Muffin the Mule
with Annette Mills who writes the songs and Ann Hogarth who pulls the strings.

Children's Newsreel

A Little Stone
The story of David and Goliath by P.D. Cummins.
(Previously televised last Thursday)

(to 18.00)

A Bishop, a Scientist, and a Poet answer questions of faith and conduct put to them by a factory audience.
The Bishop of Bristol, Professor C. A. Coulson, John Betjeman
Question-Master, C.A. Joyce
From an Aircraft Factory Recreation Hall in the Isle of Wight

with Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon, 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)

A play by Donald Sutherland.
(William Mervyn is appearing in "Witness for the Prosecution" at the Winter Garden Theatre, London)

The date is August, 1836, the scene Kensington Palace: so we may fairly guess (and reveal) that events will culminate one fine June dawn ten months later, with that famous 'five o'clock call' when the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham arrived post-haste from Windsor, and the eighteen-year-old girl who had gone to sleep Princess Victoria awoke to find herself Queen of England.
But this play is concerned with the difficulties and suspense of Victoria's situation before her accession - a bright, high-spirited girl, growing up and being brought into contact with the puzzling and often unpleasant realities of the adult world, with its political game of chess in which she is both pawn and Queen. Her fond but oppressive mother, the Germanic Duchess of Kent, is forever feuding with the King and coming off second-best; another of Victoria's Wicked Uncles, the horrid Cumberland, is intriguing to have the Salic Law (denying the right of succession to women) applied here; there is much manoeuvring, and we see how much of it fails to take into account the character of the Princess herself, her native individuality reinforced by the advice from her foreign governess, Baroness Lehzen. Indeed, life at Kensington Palace becomes a battle for influence not only between principals but among seconds, with the struggle between Victoria and her mother matched and even overshadowed by that of Lehzen and Sir John Conroy, the Duchess's principal adviser. (Peter Forster)

(sound only)