Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Gardening
Fred Streeter suggests work to be done during January.

Choosing Meat: 1 - Beef
F. R. Gerrard of the College of Food Technology, Smithfield, gives the first of a series of fortnightly programmes showing the various joints and cuts of meat. Marguerite Patten shows how to cook some of the less familiar cuts.

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

Children's Newsreel

The Magic Circle
This afternoon at the head-quarters of the Magic Circle in the Hearts of Oak building, London, the magicians are giving a children's party.
The entertainers are: Len Carver, Allen Benbow, Percy Press, Ernest Castro, Fredde Wray and Christopher
Your host is Francis White, Secretary of the Magic Circle.

(to 17.55)

A play by C.E. Webber.
[Starring] John Slater
(Second performance; for details see Sunday at 8.0 p.m.)

A fortnightly programme in which a panel of experts is challenged to identify a series of unusual objects.
The Experts include:
Sah Oved
Thomas Bodkin, Former Director of the Barber Institute and Professor of Fine Arts at Birmingham University
v. The Challenger: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

The Twenty-first World Table Tennis Championships are being held in this country next April. Television cameras visit the Polytechnic, London, where aspirants for the England teams are at match practice.
See 'Television Diary' on page 11

Sidney Harrison at the piano, talks about inspiration in music.

(sound only)