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Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Beauty Hint
Joane Edmunds recommends exercises for reducing the waistline.

Enquiry into...: Pressure Cooking: 1
Marguerite Patten, in the first of four weekly programmes, examines the principles of pressure cooking and shows the correct way to use pressure cookers.

Sizing Clothes
Joan Robins explains the system prepared by the British Standards Institution to ensure an individual fit in ready-made clothes for women and children.

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

(to 16.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Item presenter (Beauty Hint):
Joane Edmunds
Cook (Enquiry into...):
Marguerite Patten
Item presenter (Sizing Clothes):
Joan Robins
Reporter (Round the Shops):
Margot Lovell
Edited and produced by:
S. E. Reynolds

A play by Priscilla Ussher.
Second performance: next Sunday

(to 18.30)

Contributors

Writer:
Priscilla Ussher
Settings:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Mrs. Spencer:
Barbara Cavan
Her children - Susan:
Victoria Smith Wright
Her children - Patty:
Margaret McCourt
Her children - Wing:
Robin Green
Aunt Clara:
Janet Barrow
Doctor Martin:
John Stuart
Primrose:
Grace Rigby
Joey:
Thomas Moore
Mrs. Smithers:
Patience Collier
Inspector Collar:
Frederic Gordon
Maitland:
A Cat

Judged by Gilbert Harding with Leslie Mitchell and Franklin Engelmann interrogating the defendants and witnesses.
One of the three defendants is not who he says he is and with his witness, has pre-fabricated his evidence. It is for viewers and jury of twelve from the audience in the Playhouse Theatre to decide which is giving the false evidence.

Contributors

Judge:
Gilbert Harding
Interrogator:
Leslie Mitchell
Interrogator:
Franklin Engelmann
Clerk of the Court:
Oliver Burt
Devised by:
Ian C. Messiter
Presented for television by:
Michael Henderson

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More