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Introduced by Olive Shapley.

Make the Best of Yourself
Laura McKenning of Barnsley is given advice on a new outfit and a new hair-style.

Bookshelf
Olive Shapley suggests new books and an old favourite for your library list.

Music
Isla Cameron sings to her own guitar accompaniment.

Contributors

Presenter/item presenter (Bookshelf):
Olive Shapley
Guest (Making the Best of Yourself):
Laura McKenning
Singer/guitarist (Music):
Isla Cameron
Producer:
Jacqueline Kennish

A serial in seven parts.
Adapted for television by Hilda Lewis from her book of the same name.
The action takes place at Westminster, Coventry, and Windsor.
Time: 1395-1399
(Dennis Edwards is appearing in 'Waiting for Gillian' at the St. James's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Hilda Lewis
Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Isabella, grown up:
Glen Alyn
Madame de Coucy:
Margaret Gordon
Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford:
Michael Bird
Jehanne:
Barbara Denney
Gilles Cobham:
Patrick Horgan
Isabella, as a girl:
Victoria Nolan
First Courtier:
Peter Burton
Second Courtier:
David Waller
Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk:
Desmond Llewellyn
King Richard II:
Dennis Edwards
Queen Isobelle:
Christine Edmonds
Constable of England:
Peter Grisewood
Herald:
Joseph Wise
Herald:
John Baker
Other parts played by:
Godfrey Bond
Other parts played by:
Philip Clive
Other parts played by:
Donald Hodson
Other parts played by:
Robert Irvine
Other parts played by:
John Marshall
Other parts played by:
Joan Mason
Other parts played by:
James Raglan
Other parts played by:
Virginia Shipton

or The Triumph of Medicine
by Jules Romains.
Translated from the French by Robert Kemp.
The action takes place in Scotland, at a wayside station; in Dr. Macfarlane's old consulting room; and at the Crosskeys Hotel, Kilringen, in the year 1924.

Dr. Knock has been sold a pup. He has bought Dr. Macfarlane's practice at Kilringen and speedily he discovers that it is a practice as shaky as the ancient and temperamental car in which he is being taken, spasmodically, to his new domain. Briefly, there are no patients: the inhabitants are disgustingly healthy and not given to seeking a doctor's aid.
But Dr. Knock is resourceful-and he has a method so startling as to be unique. By employing it he is sure that he can turn a barren practice into a doctor's Eldorado. The age of medicine, to use his own words, can now begin.

Contributors

Author:
Jules Romains
Translated by:
Robert Kemp
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
James Crampsey
Designer:
Stewart Marshall
Dr. Knock:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Dr. Macfarlane:
George Davies
Mr. Macclusky, the chemist:
Paul Curran
Mr. Bernard, the schoolmaster:
David Mowat
The bellman:
Lea Ashton
First lad of the village:
John Cairney
Second lad of the village:
Andrew Stewart
Skippy the hotel porter:
James Sutherland
John , the chauffeur:
Michael Elder
Mrs. Macfarlane:
Jean Taylor Smith
Mrs. Rainy, proprietress of the hotel:
Madeleine Christie
Farmer's wife:
Louise McLaren
Lady Strathbirnam:
Maud Risdon
The maidservant:
Mary Walton

Written and directed by John Read.
A BBC film showing how this British artist found his subjects in Bath, Venice, and Dieppe, as well as in the daily lives of the people of London.
Produced in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, and the Educational Television and Radio Centre of the United States of America
(Previously shown on June 7)

Contributors

Writer/director:
John Read
Cameraman:
Edward Lloyd
Editor:
Jack Elliott
Narrator:
Robert Reid

BBC Television

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