Dressmaking: 5
Norman Hartnell gives advice to home dressmakers, with demonstrations by Diana Cruchley.
Jane wears the finished dress and Diana fits the accessories.

Why on Earth...?
Joan Gilbert deals with some complaints from viewers.

Christmas Cards
Ruth Drew always makes her own, and shows how.

Cats
Grace Pond brings to the studio some would-be champions who will be at the National Cat Show.

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

(A BBC Telefilm)

The young Australian singer and recording star, with Art Jackson at the piano.
Interviewed by Vera McKechnie.

[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen
George strongly resists the idea of going to the opera-but circumstances are against him.

invites you to keep fit and meet his guests.

Meet the Penguins: Aunt Penny's Party
Story by J. M. Smith Wright.

Children's Newsreel

Children of China
Dennis Matthews tells you how Chinese children work and play and shows you some of the things he has brought back from his visit to China.

Spot the Tune
Another competition introduced by Eric Robinson.
Send your postcards to 'Spot the Tune', [address removed]

(to 18.00)

People, events, comments of today introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

Written by W. John Morgan.
BBC Outside Broadcast cameras pay a visit to the furnaces and rolling mill of a large steelworks. In South Wales to see something of the everyday job of the steel-worker and how he makes and shapes the world's most useful metal.

(See top of page)

From the short story by Morley Roberts
Adapted and produced by Antony Pelissier
[Starring] Tony Britton

It has been said that the world is divided into two main classes of people - those who love cats, and those who don't. Among those who do is Tom, a young man who can't resist giving a friendly word and a quick stroke to every stray he meets on his way to work - with results that even the most superstitious of black-cat lovers couldn't possibly have foreseen...
at 8.0

(Tony Britton appears by permission of British Lion Films, Ltd.; Josephine Griffin by permission of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.)

[Starring] Bob Monkhouse
not forgetting Denis Goodwin
with Alma Cogan.

A visit to the Empire Pool, Wembley, to see part of the second and the whole of the last period of this international match.

A fortnightly programme.
The Experts: Julian Huxley F.R.S., Maxwell Knight, James Fisher
v.
The Challenger: Essex Museum of Natural History
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge