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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, Cambridge, All North Transmitters (Except Sandale and Douglas), Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)

(to 9.20)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Morby
Programme Editor:
David Gretton

A Christian theme presented by The Rev. David Erskine.
With Roger Delgado, Wilfred Harrison and Susan Longfield accompanied by Patrick Harvey.
From the Church of All Hallows, London Wall

Contributors

Presenter:
The Rev. David Erskine
Reader:
Roger Delgado
Reader:
Wilfred Harrison
Singer:
Susan Longfield
Pianist/accompanied by:
Patrick Harvey
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

Written by Emile de Harven.
Follow up your French in a twenty-five-episode thriller serial.

1: Piste Six
An encounter at Orly airport, a strange message, and a mysterious man with a scar.
Previously shown last Monday

2: Fausse Piste
A case of mistaken identity, flight, and the start of the trail.
Previously shown last Thursday

Contributors

Writer:
Emile de Harven
Course devised by:
Michel Blanc
Course devised by:
Ormond Uren
Producer:
Colin Nears

Written by Paul Ferris.
A series of programmes about the City of London.

In one square mile can be found most of the important financial figures in the country. Who are they? What do they do? What is their power and influence?
The centre of the web - the Bank of England.
Spoken by Tony Garnett.
(First shown on BBC-2)
(to 13.15)

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Ferris
Consultant:
Andrew Shonfield
Narrator:
Tony Garnett
Executive Producer:
Bill Duncalf
Director:
Roy Battersby

Percy Thrower and outside broadcast cameras in the Gardening Club Garden, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
According to weather, sequences should include:
Barry Bucknell - Perimeter fencing and entrance gate
Arthur Billitt (Nottingham) - Tomatoes and chrysanthemums
Reg Kaye (Silverdale, North Lancs.) - Hardy ferns and other moisture-loving plants
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Item presenter:
Barry Bucknell
Item presenter:
Arthur Billitt
Item presenter:
Reg Kaye
Producer:
Paul Morby

The Quests of David Attenborough
The first of a series of twelve films selected from Zoo Quest.
This week Attenborough collects animals in the Indonesian islands during his search for the Komodo Dragon.
(Repeat)

1.35-3.5 They Plan to Live
R.A.F. preparations in case of danger.
(Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

Filmed by:
Charles Lagus
Narrated and produced by:
David Attenborough

by Rod Serling.
A new series of Western adventures.
Starring Lloyd Bridges as William Colton, a Union Officer seeking a new way of life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.

See page 23

Contributors

Writer:
Rod Serling
William Colton:
Lloyd Bridges
Judy Merriman:
Tony Bill
Nichols:
Whit Bissell
Colonel:
John Hoyt
Bartender:
Lou Krugman
Doctor:
Stephen Roberts
Adjutant:
Gregg Dalmer
Sergeant:
Joe Haworth
Confederate Captain:
James Sikking
Young Confederate boy:
Mike Mortensen
Young Union boy:
Ronald Scott
Soldier:
Bill Catching

Introduced by David Coleman on the eve of The 1966 World Cup.
A preview of football's greatest occasion, which kicks off tomorrow night at the Empire Stadium, Wembley.
featuring:

The Action
England's Prospects
Latest news of the England squad and highlights of their pre World Cup tour of Europe, with an assessment of the prospects from team manager Alf Ramsey.

World Cup Highlights
Great moments from past World Cup competitions.

The Stars
Pele, Yashin, Charlton, Eusebio...
some of the great names in action in England this week provide your chance to pick a World Football XI and see the World Cup Final.

The Background
Outside broadcast reports from the World Cup centres by Kenneth Wolstenholme, Walley Barnes, and Frank Bough.

The Experts
Comment and opinion from the Grandstand team of experts including Walter Winterbottom, Johnny Haynes, Danny Blanchflower, Tommy Docherty, Jimmy Hill, Billy Wright, Ron Greenwood, Joe Mercer, Don Revie, Ken Aston, Arthur Ellis.

Repeated tonight at 11.0

Contributors

Presenter:
David Coleman
Speaker (England's Prospects):
Alf Ramsey
Reporter:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Reporter:
Walley Barnes
Reporter:
Frank Bough
Expert:
Walter Winterbottom.
Expert:
Johnny Haynes
Expert:
Danny Blanchflower
Expert:
Tommy Docherty
Expert:
Jimmy Hill
Expert:
Billy Wright
Expert:
Ron Greenwood
Expert:
Joe Mercer
Expert:
Don Revie
Expert:
Ken Aston
Expert:
Arthur Ellis
Programme Editor:
Alan Hart
Programme Editor:
Lawrie Higgins

Starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature
with Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell

There is comedy, music, and romance when two Americans land on a Pacific island and find themselves attracted to the native way of life.

Contributors

Director:
Walter Lang
Producer:
William Le Baron
Musical director:
Alfred Newman
Songs by:
Mack Gordon
Songs by:
Harry Owen
Eileen O'Brien:
Betty Grable
Jefferson Harper:
Victor Mature
Rusty Smith:
Jack Oakie
Dennis O'Brien:
Thomas Mitchell
Harper:
George Barbier
Palola's father:
Billy Gilbert
Palola:
Hilo Hattie
Palola's cousin:
Lilllan Porter
John Rodney:
Hal K. Dawson

by Alexandre Dumas.
Dramatised in twelve episodes by Anthony Steven.

Edmond resigns to an authority greater than his own and accepts his fate.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Author:
Alexandre Dumas
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Music composed and conducted by:
Roberto Gerhard
Designer:
Mary Rea
Designer:
Barry Newbery
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Peter Hammond
Edmond Dantes:
Alan Badel
Mercedes:
Natasha Parry
Danglars:
Morris Perry
Footman:
John Baker
Beauchamp:
Jerome Willis
Villefort:
Michael Cough
Madame de Villefort:
Patricia English
Valentine:
Anna Palk
Haydee:
Valerie Sarruf
Maximilian:
Edward De Souza
President:
Andre Van Gyseghem
Benedette:
Richard Kay
Lucien Debray:
Gary Hope
Chateau-Renaud:
Barry Boys
Madame Danglars:
Rosalie Crutchley
Thomson:
Donald Eccles
Jacapo:
David Calderisi
Bertuccio:
Cyril Shaps
Ali:
Roy Stewart

A development of the dramatic worker - priest experiment, the Mission de France still stands with the workers'.
Patrick O'Donovan reports on the life of a typical team in the port city of Le Havre. and questions the regional head of the Mission and a present-day worker-priest.
(Repeated tonight at 11.45)

Contributors

Presenter:
Patrick O'Donovan
Producer:
Peter Ferres

from The Parish Church of St. Mary The Virgin Saffron Walden.
With the combined choirs and congregations of the town.
Prayer and Blessing by The Vicar The Rev. Eric W. Raynor
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.

When morning gilds the skies (Tune, Laudes Domini)
Lord of the worlds above (Tune, Crofts 136th)
All things bright and beautiful (Tune, Royal Oak)
Brother James's Air
arranged and conducted by Dr. Gordon Jacob.
Ansel-voices ever singing (Tune, Ansel voices)
Hail, gladdening light (Tune, Sebaste)
O King enthroned on high (Tune, Amen Court)
Lift up your hearts (Tune, Quendon)
Crown him with many crowns (Tune, Diademata)
Bright the vision (Tune, Laus Deo)

Contributors

Organist:
Cyril G. Coe
Conductor:
W. John Dyer
Soloist:
John Carol Case
Prayer and blessing:
The Rev. Eric W. Raynor
Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Arranged by:
Colin Beale
TV presentation:
Barrie Edgar
Arranged and conducted by (Brother James's Air):
Dr. Gordon Jacob

A film series starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer-investigator created by Erle Stanley Gardner.

When a golden girl tries to make money, blackmail is not the only crime involved.

Contributors

Character created by:
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason:
Raymond Burr
Della Street:
Barbara Hale
Paul Drake:
William Hopper
Hamilton Burger:
William Talman
Lieutenant Drumm:
Richard Anderson
Terrance Clay:
Dan Tobin
Victor Montalvo:
Philip Bourneuf
Beverly Garnett:
Paula Stewart
Debbie Conrad:
Angela Dorian
Irving Florian:
Mark Roberts
Corinne Richland:
Jean Engstrom
Stacey Garnett:
George Neise
Rick Durbin:
Bruce Glover

From the stage of the BBC Television Theatre.
With Billy Cotton and his Band and Russ Conway.

Guest star from the world of song: Frank Ifield
Special guest star: Dickie Henderson
featuring Dave Allen, Kathie Kay, The New Cotton Singers

(Frank Ifield is appearing in "Holiday Carnival" at the ABC Theatre, Great Yarmouth; Dickie Henderson in "Light Up The Town" at the Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth; and Russ Conway in "London Laughs" at the London Palladium)

Contributors

Presenter/Bandleader:
Billy Cotton
Musicians:
Billy Cotton and his Band
Pianist:
Russ Conway
Singer:
Frank Ifield
Guest star:
Dickie Henderson
Comedian:
Dave Allen
Singer:
Kathie Kay
Singers:
The New Cotton Singers
Vocal Arrangements:
Fred Tomlinson
Associate Conductor:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Staged by:
Malcolm Goddard
Designer:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Michael Hurll

Stories by Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Clive Exton.
Starring Joss Ackland
with Henry Gilbert, Patricia Healey

Contributors

Author:
Georges Simenon
Dramatised by:
Clive Exton
Title music composed and conducted by:
Tony Russell
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
Silvio Narizzano
Bernard Jeantet:
Joss Ackland
Concierge:
Vera Lennox
Old man:
Maitland Moss
Mademoiselle Couvert:
Aimee Delamain
Pierre:
John Gugolka
Police Sergeant:
Brian Spink
Foreign worker:
Tony Arpino
Inspector Gordes:
Henry Gilbert
Massembre:
Paul Bahadur
Sauvegrain:
John Carlin
Jeanne Jeantet:
Patricia Healey
Hotel clerk:
Richard Gregory
Chambermaid:
Muguette de Braie
Germain Moussu:
Charles Carson
Madame Moussu:
Winifred Dennis
Jacques Beaudoin:
Victor Brooks
Barman:
Divio Joel

by Plato.

"The programme set a standard in making philosophy accessible to a mass audience..." (Queen)
"I can't recall another programme more likely to start a philosophy boom..." (Sunday Times)
"Leo McKern as Socrates made the speech on the nature of love sound as if it had been newly minted." (Daily Mail)

Another opportunity to see this highly praised Sunday Night re-creation of Plato's Symposium by Leo Aylen and Jonathan Miller.

A group of young men return to the grounds of their old school and celebrate their reunion by re-enacting Plato's great dialogue on the nature of human love.
Starring Leo McKern as Socrates
(Repeat)

Contributors

Author:
null Plato
Adapted by:
Leo Aylen
Adapted by/Producer/Director:
Jonathan Miller
Socrates:
Leo McKern
Pausanias:
Michael Gough
Eryximachus:
Alan Bennett
Aristophanes:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Agathon:
Barry Justice
Phaedrus:
John Fortune
Alcibiades:
Robert Gillespie
Aristodemus:
Julian Jebb
Waiter:
Darroll Richards

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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