Stories on film from past editions of 'London Town'.
Commentary by Richard Dimbleby
(Previously televised on October 13, 1953)
A Naval and Air Exercise of the NATO Channel Command.
Reporters and cameramen record the progress of a convoy under attack as it moves up the English Channel to the Port of Flushing.
(Previously televised on December 10)
(to 16.00)
The Snail's Adventures
by Margaret Curry.
Plummy
by Geoffrey Lewis.
John Rule tells two short stories.
This Was News
A programme that helps you to understand some of the events of recent weeks.
For Deaf Children
A visit to the National Institute for the Deaf for a children's Christmas party with Sandy Sandford and Buck Hurst.
Introduced by Jasmine Bligh.
(to 17.55)
A comedy by Alan Melville.
The scene is the living-room of the Fosters' home in London.
A special performance before an invited audience from the Strand Theatre, London (by arrangement with H. M. Tennent. Ltd.)
Young men and women from Asian countries put questions to Alan Bullock.
This is one of the regular meetings of Asian Club broadcast every week in the Eastern and Far Eastern Services of the BBC.
featuring Ruby Murray, Pamela Russell, Anita Ellis, Eliza Lotti, Irene Mayo, Freddie Stuart, Pedro and Pinkie, The Littlewood Songsters, The New Toppers, Ray Martin and his Orchestra.
Introduced by Catherine Boyle.
(sound only)