Sylvia Sidney in a film drama set in the East side of New York.
(to 16.15)
It Happened to Me
Ann Davison tells how she crossed the Atlantic, alone, in a small sailing boat.
(Picture on page 15)
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)
Out and About in London.
See 'Television Diary' on page 15
On three occasions tonight the mobile camera goes Out and About in London. Brian Johnson talks to passers-by and you are invited to 'window-shop' with Peter Dimmock.
At 8.15, 9.30 and 10.25
The Scientific Challenge to Industry
Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, M.P., goes round the country examining the accusation that Britain is quick to invent but slow to apply new scientific ideas.
Film sequences by the BBC Television Film Unit
See 'Television Diary' on page 15
with Benny Hill introducing artists and acts new to television including The Edorics, Maggie Graham, Tom Mennard, Les Amphibious.
Guest artist, Renee Houston
with Peter Dimmock.
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.
with Brian Johnston discussing topics in the news with passers-by.
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