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Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Your Garden
Frances Perry shows how Christmas decorations can be gathered from gardens and hedgerows.

Home Nursing
A doctor and a Nursing Sister of the British Red Cross Society, with the help of the Casualties Union, show how to nurse patients with gastric complaints.

Something for Christmas
Dress accessories selected by Bettie Spurling.

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Item presenter (Your Garden):
Frances Perry
Expert (Home Nursing):
A doctor [name uncredited]
Expert (Home Nursing):
A Nursing Sister of the British Red Cross Society [name uncredited]
Dress accessories selected by (Something for Christmas):
Bettie Spurling
Edited and produced by:
S. E. Reynolds

Children's Newsreel

Jan and his Clogs
A St. Nicholas Eve play for younger children by Antonia Ridge.
(Beckett Bould is appearing in 'The Young Elizabeth' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

(to 18.10)

Contributors

Writer (Jan and his Clogs):
Antonia Ridge
Settings (Jan and his Clogs):
Richard Henry
Producer (Jan and his Clogs):
Joy Harington
A Dutchman:
Gerik Schjelderup
Jan:
Bobby Scroggins
Mina, his sister:
Jill Coates
Kees, his brother:
Jimmy Verner
Mother:
Dorothy Primrose
Tanta:
Hope Kerr
St. Nicholas:
Beckett Bould
Black Piet:
Erol John

An opera in five acts by Charles Gounod.
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(Anna Pollak, Sheila Rex, and Charles Mackerras appear by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; John Lanigan and Michael Langdon appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
Another performance next Monday

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Gounod
Faust:
John Lanigan
Mephistopheles:
Michael Langdon
Siebel:
Anna Pollak
Martha:
Sheila Rex

A fortnightly programme in which a panel of experts is challenged to identify a series of unusual objects.
The Experts: who include
James Laver, Keeper of Engraving, Illustration, and Design, at Victoria and Albert Museum
and Harcourt Williams
v.
The Challenger: The London Museum
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Ph.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Contributors

Expert:
James Laver
Expert:
Harcourt Williams
Chairman:
Glyn Daniel
Presented by:
Paul Johnstone

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