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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India
including
Look, Listen, and Speak: Revision Course: Lesson 25

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

When the aims of mathematics teaching are so wide, stretching far beyond computation, the traditional test has very little meaning. New ways of assessing children's grasp of concepts and ability to transfer this to new situations are at present under development and this programme examines the present situation.
Presented by Geoffrey Matthews and Joan Bliss.

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Matthews
Presenter:
Joan Bliss
Producer:
Edward Goldwyn

An enquiry into its value for the English teacher.

John Hodgson, Principal Drama Lecturer at Bretton Hall College of Education and a class of third-year secondary school children bring their improvisation into shape.
Joe Reid introduces Winifred Hickson of the Bristol Education Authority, John Allen of the Department of Education and Science and Dorothy Heathcote of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and they discuss the series.
Children from Holland Park School
(to 13.00)

Contributors

Teacher:
John Hodgson
Presenter:
Joe Reid
Panellist:
Winifred Hickson
Panellist:
John Allen
Panellist:
Dorothy Heathcote
Producer:
Ronald Smedley

Introduced by John Cherrington.

Dan Slater looks at a unit of five acres under glass producing carnations and intensive tomatoes, and run entirely without the use of soil.
From the Midlands

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

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Reporter:
Dan Slater
Director:
Michael Marshall
Producer:
John Kenyon

Starring MacDonald Carey and Gail Russell

The editor of a local newspaper in a small Californian town defends a Mexican boy victimised because he hit a policeman in self-defence, and loses his own livelihood in the process.

Contributors

Director:
Joseph Losey
Larry Wilder:
MacDonald Carey
Sunny Garcia:
Gail Russell
Paul Rodriguez:
Lalo Rios
Joe Ferguson:
John Sands
Jan Dawson:
Lee Patrick
Ed Ferguson:
John Hoyt
Lopo Chavez:
Maurice Jara
Jim Wilson:
Walter Reed

by David Fisher.
Starring John Cairney
and Ellen McIntosh, Leonard Maguire, Joan Alcorn
Guest star, Tom Watson

When Ian Craig 'volunteers' to take charge of preparations for the school cruise, he faces problems - large and small - that are increasingly distracting, absorbing, and complex.

Contributors

Writer:
David Fisher
Designer:
Walter Miller
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Terence Wheeler
Willie Sinclair:
Alex McCrindle
Sammy McDougall:
Gordon McGuinness
Paul Garrity:
Ronald Christie
Jimmy Craig:
Brian Pettifer
Jim Bell:
Kenneth Campbell
Susan Morrison:
Clare Sheldon
Linda Ferguson:
Kathleen Donnelly
Ian Craig:
John Cairney
Katie Duncan:
Joan Alcorn
Kevin McGill:
Richard Findlay
Mr. Campbell:
Wallace Campbell
Margaret Craig:
Ellen McIntosh
Mr. Ferguson:
Tom Watson
Mrs. Ferguson:
Katy Gardiner
Mr. Robertson:
Leonard Maguire
Councillor Barton:
Jamieson Clark
Medical Officer:
Paul Kermack

by Jane Austen.
Dramatised in six parts by Nemone Lethbridge.

"Mr. Collins, you must marry. Choose properly, choose a gentlewoman for my sake, and for your own, let her be an active useful sort of person."
(Michael Gough is in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" at Wyndham's Theatre, London)
See page 11

Contributors

Author:
Jane Austen
Dramatised by:
Nemone Lethbridge
Dances arranged by:
Andree Howard
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Joan Craft
Mr. Collins:
Julian Curry
Lady Catherine de Bourgh:
Sylvia Coleridge
Miss Anne de Bourgh:
Janette Legge
Mr. Bennet:
Michael Gough
Mrs. Bennet:
Vivian Pickles
Jane Bennet:
Polly Adams
Elizabeth Bennet:
Celia Bannerman
Kitty Bennet:
Sarah Taunton
Lydia Bennet:
Lucy Fleming
Mr. Wickham:
Richard Hampton
Mr. Bingley:
David Savile
Charlotte Lucas:
Kate Lansbury
Edward Lucas:
Stephen Grives
Louisa Hurst:
Karin MacCarthy
Mr. Hurst:
Vivian James
Mr. Darcy:
Lewis Fiander
Caroline Bingley:
Georgina Ward
Lady Lucas:
Diana King
Sir William Lucas:
Robert Dorning

"Let me now disclose the gifts reserved for age
To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort"
(Four Quartets: T.S. Eliot)

In which three distinguished octogenarians reflect on what they have learned from life, and speak of the compensations of growing old.
The Very Rev. Dr. A.C. Craig, M.C., sometime Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
The Very Rev. Dr. W.R. Matthews, K.C.V.O., who this year retired from the Deanery of St. Paul's
The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Micklem, sometime Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Chairman of the Liberal Party
BBC film
(Repeated tonight at 11.22)

Contributors

Speaker:
The Very Rev. Dr. A. C. Craig
Speaker:
The Very Rev. Dr. W. R. Matthews
Speaker:
The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Micklem
Producer:
Vernon Sproxton

From The North Church, Perth
With choirs from Perth and district
Prayer and Blessing by The Rev. Hector Houston, Moderator of Perth Presbytery
Introduced by Murdoch McPherson.

Ye gates lift up your beads on high (St. George's Edinburgh)
O for a closer walk with God (Stracathro)
Thou hidden love of God (St. Petersburg)
What do I see as I gaze down the road (Frederick Parsonage)
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)
Holy Father, cheer our way (Capetown)
Non Nobis, Domine (Roger Quilter)
The Lord is King! lift up thy voice (Church Triumphant)
Love, divine, all loves excelling (Hyfrydol)
Saviour again to thy dear name (Ellers)

Contributors

Conductor:
James Scott
Conductor:
Alistair Hodge
Organist:
William C. Emmerson
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. Hector Houston
Presenter:
Murdoch McPherson
Producer:
Ronald Falconer

by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H. Corbett as Harold
This week: Is That Your Horse Outside?
featuring Patricia Haines
with Richard Shaw, Jo Rowbottom
[Repeat]

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Incidental Music:
Ron Grainer
Designer:
Roger Andrews
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Albert:
Wilfrid Brambell
Harold:
Harry H. Corbett
Dorothia:
Patricia Haines
The Coalman:
Richard Shaw
Waitress:
Jo Rowbottom

by Max Marquis.
Starring Edward Chapman, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Kaufmann, Virginia Stride, James Kerry

Joe's obstinacy creates a crisis for Champion Mills. In desperation he adopts methods that are hardly ethical.

Contributors

Writer:
Max Marquis
Devised by:
Hazel Adair
Devised by:
Peter Ling
Designer:
Gordon Toms
Producer:
Jordan Lawrence
Director:
Terence Dudley
Stephen Champion:
James Kerry
Oscar Chisnal:
Ivor Salter
Michele Champion:
Nicole Maurey
Edward Champion:
Maurice Kaufmann
Joe Champion:
Edward Chapman
Sophie:
Penny Reid
Caroline Hunter:
Julie Paulle
Edith Hunter:
Caroline Rogers
Mrs. Lee:
Constance Lorne
Bernard Weeton:
Kenneth Keeling
Liz Champion:
Virginia Stride
Robert Shadwell:
Alan Gifford
Mr. Duval:
Mervyn Pascoe
Herbert Clay:
Charles Carson
Hotel receptionist:
Jacki Webb

The film this Sunday stars Joanne Woodward, Patricia Owens, Cameron Mitchell, Tony Randall.
Based on the novel by John McPartland.

Four young couples living on a suburban housing estate become involved in one another's lives.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Philip Yarden
Based on the novel by:
John McPartland
Director:
Martin Ritt
Producer:
Jerry Wald
Leola Boone:
Joanne Woodward
Jean Martin:
Patricia Owens
Jerry Flagg:
Tony Randall
Troy Boone:
Cameron Mitchell
David Martin:
Jeffrey Hunter
Isabelle Flagg:
Sheree North
Betty Kreitzer:
Barbara Rush
Herman Kreitzer:
Pat Hingle
Iko:
Aki Aleong

The first of two documentary profiles of two extraordinary human beings.

An Oscar-winning American film about the poet Robert Frost 1875-1963.
Introduction by Robert Graves.
Written and produced by Robert Hughes.
See page 11
(Next Sunday: H.L. Mencken, journalist and writer)

Contributors

Subject:
Robert Frost
Presenter:
Robert Graves
Director:
Shirley Clarke
Director:
Terence MacArtney-Filgate
Associate Producer:
Charlotte Zwerin
Writer/Producer:
Robert Hughes

BBC One London

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