Children's Newsreel

5.10 Eyes and Hands
R.G. Broadhurst continues his talks on working with plaster.

5.25-6.5 The Twelfth Brother
A play by P.D. Cummins.
(Ernest Clark is appearing in "The Hollow" at the Ambassadors Theatre, London)

Richard Dimbleby recalls events from last week's Television Newsreels.

by Ted Kavanagh with additional dialogue by David Croft.
(Ian Carmichael is appearing in the Lyric Revue at the Globe Theatre)

by Frederick Knott.
(Second performance: Thursday at 7.30)

[Photo caption] Emrys Jones, Elizabeth Sellars and Raymond Huntley in "Dial 'M' for Murder"

The essence of tactics is, they say, surprise. And what's the essential quality of a thriller? Why, this same surprise. And that ties my hands in a pretty tight knot when it comes to introducing Dial 'M' For Murder, which is one long series of adroit tactical twists. Frederick Knott has taken a story of jealousy and put an uncommon number of angles into the old eternal triangle.
Here in a London flat live Tony Wendice, an ex-lawn-tennis champion, and his wife Sheila. Ostensibly, they are a couple as happy as they are charming. But Sheila has had a love affair with one Max, who has been in America for the last year and is now returned; and, although she thinks it is a secret, husband Tony has known about it for a long time. Thereafter, the plot (as we used to say) thickens: indeed, it positively coagulates, and our blood ought to curdle, from time to time, with it.
An anonymous blackmailer has come on the scene - who? And what should happen if someone plans revenge? There arrives a shady accomplice: intricate murder plots are laid: but which Cock Robin is it that is to die? And are the police to be fooled for ever? Dial 'M' For Murder pursues a devious and maze-like way, with blind alleys to pull us up sharp, and sudden diversions to keep us going. The dumbest man at detection in the world, yet hazard a word of advice: watch that business of the Front Door Key! For it might be the key to the denouement.
(Lionel Hale)

(sound only)