The Bumblies
Some very curious creatures meet Michael Bentine for another episode in their remarkable adventures.

Children's Newsreel

Whistle for Silence
A school comedy for older children by Donald Green.
Adapted for television by Peter Ling.
The action takes place at St. Radigund's Academy for Boys
(Previously televised last Thursday)
(Thomas Conliffe appears by arrangement with Alan Hay, Ltd.)

(to 18.00)

with Lady Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon and Frankie Howerd trying to find the answers and Eamonn Andrews to see fair play.

("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and is presented by arrangement with C.B.S. of America and Maurice Winnick)
(Frankie Howerd is appearing in "Pardon my French" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)

A play by Anatole de Grunwald
[Starring] Peter Cushing, Daphne Slater and Walter Fitzgerald
The action takes place in 1816 at 13 Chapel Street, Park Lane, London; at The Stein, Brighton; in the garden of John Buckland's house in Sussex; and at Aimack's Club, London
(Second performance: Thursday at 7.15)

"Nature", said George Bryan Brummell, "must be an artist of some talent to have created me". Nobody else, of course, attributed his elegance, his arrogance, and his cynicism to Nature; for the celebrated dandy was a self-made man who, for twenty years, imposed his dress, manners, and wit upon the fashionable world. Men copied his stylish extravagances, women longed for his favour and all were, in turn, delighted and wounded by his tongue. But the pace was hot and before his inevitable downfall, this play suggests, two people at least saw beyond the brittle frivolity of his character. Brummell's chivalry towards the unfashionable Georgiana and the man who loved her may have been quixotic, but did it not disclose a melancholy yearning for another mode of life?
Here, at any rate, is the suggestion, blended with scintillating glimpses of an age devoted to cultivating the highest of high life. In Regency days, above all, the style was the man-and the man was Beau Brummell. In this production, style is in the safe-keeping of Peter Cushing as Brummell and Daphne Slater as the humble girl who makes him hesitate at the height of his triumph. These two players have already shown viewers their skill in presenting another aspect of the period in Pride and Prejudice.
(Barney Keelan)

(piano)
Chopin
Fantasy Impromptu
Study in E flat. Op. 10
Study in C sharp minor, Op. 10 Scherzo in B minor. Op. 20
Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu, as all pianists are aware, is a most Attractive piece, though its quick opening section is apt to prove a stumbling-block for unskilled fingers. The middle section brings a slow, lyrical melody which a few years ago was used as the basis of a popular song.
Of the two Studies from the first book, the one in E fiat features widely spread chords with rich, kaleidoscopic harmonics; that in C sharp minor is brilliant and impassioned.
It was when he was in his early twenties, and soon after he had left Poland, that Chopin composed his Scherzo in B minor. Not long before, he had received news of the revolt in Warsaw, and there can be no doubt that in this tempestuous Scherzo he gave vent to his feelings; in the middle section, which forms such a striking contrast to the rest of the work, he introduced a Polish Christmas carol 'Sleep, little Jesus, sleep'.
(Harold Rutland)

Arnold Aldis, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., Assistant Director of Surgery in the Welsh National School of Medicine, talks about man as a machine and as a living spirit.
A film excerpt incorporates sequences taken from the film 'Dust or Destiny'.

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