Introduced by Sir Stephen Tallents.
This week from the West and North of England.

Here Comes the Circus
In the full tradition of English country life one of the tenting shows, which travels the length and breadth of the British Isles. celebrates its arrival in Gloucester in the time-honoured way with a Grand Parade through the city.
Television cameras join the crowds who line the streets to welcome Chipperfield's Circus and to follow the Parade to the Big Top and the Menagerie.

Harlow Car Gardens
Philip Robinson visits the gardens of the Northern Horticultural Society at Harrogate. Fred Loads demonstrates the pruning of roses and Roland Smith looks at the heather garden and the spring flowers.

Homes on Wheels
A second visit to Oxley's Ground, Gloucester, for some informal glimpses of circus life as the animals and artists settle down 'on the tober' for their week's stay.

John Glyn-Jones tells a story.

Children's Newsreel

Lullaby
A Czechoslovakian puppet film.

Earthquake in Macedonia
A play for television by Vivian Milroy.
The scene is a prison in Philippi a few years after the death of Christ.
(Previously televised last Thursday)

(to 18.00)

Last week's Television Newsreels repeated at the following times:
Monday's edition, 6.30 app.
Tuesday's edition, 6.44 app.
Wednesday's edition. 6.58 app.
Thursday's edition, 7.12 app.
Friday's edition, 7.26 app.

Television cameras watch the final preparations as the Double Ring is prepared for tomorrow's opening of Chipperfield's Circus in Gloucester.

with Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon and Gilbert Harding 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)

[Starring] Eric Portman and Barbara Mullen in Aimee Stuart's play
with Andre van Gyseghem
The action takes place in Scotland and the Continent. Time: late summer, 1938
(Second performance: Thursday at 9.10 p.m.)
(Eric Portman appears by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

After years of slaving for her old skinflint of a father, Jeannie decides to emerge from her Scottish village to see a bit of life. She says she wants some memories to store up for her old age now that she has the unexpected and princely sum of two hundred pounds to do with as she likes. So she sets off for Vienna: she had always wanted to hear 'The Blue Danube' played in its proper setting.
The kindly business man and the dazzling Count, who help her to enjoy her holiday, provide more, than she bargains for in the way of memories, and she finds that foreign travel brings other advantages besides that breadth of mind said to be its principal benefit.
Jeannie is an enchanting character. True, she is as much a stranger to the snares of the world as her nose is a stranger to powder, but she's no fool. Her formidable Scottish honesty (we needn't count the cheating about her age) and her sparkling spontaneity are irresistible. (B.K.)

Songs at the piano.

(sound only)