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Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

Woodworm
E. H. Brooke Boulton explains how to recognise and treat it.

Home Dressmaking with Kathleen Elliott: 2: Laying out and adjusting patterns

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Item presenter (Woodworm):
E. H. Brooke Boulton
Item presenter (Home Dressmaking):
Kathleen Elliott
Producer:
S. E. Reynolds

A Sailor's Yarns: 3: The Ocean Tug
told by Edward Andrewes.

Children's Newsreel

The Flower on the Thorn Tree
A play for Easter by P.D. Cummins.
(Second performance: next Sunday)

(to 17.55)

Contributors

Storyteller (A Sailor Yarns):
Edward Andrewes
Writer (The Flower on the Thorn Tree):
P.D. Cummins
Settings (The Flower on the Thorn Tree):
Stewart Marshall
Production (The Flower on the Thorn Tree):
Dorothea Brooking

The holiday resort of Blackpool challenges the city and county of Bristol to a friendly battle of entertainment.
Blackpool team led by Stanley Matthews, International soccer star
Bristol team led by Bill Pegg, Test pilot
Judges: Jessie Matthews, Flotsam (B.C. Hilliam), L. Marsland Gander
Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
From Belle Vue, Manchester

Contributors

Team captain (Blackpool):
Stanley Matthews
Team captain (Bristol):
Bill Pegg
Judge:
Jessie Matthews
Judge:
Flotsam (B.C. Hilliam)
Judge:
L. Marsland Gander
Musicians:
Northern Variety Orchestra
[Orchestra] conducted by:
Alyn Ainsworth
Producer:
Barney Colehan

A fortnightly programme in which a panel of experts is challenged to identify a series of unusual objects.
The Experts include:
Adrian Digby, Keeper of the Department of Ethnography, British Museum
G.H.S. Bushnell, Curator, University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge
v. The Challenger: The Liverpool Museum
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

Contributors

Panellist:
Adrian Digby
Panellist:
G.H.S. Bushnell
Chairman:
Glyn Daniel
Presented by:
David Attenborough

A play by Campbell Dixon and Dermot Morrah.
The action takes place in Jerusalem in the twenty-four hours beginning at noon on Thursday, April 2, A.D. 33.
(Second performance)

Contributors

Author:
Campbell Dixon
Author:
Dermot Morrah
Producer:
Ian Atkins
Director:
Julian Amyes
Settings:
James Bould
Judas:
Kenneth Haigh
Caiaphas:
Robert Atkins
Malchus:
Arnold Diamond
Annas:
Walter Hudd
Pontius Pilate:
Robert Eddison
Claudia Procula:
Margaretta Scott
Marcella:
Brigid Lenihan
Lucius Licinius Cotta:
Philip Guard
Damon:
Hugh Munro
Balbus:
Richard Caldicot
First Decurion:
Harry Lane
Roman Sentry:
Leonard Williams
Countryman:
Clement Hamelin
Gamaliel:
Donald Pleasence
Joseph of Arimathea:
Hugh David
Peter:
John Sharplin
Zillah:
Margot van Der Burgh
Second Decurion:
Pat Connor
Mary:
Rosalie Crutchley

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