Mixed Figure Skating Championships from Cortina, Italy.
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Mixed Figue Skating from Cortina
Presented by the Italian Television Service

Between the events in the Mixed Figure Skating Championships, Winifred Taylor is at the piano, and Pauline Tooth looks through the 'Book Bag' in the studio.

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)

Jack Bell introduces excerpts from films and some cinema personalities who are in the news.

For Older Children: The Friday Western: Thunder Mountain
Construction of a new railway line is held up by the Indians, who feel it will offend the mountain gods. A crooked rancher plays on their fears for his own ends. By a clever trick Cisco and Pancho turn the tables on the bad man and restore the Indians' confidence. The railway line goes through.

Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School: 5: Bunter Takes the Blame
by Frank Richards.
[Starring] Gerald Campion
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on September 3, 1955)

(to 18.00)

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

[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen

A preview of some of your programmes for tomorrow and Sunday.

Josephine Douglas invites you to meet men and women of H.M. Forces serving overseas and to hear their musical requests for their friends and relations at home
The requests are from Kenya and Wildenrath, Western Germany.
Carole Carr introduces the programme starring Walter Midgley with Ronnie Hilton,
Tutte Lemkow, Sara Luzita, The Northerners.
Host, Peter West and the Forces' Requests Orchestra (Leader, David McCallum) under the direction of George Clouston.

Written by Ernest Dudley and Donn Russell.
Ernest Dudley introduces a weekly series of imaginary court cases in which the verdict rests with you, the jury.

An unrehearsed discussion.
Charles Fletcher-Cooke M.P., Jocelyn Simon M.P., Denis Healey M.P., Anthony Crosland
Chairman, Frank Byers

with a story of his own.
(A BBC telerecording)
(John Slater is appearing in 'Dry Rot' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)

An evening date for enthusiasts bringing them news, views, and expert information on their particular subject.

Percy Thrower introduces members of the Amateur Orchid Growers' Society, who show some of these fascinating plants and prove that orchid growing is well within the means of the average gardener.
Percy Thrower demonstrates the dividing and re-planting of herbaceous plants, the planting of shallots, the raising of early vegetables under cloches and in the greenhouse, and the pruning and re-potting of fuchsias.
"News Flash from Wisley" by F. E. W. Hanger, Curator of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens.

Report from Cortina.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down