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A magazine for older women.

Meeting Place
Explorer's wife-Mrs. V. E. Fuchs.

Winter Reading
with Alan Melville.

New Companions
John Holmes talks about dogs.

Making Opera Pay
Behind the scenes with Phyllis Thorold.

A Husband on the Mat
The Opera Players present A Husband on the Mat

Introduced by Eric Roberts.

Contributors

Speaker (Meeting Place):
Mrs. V. E. Fuchs
Item presenter (Winter Reading):
Alan Melville
Item presenter (New Companions):
John Holmes
Item presenter (Making Opera Pay):
Phyllis Thorold
Presenter:
Eric Roberts
Producer:
Marie Bingham

The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine: 2 - The Atomic Train
(Programme devised by Chuck Luchsinger and presented by arrangement with Monty Bailey-Watson)

Shirley Abicair with Koobi the Koala tells another story of Tumbarumba.

Guess What This Is
Maurice Rickards invites you to join in a new drawing game.

Space Port: 1 - Into Outer Space
Clifton Jennison, Ph.D., talks about the possibilities of man establishing a base on a satellite, what will be required, and how this could be achieved.
In the first programme you are invited to design a Space Suit and to send in models of a suitable Rocket.
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Contributors

Script (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Sheila Russell
Puppetry (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Elizabeth Donaldson
Voices (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Peter Hawkins
Voices (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Cameron Hall
Animations (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Reginald Jeffryes
Puppets made by (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
John Wright
Producer (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine):
Vere Lorrimer
Storyteller (Tumbarumba):
Shirley Abicair
Presenter (Guess What This Is):
Maurice Rickards
Presenter (Space Port):
Clifton Jennison

[Starring] Richard Carlson
A film in this series based on the true-life adventures of Herbert Philbrick, who for nine years in America led three lives-average citizen, high-level member of the Communist Party, and counterspy for the F.B.I.
Philbrick's wife, Eva, is increasingly distressed by her husband's Communist activities. In this film she learns the truth and she, too, becomes a counter-spy for the F.B.I.

Contributors

Herbert Philbrick:
Richard Carlson

TV's most popular panel game
with Isobel Barnett, Zoe Gail, Ben Lyon, Gilbert Harding and Eamonn Andrews in the chair.

("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and is televised by arrangement with C.B.S. and Maurice Winnick)

Contributors

Panellist:
Isobel Barnett
Panellist:
Zoe Gail
Panellist:
Ben Lyon
Panellist:
Gilbert Harding
Chairman:
Eamonn Andrews
Devised by:
Mark Goodson
Devised by:
Bill Todman
Presented by:
T. Leslie Jackson

[Introduced by] Ray Martin
Presenting your love story in words and music with the Ray Martin Orchestra.
Special investigators: Pauline and Larry Forrester

Contributors

Presenter/conductor:
Ray Martin
Musicians:
The Ray Martin Orchestra
Scriptwriter:
Leonard Fincham
Scriptwriter:
Lawrie Wyman
Special investigator:
Pauline Forrester
Special investigator:
Larry Forrester
Designer:
Guy Sheppard
Producer:
Douglas Moodie

at the Casino Ballroom, Birmingham.
(by arrangement with Mecca Dancing)
Music by Oscar Rabin and his Orchestra with David Ede.
Programme includes:
Demonstration of Ballroom Dancing by Sid Perkin and Edna Duffield

Formation Dancing with the Constance Grant Medley Formation Team from Sheffield.

Inter-City Amateur Dancing Knock-Out Contest

Old-Time Dancing and Party Dancing

International Dancing: a selection of dances from Societies in Birmingham and the Midlands by The Nottingham Ukrainian Choir, The Jockey Morris Men, The Colmcille School of Dancing, The Midland and Birmingham Scottish Society Young Scots Country Dance Team, The Anglo-Netherland Society of the Midlands.
Master of Ceremonies, David Jacobs
(Oscar Rabin is appearing at the Lyceum Ballroom, London)

Contributors

Musicians:
Oscar Rabin and his Orchestra
Saxophonist:
David Ede
Dancer:
Sid Perkin
Dancer:
Edna Duffield
Formation dancers:
The Constance Grant Medley Formation Team
Singers:
The Nottingham Ukrainian Choir
Morris dancers:
The Jockey Morris Men
Master of Ceremonies:
David Jacobs
Programme arranged by:
Eric Morley
Producer:
Barrie Edgar

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