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For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Sawal Aur Jawab - Can I help you?
From the Midlands
Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.

Questions by post, in English or your own language, for answering in the programme should be sent to Make Yourself at Home or Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye, [address removed]

(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Peterborough, Tacolneston, Holme Moss, Pontop Pike, Winter Hill, Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)
(to 9.20)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Morby
Programme Editor:
David Gretton

Written by Michel Faure and Joe Cremona.
A course of thirty lessons for absolute beginners in French.

Jean-Paul and Francoise go shopping in a boutique.
With Pamela Stirling, Andre Maranne
and Malou Pantera as Francoise, Francois Brincourt as Jean-Paul
Repeated on Tuesday at 10.50 p.m.
(to 9.55)

Contributors

Writer:
Michel Faure
Writer:
Joe Cremona
Producer:
Ronald Smedley
Presenter:
Pamela Stirling
Presenter:
Andre Maranne
Francoise:
Malou Pantera
Jean-Paul:
Francois Brincourt

from Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church, Lambeg, Co. Antrim.
Conducted by the Minister, The Rev. Alex Watson

Contributors

Service conducted by:
The Rev. Alex Watson
Preacher:
The Very Rev. Austin Fulton
Organist:
Val Gough
Television Presentation:
Moore Wasson

Most people have a bonus of ten or fifteen years of active life when they retire. How can they make the most of it?
Vivian Frank, Nigel Lawson, Professor Brian Abel-Smith
Introduced by Hugh Barrett.
Repeated on Thursday at 4.0 p.m.

Contributors

Panellist:
Vivian Frank
Panellist:
Nigel Lawson
Panellist:
Professor Brian Abel-Smith
Presenter:
Hugh Barrett
Director:
Michael Blakstad
Producer:
Beryl Radley

A series of ten programmes unravelling the workings of the weather.

The surface winds of the world have been known and used by sailors for centuries. But the more significant upper winds have changed our ideas about the origin of weather.
Professor P.A. Sheppard of Imperial College, London.
Repeated on Monday at 11.0 p.m.

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor P.A. Sheppard
Director:
David Cordingley
Producer:
Brenda Horsfield

A regular feature serving gardeners in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
Percy Thrower with D. Clay Jones (Llangollen), and Ben Barrett (Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture) consider:
The Gardener and his Seed Packet
Problems of germination - the work of large seed merchants and seed testing stations - international botanical seed exchanges - catalogues from many nations.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
D. Clay Jones
Guest:
Ben Barrett
Producer:
Paul Morby

Look at The Gull Watchers
A team of professional bird-watchers studies the home-life of the black-headed gull at the biggest European colony of the species-the Ravenglass bird sanctuary, in Cumberland.
Commentary by Hugh Falkus.
With Dr. Niko Tinbergen and Hans Kruuk, Ian Patterson, Robert Mash, Mike Norton-Griffiths
Produced by Manuscript Film
From the West
(Repeat)

2.15-2.45 A Man With a View
Nicholas Wollaston in King's Lynn.
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Narrator/director:
Hugh Falkus
Bird-watcher:
Niko Tinbergen
Bird-watcher:
Hans Kruuk
Bird-watcher:
Ian Patterson
Bird-watcher:
Robert Mash
Bird-watcher:
Mike Norton-Griffiths
Filmed and edited by:
John Martin
Presenter (A Man With a View):
Nicholas Wollaston

F.A. Cup Special brings you the thrills and the goals from three top games in the Third Round of the F.A. Cup.

Contributors

Commentary Team:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Commentary Team:
Walley Barnes
Commentary Team:
Frank Bough
Presented by:
Brian Venner
Editor:
Lawrie Higgins

Film Matinee presenting the British film: Hatter's Castle
Starring Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams
with Enid Stamp Taylor

The insane ambition of a brutal, tyrannical shopkeeper in a small Scottish town drives his family to suffering and disgrace.

Contributors

Adapted from the novel by:
A.J. Cronin
Director:
Lance Comfort
Scenario and dialogue:
Rodney Ackland
Producer:
Isadore Goldsmith
James Brodie:
Robert Newton
Dr. Renwick:
James Mason
Mary:
Deborah Kerr
Dennis:
Emlyn Williams
Nancy:
Enid Stamp Taylor
Mrs. Brodie:
Beatrice Varley
Angus:
Anthony Bateman

by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by Vincent Tilsley.

In which David is sent away to school but hears bad news from home.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Vincent Tilsley
Music composed and conducted by:
John Hotchkis
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Joan Craft
David:
Christopher Guard
Mr. Murdstone:
Richard Leech
Mrs. Copperfield:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Miss Murdstone:
Joan Peart
Peggotty:
Lila Kaye
Barkis:
Gordon Gostelow
Traddles:
Colin Huddy
Topsawyer:
Frank Summers
Kemble:
Ian Ellis
Peel:
Michael Reynolds
Creakle:
Barry Shawzin
Tungay:
Tony Caunter
James Steerforth:
Barry Justice

Written by Robert Gray.
Pinky and Perky and Jimmy Thompson this week prove that You, too, can be a deep-sea diver.
From the North

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Gray
Presenter:
Jimmy Thompson
Puppets presented by:
Jan Dalibor
Puppets presented by:
Vlasta Dalibor
Additional manipulator:
Philip Rose
Additional manipulator:
Elizabeth Rose
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Norman Newell
"We Belong Together" words and music by:
Alyn Ainsworth
Producer:
Stan Parkinson

The Very Rev. Austin Fulton who preached at the Service televised this morning in Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church, Lambeg, is questioned by some of the congregation and viewers on the subject of his sermon, What is Christian Faith?

Contributors

Panellist:
The Very Rev. Austin Fulton
Producer:
Moore Wasson

from St. Mary's Church, Beverley, Yorkshire.
with the united choirs of the town
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler.

O praise ye the Lord! (Tune, Laudate Dominum)
God moves in a mysterious way (Tune, London New)
Son of God, eternal Saviour (Tune, Bethany)
O thou, who earnest from above (Tune, Hereford)
Breathe on me, breath of God (Tune, Aylesbury)
A safe stronghold (Tune, Ein' feste Burg)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (French Carol)
Ye servants of God (Tune, Paderborn)
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go! (Tune, Song 34)
O splendour of God's glory bright (Tune, Winchester New)

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Conductor:
Graham Watson
Soloist:
Norma Procter
Organist:
Ian Hare
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. Canon Stephen Walker
Producer:
Raymond Short

The film this Sunday stars Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers
with Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price
A Dimitri de Grunwald production

Contributors

Production:
Dimitri de Grunwald
Director:
Anthony Asquith
Script:
Wolf Mankowitz
Based on the play by:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
Pierre Rouve
Epifania:
Sophia Loren
Dr. Kabir:
Peter Sellers
Sagamore:
Alastair Sim
Joe:
Vittorio De Sica
Adrian:
Dennis Price
Alastair:
Gary Raymond
Fish curer:
Alfie Bass
Mrs. Joe:
Miriam Karlin
Professor:
Noel Purcell
Butler:
Graham Stark
Muriel:
Pauline Jameson
Polly:
Virginia Vernon
President:
Willoughby Goddard
First Secretary:
Basil Hopkins
Nurse:
Diana Coupland
Whelkseller:
Wally Patch

Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Guest stars, Maurice Denham, Vanda Godsell, Simon Lack
(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in 'Alibi for a Judge' at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Created by:
A.J. Cronin
Script:
Dick Sharples
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Peter Cregeen
Ian Marriott:
Simon Lack
Hamish Marriott:
Ramsay Milne
Dougal Marriott:
Gordon Third
Agnes Marriott:
June Watson
Andrew Richie:
Maurice Denham
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Alison Canning:
Vanda Godsell
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Lawyer Galbraith:
Bryden Murdoch

The weekly feature series on artists and the arts.

The story of a poet: W.B. Yeats 1865-1939
"I would wish to be spoken of with candour when I am dead. A poet's life is an experiment in living and those that come after have a right to know it". (W. B. Yeats)

Contributors

Narration:
Frank O'Connor
Narration:
Brendan Kennelly
Special music composed by:
Gerard Victory
Director/Producer:
Malcolm Brown

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