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A magazine of interest and entertainment for younger women.

Spending your Book Token
Peter Forster

Beauty News
Scent

Chintz
Items from an exhibition shown by Peter Floud.

Guest of the Week
interviewed by Bob Kesten.

Dream Holidays
Winter plans for summers away.
Evelyn Gibbs

Introduced by Ian Dunlop.

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian Dunlop
Item presenter (Spending your Book Token):
Peter Forster
Item presenter (Chintz):
Peter Floud
Interviewer (Guest of the Week):
Bob Kesten
Item presenter (Dream Holidays):
Evelyn Gibbs
Producer:
Rosemary Hill

Children's Newsreel

Panto Parade
from the Govan Town Hall, Glasgow.
Tommy Locky, The Dame
Terry Doogan a Four-Footed Friend
Reg Varney "Buttons"
Roddy McMillan and John Grieve "Doo and MacDoo"
Valerie Miller, Eileen Sanders
Linking music played by A Rhythm Quartet
(Tommy Locky is in "Babes in the Wood" at the Pavilion; Terry Doogan is in "Dick Whittington" at the Theatre Royal; Reg Varney is in "Cinderella" at the Alhambra; Valerie Miller, Roddy McMillan, and John Grieve are in "Whigmaleeries" at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow)

Steps into Ballet
The second of three programmes.
[Starring] Peggy van Praagh and Harold Turner
Donald Britton, Maureen Bruce, Jill Denning, Howard Osborne
The Ballet: "Cinderella"
Music by John Addison
Played by the Melos Ensemble
(Harold Turner appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.; Donald Britton, Maureen Bruce, and John Lanchbery by permission of Sadler's Wells Trust, Ltd.; Jill Denning is a pupil of Nora Roche and Howard Osborne of Marjory Middleton)

(to 18.00)

Contributors

The Dame (Panto Parade):
Tommy Locky
A Four Footed Friend (Panto Parade):
Terry Doogan
Buttons (Panto Parade):
Reg Varney
Doo and MacDoo (Panto Parade):
Roddy McMillan and John Grieve
Performer (Panto Parade):
Valerie Miller
Performer (Panto Parade):
Eileen Sanders
Producer (Panto Parade):
Kathleen Garscadden
Director (Panto Parade):
Noble Wilson
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Peggy van Praagh
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Harold Turner
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Donald Britton
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Maureen Bruce
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Jill Denning
Dancer (Steps into Ballet):
Howard Osborne
Music (Steps into Ballet):
John Lanchbery
Music (Steps into Ballet):
John Addison
Musicians (Steps into Ballet):
The Melos Ensemble
Choreography (Steps into Ballet):
Gilbert Vernon
Designer (Steps into Ballet):
Douglas Smith
Producer (Steps into Ballet):
Naomi Capon

BBC Outside Broadcast cameras visit Fonmon Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Fonmon is one of the few remaining Norman castles that have been in constant occupation since they were built.
A. Watkin Jones introduces Sir Hugo Boothby, the owner, who shows viewers round his family home.
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Contributors

Presenter:
A. Watkin Jones
Guide:
Hugo Boothby
Director:
Dafydd Gruffydd

by Jenifer Wayne.
[Starring] Brenda de Banzie and Cyril Raymond
The action takes place in London.
Time, the present
(Bernard Warwick appears by arrangement with the Library Theatre, Manchester)

Contributors

Author:
Jenifer Wayne
Producer:
Peter Lambert
Designer:
Barry Learoyd
Chloe:
Brenda De Banzie
Howard Potter:
Cyril Raymond
Mrs. Potter:
Constance Anderson
May:
Marjorie Wilde
Jean:
Ann Walford
Hotel Receptionist:
John Saunders
Peter Farnell:
William Squire
Miss Thornton:
Molly Lumley
Solicitor:
Bernard Warwick

Peter Haigh interviews the celebrated French film director, Rene Clair, who is visiting England. Viewers see some scenes from his latest film, "Les Grandes Manoeuvres" ("Summer Manoeuvres").
(By arrangement with Films de France)
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Contributors

Interviewer:
Peter Haigh
Interviewee:
Rene Clair
Presented by:
Alan Sleath

BBC Television

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