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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Including:
Look, Listen, and Speak: Lesson 35

(From the Midlands)
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.)

("Look, Listen, and Speak", Book 3 (yellow cover) printed in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati 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
Assisted by (Look, Listen, and Speak):
Sheila Dillon-Guy

Wir sprechen Deutsch
Thirty lessons for beginners.

Christmas Eve in the Peters's flat.
With Heidi Treutler, Dieter Geissler
Introduced by Sabine Michael, Paul Hansard.

(Repeated on Saturday at 10.0 a.m.)
(to 10.25)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sabine Michael
Presenter:
Paul Hansard
Producer:
Colin Nears
Heidi:
Heidi Treutler
Dieter:
Dieter Geissler

English Farms Ltd., in Wiltshire, is unusual in that it is financed from the City-and it's not easy to get returns that will satisfy the backers.
James Thorburn looks at some of the enterprises on 4,500 acres which cover a wide variety of farming conditions.
From the Midlands
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 14.15)

Contributors

Reporter:
James Thorburn
Director:
Michael Marshall
Producer:
John Kenyon

Second of three programmes from the award-winning American television series of Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Leonard Bernstein talks to an audience of young people in the Lincoln Center, with illustrations played by himself at the piano and by the orchestra, which he conducts.
The music includes:
Mozart: 'Jupiter' Symphony (First movement)
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony (Fourth movement)
Bizet: Micaela's Aria from 'Carmen' sung by Veronica Tyler
Beatles: And I Love Her rendered by Mr. Bernstein himself

Contributors

Presenter/Pianist/Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Musicians:
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Singer:
Veronica Tyler
Director:
Roger Englander

What happened when Hollywood descended in force on the 'prettiest village in England'? Why was Castle Combe chosen as the setting for Dr. Dolittle?
On the eve of the film's London premiere, this programme looks back at the film-makers, the villagers, and what happened to Castle Combe.
From the South and West

Contributors

Narrator:
Roger Mills
Director:
Michael Croucher

Bob Hope gets Caught in the Draft
with Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Lynne Overman

A wartime comedy in which Bob Hope plays a film star who unexpectedly finds himself in the Army when one of his own practical jokes boomerangs on him.

Contributors

Director:
David Butler
Producer:
B.G. de Sylva
Original story and screenplay:
Harry Tugend
Don Bolton:
Bob Hope
Toni Fairbanks:
Dorothy Lamour
Bert:
Eddie Bracken
Steve:
Lynne Overman
Colonel Fairbanks:
Clarence Kolb
Sgt. Burns:
Paul Hurst
Tetta:
Ferike Boros
Margie:
Phyllis Ruth
Cogswell:
Irving Bacon

by Victor Hugo.
Dramatised in ten parts by Giles Cooper and Harry Green.

"I know what France does to men. Those who survive must give their hand to those who fall. My candle-sticks are his by right."
(Frank Finlay is a National Theatre Player)

Contributors

Author:
Victor Hugo
Dramatised by:
Giles Cooper
Dramatised by:
Harry Green
Designer:
Peter Seddon
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Alan Bridges
Jean Valjean:
Frank Finlay
Madame Thenardier:
Judy Parfitt
Eponine:
Elizabeth Counsell
Cosette:
Michele Dotrice
Marius:
Vivian MacKerrell
Sergeant:
Raymond Mason
Javert:
Anthony Bate
Thenardier:
Alan Rowe
Enjolras:
Cavan Kendall
Courfeyrac:
Christopher Guinee
Gavroche:
Derek Lamden

The Victorians knew what they meant by 'discipline'. Today we are more doubtful. Especially where teenagers are concerned, what can parents do?
A discussion between Barbara Warburton, Co-chairman, Westminster Juvenile Court; Elizabeth Manners, Head Mistress, Felixstowe College and Two Parents.
Chairman, David Jacobs

Contributors

Chairman:
David Jacobs
Panellist:
Barbara Warburton
Panellist:
Elizabeth Manners
Producer:
Oliver Hunkin

from Greenock Academy with the combined choirs of local schools and musical associations.
Introduced by Murdoch McPherson.
Prayer and Blessing by The Rev. W. Cameron Wallace

"God is our refuge and our strength" (Tune, Stroudwater)
"Ye servants of God" (Tune, Laudate Dominum)
"Sing, my tongue, how glorious battle" (Bazil Marsh)
"Spirit of God, descend upon my heart" (Tune, Song 22)
"Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him" (Tune, Laus Deo)
"Tha ann an Sion Feitheamh ort" (Tune, French)
"Christ is the world's Redeemer" (Tune, Moville)
"Far round the world" (George Parkhill)
"Thy hand, O God, has guided" (Tune, Thornbury)
"Now thank we all our God" (Tune, Nun Danket)
"The Lord's my Shepherd" (Tune, Orlington)

Contributors

Presenter:
Murdoch McPherson
Producer:
Ronald Falconer
Conductor:
Ian McCrorie
Organist:
George Parkhill
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. W. Cameron Wallace

by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H. Corbett as Harold
This week: The Siege of Steptoe Street
featuring Robert Dorning, Lane Meddick, Edwin Brown, Bill Maxam, Stan Simmons, Charles Bird, Stan Simmons

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Incidental Music:
Ken Jones
From an original theme by:
Ron Grainer
Designer:
Roger Andrews
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Albert:
Wilfrid Brambell
Harold:
Harry H. Corbett
Mr. Stacey:
Robert Dorning
[Actor]:
Lane Meddick
[Actor]:
Edwin Brown
[Actor]:
Bill Maxam
[Actor]:
Stan Simmons
[Actor]:
Charles Bird

A Man Called Ironside - criminal investigator extraordinary
A new film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det.-Sgt. Brown, Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield
and Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
with guest stars, Jack Kelly, Antoinette Bower, Gene Nelson

Accidental death - or murder?

Contributors

Robert Ironside:
Raymond Burr
Det.-Sgt. Brown:
Don Galloway
Officer Eve Whitfield:
Barbara Anderson
Mark Sanger:
Don Mitchell
Johnny Corman:
Jack Kelly
Andra Bellingham:
Antoinette Bower
Andy Sheldon:
Gene Nelson

The film this Sunday stars Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew
with Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney.
From the novel by Rudyard Kipling.

A young boy gradually realises that life as a cabin boy can be more fun than being a millionaire's son.

Contributors

Screenplay:
John Lee Mahin
Screenplay:
Marc Connelly
Screenplay:
Dale Van Every
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Director:
Victor Fleming
Producer:
Louis D. Lighton
Manuel:
Spencer Tracy
Harvey:
Freddie Bartholomew
Disco:
Lionel Barrymore
Mr. Cheyne:
Melvyn Douglas
Dan:
Mickey Rooney
Uncle Salters:
Charley Grapewin
Long Jack:
John Carradine
Cushman:
Oscar O'Shea

A series of music and arts features.

A programme to mark the tercentenary of the birth of Jonathan Swift.

A reconstruction of a dinner party that took place on All Fools' Day, 1714. The conversation is based on letters and manuscripts concerning an unfinished work, Martin Scriblerus, which was to be the inspiration for Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels.

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
John Wells
Designer:
Peter Kindred
Director:
Anthony Wilkinson
Jonathan Swift:
Derek Francis
Alexander Pope:
Timothy Bateson
Dr. Arbuthnot:
Colin Douglas
John Gay:
Nicholas Smith
Queen Anne:
Beatrice Greeke
A Doctor:
Harry Hutchinson

BBC One London

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