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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India
Including
Look, Listen, and Speak Revision Course: Lesson 21
From the Midlands
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.)

'Look, Listen, and Speak' Book 2 (blue cover), 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] price 4s. 6d. by post 5s. 2d.; crossed postal order, please, not stamps).

(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

from St. Peter's Marchington, Staffordshire.
Reflections prompted by the sights and sounds of an English country church
with Geoffrey Lewis, Emrys James, Wilfred Harrison and Parishioners of Marchington
Led by The Rev. O.G. Ede

Contributors

Speaker:
Geoffrey Lewis
Speaker:
Emrys James
Speaker:
Wilfred Harrison
Singers:
Parishioners of Marchington
Led by:
The Rev. O.G. Ede
Organist:
Frank Latimer
Ringing Master:
Wilfred Appleby
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

by Professor Eric Laithwaite.
The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People, 1966

Professor Laithwaite tries a completely new experiment which he hopes will break one of the laws of science. All the text books say it cannot be done. Will the experiment succeed?
(First shown on BBC-2)

Contributors

Lecturer:
Professor Eric Laithwaite
Presented for television by:
Alan Sleath

An enquiry into its value for the English teacher.
John Hodgson, Principal Drama Lecturer at Bretton Hall College of Education begins a drama lesson with a class of third-year secondary school children, and discusses his aims and results with a panel of teachers. The programme is unrehearsed.
Children from Holland Park School.
Introduced by Joe Reid.
(to 13.00)

Contributors

Drama teacher:
John Hodgson
Presenter:
Joe Reid
Producer:
Ronald Smedley

What is the future for the small-holding?
Stuart Seaton looks at a 65-acre family dairy farm in the West Riding and a group of five small-holders at Eastville in Lincolnshire who have found success through co-operation.
BBC film from the North
(First shown on North transmitters on May 7)

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Stuart Seaton
Directed and produced by:
Kenneth Ford

Starring Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts

Contributors

Produced and directed by:
Mark Sandrich
Original screenplay:
Allan Scott
Original screenplay:
Ken Englund
Original screenplay:
Zion Meyers
Lyrics:
Johnny Mercer
Music:
Harold Arlen
Johnny Cabot:
Bing Crosby
Susie and Rosemary Allison:
Betty Hutton
Windy:
Sonny Tufts
Ruth:
Ann Doran
Tex:
Gwen Crawford
Dorothy:
Noel Neill
Lieutenant Townsend:
Catherine Craig
Isobel:
Marjorie Henshaw

by Anthony Scott Veitch
Starring John Cairney
Guest stars, Stella Tanner, Ewan Hooper

Long-distance running calls on the last reserves of strength and energy. For young Dugal Ramsay the strain may bring irreparable damage.
[Repeat]

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony Scott Veitch
Designer:
Colin Cant
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Prudence Fitzgerald
Hector McInnes:
Paul Young
Dugal Ramsay:
John Short
Speug McInnes:
Ronald Letham
Mr. Marsh:
Denis Carey
Boy:
Ian McGowan
Jessie Ramsay:
Stella Tanner
Ian Craig:
John Cairney
Sophie McInnes:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Kirsty McInnes:
Carol Dunnigan
Alex Ramsay:
Ewan Hooper
Dr. Gilchrist:
W.H.D. Joss
Woman Doctor:
Janet Whiteside
Davey Kirk:
John Scobbie

by Alexandre Dumas.
Dramatised in sixteen parts by Alexander Baron from the second of the D'Artagnan romances "Twenty Years After."
With Joss Ackland as D'Artagnan, Brian Blessed as Porthos, Jeremy Young as Athos, John Woodvine as Aramis, William Dexter as Cardinal Mazarin and Carole Potter as Anne, Queen Regent

"Death is too merciful for you. D'Artagnan. You and your two friends will rot in the Bastille for the rest of your days."

Contributors

Author:
Alexandre Dumas
Dramatised by:
Alexander Baron
Designer:
Michael Young
Producer:
William Sterling
Director:
Christopher Barry
D'Artagnan:
Joss Ackland
Porthos:
Brian Blessed
Athos:
Jeremy Young
Aramis:
John Woodvine
Cardinal Mazarin:
William Dexter
Anne, Queen Regent:
Carole Potter
Dragoon Officer:
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Inn-keeper:
Carlos Douglas
Inn servant:
Antony Higginson
Raoul:
Fergus McClelland
Guard Officer:
Derek Sydney
Louis XIV:
Louis Selwyn
Broussel:
Charles Carson

beside The Castle, Lochranza, Isle of Arran, with a gathering of islanders and holiday-makers.
Introduced by Murdoch McPherson.

"I to the hills will lift mine eyes" (Tune, French)
"For the beauty of the earth" (Tune, Lucerna Laudoniae)
"We sing the praise of him who died" (Tune, Walton)
"God of the mountain" (F. Wade)
"O Love that wilt not let me go" (Tune, St. Margaret)
"Will your anchor hold" (Tune, Will your anchor hold)
"The Lower Lights" (Tune, Lower Lights)
"St. Anthony Chorale" (arr. Brahms)
"Come, let us to the Lord our God" (Tune, Kilmarnock)
"Jesus lover of my soul" (Tune, Hollingside)

Contributors

Presenter:
Murdoch McPherson
Producer:
Ronald Falconer
Conductor:
The Rev. J.L. Dow
Organist:
James Ferguson

A Special Seaside Summer Spectacular.

On Loan from the Keystone Cops
A model Ford in a crazy routine with Hal Brooks and Pierre Picton.

Rocket Revolutions
Suspended in the roof of the Big Top, The Barley Twins.

Shetlands on the Seesaw
with Birma the elephant in charge of her pony friends.
Presented by Billy Smart Jr.

On a Battery-Propelled Bicycle
Artistry from Austria The Hellos.

Elephants' Play Time
From 3-ton Birma to the baby, Gigi, a herd of fifteen elephants take a dip at an English seaside resort.

Tip-Toe Across the Tight Wire
A miracle of delicate balance achieved by 16-year-old ballerina Katharina.

Puppet on a String
Comedy from Italy The Florida Trio.

Poles Apart
A dancing Frenchman balances his acrobatic brother forty feet aloft on a swaying steel pole The Two Gambys.

Poodle Party
Dancing, jumping, skipping, balancing and all the time clowning.
Twelve Poodles with Phyllis Allan

A Four-Man-High Pyramid
Breathtaking acrobatics from seven Hungarians flying from four springboards The Great Putzai.

Clown Capers
by Pierre Picton, Pete Roeber, Mike Tucker.

Introduced by Keith Fordyce.

(Billy Smart's Touring Circus is appearing at Southend-on-Sea)

Contributors

Presenter:
Keith Fordyce
Producer:
Mary David
Clown:
Hal Brooks
Clown:
Pierre Picton
Aerial Act:
The Barley Twins
Presented by (Shetlands on the Seesaw):
Billy Smart Jr.
Bicyclists:
The Hellos
Tightrope Walker:
null Katharina
Performers:
The Florida Trio
Acrobats:
The Two Gambys
Poodles trained by:
Phyllis Allan
Acrobats:
The Great Putzai
Clown:
Pete Roeber
Clown:
Mike Tucker
Circus Presentation:
Ronnie Smart
Circus Presentation:
David Smart
Circus Presentation:
Billy Smart
Ringmaster:
Major Dick Barton
Musical Director:
Ken Griffin

by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H. Corbett as Harold
This week: The Stepmother
featuring Joan Newell

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Incidental Music:
Ron Grainer
Designer:
Roger Andrews
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Albert:
Wilfrid Brambell
Harold:
Harry H. Corbett
Emma Marshall:
Joan Newell

The film this Sunday stars Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon
with Peter Lawford

Contributors

Screenplay:
Garson Kanin
Director:
George Cukor
Producer:
Fred Kohlmar
Gladys Glover:
Judy Holliday
Peter Sheppard:
Jack Lemmon
Evan Adams III:
Peter Lawford
Brad Clinton:
Michael O'Shea
Entrikin:
Vaughn Taylor
Mrs. Riker:
Connie Gilchrist
Bert Piazza:
Walter Klavun

The first of two orchestral concerts from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh.
George Szell conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in the tone poem "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss and Mozart's Violin Concerto in A major (K.219) with the distinguished Soviet violinist Leonid Kogan.
Introduced by Tom Fleming.
(Recorded on August 22)
(The second concert is on BBC-2 on Saturday September 9, when Claudio Abbado conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in works by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky)

Contributors

Conductor:
George Szell
Musicians:
The Cleveland Orchestra
Violinist:
Leonid Kogan
Presenter:
Tom Fleming
Director:
Antony Craxton

BBC One London

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