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A sociology series.

What do we do with our leisure? How different are the spare-time activities of students in a technical college from the inhabitants of a village, a market town, a mining community?
This programme examines some spare-time activities-from a Sauna bath in Banbury to a miners' club in Yorkshire.
BBC film
Repeated on Wed. and Thurs. at 10.23 a.m. and Wed. at 2.30 p.m.
(to 10.43)

Contributors

Sound recordist:
Tony Slater
Sound recordist:
Don Thompson
Sound editor:
Garie Fotheringham
Film cameraman:
Eric Deeming
Film cameraman:
John A. S. Turner
Film editor:
David Painter
Producer:
Alan Hancock

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in the songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
BBC film

Contributors

Narrator/Script, music, and settings:
Maria Bird
Puppeteer:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly Gibson
Singer:
Gladys Whitred

by Her Majesty the Queen
BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover the Royal Procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, Her Majesty's ceremonial entrance into the Chamber of the House of Lords, and the Speech from the Throne.
See facing page
(to 11.50)

Contributors

Commentator:
Richard Dimbleby
Presented for television by:
John Vernon

by William Shakespeare.
The second of two programmes on the theme of justice. The Trial Scene from The Merchant of Venice arouses today a reaction quite different from the one Shakespeare intended.
For Schools
Previously shown on October 28

Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.
(to 14.35)

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Designer:
Stuart Walker
Producer:
Ronald Eyre
Shylock:
Alan MacNaughtan
Antonio:
Donald Webster
Bassanio:
Terry Palmer
The Duke of Venice:
Michael Malnick
Portia:
Bridget Turner
Gratiano:
Michael Murray
Satanio:
Frank Moorey

where happy chance finds are made by John Earle and Serendipity Dog who open the door on a world full of strange and entertaining facts.
From the West

Contributors

Presenter:
John Earle
Film editor:
Philip Mutton
Designer:
Kenneth Wrench
Producer:
Ronald Webster

The Panel tries to identify well-known personalities in a game of question, answer, deduction, and intuition.
The Panel: Frank Muir, Drusilla Beyfus, Ted Moult
Chairman, Terence Brady

Contributors

Panellist:
Frank Muir
Panellist:
Drusilla Beyfus
Panellist:
Ted Moult
Chairman:
Terence Brady
Designer:
Luciana Arrighi
Director:
Michael Goodwin
Producer:
John Irwin

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
with Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Brian Redhead, Cathal O'Shannon,
Magnus Magnusson.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Reporter:
Christopher Brasher
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Reporter:
Brian Redhead
Reporter:
Cathal O'Shannon
Reporter:
Magnus Magnusson
Associate producer:
John Lloyd
Associate producer:
Kenneth Corden
Associate producer:
Anthony Smith
Editor:
Derrick Amoore

A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.

Doug takes charge and there is a setback for Camilla.

Contributors

Series creator:
Hazel Adair
Series creator:
Peter Ling
Script:
Terence Stockting
Script editor:
Donald Tosh
Designer:
Gillian Howard
Producer:
Morris Barry
Director:
John Crockett
Mrs. Chater:
Beryl Cooke
Doug:
Lawrence James
Bridget Wayman:
Gaynor Lloyd
David:
Vincent Ball
Valerie:
Lyn Ashley
Tessa March:
Bridget Armstrong
Gussie:
Frances Bennett
Francesca Lonardi:
Isa Miranda
Rex Barnett:
Simon Oates
Ben:
Bill Kerr
Adrian:
Robert Desmond
Camilla:
Carmen Silvera
Sister Howell:
Faith Kent

Written by Vince Powell and Frank Roscoe.
Starring Harry Worth
This week: The Quarrel
featuring Norman Rossington, Anthony Sharp
with Pamela Manson, Doris Gambell, John East, Jack Woolgar, Frances Brozel
From the North
See page 37

Contributors

Writer:
Vince Powell
Writer:
Frank Roscoe
Title music:
Ivor Slaney
Settings:
Kenneth Lawson
Producer:
John Ammonds
Himself:
Harry Worth
[Actor]:
Norman Rossington
[Actor]:
Anthony Sharp
[Actress]:
Pamela Manson
Mrs. Benson:
Doris Gambell
[Actor]:
John East
[Actor]:
Jack Woolgar
[Actress]:
Frances Brozel

A new film series featuring a young politician.
Starring Richard Crenna as Slattery
Paul Geary, Edward Asner, Maxine Stuart, Tol Avery
and guest star, Ed Wynn

Question: Whatever happened to Ezra?
...and the surprising answer leads to Slattery's determination to prevent the closure of an old people's home.

Contributors

Slattery:
Richard Crenna
Johnny Ramos:
Paul Geary
Frank Radcliff:
Edward Asner
B.J. Clawson:
Maxine Stuart
Speaker Bert Metcalf:
Tol Avery
Ezra Tallicott:
Ed Wynn

Written by Alan Whicker.
Alan Whicker reports from The Private World of the Pocomaniacs.
Remarkable sights, hypnotic sounds of rites within the secret world of this Jamaican cult; in a fine frenzy of 'tromping' and furious drumming, spirits take possession and Pocomaniacs begin to 'speak in tongues'...
A Tonight presentation
See page 36

Contributors

Writer/reporter:
Alan Whicker
Sound recordist:
Freddie Downton
Cameraman:
Ken Willicombe
Film editor:
Bill Wright
Produced and directed by:
Michael Tuchner

Richard Dimbleby introduces a special report by Satellite on today's contest for the American Presidency.
Reporters in New York,
Robin Day, Robert McKenzie
and in London
Ian Trethowan, Roderick MacLeish

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Dimbleby
Reporter (New York):
Robin Day
Reporter (New York):
Robert McKenzie
Reporter (London):
Ian Trethowan
Reporter (London):
Roderick MacLeish
Producer:
Richard Francis

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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