Introduced by Jeanne Heal.

I'd like you to meet...
Lorraine Senaratne, Honorary Secretary of the Women's Institutes of Ceylon.

New Year
Verity Anderson considers the New Year prospects and devises a new form of diary.

Music
Ian Wallace tells and sings the story of some of has adventures as an opera-singer. He is accompanied at the piano by Alexa Maxwell.

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.15)

A Castle and Sixpence: 1: Fancy is Mechanised
A serial in six parts from the story by Margaret J. Baker.
Adapted and produced for television by Dorothea Brooking.

When this new serial begins the Martingale children are living in London - and not liking it very much. They are not very well off and their mother has to work very hard at writing stories in order to pay the bills and the school fees. And London is so crowded that they have a hard job finding space in which to keep Fancy, the old horse they have bought to prevent its being destroyed.
Then, suddenly, things take a decided turn for the better. The Martingales find that an elderly aunt has left them a castle - and a great many cats! That explains part of the title. You will have to find out for yourselves what the 'sixpence' part means in Children's Television.

Toys on Parade
A preview of the Harrogate Toy Fair showing some of the toys that can be seen in the shops during 1954.
Your guide, Raymond Baxter

(to 17.50)

A comedy by John van Druten.
[Starring] Margaret Johnston and Robert Beatty

With Bernard Braden in charge of The Name-hunters: Brenda Bruce, Frank Muir, Denis Norden and a guest.
('The Name's the Same' is devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and is presented by arrangement with Maurice Winnick)

(sound only)