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Introduced by Jeanne Heal.

I'd like you to meet...: Dulcie Gray

Discussion
Lilian Charlesworth, adviser to the Cinema Consultative Committee, discusses films suitable for children.

Sculpture
Looking at a carved bone Madonna and Child in detail with the aid of film and photographs.

Music
Antony Hopkins plays some of his own compositions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanne Heal
Speaker (I'd like you to meet...):
Dulcie Gray
Item presenter (Discussion):
Lilian Charlesworth
Pianist (Music):
Antony Hopkins
Editor:
Jacqueline Kennish
Producer:
S. E. Reynolds

Teddy Bears
Barrie Edgar visits a factory at Harborne, Birmingham, to see how teddy bears are made.

Huckleberry Finn: 7: Back to the River
by Mark Twain.
Adapted for television as a serial play in seven parts by W. S. Merwin.
The action takes place at the Phelps' sawmill and in the surrounding district.
(Jeremy Spenser is appearing in "The Innocents" at Her Majesty's Theatre; Megs Jenkins in "The Gay Dog" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London; Noel Dyson appears by permission of the Old Vic Trust)

(to 18.15)

Contributors

Presenter (Teddy Bears):
Barrie Edgar
Producer (Teddy Bears):
John Vernon
Author (Huckleberry Finn):
Mark Twain
Adapter (Huckleberry Finn):
W. S. Merwin
Producer (Huckleberry Finn):
Vivian Milroy
Dialect adviser (Huckleberry Finn):
Eva Jessye
Assistant producer (Huckleberry Finn):
Shaun Sutton
Settings (Huckleberry Finn):
Stephen Taylor
Huckleberry Finn:
Colin Campbell
'Jim':
Orlando Martins
Tom Sawyer:
Jeremy Spenser
Nat:
John Harrison
Silas Phelps:
Kynaston Reeves
Aunt Sally:
Megs Jenkins
A doctor:
Sidney Vivian
Aunt Polly:
Noel Dyson
Farmer Thomas Palmer:
Denis McCarthy
Neighbour:
Joyce Wren
Neighbour:
Billy Whitelaw

A comedy by Jean Cocteau.
Translated by Peter Watts.
[Starring] Sonia Dresdel and Ian Hunter

The action takes place in Esther's dressing-room at her theatre, and in the house of Esther and Florent at Chatou, on the outskirts of Paris.
Eric Keown writes on page 45

Contributors

Author:
Jean Cocteau
Translated by:
Peter Watts
Producer:
Stephen Harrison
Settings designer:
Michael Yates
Esther:
Sonia Dresdel
Loulou, her dresser:
May Hallatt
Liane:
Diana Calderwood
Charlotte de Cauville:
Ann Codrington
Florent:
Ian Hunter
Announcer:
David Peel
Old lady:
Edie Martin

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