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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 try their luck at some of the side-shows in a Paris fairground.

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 Buckfast Abbey, Devon.

Contributors

Celebrant:
Dom Placid Hooper
Preacher:
Dom Philip Manahan
Organist:
Dom Sebastian Wolff
Choirmaster:
Dom Charles Norris
Commentary:
Fr. John Stapleton
Television direction:
Kenneth Savidge

Most people have a bonus of ten or fifteen years of active life when they retire. How can they make the most of it?
Dr. Eunice Belbin, Hywel Murrell, John Tyzack, Sydney Robinson
Introduced by Hugh Barrett.
Repeated on Thursday at 4.0 p.m.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. Eunice Belbin
Interviewee:
Hywel Murrell
Interviewee:
John Tyzack
Interviewee:
Sydney Robinson
Presenter:
Hugh Barrett
Interviewer:
Joan Bakewell
Director:
Michael Blakstad
Producer:
Beryl Radley

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

Our worst weather in both summer and winter is brought by depressions. The fronts associated with them bring quite distinctive conditions.
J. S. Sawyer, F.R.S. Director of Research, Meteorological Office, Bracknell
Repeated on Monday at 11.0 p.m.

Contributors

Presenter:
J. S. Sawyer
Director:
David Cordingley
Producer:
Brenda Horsfield

A regular feature serving gardeners in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.

Percy Thrower meets Sydney Albury a Birmingham suburban amateur gardener, Alpine and rock plant enthusiast, orchid grower and raiser, who in mid-February leaves home and job for nine months of plant hunting in Turkey.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Sydney Albury
Producer:
Paul Morby

Introduced by John Cherrington.

Andrew Biggar reports on one of Britain's most modern and up-to-date beef units at Marfield Farm, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
From the Midlands
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.15)

1.50-2.15 Farming Club: for East Anglia
(Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Reporter:
Andrew Biggar
Producer:
John Kenyon

Written and produced by Jeffery Boswall.
Look at the Danube Delta with Stanley Cramp who tells of his bird-watching adventures this summer in the largest unspoilt marsh in Europe.
From the West
(Repeat)

2.20-2.50 A Man With a View
John Betjeman in Poole
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Jeffery Boswall
Narrator:
Stanley Cramp
Presenter (A Man With a View):
John Betjeman

from Bratislava

Outstanding moments from last night's final competitive event in this year's championships, brought to you via Intervision and Eurovision from southern Czechoslovakia.
Commentator at the Zimny Stadium, Alan Weeks
Presented in collaboration with the Czech Television Service

Contributors

Commentator:
Alan Weeks
BBC Outside Broadcasts team:
Peter Massey
BBC Outside Broadcasts team:
Ian Smith

[Starring] Jane Russell
with Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan, Lori Nelson

An underwater adventure off the coast of Cuba leads to the prospect of great wealth, but it also leads to unexpected dangers, both above and below the water.

Contributors

Director:
John Sturges
Theresa:
Jane Russell
Dominic:
Gilbert Roland
Johnny:
Richard Egan
Gloria:
Lori Nelson
Father Cannon:
Robert Keith
Rico:
Joseph Calleia

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

In which David tells his story and Betsey Trotwood arranges a momentous interview.

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
Gamekeeper:
John Dunbar
Betsey Trotwood:
Flora Robson
Mr. Dick:
George Benson
Janet:
Lynne White
Mr. Murdstone:
Richard Leech
Miss Murdstone:
Joan Peart
Mr. Wickfield:
Noel Johnson
Uriah Heep:
Colin Jeavons
Agnes Wickfield:
Sally Thomsett

Written by Robert Gray.
Pinky and Perky and Jimmy Thompson this week prove that You, too, can be a mountaineer.
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

In this atomic age, has the Church a part to play in industry?
The Rev. Arthur Meirion Roberts, an Industrial Chaplain, talks in tonight's film about his work at the Atomic Power Station at Wylfa on the Island of Anglesey.
From Wales
Repeated tonight at 11.15

Contributors

Presenter:
The Rev. Arthur Meirion Roberts
Director:
Arthur Williams
Director:
R. Alun Evans
Producer:
Tregelles Williams

from Cathcart Parish Church, Ayr.
with the united choirs of the Ayr Churches and Academy
Conducted by William Bowie
Prayer and Blessing by The Rev. James H. Telfer, Moderator of the Presbytery of Ayr.
Introduced by Murdoch McPherson.

Ye gates, lift up your heads on high (Tune, St. George's, Edinburgh)
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake (Tune, Truro)
Blest be the everlasting God (Tune, Bishopthorpe)
Now cheer our hearts this eventide (Tune, Ach bleib bei uns)
My hope is built on nothing less (Tune, Tynemouth (St. Catherine))
God is my Shepherd (Dvorak)
Glory be to God the Father (Tune, Regent Square)
The sands of time are sinking (Tune, Rutherford)
Jesus, the very thought of Thee (Tune, St. Agnes, Durham)
Now God be with us, for the night is closing (Tune, Diva Servatrix)

Contributors

Conducted by:
William Bowie
Organist:
John C. Young
Soloist:
Eleanor Glover
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. James H. Telfer
Presenter:
Murdoch McPherson
Producer:
Ronald Falconer

The film this Sunday stars Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton
and Alexander Knox
See page 11

Contributors

Screenplay:
Michael McCarthy
Screenplay:
John Eldridge
Producer:
Maurice Cowan
Director:
Michael McCarthy
Jan Smit:
Peter Finch
Anna:
Eva Bartok
Major Dillon:
Tony Britton
Walter Keyser:
Alexander Knox
Johan Smit:
Malcolm Keen
Dutch Lieutenant:
Tim Turner
Commander Bowerman:
Jonn Horsley
Willem:
Melvyn Hayes
Alex:
Christopher Rhodes

Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Guest stars, Marian Spencer, A.J. Brown

(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in 'Alibi for a Judge' at the Savoy Theatre, London)
See page 13

Contributors

Created by:
A.J. Cronin
Script:
Pat Dunlop
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Prudence Fitzgerald
Dougie Baxter:
Patrick Westwood
Angus McGill:
Richard Armour
John:
John Quarmby
Ian:
Donald Ross
Mary Baxter:
Nancie Jackson
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Lady Meiklejohn:
Marian Spencer
Jane:
Maris Tant
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
McIntosh:
Phil McCall
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Sergeant Gilbey:
Neil Wilson
Sir James Nicol-Scorgie:
A.J. Brown

The weekly feature series on artists and the arts.

An essay on the Victorian frame of mind.
[Starring] Kenneth Haigh as Daniel Dunglas Home, Eleanor Bron as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Gillespie as Robert Browning

A dramatised documentary illustrating the great Spiritualist controversy of the nineteenth century, compiled entirely from letters and memoirs of the period.
See page 11

Contributors

Compiled by/Produced and directed by:
Jonathan Miller
Executive Producer:
Stephen Hearst
Daniel Dunglas Home:
Kenneth Haigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Eleanor Bron
Robert Browning:
Robert Gillespie

from Cortina d'Ampezzo
Eurovision brings you the highlights of the four-man bob held this weekend in the floodlit Olympic Run.
Introduced from London by Frank Bough.
Presented by Brian Venner in collaboration with the Italian Television Service

Contributors

Commentator at Cortina:
Max Robertson
Presenter:
Frank Bough
BBC Outside Broadcasts team:
Don Sayer
BBC Outside Broadcasts team:
Ian Smith
Presented by:
Brian Venner

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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