This week showmen and their puppets from all parts of the country and abroad will be congregating in London for the annual exhibition of the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild. Today they combine forces to present an all-star Puppet Parade. The programme includes a "Puppet Picture Page" with its own puppet compere introducing figures of special interest and their manipulators.

A film for children.
(to 16.00)

by Jean Cocteau.
Translated by Carl Wildman.
Adapted and produced by Royston Morley.
[Starring] Marie Ney and Ernest Milton

'The Infernal Machine' is an experimental play of the modern French theatre which re-tells the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus, the tragic son of a king, who was fated by the gods to murder his father and marry his mother. The play is set in and near the city of Thebes in Boeotia, about two thousand years ago.

(sound only)
(to 22.15)