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At the ruined Tantallon Castle high over the sea by the Firth of Forth, fulmars nest and go gliding and wheeling over the battlements. In this programme television cameras take you right up to their nests, and an expert, Henry Douglas Home, tells you about them.

Her Majesty the Queen names the new Royal Yacht.
(A BBC telerecording of the programme on April 16)

(to 17.45)

Contributors

Presenter (Seabirds of Tantallon):
Henry Douglas Home
Producer:
James Buchan

An entertainment magazine.
Introduced by McDonald Hobley.

Seven Wishes in View
A celebrity's birthday treat.

Lind Joyce

Ronnie Waldman's Puzzle Corner
Including the Deliberate Mistake
This week's viewer competitor from Banbury.

Gary Miller

Wilfred Babbage introduces:
The Strange Case: 3: A Cigar for the Corpse
by Julian Ward.

Stringing a Thread of Tunes
A new angle on some old song favourites.

Viewers who live in Banbury, Oxon, are invited to place this issue of Radio Times in their windows from noon today if they wish to offer themselves as the competitor in tonight's "Puzzle Corner".

Contributors

Presenter:
McDonald Hobley
Singer:
Lind Joyce
Presenter (Puzzle Corner):
Ronnie Waldman
Singer:
Gary Miller
Item presenter (The Strange Case):
Wilfred Babbage
Writer (The Strange Case):
Julian Ward
Dancer:
Joan Harris
Dancer:
Patricia Garnett
Dancer:
Moira Tucker
Dancer:
Leon Bedryski
Dancer:
Don Gillies
Choreography:
Alan Carter
Orchestra conducted by:
Frank Cordell
Script:
Dennis Castle
Design:
John Clements
Production:
Douglas Moodle

A visit to the Special Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London.
Sir Gerald Kelly, P.R.A., takes viewers round the galleries and discusses some of the pictures with Sir Owen Morshead, Librarian of Windsor Castle, and Sir James Mann, Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sir Gerald Kelly, P.R.A.
Speaker:
Sir Owen Morshead
Speaker:
Sir James Mann
Presented by:
Bill Duncalf

BBC Television

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