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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, 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

Director:
Saleem Shahed
Programme Editor:
David Gretton

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

Jean-Paul entertains Jean-Jacques, the art editor of a fashion magazine.

With Andre Maranne, Pamela Stirling
and Francois Brincourt as Jean-Paul, Malou Pantera as Francoise
(Repeated on Tuesday evening)
(to 9.55)

Contributors

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

Adrian Rendle talks to Joe Aveline about the lighting rig for Scene Two of Noah, which begins on the deck of the Ark in 'a rain-soaked darkness'.
with members of the Teddington Theatre Club.

(Repeated next Saturday at 12 noon)
See also Theatre Club in Study Session on Friday at 6.30 p.m.

Contributors

Presenter:
Adrian Rendle
Guest:
Joe Aveline
Producer:
Victor Poole

from St. Martin's Birmingham Parish Church.
Conducted by Canon George Potts, St. Martin's Lecturer
Preacher, Canon Bryan Green Rector of Birmingham

The sermon at this service will be discussed in tonight's Meeting Point

Contributors

Service conducted by:
Canon George Potts
Preacher:
Canon Bryan Green
Organist:
Geoffrey Fletcher
Television Presentation:
Barrie Edgar

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. Douglas Snellgrove, P. H. St. John Wilson, David Hobman, Leicester Scaife
Introduced by Hugh Barrett.
(Repeated on Thursday at 4.15 p.m.)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. Douglas Snellgrove
Interviewee:
P. H. St. John Wilson
Interviewee:
David Hobman
Interviewee:
Leicester Scaife
Presenter:
Hugh Barrett
Interviewer:
Joan Bakewell
Director:
Michael Blakstad
Producer:
Beryl Radley

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

The turbulent movement of the first few hundred feet of the atmosphere is enormously significant for all forms of life.
Dr. F. Pasquill, D.Sc., Meteorological Office, Bracknell; Dr. J. L. Monteith, Ph.D.,
Rothamsted Experimental Station

(Repeated on Monday evening)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr. F. Pasquill
Presenter:
Dr. J. L. Monteith
Director:
Alan Strowger
Producer:
Brenda Horsfield

A regular feature serving gardeners in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
The first outside broadcast in 1966 from the Gardening Club garden, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Percy Thrower with Cliff Lewis and Ronald Sidwell
Renovations to a badly torn lawn: comparisons of turf and seed: soil conditions for planting after the heavy rains of winter; plans for the 1966 vegetable garden: new cold greenhouse for tomatoes.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Cliff Lewis
Guest:
Ronald Sidwell
Producer:
Paul Morby

Told by Brian Parker.
Stalagmites 50 feet tall, boulders as large as houses; these are some of the fantastic formations found in the Gouffre Berger - the deepest known cave in the world. (Repeat)

2.15-2.40 One Man's Band
The story of the Bristol Sinfonia.
(Rowridge, Brighton)

2.15-2.55 Voices in Vision
Music from the Town Hall, Walsall.

(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree)

Contributors

Narrator:
Brian Parker
Filmed by:
Harold Lord
Assisted by:
Ian Smith
Stills by:
John Woolley
Written and presented by:
Harry Hastings
Series edited by:
Brian Branston
Subjects/musicians (One Man's Band):
The Bristol Sinfonia

A drama based on the play by Clifford Odets.
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe

Beneath the smooth surface of life in a remote fishing village three people are caught up in the dangerous undercurrents of emotional conflict.

Contributors

Based on the play by:
Clifford Odets
Director:
Fritz Lang
Mae:
Barbara Stanwyck
Jerry:
Paul Douglas
Earl:
Robert Ryan
Peggy:
Marilyn Monroe
Uncle Vince:
J. Carrol Naish
Joe Doyle:
Keith Andes

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

In which the Copperfields entertain and something turns up at last for Mr. Micawber.

(Ian McKellen is appearing in "A Lily in Little India" at the St. Martin's Theatre, London; Barbara Hicks is a National Theatre player)

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:
Ian McKellen
Dora:
Tina Packer
Parson:
John Falconer
Betsey Trotwood:
Flora Robson
Mr. Dick:
George Benson
Miss Lavinia Spenlow:
Nan Munro
Miss Clarissa Spenlow:
Mary Hinton
Traddles:
Clive Francis
Mr. Wickfield:
Noel Johnson
Agnes:
Hannah Gordon
Mary Anne:
Barbara Hicks
Page:
Allen Warren
Mr. Micawber:
Bill Fraser
Mrs. Micawber:
Eleanor Summerfield
Jip:
null Fleur

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

How does the idea of sin fit in with modern thinking? Is it any longer necessary as a Christian concept?
Canon Bryan Green the preacher at this morning's televised service from St. Martin's, Birmingham, faces questions from some of the people who heard him there.
Introduced by William Purcell.
(Repeated tonight at 10.55)

Contributors

Presenter:
William Purcell
Guest:
Canon Bryan Green
TV Presentation:
Barrie Edgar

from the Parish Church of St. Giles, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Sung by the united choirs of twenty-seven local churches and the Salvation Army
Organist, Trevor Morrey
Conductor, Herbert F. Cope
Introduced by Eric Blennerhassett
Prayer and Blessing by The Rev. Prebendary H. M. Connop Price, Rector of St. Giles

"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation" (Tune, Lobe den Herren)
"O for a thousand tongues to sing" (Tune, Lydia)
"O sacred head, surrounded" (Tune, Passion Chorale)
"Away with our fears" (Tune, Ardwick)
"O Father, by whose sovereign sway" (Tune, Melcombe)
"God of grace and God of Glory" (Tune, Rhuddlan)
"Father, hear the prayer we offer" (Tune, Sussex)
"O Jesus I have promised" (Tune, Day of Rest)
"He giveth more grace as our burden grow greater" (Tune, The Ash Grove)
"At the name of Jesus" (Tune, Camberwell)

Contributors

Organist:
Trevor Morrey
Conductor:
Herbert F. Cope
Presenter:
Eric Blennerhassett
Prayer and blessing:
The Rev. Prebendary H. M. Connop
Television presentation:
Barrie Edgar

The film this Sunday stars Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray
with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle

See page 11

Contributors

Produced and directed by/Screenplay:
Chester Erskine
Screenplay:
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Based on the book by:
Betty MacDonald
Betty:
Claudette Colbert
Bob:
Fred MacMurray
Ma Kettle:
Marjorie Main
Pa Kettle:
Percy Kilbride
Harriet Putnam:
Louise Allbritton
Tom Kettle:
Richard Long
Billy Reed:
Billy House
Old lady:
Ida Moore
Mr. Henty:
Donald MacBride
Sheriff:
Samuel S. Hinds
Mrs. Hicks:
Esther Dale

Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Guest stars, Lally Bowers, Esmond Knight

(Lally Bowers is appearing in "The Killing of Sister George" at the Duke of York's Theatre; Andrew Cruickshank 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
Mrs. Blair:
Lally Bowers
Miss Linsey:
Gladys Dawson
Col. McLeod:
Sidney Wolfe
Mrs. McCaslym:
Molly Weir
Hugh Armitage:
Esmond Knight
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Dr. Snoddie:
Eric Woodburn
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Mrs. Dynley:
Marjorie Thomson
Mrs. McKay:
Moira Lynd
Alex Milne:
Ian Ireland
Andrew Craig:
Wallace Campbell

First in a cycle of Sunday Night concerts devoted to the four piano concertos of Rachmaninov and orchestral works by Maurice Ravel.
Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor (1891)
Soloist, Moura Lympany
Ravel's 'Bolero'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe

See page 11

Contributors

Pianist:
Moura Lympany
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Hugh Maguire
Orchestra conducted by:
Rudolf Kempe
Director:
Brian Large

Canon Bryan Green the preacher at this morning's televised service from St. Martin's, Birmingham, faces questions from some of the people who heard him there.
Introduced by William Purcell.
(First shown at 6.15 p.m.)

Contributors

Panellist:
Canon Bryan Green
Presenter:
William Purcell
Television presentation:
Barrie Edgar

BBC One London

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