Part of the last day's play at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.
(to 13.30)
One of the main competitions in the National Eisteddfod is the composition of a poem in free-verse on a given theme. The winning poet is crowned with all the traditional pomp and ceremony of the Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain.
(Coroni'r Baidd: teledir y seremoni yn svth o Baflliwn yr Eisteddfod ym Mhwlleli)
Introduced by Andrea Troubridge.
From Southend-on-Sea
Holiday Mood
Roma Fairley at Southend talks to some of the holiday-makers.
From the Studio
Halsingborg Exhibition
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pattrick discuss the British flat now being shown in Sweden.
Digressions from John McLaren
Fashion
Betty Rodway shows clothes suitable for an August christening party.
Bookshelf
Peter Forster recommends books for this month.
For the Very Young
(A BBC Television Film)
From Bramall Lane, Sheffield.
Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales (Pwllheli, 1955)
This great Welsh festival is being held at Pwllheli all this week. Tuesday is traditionally the children's day and during this visit to the huge pavilion it is hoped to see some of the children's choirs. Alun Williams is your guide and interpreter.
The Gordon Honour: 5: The Cavalier's Candlestick
The adventures of a candlestick in seven episodes.
(Sheila Shand Gibbs is appearing in "Sailor Beware" at the Strand Theatre; Paul Whitsun-Jones is in "Kismet" at the Stoll Theatre; Robert Perceval is in 'The Teahouse of the August Moon' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
(to 17.45)
Artists from previous 'Top Town' programmes form two teams in a friendly battle of entertainment.
Judges: Henry Kendall, Georgie Wood, Elisabeth Welch
Introduced by Peter Haigh.
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
"How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy"
with Gilbert Harding, Nancy Spain, Robert Henriques, Joanna Kilmartin and Alan Melville.
A light-hearted comedy by George St. George and Eugenie Leontovich.
[Starring] Gillian Lutyens and John McLaren
Scene: The Russian Zone of Germany, 1950
(A BBC telerecording)
See page 15
The time of the play being 1950, the cold war atmosphere is rather colder than at the present moment; thus when a plane carrying American entertainers on their way to perform for occupation troops in Berlin is forced down in Eastern Germany their Russian captors take the severest measures. A beautiful Russian woman general confronts them with a confession whereby the inoffensive Americans admit to being saboteurs, and secret agents: unless they sign it immediately, they will be shot. The situation is serious-but the play, let us hasten to add, is not. Rather, it is concerned to draw comedy from this clash between the ways of East and West, especially when the Russian party line is changed, and an entente is reached which is more that cordiale. (Peter Currie)
Mervyn Levy invites you to join him and his pupil, Sarah Lawson, in the last of three summer programmes on how to paint in oils.
(sound only)
