Introduced by Daphne Padet.

Your Records
Spike Hughes reviews the recently published 'Record Guide' by Edward Sackville-West and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, and tells the story of several remarkable records owned by the BBC.

Mime
Cilli Wang, the celebrated Dutch dancer and impressionist, in: The Chambermaid
Marianka, The Owl Chick.

Sunday in the Country
Daphne Padel visits Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury.

Pearls
Jeanne Heal examines the history of pearls-real, cultured, and artificial.

(to 16.00)

An Arabian Nights tale.
Written and produced by Rex Tucker.
The action takes place in the Palace of Haroun-al-Raschid, the Caliph of Baghdad, about A.D. 800.
To be repeated next Sunday

(to 18.15)

Television cameras tour London's ancient citadel, and the Resident Governor of the Tower, Colonel Carkeet-James, tells some of the stories that make up the grim history of this vast fortress, for many centuries part royal palace and part prison.

by Miles Malleson.
A new adaptation of the play by Ivan Turgenev.
(Second performance: for details see Sunday at 8.25)

(Wednesday's edition repeated)

(sound only)