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It Happened to Me
Ann Davison tells how she crossed the Atlantic, alone, in a small sailing boat.
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Flowers in the Window
Patricia Matthews shows you a new idea for making window boxes.

The Young Athlete: Sprinting and Hurdling
First of three films, with instruction and commentary by Geoffrey Dyson, Chief National Coach to the A.A.A.

(to 17.45)

Contributors

Presenter (It Happened to Me):
Ann Davison
Presenter/maker (Flowers in the Window):
Patricia Matthews
Instruction/commentary (The Young Athlete):
Geoffrey Dyson

with Benny Hill introducing artists and acts new to television including The Edorics, Maggie Graham, Tom Mennard, Les Amphibious.
Guest artist, Renee Houston

Contributors

Presenter:
Benny Hill
Dancers:
The Edorics
Singer:
Maggie Graham
Entertainer:
Tom Mennard
Performers:
Les Amphibious
Guest artist/comedienne:
Renee Houston
Music directed by:
Steve Race
Producer:
Kenneth Carter

A Devon comedy by Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts.
Sir Ralph Richardson introduces an excerpt from "Yellow Sands"

Sir Barry Jackson's production presented for television by Barrie Edgar from the stage of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, before an invited audience.

Jenifer Varwell is eighty years old, and her relatives and friends gather to bring her gifts and to drink her health. Jenifer thinks, amiably but firmly, that her relations are 'a terrible poor lot'. There is her merry brother Dick, who might have been a successful man, and is still a witty one, but he is bone idle and given to drink. There is Mary, related by marriage, who is high principled but 'a bleak pattern of woman'. Mary's farmer son Arthur is stolid, and in love with Emma Major, the pretty daughter of Thomas Major, who lives nearby.
But perhaps the most difficult relative is the fire-eating Joe. He is consumed with hatred for all capitalists, among whom he reckons his Aunt Jenifer, who is certainly a wealthy woman, and one who has not ye't made her will. Joe is civil and even affectionate towards his aunt, but he will keep talking of the revolution to come. For all that, he is a good fisherman-and in love with Lydia, though he tries desperately to stifle the emotion.
Tonight's excerpt takes up the story from here.

Contributors

Author:
Eden Phillpotts
Author:
Adelaide Phillpotts
Director:
William Avenell
Settings:
Paul Shelving
Production:
Sir Barry Jackson
Presented for television by:
Barrie Edgar
Presenter:
Sir Ralph Richardson
Joe Varwell:
Alan Bridges
Lydia Blake:
Eleanore Bryan
Jenifer Varwell:
Nancie Jackson
Richard Varwell:
Redmond Phillips
Emma Major:
Ann Castle
Thomas Major:
Jack May
Minnie Masters:
Kathleen Canty
Nellie Masters:
Helena Williams
Mary Varwell:
Audrey Noble
Arthur Varwell:
Alan Edwards
Mr. Baslow:
Richard Paseo

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