Big Ben's Birthday
Cliff Michelmore tells you the story of Big Ben and the great clock at Westminster, which started its service ninety-four years ago to-day.

Children's Newsreel

Skippy Smith goes to the Circus
A schoolboy adventure story by Vera Cook.
(Previously televised last Thursday)

(to 18.00)

Richard Dimbleby and Berkeley Smith explain the pattern and some of the details of Tuesday's Coronation broadcast.

from the Empire Theatre, Shepherds Bush.
with Ghislaine Alexander, Elizabeth Allan, Jerry Desmonde, Gilbert Harding trying to find the answers and Eamonn Andrews to see fair play.
("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and is presented by arrangement with C.B.S. of America and Maurice Winnick)

(Jerry Desmonde is appearing in 'Redheaded Blonde' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

A television play by Michael Barry and Charles Terrot.
From Charles Terrot's novel "Miss Nightingale's Ladies"
[Starring] Maureen Pryor, John Gregson, Rachel Gurney, Betty Cooper

The story is based on the diary of Miss Sarah Anne Terror who was one of the thirty-eight women to accompany Miss Florence Nightingale to the Crimea in 1854. The principle characters are the nurses and doctors who fought to make her venture a success. Their names may be unfamiliar, but in their different ways they possessed the qualities of true greatness.

(John Gregson appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.; Anthony Nicholls by permission of the Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd.)

(Second performance: Thursday at 7.0)

The Rev. L. M. Charles-Edwards, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, speaks of what the Queen's Coronation can mean for everyone, and asks you to join him in prayer as Her Majesty prepares for this supreme Act of Dedication.

An announcement by the Rt. Hon. David Eccles M.P., Minister of Works.
(Recording of the broadcast in the Home Service at 1.10 p.m.)
(Sound only)