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Introduced by Sir Stephen Tallents.

From Wales:
The Dog in the Country
A demonstration from Porthcawl of native Welsh breeds and some advice on the training of dogs to make them good companions in the countryside.

4.30 From London:
W. M. Campbell, the curator at Kew Gardens, discusses the propagation and cultivation of the dahlia and its place in the small garden. Percy Thrower describes and illustrates general work in the garden, with special reference to pricking out seedlings, potting geraniums, and planting chrysanthemums, sweet peas, and gladioli.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sir Stephen Tallents
Commentator (The Dog in the Country):
Hywel Davies
Presented by (The Dog in the Country):
David J. Thomas
Presenter (From London):
W. M. Campbell
Gardener (From London):
Percy Thrower
Producer:
David Attenborough

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

Children's Newsreel

Tyger's Hart
A play about William Shakespeare by David Scott Daniell.
(Previously televised last Thursday)

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Professor Michael Bentine/Voice of the Bumblies (The Bumblies):
Michael Bentine
Writer (Tyger's Hart):
David Scott Daniell
Settings (Tyger's Heart):
Richard Henry
Producer (Tyger's Heart):
Joy Harington
William Shakespeare:
Alan MacNaughtan
John Shakespeare, his father:
Wensley Pithey
Mary Shakespeare, his mother:
Dorothy Black
Gilbert Shakespeare, his brother:
Phillip Black
Aunt Margaret:
Susan Richmond
Master Underhill:
Philip Dale
Richard Field:
William Driver
Richard Burbage:
Richard Leech
Simon:
Jimmy Gardner
Other parts played by:
Stanley Groome
Other parts played by/Romeo:
John Breslin
Other parts played by:
Lane Meddick

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)

Contributors

Panellist:
Isobel Barnett
Panellist:
Barbara Kelly
Panellist:
David Nixon
Panellist:
Gilbert Harding
Chairman:
Eamonn Andrews
Devised by:
Mark Goodson
Devised by:
Bill Todman
Presented by:
Dicky Leeman

A play by S. N. Behrman.
(Second performance: Thursday at 9.20)
[Starring] Frances Rowe, Stephen Murray and Patricia Burke

[Photo caption] Stephen Murray as Gay Esterbrook, Patricia Burke as Amanda, Frances Rowe as Linda Esterbrook.

At 8.40
If you want to be serious, it is about the break-up of a marriage, between Gay and Linda Esterbrook. If you want to be more serious still, it is about whether a successful dramatist, like Gay, shall go on writing comedies for a brilliant actress like Linda, or whether in these fraught years of the 1930s (the play belongs to 1939) he serves the world better by turning, as Amanda Smith suggests, to more cosmic and significant theme. If you do not want to be serious at all, here is an ironic comedy about fashionable people playing with fashionably real emotions. And it takes Mr. Behrman, being himself possibly the most accomplished and sophisticated of New York dramatists, to ride the three horses at once with such aplomb. (Peter Forster)

Contributors

Author:
S.N. Behrman
Producer:
Leonard Brett
Settings:
Richard R. Greenough
Clementine:
Elizabeth Welch
Linda Esterbrook:
Frances Rowe
Philo Smith:
Alan Gifford
Gay Esterbrook:
Stephen Murray
Robert:
Norris Stayton
Amanda:
Patricia Burke
Makepeace Lovell:
Michael Trubshawe

Throughout the centuries Christians have gathered together on the eve of Easter Day to prepare for the feast of the risen Christ.
The French film Nuit de Paques shows the ceremonies of blessing the new fire and the Easter candle, the baptism of those who seek to enter the Church, and the renewal by all the people of the solemn promises made first at their baptism.
English commentary spoken by Father Walter Meyjes

Contributors

Narrator:
Father Walter Meyjes

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