Signs of the Zodiac: 1: Capricorn
A light-hearted diversion arranged and presented by Verrall Dunlop.
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Male Opinion
Denzil Batchelor, Colin McInnes, John Slater are invited to speak their minds about women.
Christina Foyle answers back with Mary Wimbush as referee.

Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC telefilm)

Eric Spear finds Music is Fun.
A weekly series of programmes.

Another film in this series.

W. Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian, continues his stories of gay London nights.

Toys on Parade
A visit to the Harrogate Toy Fair to see some of the toys and novelties of 1956.
Your guide is Max Robertson.

Children of the Commonwealth
Alex Macintosh introduces Mrs. Murray Armstrong and some children to tell you about their life in Canada.

The Benedict Plan
by Sheilah Ward from an idea by Peter Ling.
The action takes place at Benedicts School.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on December 6, 1955)

(to 18.00)

followed by The Weather

People, events, comments of today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.

A programme in which experts in industry demonstrate tricks of their trades. Introduced by Archie McCulloch.
From the Govan Town Hall, Glasgow.

by Caroline and Anthony Lejeune.
The action of the play takes place in Mr. Meredith's town house in London, about 1870.
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There is a strange excitement, half-childish, half-adult, about seventeen year old Vicky Meredith as she prepares to attend her first ball-the ball being given by her elder sister Ethne in one of those old Victorian houses in London that have now been turned into flats or small hotels. But in 1870, the grandeur, the dignity and the grace were still there.

From the moment she hears the musicians tuning up downstairs as she is squeezing herself into her special ball gown, Vicky is in a flutter of excited anticipation. Who will ask her to dance? Will she be more beautiful than her sister? Will she be treated still as a girl or as a woman? In this charming little cameo, written by the well-known critic Caroline Lejeune, and her son Anthony, Vicky is launched not only into society but into the bewitching dawn of womanhood.
Tonight's play at 8.0

Kenneth Horne brings to Camera One forty-five minutes of non-stop Variety from the Television Theatre with Digby Wolfe, The Hedley Ward Trio, The Two Peters, Tom Mennard, Sonya Cordeau, Monty Stevens, The Kathryn Orly Trio, Desmond Lane, Ronnie Carroll, The Four Gitsom Sisters.

Written by Michael Orrom.
A series of documentary films about world problems that are the urgent concern of the United Nations.

Believing that only by the spread of knowledge can human beings enjoy a full life, the nations of the world are together tackling the problem of ignorance. This film shows the work being done in Egypt by the Arab States of the Middle East.
Produced by the BBC in collaboration with UNESCO and the Government of Egypt
(Previously televised on Nov. 24, 1955)

featuring Petula Clark and her boy friend of the week with Joe Henderson and his Music.

Phyllis Cradock of the Bon Viveur cookery team accepts a challenge by Raymond Oliver French chef of the restaurant Le Grand Vefour in Paris that "men can cook better than women".
Judges:
Constance Spry, O.B.E.
Eugene Kaufeler, Maitre Chef des Cuisines, Dorchester Hotel
Jean Dupont, Maitre Chef des Cuisines, Cafe Royal
This programme is a special version for television of the challenge carried out yesterday at the Cafe Royal, London, under the auspices of the Gas Council.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down