A film travel story set in Switzerland.
(to 16.15)
Tai Lu Talking
The second episode of a new series about the travels of a magic Siamese cat.
Devised and told by Shelagh Fraser and Billy Thatcher.
Peter's Troubles
[Starring] Peter Butterworth
Railways
Maxwell Taylor tells you something about goods trains and marshalling yards, and how they work.
(to 17.35)
Impressions of people and opinions in the United States of America.
Compiled and presented by Aidan Crawley.
Aidan Crawley has just returned from a three-months filming tour of the United States during which he visited parts of the East Coast, the South, and the Middle West. In this series of programmes he presents the people he met, and through them a picture of America today.
[Starring] Bobby Howes and Sally Ann Howes in excerpts from the musical play
with Ken Cantril.
with full cast and singing and dancing ensembles.
A special performance before an invited audience, from Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
(By arrangement with Jack Hylton)
This is the gay and tuneful story of love in the gold-rush. Ben Rumson stumbles on a seam of gold and soon a town springs to life nearby. It is a town of men: Ben's daughter Jennifer is the only woman in the place. From a wide field she chooses the Mexican Julio, and the course of her love is rough indeed, especially since the gold seems to be running out...
(under the auspices of the Amateur Boxing Association)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Robert Burns's cantata set to music for four solo voices string quartet and piano by Cedric Thorpe Davie.
The Saltire Singers: Margaret Fraser (soprano), Constance Mullay (contralto),
Duncan Robertson (tenor), Frederick Westcott (bass-baritone)
The Lyra Quartet: Granville Casey (violin), John Crossan (violin), John Linn (viola),
John Mcnulty (cello)
Cedric Thorpe Davie at the piano
Introduced by Maurice Lindsay.
(sound only)