Viewers' Queries Answered
At the desk: Nan Winton and Peter Haigh
Introducing Elkan Allan's It's an Odd World
Fifteen minutes of Anglo-French songs.
(Patricia Burke and Roger Dann are appearing in 'Romance in Candlelight' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
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For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC Telefilm)
Film Profile of Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood, in an interview with Peter Haigh, introduces scenes from her well-known films: "The Lady Vanishes", "The Stars Look Down", "The Wicked Lady", and her latest film "Cast a Dark Shadow".
(By arrangement with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Grand National Pictures, and Eros Films)
Disneyland: Operation Undersea
In this film Walt Disney introduces photographers and technicians who worked on "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and shows some of their difficulties.
The Friday Western: Texas Trail
For older children
Hopalong Cassidy and 'Gabby' Hayes are given the job of finding horses for 'Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders'. Crooks try to discredit the friends by introducing branded horses among the wild ones. Hopalong foils the plan and is appointed Lieutenant in the Rough Riders.
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Down in the Forest
A film about baby kangaroos at play.
(to 18.00)
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This week Cardiff celebrates its fiftieth anniversary as a city. With the aid of film, BBC outside broadcast cameras, and the 'Roving Eye', viewers visit the docks and dockland, the main shopping centres, the floodlit buildings of the civic centre, and the castle.
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Josephine Douglas invites you to meet men and women of H.M. Forces serving overseas and to hear their musical requests for the people at home.
The requests come from Berlin and are answered by: Carole Carr with Bruce Trent, Tutte Lemkow, Ann Lascelles, Kirk Stevens, The Northerners
Forces' Requests Orchestra
Directed by George Clouston
Introduced by Ronnie Waldman.
This week's viewer competitor from Dudley, Worcestershire including Which Year? with Edna Savage, Gene Baxter, Pamela Harrington, Harry Naughton, The George Mitchell Four.
Viewers who live in Dudley are invited to place this copy of Radio Times in their window by noon today if they wish to offer themselves as the viewer competitor.
An unrehearsed discussion.
Speakers: The Hon. John Hare, O.B.E., M.P., Wilfred Fienburgh M.P., Kenneth Younger, M.P., Julian Amery, M.P.
Chairman, Frank Byers
The concluding stages of an international horse jumping competition held at the Palais des Sports, Paris.
Presented by the French Television Service
[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen
George sends for a plane to ease a door, and naturally Gradcie's thoughts quickly take wings.
Alec Robertson takes a look at your music programmes for the next fortnight.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down
