gan Orsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain yng nghylch yr Orsedd yn Aberdar Disgrifir yr olygfa gan tfan O. Williams (Telerecordiad o'r seremoni a gynhaliwyd ddydd Iau ddiwethaf)
(Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1956, Proclamation Ceremony)
(Wenvoe, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 16.45)
Ask Your Dad
A family general knowledge game.
Chairman, Humphrey Lestocq
Children's Newsreel
The Magic Idol
by Eric Roberts.
(Campbell Singer is appearing in "Spider's Web" at the Savoy Theatre, London)
(to 18.00)
Elizabeth Allan, Eunice Gayson, Peter Jones, Rikki Fulton as the newshawks.
Peter West in the chair.
Special investigators, Pauline and Larry Forrester
(Guess My Story is from an idea by William Taylor)
The fifth in a series of talks by Orson Welles, illustrated by his own sketches.
by Maxwell Anderson.
[Starring] Basil Sydney
The action of the play takes place in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, and in Prince Rudolph's hunting-lodge at Mayerling.
The year is 1889.
Vienna, 1889. The Austro-Hungarian Empire stirs uneasily under the autocratic rule of the Emperor Franz Joseph, and there is a powerful movement afoot to establish a separate monarchy in Hungary under the Crown Prince Rudolph. The stumbling-block is Rudolph himself, who recoils from the idea of revolutionary bloodshed and has no taste for the purges and oppressions that seem to him the inevitable props of kingship. It is not until the Emperor intervenes harshly in his plans to marry the Baroness Vetsera that he is goaded to decisive action.
The situation affords Maxwell Anderson - a conscientious toiler in the cause of poetic drama - full scope for the eloquence he can bring to the verse form. There is rich imagery, caustic comment, and romantic passion in this stirring conjectural account of what is, of course, the prelude to the still mysterious tragedy in the hunting-lodge at Mayerling. (Kenneth A. Hurren)
Gerald Moore the celebrated accompanist, has some more to tell about the problems of a concert artist's life.
Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in conversation with Alistair Cooke.
A filmed interview presented in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(sound only)
