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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Including
Look, Listen, and Speak
From the Midlands
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.)
'Look, Listen, and Speak' Book 2, printed in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, and English, with vocabularies and revision lessons, can be obtained from booksellers. or from BBC Publications [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)

(to 9.25)

Contributors

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

A series about Primary School children for parents, teachers, and students.

Mathematics branch out into every sort of activity from calculating the scale of a dinosaur to making a model of the Globe Theatre. Children of different levels of intelligence are shown making steady progress according to their capacity.
From the West
(First shown on BBC-2)

Contributors

Consultant:
Dora Whittaker
Commentator:
Molly Brearley
Producer:
Eileen Molony

Written by Helena Valenti.
Let's Look at Spanish
Twenty lessons for beginners.

Doses dispensed - more mysteries distilled.

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

Become more confident in speech
A series about spoken English and communication.
Written and presented by Andrew Wilkinson.
The actors: George Woolley, Jack Holloway, Peggy Hughes, Colin Skipp
From the Midlands
(Repeated next Saturday at 10.0 a.m.)

Contributors

Writer/Presenter:
Andrew Wilkinson
Producer:
Edmund Marshall
[Actor]:
George Woolley
[Actor]:
Jack Holloway
[Actor]:
Peggy Hughes
[Actor]:
Colin Skipp

Five programmes for managers on their personnel job.
Presented by Christopher Chataway
with J.P. de Courcy Meade of the Industrial Training Service
and Derek Hearing, Maria Stairs

(Repeated next Saturday at 10.30 a.m.)
(to 13.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Chataway
Interviewee:
J.P. de Courcy Meade
Interviewee:
Derek Hearing
Interviewee:
Maria Stairs
Producer:
Gregory Clegg

Expanding any farm business to get better returns involves injections of capital. But decisions as to how much, when, and whether it is worth it, are not easy to make.
Clifford Selly presents a simple system of capital budgeting.
BBC film
From the Midlands
Followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.17)

Contributors

Presenter:
Clifford Selly
Producer:
John Kenyon

Starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough

When two sailors are left holding the baby, there is no alternative but to smuggle the baby aboard their ship, with hilarious complications.

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Anthony Thorne
Screenplay/Director:
Jay Lewis
Screenplay:
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
Additional scenes and dialogue:
Bryan Forbes
Producer:
Antony Darnborough
'Puncher' Roberts:
John Mills
Knocker White:
Richard Attenborough
Professor:
Bryan Forbes
George:
Lionel Jeffries
Joe:
Michael Howard
Captain:
Michael Hordern
Marshal:
Andre Morell
Aide:
John Le Mesurier
Maria:
Lisa Gastoni
The Admiral:
D.A. Clarke-Smith

by Gil North.
Starring Leslie Sands
with Michael Bates, John Rolfe, John McKelvey, Olive Milbourne
Guest stars, Gordon Gostelow, Pauline Munro

Contributors

Writer:
Gil North
Designer:
Evan Hercules
Producer:
Terence Dudley
Director:
Philip Dudley
Luke Sowden:
Anton Darby
Abel Sowden:
Neville Smith
Albert Sowden:
Gordon Gostelow
Josh Tupman:
Derek Benfield
Ruth Rudge:
Pauline Munro
Seth Harrison:
Michael Gover
Sergeant Cluff:
Leslie Sands
Inspector Mole:
Michael Bates
P.C. Bullock:
John McKelvey
Det.-Con. Barker:
John Rolfe
Sarah Harrison:
Sally Lahee
Barney Bannister:
Joe Gladwin
Lizzie Bannister:
Ann Penfold
Annie Croft:
Olive Milbourne
Dr. Hamm:
Jack Howlett

by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dramatised in six parts by Rex Tucker.

St. Ives fights a duel and is suspected of murder.

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised by:
Rex Tucker
Fight arranger:
Peter Diamond
Make-up:
Pam Burns
Costumes:
Barbara Lane
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Christopher Barry
Laclas:
Julian Somers
Goguelat:
Roy Patrick
Clausel:
Talfryn Thomas
Gautier:
David Graham
Saladin:
Murray Head
Sombref:
Edward Kelsey
St. Ives:
David Sumner
Officer:
Paul Young
Major Chevenix:
Colin Jeavons
Soldier:
John Owens
Sentry:
Michael Savage
First youth:
Lawrence Douglas
Second youth:
Malcolm McDowell
Flora:
Gay Hamilton
Miss Gilchrist:
Jean Anderson
Prison Doctor:
John Moore
Romaine:
Hamilton Dyce

Modern medical research faces exciting-and sometimes frightening-possibilities. Are there any limits which have to be drawn?
William Purcell talks with a medical research scientist, a mental hospital doctor and a theologian.
Excerpts from Horizon, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, and Tomorrow's World

Contributors

Presenter:
William Purcell
Interviewee:
A medical research scientist [name uncredited]
Interviewee:
A mental hospital doctor [name uncredited]
Interviewee:
A theologian [name uncredited]
Television Presentation:
Barrie Edgar
Producer:
Philip Turner

A modern folk song competition.
The first in a series of six programmes containing songs selected by the judges from nearly 3,000 entries.
Subject of today's group: Man and his Feelings
Introduced by Roy Guest
and sung by Nadia Cattouse, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor
From the BBC's television studios in Manchester

Viewers are invited to select the song they enjoy most and judge to be the most true comment on life as we live it today. The name of the song chosen should be sent on a postcard to "Songs of Grief and Glory," [address removed] to arrive by Wednesday, April 12

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Guest
Singer:
Nadia Cattouse
Singer:
Robin Hall
Singer/Guitarist:
Jimmie MacGregor
Designer:
Paul Montague
Director:
Tony Palmer
Producer:
Raymond Short

from St. Mary's Baptist Church, Norwich.
Introduced by Lincoln Ralphs.

Come, we that love the Lord (Mount Ephraim)
Rejoice the Lord is King (Gopsal)
Behold the mountain of the Lord (Glasgow)
Almighty Father of all things that be (Birmingham)
Come, ye people, raise the anthem (Neander)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
O Jesus, King most wonderful (Warwick)
O for a thousand tongues to sing (Richmond)

Contributors

Presenter:
Lincoln Ralphs
Organist:
Cyril Pearce
Conductor:
Philip Ledger
Presented for television by:
Barrie Edgar

The film this Sunday stars Tony Curtis, George Nader
with Julie Adams, Sal Mineo

A policeman befriends a juvenile delinquent but twenty years later he begins to regret his hasty action.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Sidney Boehm
Based on a story by:
Joseph F. Dinneen
Director:
Joseph Pevney
Producer:
Aaron Rosenberg
Jerry Florea:
Tony Curtis
Ed Gallagher:
George Nader
Ellen Gallagher:
Julie Adams
Jerry, a boy:
Sal Mineo
Coneannon:
Jay C. Flippen
Andy Norris:
Jan Merlin
Father Bonelli:
Harry Bartel
Sanborn:
Kendall Clark

by Harry Green
Created by A.J. Cronin
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Guest stars, Sheila Ballantine, Colin Douglas, Fulton Mackay

(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in "Alibi for a Judge" at the Savoy Theatre; Sheila Ballantine is in "Loot" at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Harry Green
Created by:
A. J. Cronin
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Ian MacNaughton
Beth Geddes:
Freda Dowie
Will Geddes:
Harry Walker
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr. Snoddie:
Eric Woodburn
Thomas Brown:
Fulton Mackay
Sergeant Gilbey:
Neil Wilson
Sheriff Substitute:
John Rae
Procurator Fiscal:
Norman Scace
Jane Geddes:
Sheila Ballantine
Mr. Muir:
John Harvey
Sam Wilson:
Colin Douglas
Jury Foreman:
Ian McKay
Advocate One:
Walter Horsbrugh
Advocate Two:
Brown Derby
Judge:
John Dunbar

James Robertson Justice introduces Jane Marsh, Ruggiero Ricci, John Gilpin, Merle Park, Raymond Lewenthal, Georgetta Psaros.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, John Ronayne
Conducted by Charles Groves
Merle Park and Georgetta Psaros appear by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; John Gilpin appears by permission of the Director of London's Festival Ballet

Contributors

Presenter:
James Robertson Justice
Soprano:
Jane Marsh
Violinist:
Ruggiero Ricci
Dancer:
John Gilpin
Dancer:
Merle Park
Pianist:
Raymond Lewenthal
Mezzo-Soprano:
Georgetta Psaros
Musicians:
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
John Ronayne
Orchestra conducted by:
Charles Groves
Script adviser:
Arthur Jacobs
Design:
Marilyn Taylor
Producer:
Patricia Foy

BBC One London

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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