Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Gas
Eileen Murphy, Home Service Officer for the Gas Council, shows some recent appliances.

A Bird for Christmas
R. J. Williams explains how to select and fatten a cockerel for the Christmas dinner.

Round the Shops
Margot Lovell reports.

For the very young
Charles E. Stidwill tells the story.
Sam Williams and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.15)

Children's Newsreel

Hurrah for Halloween
A play by Dorothy Worsley.
On Hallowe'en, October 31, the witches hold their Annual Banquet and the air is filled with broomsticks bound for conferences round cauldrons. This was the date King Cole of Cornucopia chose to hold a christening party. He invited all the witches and the fairies in his kingdom. They all tried to outdo each other with their party tricks. The fun was fast - and just a bit furious. Then something went wrong. How disaster was averted by the timely arrival of an American fairy with a practical turn of mind is told in this unusual comedy.

(to 17.45)

(Second performance; for details see Sunday at 8.30 p.m.)

Dances, songs, and stories from the West of England.
Dancing to The Jolly Waggoners' Square Dance Band
Caller, Nibs Matthews
with interludes from Pat Shaw, John Runge, Douglas Horner.
Master of Ceremonies, Bernard Fishwick
Televised from a Square Dance Party in Bristol.
(Nibs Matthews appears by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society)

with Pearl Hackney, Deryck Guyler, Sara Gregory, Nicholas Parsons and featuring Elton Hayes with his 'small guitar'.
Ronald Boyer and Jeanne Ravel in their own dance fantasies.

(sound only)