Saunders
Film editor:
Philip Mutton
Sound editor:
John Cox
Director:
Dennis Towler
Producer:
Brian Patten
Presenter (Look):
Peter Scott

The Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland is the oldest observatory still in use in the Commonwealth. Yet the work being done there on the structure of galaxies is in the forefront of contemporary research. Dr. E. M. Lindsay, the director, describes the Observatory's activities to Patrick Moore, as well as showing him round the eighteenth-century building and its historic possessions.

Contributors

Guest:
Dr. E. M. Lindsay
Presenter:
Patrick Moore
Producer:
Paul Johnstone

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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