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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, Asian grocery shops, or from BBC Publications, [address removed] (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 for parents, teachers, and students about Primary School children.

Science for Primary Schools consists of first-hand experience and experiment. In a good environment children learn what questions science can answer and design their own apparatus to find and test these answers.
From the West
(First shown on BBC-2)

Contributors

Consultant/Commentator:
Ronald Wastnedge
Director:
George Inger
Producer:
Eileen Molony

Written by Helena Valenti.
Let's Look at Spanish
Twenty lessons for beginners.
Twelve noon, the heat of the day, and shadows in the cloister...

With Jacinta Castillejo, Mari Carmen Nevada, Julio Pena and Carlos Riera
(Repeated on Thursday at 11.7 p.m.)
(to 10.30)

Contributors

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

A series of five programmes designed for the Production Engineer.
Introduced by Professor Stephen Tobias, Birmingham University.
With H.A.J. Dennison of P.E.R.A. and J.M. Morrison of Scottish Machine Tools.

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Stephen Tobias
Speaker:
H.A.J. Dennison
Speaker:
J.M. Morrison
Director:
Bryn Brooks
Producer:
Michael Bunce

Introduced by John Cherrington.

David Richardson reports on the Anglesey pig co-operative that is now starting its second working year.
What are the problems of setting up and running the scheme, and are there benefits for the small farmers on the island?
From the Midlands

Followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Reporter:
David Richardson
Director:
Michael Marshall
Producer:
John Kenyon

by Gil North.
Starring Leslie Sands
with Michael Bates, John Rolfe, John McKelvey, Olive Milbourne, Pauline Williams
Guest star, William Dexter

Contributors

Writer:
Gil North
Designer:
Mary Rea
Producer:
Terence Dudley
Director:
Terence Williams
Len Swinbank:
William Dexter
Jack Ramsey:
Dennis Chinnery
Sergeant Cluff:
Leslie Sands
Det.-Con. Barker:
John Rolfe
Inspector Mole:
Michael Bates
Mrs. Mole:
Pauline Williams
P.C. Harry Bullock:
John McKelvey
Annie Croft:
Olive Milbourne
Hilda:
Jean Trend
Bob Fletcher:
Edward Evans

An animal adventure series starring Marshall Thompson as Dr. Marsh Tracy, Cheryl Miller as Paula Tracy and Yale Summers as Jack Dane
with Hedley Mattingly and Hari Rhodes
Aided and abetted by Clarence and Judy

Judy's mimicry is a source of danger.

Contributors

Dr. Marsh Tracy:
Marshall Thompson
Paula Tracy:
Cheryl Miller
Jack Dane:
Yale Summers
District Officer Hedley:
Hedley Mattingly
Mike Makula:
Hari Rhodes

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

St. Ives is forced to flee from Scotland to fulfil his uncle's wishes.

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised by:
Rex Tucker
Fight arranged by:
Peter Diamond
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Christopher Barry
Miss Gilchrist:
Jean Anderson
St. Ives:
David Sumner
Flora:
Gay Hamilton
Ronald:
Cavan Kendall
Sim:
Joseph Greig
Candlish:
Patrick Godfrey
Drovers:
Gerry Wain
Drovers:
David Cannon
Drovers:
John Scripps
Ostler:
Gordon Griffin
Dudgeon:
John Bryans
Countrymen:
Lewis Teasdale
Countrymen:
Gordon Faith
Countrymen:
Peter Porteous
Landlord:
James Hall
Rowley:
Kenneth Nash
Powl:
Walter Horsbrugh
Count:
Henry Oscar
Romaine:
Hamilton Dyce

Is Jesus to be judged by ordinary human standards or not?
Robert Robinson has chosen certain problem passages from The New English Bible and questions Bishop B.C. Butler, O.S.B. and Professor Dennis Nineham.

(Repeated tonight at 11.22)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Panellist:
Bishop B. C. Butler
Panellist:
Professor Dennis Nineham
Producer:
Oliver Hunkin

A modern folk song competition.
The third 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 Fellows
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 26

Contributors

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

Songs of Praise for St. George's Day.
From St. George's English Church, Paris.
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.
(By courtesy of Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise)

God, whose city's sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Thy hand, O God, has guided thy dock, from age to age (Thornbury)
The Church triumphant in thy love (Martyrs)
God of earth and altar (King's Lynn)
Trumpet of God, sound high (Rangoon)
From glory to glory advancing, we praise thee Lord (Sheen)
The strife is o'er, the battle done (Gelobt sei Gott)
Forth in thy name, Lord I go (Angel's Song)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Organist:
Susan Landale
Conductor:
John Ford
Producer:
Barrie Edgar

The film this Sunday based on the H.G. Wells novel
stars John Mills as Mr. Polly
with Sally Ann Howes, Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie
See page 11

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
H.G. Wells
Adapted for the screen by/Director:
Anthony Pelissier
Producer:
John Mills
Mr. Polly:
John Mills
Christabel:
Sally Ann Howes
The plump woman:
Megs Jenkins
Uncle Jim:
Finlay Currie
Annie:
Diana Churchill
Miriam:
Betty Ann Davies
Mr. Johnson:
Edward Chapman
Little Polly:
Juliet Mills

by Tony Williamson.
Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Guest star, Sonia Dresdel
(Andrew Cruickshank is appearing in "Alibi for a Judge" at the Hippodrome, Golders Green)

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Williamson
Created by:
A.J. Cronin
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Designer:
Mary Rea
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Director:
Ian MacNaughton
David McVie:
Victor Carin
First boy:
Peter Fox
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Nurse Henderson:
Jan Cowan
Sister McKay:
Sonia Dresdel
Ward Assistant Burns:
Mary Drew Robinson
Dr. Snoddie:
Eric Woodburn
Board Member:
Charlie Stewart
Almoner:
Geoffrey Wearing

also featuring Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano) and John Alexander (tenor).
An informal programme in which Joan Sutherland, one of the world's most famous prima donnas, sings some of her favourite music, including excerpts from:
Semiramide (Rossini), Alcina (Handel), I Puritani (Bellini)
Joan Sutherland also talks to her recording manager Terry McEwen who introduces the programme and her husband Richard Bonynge who conducts the Cambridge Festival Orchestra.
The programme was recorded in America by National Educational Television for their Festival of the Arts series
See page 11

Contributors

Singer/Interviewee:
Joan Sutherland
Mezzo-Soprano:
Marilyn Horne
Tenor:
John Alexander
Interviewer:
Terry McEwen
Interviewer/Conductor:
Richard Bonynge
Musicians:
The Cambridge Festival Orchestra

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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