Muffin the Mule
with Annette Mills (who writes the songs) and Ann Hogarth (who pulls the strings).
Children's Newsreel
Stranger in the House
A play by Eileen Blackburn.
(Previously televised last Thursday)
(to 18.05)
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)
From the play "Nationale 6" by Jean-Jacques Bernard
Adapted for television by Alfred Shaughnessy
[Starring] Josephine Griffin, Wilfrid Lawson, Ellen Pollock, Bryan Forbes, Peter Cushing
The action takes place in the living room of a little house in Burgundy on Nationale 6, one of the French main roads.
Time: The Present.
(Second performance: Thursday at 7.30)
From the window of a little house in France a young girl watches the cars flash by on Route Nationale 6; some are headed south for Marseilles, and thence for Africa and India; others roar north-wards on their way to Paris.
For Francine and her loving father, Michel, the little window facing the road teems like a gateway to a land of dreams... They share the secret belief that one day the road will bring some handsome traveller to the little house and love into the young girl's empty life.
A sudden fall of rain, a gust of wind, and the door blows open to reveal a young man on the threshold, Francine and her father sense that a dream has come true. Robert, a young painter, is journeying to Nice with his father, a distinguished novelist; their car has skidded into a ditch and they are stranded.
Antoine Vanier, now weary of travel and searching for the peace of mind and happiness that has always eluded him, finds it in a gentle, simple family circle. Robert, cultured, much travelled, and with a heart as young as springtime, settles down to paint the virgin beauty of Francine's features. A brief interlude of romance and happiness causes Francine to ask her father: 'Is it really happening or is it all a dream from which one must awake to reality? The play gives the answer.
(Alfred Shaughnessy)
"This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him".
The Rev. E. H. Robertson examines the well-known story from the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. John.
On Tuesday Her Majesty the Queen with H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh begins a seven-day State Visit to Scotland.
This programme explains the setting and details of the events to be televised this week.
(sound only)
