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Make Yourself at Home
For viewers from Pakistan and India.
Including: Look, Listen, and Speak: Lesson 50
From the Midlands
(Repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 p.m.)

'Look, Listen, and Speak' Book 4 (orange 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 6s. (by post 6s. 8d.: crossed postal order, please, not stamps)
(to 9.25)

Contributors

Scriptwriter (Look, Listen, and Speak):
Viola Huggins
Teacher (Look, Listen, and Speak):
Robert Chapman
Assisted by (Look, Listen, and Speak):
Sheila Dillon-Guy

in connection with the Third Test Match.
From St. Mary and St. Ambrose, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Conducted by The Rev. A.T.L. Doyle
Assisted by The Ven. V.S. Nicholls, Archdeacon of Birmingham
Sermon preached by The Rt. Rev. D.B. Porter, Bishop of Aston
Colin Cowdrey, England's Test skipper, reads the lesson in this morning Sportsmen's Service.
(to 11.30)

Contributors

Service conducted by:
The Rev. A.T.L. Doyle
Assisted by:
The Ven. V.S. Nicholls
Sermon preacher:
The Rt. Rev. D.B. Porter
Organist and choirmaster:
Malcolm Jones
Presented for television by:
Reg Perrin
Reader:
Colin Cowdrey

Introduced by David Richardson.

John Cherrington visits the Whitfield Estate in Herefordshire to see Intensive beef rearing off grass, and examines its economic potential.
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers

Contributors

Presenter:
David Richardson
Item presenter (Beef from Grass):
John Cherrington
Director:
Michael Marshall
Producer:
John Kenyon

The Twenty-Second International Musical Eisteddfod
As the singers and dancers depart, this programme looks back upon the week in Llangollen to recapture the unique atmosphere of the Festival.
Introduced by Alun Williams.

Contributors

Presenter (Llangollen):
Alun Williams
Music associate (Llangollen):
Alwyn Jones
Director (Llangollen):
David Richards
Director (Llangollen):
Rhydderch Jones
Producer (Llangollen):
Jack Williams

A new series of romantic feature films.
Today: So Big
Starring Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden
with Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson

This Edna Ferber story spans a period of thirty years and is set against the background of a struggling American farming community. It tells of a widowed mother's love and devotion for her only son.

Contributors

Director:
Robert Wise
Producer:
Henry Blanks
Script:
John Twist
Based on a novel by:
Edna Ferber
Music:
Max Steiner
Selina DeJong:
Jane Wyman
Pervus DeJong:
Sterling Hayden
Dallas O'Mara:
Nancy Olson
Dirk DeJong:
Steve Forrest
Julie Hempel:
Elisabeth Fraser
Paula Hempel:
Martha Hyer

A serial in four parts by Rex Tucker.
Belwether and Lamb have begun a dangerous attempt to break into the warehouse hiding the revolutionary new submarine boat with which the French mean to destroy the British Fleet.

Contributors

Writer:
Rex Tucker
Music composed and conducted by:
Dudley Simpson
Designer:
Norman Vertigan
Producer:
John McRae
Director:
Michael Ferguson
Lieut. Simon Lamb, R.N.:
Paul Grist
Capt. Julius Belwether, R.N.:
Jonathan Adams
Robert Fulton:
Robert Cawdron
Interpreter:
Alan Downer
French Captain:
Moris Farhi

With the Toad Choir of young people and their friends from Greenock.
Introduced by Murdoch McPherson.
From Scotland

All people that on earth do dwell (Tune, Old 100th)
Lo he comes with clouds descending (Tune, Helmsley)
Benedictus (from Festival Matins) (Donald Swann)
O come let us sing to the Lord (Tune, Bon Accord)
Go down, Moses (arr. Gordon Jacob)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord (Tune Visdon)
Crown him with many crowns (Malcolm Williamson)
Come let us to the Lord our God (Tune, Kedron)
Christe, Adoramus Te (Motet Claudio Monteverdi)
O Christ is made the sure foundation (Tune, Westminster Abbey)

Contributors

Presenter:
Murdoch McPherson
Singers:
The Toad Choir
Conductor:
Ian McCrorie
Organist:
John Bell
Pianist:
Olive McCrorie
Producer:
Ronald Falconer

Written by Charlie Drake
Starring Charlie Drake
with Henry McGee, Trisha Noble, The Satin Bells, Peter Gordeno, The George Mitchell Singers, The Show Dancers, Doremy Vernon, Christine Blair

Contributors

Writer:
Charlie Drake
Musical director:
Harry Rabinowitz
Choreography:
Peter Gordeno
Designer:
John Burrowes
Producer:
Ernest Maxin
Comedian:
Charlie Drake
[Actor]:
Henry McGee
Singer:
Trisha Noble
Singers:
The Satin Bells
Dancer:
Peter Gordeno
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Dancer:
Doremy Vernon
Dancer:
Christine Blair

A crime series.
This week: Colin Blakely as Jeffrey Farnol's Jasper Shrig assists in "The High Adventure"
Dramatised by Hugh Whitemore
Also starring Isobel Black, Simon Oates

Jeremy Veryan, heir to the estates of Veryan, leaves his guardian's house and goes in search of "The High Adventure". Mysteriously he is struck down by an unknown assailant. Jasper Shrig, a Bow Street Runner, dedicated to the pursuit of "Windictiveness" in all its manifestations, hears of this assault and comes to his assistance. Together they set out to track down not only the threat hanging over Jeremy but also the shadow that darkens his childhood - the mystery of his parents' death.
In this romantic Regency adventure, the part of Jasper Shrig is played by Colin Blakely, of the National Theatre Company.

(Colin Blakely is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Author:
Jeffrey Farnol
Dramatised by:
Hugh Whitemore
Script Editor:
Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Designer:
Richard Henry
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
William Slater
Jeremy Veryan:
Mike Lewin
Sir James Trevor:
Kenneth Benda
Terence O'Leary:
Simon Oates
Mr. Gillespie:
Sydney Arnold
Jasper Shrig:
Colin Blakely
Olivia Revell:
Isobel Black
Richard Armadale:
Michael Latimer
Gaston de Ravenac:
Otis E. Mason
Corporal Dick:
Geoffrey Morris
Ben Holt:
Yuri Borienko
Lord Julian Midmarsh:
Larry Aubrey
Pompey:
Roy Stewart
Timekeeper:
B.H. Barry

A season of films starring Bob Hope.
This week: Monsieur Beaucaire
with Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles
Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington.

The hilarious adventures of a fumbling barber who finds himself involved in Royal intrigue at the court of King Louis XV of France.

Contributors

Screenplay by:
Melvin Frank
Screenplay by:
Norman Panama
Based on the novel by:
Booth Tarkington
Director:
George Marshall
Producer:
Paul Jones
Monsieur Beaucaire:
Bob Hope
MiMi:
Joan Caulfield
Due de Chandre:
Patric Knowles
Princess Maria:
Marjorie Reynolds
King Louis XV:
Reginald Owen
Count d'Amand:
Cecil Kellaway
Don Francisco:
Joseph Schildkraut
Madame Pompadour:
Hillary Brooke
The Queen:
Constance Collier
King Philip:
Howard Freeman
Don Carlos:
Fortunio Bonanova

Robert Robinson, Grace Wyndham Goldie, David Daiches and Anthony Blond look at the television programmes of the past week.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Panellist:
Grace Wyndham Goldie
Panellist:
David Daiches
Panellist:
Anthony Blond
Director:
Richard Evans

BBC One London

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