A film with a dramatic story set in post-war Budapest.
An unrehearsed discussion on topics of the week.
Chairman, Dingle Foot
Speakers: The Countess of Birkenhead, Randolph Churchill, Lady Pakenham, George Woodcock
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on March 18)
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.15)
All About Animals
George Cansdale shows you some more animals.
(A BBC Telerecording)
Legion Fortress
The fortress of the Legion, Caerleon, which dates from A.D. 74, is archaeologically the most important military site in Britain. Dr. Nash Williams shows new discoveries brought to light there and discusses them with Sir Mortimer Wheeler.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on November 22)
(to 17.45)
A BBC telerecording of the second half of the match played at Twickenham last Saturday.
with Dave King introducing artists new to television including Maria Pavlou, The Londonaires, The Mackell Twins and Frederick Farley.
The second in the series of visits to well-known people in their homes.
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(II Campanello)
A comic opera in one act.
A section of the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Edward Renton
Produced by George R. Foa who writes on page 4
The action takes place in a suburb of Naples in 1900
(Second performance: Thursday at 9.30)
(Harold Blackburn appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.)
A tale of archaeological detection told by Glyn Daniel.
Film sequences by the BBC Television Film Unit
Two objects found in a 1600-year-old Roman well in Somerset puzzled archaeologists. A metal jug had not been corroded and a wooden tablet showed illegible ink writing. Scientists were called in to solve these problems and in doing so made some interesting discoveries.
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Talk by the Rt. Hon. John Boyd-Carpenter, M.P., Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation.
(Recording of broadcast in the Home Service at 9.15 p.m.)
(Sound only)
