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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Look, Listen, and Speak (Revision course)
From the Midlands
A booklet entitled 'Look, Listen, and Speak' printed in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, and English, with vocabularies and revision lessons, can be obtained from booksellers, or from [address removed] price 4s. 6d. (by post 5s. 2d.: crossed postal order)
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Peterborough, Tacolneston, Cambridge, All North Transmitters (Except Sandale and Douglas), Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)

Contributors

Teacher (Look, Listen, and Speak):
Robert Chapman

Written by Helena Valenti.
Let's Look at Spanish
Twenty lessons for beginners.
In which a stranger calls and something disappears. And the reason? It's not known...

With Jacinta Castillejo, Mari Carmen Nevada, Julio Pena and Carlos Riera
(Repeated on Thursday at 11.7 p.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Helena Valenti
Course devised by:
Brian Dutton
Course devised by:
Angel Garcia de Paredes
Adviser:
Joseph Cremona
Designer:
Don Horne
Director:
John Prescott Thomas
Producer:
Colin Nears
[Actress]:
Jacinta Castillejo
[Actress]:
Mari Carmen Nevado
[Actor]:
Julio Pena
[Actor]:
Carlos Riera

The annual theatre service under the auspices of the Actors' Church Union from
St. Philip's, Birmingham Cathedral, by permission of the Provost, The Rt. Rev. George Sinker
The Service introduced by Dame Flora Robson and conducted by The Bishop of Aston The Rt. Rev. D.B. Porter.
The Lessons read by Robin Wentworth, Benjamin Whitrow, Ernie Wise.
Musical items by Patricia Bredin, The Three Monarchs, The Ian Campbell Folk Group
The Birmingham School of Music Choir
Conducted by Gordon Clinton
Preacher, The Bishop of Birmingham, The Rt. Rev. J.L. Wilson
The service accompanied by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

Contributors

Presenter:
Dame Flora Robson
Service conducted by:
The Rt. Rev. D.B. Porter
Reader:
Robin Wentworth
Reader:
Benjamin Whitrow
Reader:
Ernie Wise
Singer:
Patricia Bredin
Harmonicists:
The Three Monarchs
Musicians:
The Ian Campbell Folk Group
Singers:
The Birmingham School of Music Choir
Choir conducted by:
Gordon Clinton
Preacher:
The Rt. Rev. J.L. Wilson
Musicians:
The BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
James Hutcheon
Conductor:
Gilbert Vinter
Television Presentation:
Barrie Edgar

Management problems in the smaller firm.

The major interest initially on putting in this automatic equipment was in getting the damn thing to work... We had no idea how much it would turn out a day nor indeed how much we could sell. (Managing Director, glass firm)
What simple techniques can help the small firm to control its flow of work?
Introduced by Jeffrey Iverson.

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeffrey Iverson
Director:
Paul Ellis
Producer:
Tony Matthews

Introduced by John Cherrington.

What is the future for exporting cereals, meat, and breeding stock? Tony Bilson meets some of the men whose business it is to sell British farm products abroad.
From the Midlands
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.15)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Reporter:
Tony Bilson
Director:
Archie MacPhee
Producer:
John Kenyon

Starring Jane Russell, Jack Beutel, Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston

Billy the Kid, wounded and on the run, is aided by Doc Holliday who hides him with a beautiful girl. And then the trouble begins...

Contributors

Produced and directed by:
Howard Hughes
Story and screenplay:
Jules Furthman
Music:
Victor Young
Photography:
Gregg Toland
Rio:
Jane Russell
Billy the Kid:
Jack Beutel
Pat Garrett:
Thomas Mitchell
Doc. Holliday:
Walter Huston
Aunt Guadelupe:
Mimi Aguglia
Woodruff:
Joseph Sawyer

by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised in ten episodes by Hugh Leonard.

Pip is charged by Miss Havisham to love Estella but Herbert begs him to forget her.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Hugh Leonard
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Alan Bridges
Pip:
Gary Bond
Estella:
Francesca Annis
Miss Havisham:
Maxine Audley
Jaggers:
Peter Vaughan
Trabb's Boy:
Kenneth Nash
Herbert Pocket:
Richard O'Sullivan
Wemmick:
Bernard Hepton
Biddy:
Hannah Gordon
Pumblechook:
Norman Scace
Mrs. Hubble:
Ursula Hirst
Mr. Hubble:
Sidney Vivian
Trabb:
Redmond Phillips
Joe Gargery:
Neil McCarthy

"A monstrous thing has happened: after the incarnation of Jesus - a carpenter - God and the worker have been torn apart." (Horst Symanowski)
A documentary film on a radical Christian approach to industrial man introduced by Horst Symanowski, Director of the Gossner Mission, Mainz-Kastel.

Contributors

Presenter:
Horst Symanowski
Narrator:
John Snagge
Producer:
Vernon Sproxton

Gold or silver, copper or brass - unusual objects of religious art and archaeology shown by Norman Cook, Director, The Guildhall Museum, to be identified by Patricia Butler and Dr. William Urry.

Contributors

Presenter:
Norman Cook
Panellist:
Patricia Butler
Panellist:
Dr. William Urry
Producer:
John Elphinstone-Fyffe

from King's Cross Chapel, London
Hymns introduced by Cliff Morgan

Love divine, all loves excelling (Tune, Blaenwern)
The light of the morning is breaking (Tune, Eirinwg)
Un fendith dyro im (Tune, Sirioldeb)
Come, thou fount of every blessing (Tune, Hyfrydol)
Dyma gariad pwy a'i traetha? (Tune, Garthowen)
All my hope on God is founded (Tune, Bryn Myrddin)

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Morgan
Conductor:
Alun Davies
Organist:
Cyril Anthony
Soloist:
Kenneth Bowen
Blessing spoken by:
The Rev Dr. W.T. Owen
Television Presentation:
Tregelles Williams

Tonight's film stars Van Johnson, Vera Miles
with Cecil Parker

A blind man overhears a kidnapping plot but cannot persuade the police to act, and begins to follow up the sinister trail of clues himself...

Contributors

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Producer:
Henry Ephron
Screenplay:
Nigel Balchin
Based on a novel by:
Philip MacDonald
Phillip Hannon:
Van Johnson
Jean Lennox:
Vera Miles
Matthews:
Cecil Parker
Miss MacDonald:
Patricia Laffan
Inspector Grovening:
Maurice Denham
Mr. Murch:
Liam Redmond
Lady Syrett:
Isobel Elsom

by Mervyn Haisman.
Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in "Alibi for a Judge" at the Savoy Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Mervyn Haisman
Created by:
A.J. Cronin
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Mary Rea
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Ian MacNaughton
Hector McNeil:
Eric McCaine
Munro:
John Malcolm
Jimmy Pearce:
Hugh Munro
Tommy McNeil:
David Seltzer
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Groombridge:
Keith Smith
Dr. Snoddie:
Eric Woodburn
Nurse:
Janet Davies

The first in a series reflecting the life, times, and music of four of the world's most popular Masters of Melody.

Introduced by Leonard Sachs.
With John Gilpin, Margot Miklosy, Ted Ray, George Chisholm, John Mulgrew, Peter Gordeno, Frances Pidgeon, John Fryatt, Suzanne Steele, David Hillman, Joan Davies and Derek Simpson.
The BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by Alexander Faris

(Joan Davies, David Hillman, and John Fryatt appear by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Margot Miklosy, John Gilpin, and Jack Carter appear by permission of the Administrator of the London Festival Ballet)

Contributors

Presenter:
Leonard Sachs
Dancer:
John Gilpin
Dancer:
Margot Miklosy
Performer:
Ted Ray
Performer:
George Chisholm
Performer:
John Mulgrew
Dancer:
Peter Gordeno
Dancer:
Frances Pidgeon
Singer:
John Fryatt
Singer:
Suzanne Steele
Singer:
David Hillman
Singer:
Joan Davies
Performer:
Derek Simpson
Musicians:
The BBC Concert Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Arthur Leavins
Orchestra conducted by:
Alexander Faris
Choreography:
Jack Carter
Choreography:
Peter Gordeno
Musical arrangements:
Peter Knight
Script:
Bernard Grun
Designer:
Raymond Berger
Produced and directed by:
Francis Coleman

BBC One London

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