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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

How can arithmetic be understood, enjoyed, and discovered? Fundamental to an understanding of long multiplication, for example, are several ideas-place value, simple multiplication, and distribution. Today's programme shows children developing these concepts and inventing techniques for long multiplication of their own.
Presented by Jim Boucher.
(Repeated on Monday at 4.5 p.m.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jim Boucher
Producer:
Edward Goldwyn

A Christian theme presented by The Rev. Rex Kissack.
With Michael Turner, Gary Watson
and Boys of Culford School
Conducted by Charles Edmondson
From Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds.

Contributors

Presenter:
The Rev. Rex Kissack
Speaker:
Michael Turner
Speaker:
Gary Watson
Singers:
Boys of Culford School
Conductor:
Charles Edmondson
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

Faster metal cutting means increased productivity. How can metal be cut faster and what are the practical limitations which determine the ultimate cutting speed in turning and milling?
Introduced by Peter Barham.
with R. L. Aston, Professor John Loxhant, Ivan Moore, Ray Thompson, Professor Stephen Tobias

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Barham
Speaker:
R. L. Aston
Speaker:
Professor John Loxhant
Speaker:
Ivan Moore
Speaker:
Ray Thompson
Speaker:
Professor Stephen Tobias
Director:
David Cordingley
Producer:
Michael Garrod

Five programmes for those responsible for getting results with people in industry.
The jobs of three managers explored in terms of their roles, functions, and problems.

Introduced by Christopher Tugendhat of the Financial Times.
The Managers:
Norman Bailey, Managing Director, Comino-Dexion Ltd.
James Ford, Supply Manager, Glacier Metal Ltd.
Terry Lyons, Personnel Manager, Ilford Ltd.

(Repeated next Saturday at 11.0 a.m.)
(to 13.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Tugendhat
Subject:
Norman Bailey
Subject:
James Ford
Subject:
Terry Lyons
Commentator:
Anthony West
Commentator:
Andrew Life
Director:
Michael Blakstad
Producer:
Gregory Clegg

A regular feature serving gardeners in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
Percy Thrower, with George Gilbert Fruit Officer, R H.S. Gardens, Wisley.
The Wisley tornado - and the miracle recovery of trees flattened and uprooted.
Recommended varieties of apples and pears for the smaller garden throughout the British Isles.
Some common diseases and their remedies - and growing fruit on the cordon system.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
George Gilbert
Producer:
Paul Morby

Frank Taylor reports from Kent on aspects of marketing of this year's apple crop, and discusses competition from abroad with growers of fruit and vegetables.
BBC film
From the Midlands

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

1.50-2.15 Farming in the South and West: The Milk Business
(Rowridge, Brighton)

1.50-2.15 Farming Club for East Anglia
visits Wisbech
(Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

Contributors

Reporter:
Frank Taylor
Producer:
John Kenyon

Starring Ronald Colman
with Jane Wyatt, Margo, Thomas Mitchell

A diplomat is kidnapped in Tibet and finds a lost people in the hidden valley of Shangri-La who know the secret of longevity.

Contributors

Produced and directed by:
Frank Capra
Screenplay:
Robert Riskin
From a novel by:
James Hilton
Music score:
Dimitri Tiomkin
Robert Conway:
Ronald Colman
Sondra:
Jane Wyatt
Maria:
null Margo
Barnard:
Thomas Mitchell
Lovett:
Edward Everett Horton
George Conway:
John Howard
Gloria Stone:
Isabel Jewell
Chang:
H.B. Warner
High Lama:
Sam Jaffe

by Robert Lewin.
A filmed 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 unwillingly helps an army deserter in a desperate attempt to redeem his honour.

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Lewin
William Colton:
Lloyd Bridges
Cora Rice:
Sheree North
Charlie Libbett:
Jack Lambert
Harry Drake:
Corey Allen
Copley:
Hal Lynch
Old man:
Thomas E. Jackson
Ferguson:
Saul Gorss

by Wilkie Collins.
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Voysey.
From the West

Contributors

Author:
Wilkie Collins
Dramatised by:
Michael Voysey
Designer:
Desmond Chinn
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Mr. Fairlie:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Louis:
Alan Collins
Marian Halcombe:
Alethea Charlton
Professor Pesca:
Louis Mansi
Walter Hartright:
Nicholas Pennell
Anne Catherick:
Jennifer Hilary
Cabbie:
Paul Lorraine
Man:
Esmond Ridout
Laura Fairlie:
Jennifer Hilary
Gardener:
Henry Soskin
Gardener's son:
Alan Williams

The Mayflower carried the Pilgrim Fathers to America, but where did they come from and what made them Pilgrims?
John Abineri takes some of their writings as his guide and follows them through England and Holland to find out what made them the builders of a new world.
BBC film

Contributors

Presenter:
John Abineri
Reader:
John Gabriel
Reader:
Michael Spice
Guitarist:
Nicholas Moes
Producer:
R. T. Brooks

Written and produced by Nunnally Johnson.
The film this Sunday stars Alec Guinness, Irene Dunne
with Andrew Ray as The Mudlark

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Nunnally Johnson
Based on the novel by:
Theodore Bonnet
Director:
Jean Negulesco
Queen Victoria:
Irene Dunne
Disraeli:
Alec Guinness
Wheeler, The Mudlark:
Andrew Ray
John Brown:
Finlay Currie
Lady Emily Prior:
Beatrice Campbell
Lt. Charles McHatten:
Anthony Steel
Sgt. Footman Naseby:
Raymond Lovell
Lady Margaret Prior:
Marjorie Fielding
Slattery:
Ronan O'Casey
The watchman:
Edward Rigby
Herbert:
Robin Stevens
Sparrow:
William Strange
Kate Noonan:
Constance Smith
Gen. Sir Henry Ponsonby:
Kynaston Reeves
Tucker:
Wilfrid Hyde White

Live from the BBC Television Theatre.
With Billy Cotton and his Band
and special guest star, Russ Conway
Guest stars, Spike Milligan, Lance Percival
With Kathie Kay, Al Koran, The Tiller Girls, The New Cotton Singers

Contributors

Presenter/Bandleader:
Billy Cotton
Musicians:
Billy Cotton and his Band
Pianist:
Russ Conway
Comedian:
Spike Milligan
Comedian:
Lance Percival
Dancers:
The Tiller Girls
Precision routine:
Barbara Aitken
Singer:
Kathie Kay
Magician:
Al Koran
Singers:
The New Cotton Singers
Vocal arrangements:
Fred Tomlinson
Musical direction:
Harry Rabinowitz
Staged by:
Malcolm Goddard
Designer:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Michael Hurll

John Gielgud stars in his internationally acclaimed presentation of George Rylands' Shakespeare anthology 'Ages of Man'.
Youth...
Manhood..
Old Age...

Contributors

Writer:
George Rylands
Producer:
David Susskind
Producer:
Daniel Melnick
Director:
Paul Bogart
[Actor]:
John Gielgud

Edited highlights of the second day's programme of this triangular match in which the British team face strong opposition, especially from France who were one of the most successful teams to compete in this year's European Championship.
Reporters in the Stade Colombes, Paris: David Coleman, Norris McWhirter
Presented by the French Television Service

Contributors

Commentator:
David Coleman
Commentator:
Norris McWhirter

BBC One London

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