(Previously televised on Wednesday and Thursday)
Hoghton Tower, the house on the spur of a hill is the subject of this film. Built by Thomas Hoghton in the sixteenth century on land granted to the de Hoghton family by William the Conqueror, the house still stands today almost unchanged by succeeding generations, a prized example of the early renaissance style.
(Previously televised on April 3)
A BBC telerecording of part of the racing at Silverstone on July 18.
(to 16.30 app.)
All About Animals
George Cansdale brings to the studio some members of the monkey family.
From the 1953 Radio Exhibition
Children's Newsreel
Fighting with Kit Carson
More adventures in this serial film.
People in the news challenge the newshawks,
Pat Kirkwood, Helen Cherry, Michael Pertwee and a guest.
Peter West is in the chair.
('Guess My Story' is from an idea by William Taylor)
A programme about the well-known and the unexpected uses of a wonder material. How is it made? How strong is it? How far can a nylon stocking be stretched? These and other questions are answered by experts in tonight's programme which ends with a parade of fashions ranging from ski-suits to Coronation robes.
[Starring] Andrew Osborn and Ellen Pollock
A play by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Adapted for television by Arthur Goring and Derek Blomfield.
The storyteller, Henry Oscar
(Ellen Pollock is appearing in the Donald Wolfe season of plays at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith)
Austin Gilroy is sceptical when introduced by his old friend Wilson to a strange crippled woman, Miss Penelosa, who is said to have hypnotic powers. But while protesting his independence of will, Gilroy finds himself doing exactly what she tells him to do. He eventually discovers, to his horror, that she has fallen in love with him and that she is jealous of his fiancee, Agatha Marden. What will he find himself compelled to do now?
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