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Selections from a new book of songs and hymns for worship
with Susan Longfield, Malcolm Stewart, Fran Tillinghast and Peter Baldwin, George Webb.

From the Church of All Hallows, London Wall

(to 11.30)

Contributors

Guest:
Susan Longfield
Guest:
Malcolm Stewart
Singer:
Fran Tillinghast
Singer:
Peter Baldwin
Singer:
George Webb
Accompanist:
Michael Jessett
Accompanist:
Patrick Harvey
Producer:
R.T. Brooks

Introduced by Henry Fell

The Meat and Livestock Commission is aiming to improve breeding stock, but pedigree breeders are dissatisfied. Frank Taylor visits a testing station and talks to breeders.
From the Midlands
Followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 13.50)

Contributors

Presenter:
Henry Fell
Reporter:
Frank Taylor
Producer:
John Kenyon

The last of ten programmes designed to help yachtsmen get more pleasure from their sport

If you have yet to make your first foreign voyage you can get a good idea of what it will involve aboard the cruiser Peter Pan as she sails from Cowes to Cherbourg.
Introduced by Alec Miller
First shown on BBC-2
For publication see facing page

Contributors

Presenter:
Alec Miller
Producer:
Brenda Horsfield

A film series about animals by Eugen Schuhmacher
Commentary by Peter Scott

In Japan cranes are sacred birds, and for hundreds of years they have appeared in Japanese art. The rarest of them is the Manchurian Crane of which only about 150 still survive in the wild today.

From the South and West

Contributors

Director:
Eugen Schuhmacher
Narrator:
Peter Scott
Presented by:
Nicholas Crocker

Stuart Burrows with Margaret Neville, The Richard Williams Singers
and The Gentlemen Songsters
Chorus-Master, Richard Williams
A section of the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, John Bacon
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
invite you to join them and the audience at the Paget Rooms, Penarth, to sing some of the songs that will live long in the memory
Introduced by Ronnie Williams

Contributors

Singer:
Stuart Burrows
Singer:
Margaret Neville
Singers:
The Richard Williams Singers
Singers:
The Gentlemen Songsters
Chorus-Master:
Richard Williams
Musicians:
A section of the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
John Bacon
Orchestra conducted by:
Rae Jenkins
Presenter:
Ronnie Williams
Arranged by:
J. Alwyn Jones
Director:
Hywel Williams

Starring Barry Fitzgerald
with Tony Wright, June Thorburn

A television reporter discovers the oldest man in the world in a small Irish village but his plans for a programme soon go hilariously awry.
One of the last appearances of the late Barry Fitzgerald, for so long Hollywood's typification of Irish lovability. The screenplay derives from a play by Hugh Leonard, nowadays a very familiar name in television, and the supporting cast was recruited from the company at the Dublin Abbey Theatre.

Contributors

Screenplay:
Patrick Kirwan
Screenplay:
Blanaid Irvine
Based on the play "The Big Birthday" by:
Hugh Leonard
Producer:
Alec Snowden
Director:
George Pollock
Patrick Farrell:
Barry Fitzgerald
Willie:
Harry Brogan
Randall:
Tony Wright
Silin Lehane:
June Thorburn
Martin Lehane:
Eddie Golden
Molly Lehane:
Maire Kean
Desmond Phillips:
Godfrey Quigley
Clooney (Bank Manager):
Bart Bastable

A programme in which Cliff Morgan meets young people from all over Great Britain who have unusual ways of spending their leisure time.
Among today's guests is Ronald Hutton, aged fifteen, of Angus. A champion fly-tier, he has mastered this delicate craft with a great degree of skill.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Morgan
Guest:
Ronald Hutton
Producer:
Dewi Griffiths

by Charles Dickens
Dramatised in thirteen parts by Hugh Leonard

Paul Dombey has been sent to Brighton for his health. Florence's friendship with Walter Gay has displeased Mr. Dombey.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Hugh Leonard
Script Editor:
Betty Willingale
Make-up:
Sonia Markham
Costumes:
Michael Burdle
Designer:
Allan Anson
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Joan Craft
Blimber's Footman:
Hugh Fraser
Mr. Dombey:
John Carson
Paul Dombey:
Roland Pickering
Florence Dombey:
Kara Wilson
Mrs. Pipchin:
Joan Haythorne
Dr. Blimber:
John Sharp
Mrs. Blimber:
Joan Geary
Cornelia Blimber:
Gillian Webb
Mr. Toots:
Christopher Sandford
Walter Gay:
Derek Seaton
John Carker:
David Garth
James Carker:
Gary Raymond
Mr. Feeder:
Pitt Wilkinson
Johnson:
Dominic Guard
Apothecary:
Philip Newman
Susan Nipper:
Helen Fraser
Diogenes:
null Twiggy

The third of a series of four programmes on the development of the religious life in man.
Unless religious belief results in social justice, it begins to die at the roots. Tonight's programme shows both the success and failure of religion to answer the question 'Who cares?'
After the film, Dr. Trevor Ling, a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion, will be talking to Magnus Magnusson about the issues raised.
Film commentary read by Paul Rogers
Written and produced by Peter Firth from the South and West
Repeated tonight at 11.17

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. Trevor Ling
Interviewer:
Magnus Magnusson
Narrator:
Paul Rogers
Writer/producer:
Peter Firth

from the International Camp, Porthpean
with the Cornwall Youth Brass Band
Conductors, Henry Mills and Frank E. Moore
Introduced by Hugh Scully
From the South and West

Hymns (Methodist Hymn Book):
All creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns erfreuen)
Forth in thy name (Winchester New)
We plough the fields and scatter (Wir pflugen)
When I needed a neighbour (Sydney Carter)
Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
O God of Bethel (Tallis's Ordinal)
A safe stronghold (Ein Feste Burg)
Hail to the Lord's anointed (Ellacombe)
Jesu, good above all other (Quea pastores)

Contributors

Musicians:
The Cornwall Youth Brass Band
Conductor:
Henry Mills
Conductor:
Frank E. Moore
Presenter:
Hugh Scully
Television Presentation:
John Dobson

by N.J. Crisp
Created by A.J. Cronin
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
with John Paul, Christine Finn, John Scott

When Peggy Davidson, the wife of a wealthy newspaper owner, returns to Tannochbrae, Cameron is deeply concerned. When she was last in the area, she attempted suicide. Relations with her husband are still somewhat strained and he feels that she may make another attempt.

Contributors

Writer:
N.J. Crisp
Created by:
A.J. Cronin
The series produced by arrangement with:
Graham Stewart
Script Editor:
John Maynard
Designer:
Walter Miller
Producer:
Royston Morley
Director:
Will Sterling
Peggy Davidson:
Christine Finn
Henry Davidson:
John Paul
Manservant:
Peter Bennett
Dr. Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr. Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Constable Gordon:
Roger Avon
Kingston:
John Scott
Receptionist:
Kalman Glass

The Great Stars of yesterday and today in a season of their most memorable films
Tonight: Olivia de Havilland in "To Each His Own"

An unmarried mother watches her son grow up from afar.

Contributors

Screenplay/Producer:
Charles Brackett
Screenplay:
Jacques Thery
Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Josephine Norris:
Olivia de Havilland
Lt. Gregory Pierson:
John Lund
Capt. Bart Cosgrove:
John Lund
Alex Pierson:
Phillip Terry
Corinne Pierson:
Mary Anderson
Mac Tilton:
Bill Goodwin
Lord Desham:
Roland Culver
Liz Lorimer:
Virginia Welles

A series of visits to the 75th season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Bela Dekany in a performance of
Berlioz: Symphony: Harold in Italy
with Peter Schidlof (viola)
Introduced by Derek Hart

Contributors

Orchestra conductor:
Colin Davis
Musicians:
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Bela Dekany
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Presenter:
Derek Hart
Director:
Brian Large

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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