The winner of the competition for composing an ode in the traditional strict metre is enthroned in the Bardic Chair.
This ceremony is one of the great moments of the week. Until his name is proclaimed from the stage, and he stands in the audience, the identity of the winning poet is kept secret.
(Cadeirio'r Bardd: teledir y seremonl yn syth o Bafiliwn yr Eisteddfod ym Mhwllhelil
Practical help for the housewife.
Introduced by Margaret Douglas.
Two Cooks
Chef Phillip, who cooks regularly for the National Broadcasting Company's programmes in America, indulges in friendly competition with Philip Harben in preparing national dishes.
Millinery
Elizabeth Newrath shows how to make a simple and inexpensive straw hat.
Cats
Ann Codrington, the well-known radio actress, describes her successes and failures in breeding Siamese cats.
For the Very Young
David Enders tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.30)
Children's Newsreel
Cause for Alarm
A comedy by Donald Cashfield and Bryan Kendrick.
The action takes place in a village by the sea in the summer of 1955.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on July 10)
Beside the Sea
A visit to the Children's Theatre, Southend-on-Sea, to see some of Joe Barnes's Palladium Puppets.
(to 17.55)
Heno, gerllaw'r Pafiliwn ym Mhwllheli, bydd Ifan O. Williams yn cyflwyno rhai o gymeriadau gwlad Llyn ac yn sgyrsio efo Eisteddfodwyr o bedwar ban y wlad a'r byd
Y cyfarwyddo gan Selwyn Roderick
(Wenvoe, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 18.45)
Patrick O'Donovan whose theme is 'Nationalism'
A series of four half-hour films in which well-known personalities make their own selection from the BBC Film Library.
with Roy Rich in the chair.
Elizabeth Gray, Helen Bailey, Paul Jennings and a guest.
and introducing 'Droodles'.
A pantomime in water featuring George Baines's Water Follies and the Southend Water Ballet.
Before an invited audience at the Westcliff Baths
A French cartoon film.
(Televised by arrangement with Dimitri de Grunwald)
by W. Somerset Maugham.
The action takes place at the Tabrets' home near London.
Time, the present
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on July 10)
(sound only)
