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The bed-sitting room often used to be a cheerless place, dingy and drab, with its gas ring, few chairs and creaky bed. Clever furniture design has changed all that, and tonight television visits the Homes and Gardens Pavilion at the South Bank Exhibition to see three outstanding examples of modern, attractive bed-sitting rooms.

Contributors

Commentator:
W. Gordon Duncalf

A fortnightly survey of the traditional dishes for which Britain is famous.
Whitebait, the fry of the herring sprat caught off the Essex coast, has been a London delicacy for centuries. Jellied eels, cockles, winkles, and shrimps are eaten in many parts of England.
Philip Harben shows how whitebait should be cooked and recommends different ways of preparing seafood for the table.

Contributors

Cook:
Philip Harben
Producer:
S. E. Reynolds

BBC Television

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