(to 12.00)

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

News
Joan Gilbert presents a news item of special interest to women.

Music
Olive Zorian plays the violin.

Embroidery
An exhibition showing experiments in embroidery design, arranged by the Arts Council of Great Britain and now touring the country.
Mary Kessel explains how she makes her designs and Frances Beal shows how she carries them out on a sewing machine.

Baby Welfare
The matron of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital offers more practical advice to young mothers.

Television Bookshelf
John Gloag reviews some recent books.

Round the Shops
Margot Lovell reports on what she thinks will interest you in the shops this week.

(to 16.00)

A monthly programme on the art of ballet devised for younger viewers.
(to 17.30)

[Starring] Dolores Gray
with Charles Trenet, Roger Baurieux and his Monseigneur Violins, Violette Verdy, Violette Schmitt and the Bluebell Girls.
A series of films made specially for television by Telefilms, Paris, and directed by John Nasht.

by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade F.R.S.
The Royal Institution's annual series of Christmas Lectures have been given this year by Professor Andrade, whose subject has been 'Waves and Vibrations'.
Tonight he is giving an additional lecture, especially for television, before an audience of schoolchildren in the Royal Institution lecture theatre in London.

During 1950 more than six hundred items have been edited in the Television Newsreel film cutting-rooms - stories from home and abroad shot by our cameramen on land, at sea, and in the air.
A selection of some of the more dramatic and historic of these is shown in tonight's film.
(Second performance of the programme televised on Sunday, December 31)

(Repeat of Wednesday's edition)

(sound only)
(to 23.00)