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For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Sawal Aur Jawab - Can I Help You?
From the Midlands
Repeated on Wednesday at 1.40 p.m.

(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

Including the Service of Infant Baptism from Roscoe Place Methodist Church, Chapeltown, Leeds.
This is a service to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the last century. The congregation of this church includes a good number of immigrants, largely from the West Indies where the first Sunday in August is celebrated as 'Emancipation Day'.
Conducted by The Rev. Gerald Bostock.

Contributors

Conductor:
The Rev. Gerald Bostock
Preacher:
The Rev. Malcolm Furness
Organist:
Leslie Farnell
Presented for television by:
Raymond Short

Written by Emile De Harven.
Follow Up Your French in a twenty-five-episode thriller serial.

9: Piste sept
A flight to Geneva, but Trail 7 calls for help.
(Previously shown last Monday)

10: Piste de Geneve
Disguise and dissemble! The Geneva trail is laid.
(Previously shown last Thursday)

Contributors

Writer:
Emile De Harven
Course devised by:
Michel Blanc
Course devised by:
Ormond Uren
Producer:
Colin Nears
Director (Piste sept):
John Prescott Thomas

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

The insurance companies and Lloyd's reveal different aspects of a powerful industry.
Spoken by Tony Garnett.
(First shown on BBC-2)
(to 13.15)

Contributors

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

Percy Thrower and the summer scene in his private garden, north of Shrewsbury.
Film sequences include:
The pergola, now nearly covered with plants in its second year: clematis florida bi-colour; rose Zephirine Drouhin; rose Mme. Alfred Carriere; Carpentaria californica
In the flower and shrub border: Spartium junceum (Spanish broom): lilium regale: achillea; chrysanthemum max Wirral Supreme
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Producer:
Paul Morby

At Llanbrynmair in the Plynlimon range there are six brothers, farming between them about 2,000 acres of hill land. Frank Taylor looks at their way of life. (Repeat)

followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.15)

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Taylor
Director:
John Bird
Producer:
John Kenyon

The Quests of David Attenborough
Based on an estancia in southern Paraguay, Attenborough discovers how birds and animals live on the flat bare plains, and films a large herd of capybaras.
(Repeat)

2.30-3.0 Eye on the Countryside
A look at four men who work in quiet places.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Rowridge, Brighton)

Contributors

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

Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Starring Dick Powell, Ellen Drew
with Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Ernest Truex

A young man believes he has won a big national contest and quickly reaps the reward, only to discover later that he has been the victim of a practical joke.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Preston Sturges
Jimmy McDonald:
Dick Powell
Betty Casey:
Ellen Drew
Dr. Maxford:
Raymond Walburn
Mr. Dildocker:
William Demarest
Mr. Baxter:
Ernest Truex
Don Hartman:
Franklin Pangborn
Mr. Schindel:
Alexander Carr
Dick:
Rod Cameron
Mr. Waterbury:
Harry Hayder

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.

Colton rescues an immigrant shoemaker from a card-sharp's snare.

Contributors

Writer:
Rod Serling
Hyman Rabinovitch:
David Opatoshu
Parker:
Warren Stevens
Store owner:
George Dunn
Bartender:
Al Checco

A Lancashire-Yorkshire inter-town contest of skill and strength for the Tip-Top-Town Trophy.
Master of Ceremonies, Charlie Chester
Introduced direct from Morecambe by McDonald Hobley.
Referee, Eddie Waring
(Charlie Chester is appearing at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool)

Contributors

Master of Ceremonies:
Charlie Chester
Presenter:
McDonald Hobley
Referee:
Eddie Waring
Director:
Barney Colehan
Producer:
Robin Scott

Psychological medicine can now effect changes in personality, and help people to tolerate defects in temperament and difficult environments-conditions for which, in past ages, the prescription was vigilance, grace, and prayer.
Some of the moral aspects of 'soul technology' are discussed by George Scott, Lord Soper and Two physicians in psychological medicine.

(Repeated tonight at 11.25)

Contributors

Panellist:
George Scott
Panellist:
Lord Soper
Producer:
Vernon Sproxton

from St. Peter's Parish Church, Belfast.
With the church choirs of the district and the choirs of Belfast Royal Academy and Dunlambert Secondary School.
BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra
Leader, David Adams
Conducted by Havelock Nelson
Hymns introduced by Edgar Boucher.

O for a thousand tongues (Tune, Richmond)
Flocks in pastures green abiding (Bach)
The head that once (Tune. St. Magnus)
Balm in Gilead (arr. Burleigh)
Come down, O love (Tune, Down Ampney)
How the rose got its thorn (Nelson)
Breathe on me (Tune, Vent Spiritus)
Christ is the world's Redeemer (Tune, Moville)
O give thanks to the Lord (Psalm 135) (Gelineau)
For all the saints (Tune, Sine Nomine)
I vow to thee, my country (Tune, Thaxted)

Contributors

Soloist:
Henry Hinds
Organist:
Reginald Patterson
Musicians:
BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
David Adams
Orchestra conducted by:
Havelock Nelson
Presenter:
Edgar Boucher
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. W. E. Harris
Producer:
Moore Wasson

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

The sophisticated owner of an art gallery and his glamorous assistant are framed for robbery and murder with surprising results!

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
Bert Kannon:
Allan Melvin
Estelle Paige:
Elisabeth Fraser
Francis Clune:
Donald Murphy
Sergeant Bradley:
Mark Tapscott
Bobbi Dane:
Francine York
Olaf Deering:
Peter Mamakos

Written by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd.
Live from Blackpool
Ken Dodd introduces his special guests Dickie Henderson, Hope and Keen, Graham Stark, Judy Collins, Jack Douglas
and the world-famous The Bluebell Girls
also featuring Roger Stevenson, The Diddy Men

(Ken Dodd, The Bluebell Girls, and Judy Collins are appearing in "The Big Show of 1966" at the Opera House, Blackpool; Dickie Henderson and Hope and Keen at the Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth.)

Contributors

Writer:
Eddie Braben
Comedian/Singer/Writer:
Ken Dodd
Comedian:
Dickie Henderson
Comedians:
Hope and Keen
Comedian:
Graham Stark
Singer:
Judy Collins
Guest:
Jack Douglas
Dancers:
The Bluebell Girls
Puppeteer:
Roger Stevenson
Musicians:
The Augmented N.D.O.
Orchestra conducted by:
Bernard Herrmann
Choreography (The Bluebell Girls):
Miss Bluebell
Staged by:
Roy Gunson
Designer:
Melvyn Cornish
Producer:
Duncan Wood

Stories by Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Anthony Steven.
Starring Jessica Dunning, Frederick Jaeger, Sandor Eles

Contributors

Author:
Georges Simenon
Dramatised by:
Anthony Steven
Title music composed and conducted by:
Tony Russell
Incidental Music:
Tubby Hayes
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
Michael Hayes
Jeanne Papelier:
Jessica Dunning
Vladimir:
Frederick Jaeger
Blinis:
Sandor Eles
Helene:
Elizabeth Bell
Britt:
Renny Lister
Nurse Blanche:
Hazel Penwarden
Jacques de Lamotte:
Edward Dentith
Desire:
Michael Robbins
Hippolyte:
Joby Blanchard
Lili:
Jenny Russell
Town Clerk:
John Scott
Plainclothes man:
Steven Scott
Tony:
Anthony Blackshaw

The second in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduced by Richard Baker.

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Hugh Maguire
Orchestra conducted by:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Presenter:
Richard Baker
Director:
Antony Craxton

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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