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This is the season of burst pipes-the 'plumbers' harvest' it has been called. In today's programme Gerd Sommerhoff explains how frost causes such havoc with our plumbing and shows some of the other effects of freezing.
For Schools
Previously shown in January 1964
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.20)

Contributors

Presenter:
Gerd Sommerhoff
Producer:
Geoffrey Hall

A sociology series.

Has the development of the Welfare State gone far enough? Are there still gaps for it to fill, or is it draining the country of enterprise and resourcefulness?
This programme examines the idea of the Welfare State and in particular the role of the National Health Service.
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:
Don Thompson
Sound Editor:
Garie Fotheringham
Film Cameraman:
Eric Deeming
Film Cameraman:
Alan Jonas
Film Editor:
David Painter
Producer:
Alan Hancock

For children of seven to nine.
Introduced by Tom Gibbs.
Earl Morgan, father of the boy held as a hostage, attacks the castle.

Filmed at Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan.
with Ray Handy, Bill Meilen, Ray Smith
and John Chipperfield, Peter Walker
and members of the Glamorgan Archery Association.

For Schools
(Repeated on Thursday at 9.38 a.m.)
(11.35-11.55)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Gibbs
Film Cameraman:
Russell Walker
Film Editor:
Michael Dunk
Models:
Martin King
Historical Consultant:
Dr. R. Allen Brown
Director:
Malcolm C. Walker
Producer:
Claire Chovil
The Friar:
Ray Handy
Earl Morgan:
Bill Meilen
David, His Son:
Peter Walker
Earl Owen:
Ray Smith
Huw, His Son:
John Chipperfield
Archers:
Members of the Glamorgan Archery Association

Written by Norman Longmate.

Chadwick's lifelong fight to provide Britain with proper sewage systems and fresh water has done more to safeguard our health than all the drugs in the doctors' cupboards.
For Schools
(Previously shown in September 1962)
(Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.)
(to 14.25)

Contributors

Writer:
Norman Longmate
Designer:
Charles Lawrence
Producer:
Peter Scroggs

Introduced by Ray Alan.
assisted, interrupted, and generally thwarted by Tich and Quackers with Sandra Chalmers.
A programme of comedy and puzzles.

Contributors

Presenter/Ventriloquist/Comedy material by:
Ray Alan
Item presenter:
Sandra Chalmers
Music:
Jimmy Leach
Drawings:
Tony Hart
Research:
Honor Kibblewhite
Devised and produced by:
Michael Westmore

Two films about waterways.

Ulu Gombak
The voyage of a discarded coconut husk down the headwaters of the River Gombak in Malaysia, past the wild life living on its banks.
Music chosen from Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Lasry-Baschet.
From the West

and
Boy Gondolier
A film from Italy.
Marino is the son of a gondolier. He is still very young but as he comes of a family of gondoliers he is already learning how to row a gondola about the canals of Venice.

Contributors

Introduction (Ulu Gombak):
Johnny Morris
Photography (Ulu Gombak):
Jane Burton
Film editor (Ulu Gombak):
Keith Hopkins
Producer (Ulu Gombak):
Douglas Thomas

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

Contributors

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

A serial by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.

Camilla receives congratulations-Ian hears more news of Osmund Bates.

Contributors

Series creator:
Hazel Adair
Series creator:
Peter Ling
Script:
Bob Stuart
Script editor:
John Wiles
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Producer:
Harold Clayton
Director:
Michael Ferguson
Alan:
Basil Moss
Doug:
Lawrence James
Cab driver:
John Porter Davison
Gussie:
Frances Bennett
Ian:
Ronald Allen
Ben:
Bill Kerr
Harry Cornell:
Lionel Murton
Mitch:
Diana Beevers
Tessa:
Bridget Armstrong
Elliott Morrow:
Maurice Browning
Camilla:
Carmen Silvera
Bridget:
Gaynor Lloyd
Emma:
Janet McIntire

A comedy series by Richard Waring
Starring Richard Briers as George Starling and Prunella Scales as Kate Starling

(Lyn Pinkney is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Waring
Music composed and conducted by:
Dennis Wilson
Settings:
Moira Tait
Producer:
Robin Nash
George Starling:
Richard Briers
Kate Starling:
Prunella Scales
Arthur:
Peter Tuddenham
Stephanie:
Katy Greenwood
Dennis:
Denzil Ellis
Rose:
Wendy Hall
Mrs. Blackley:
Patricia Haines
Mr. Blackley:
Noel Coleman
Girl in phone box:
Jacqueline Daryl
Joe:
Peter Hughes
Pauline:
Lyn Pinkney
Miles:
Edward de Souza
Sandra:
Juliet Harmer
Pinky:
Alison Seebohm

In which Danny Kaye and his special guests Juliet Prowse, Howard Morris, The Levee Singers entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra, with The Tony Charmoli Dancers.

Contributors

Presenter:
Danny Kaye
Dancer:
Juliet Prowse
Comedian:
Howard Morris
Singers:
The Levee Singers
Musicians:
Paul Weston and his Orchestra
Dancers:
The Tony Charmoli Dancers
Director:
Robert Scheerer

A BBC film by Don Haworth.

A day in summer on a country estate in Yorkshire.
with The Howards of Castle Howard, G. Wardle Darley, Marcus Worsley, Christopher York.

Narration read by David Mahlowe.

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Contributors

Producer:
Don Haworth
Subjects:
The Howards (of Castle Howard)
Subject:
G. Wardle Darley
Subject:
Marcus Worsley
Subject:
Christopher York
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Photography:
Arthur Smith
Sound:
Graham Turner
Film Editor:
John Buttery

Music by Mozart and Falla.

The great Italian conductor with the New Philharmonia Orchestra (Leader, Hugh Bean) in the last of a series of three special concerts.

Mozart's Symphony No. 41, in C (Jupiter)

Falla's Suite: The Three-Cornered Hat

Before the concert begins, Giulini talks to Richard Baker about the music in tonight's programme.

From the Fairfield Hall, Croydon.

Contributors

Conductor/Interviewee:
null Giulini
Musicians:
The New Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Hugh Bean
Interviewer:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Antony Craxton

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