Programme Index

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Look: The Pond Chorus
A series of wild-life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.
Heinz Sielmann brings a new film from Germany in which the camera looks very closely at frogs, toads, and newts.
from the BBC's West of England television studio.
(A BBC telerecording)

Pieces of Eight
by Patricia Rowan.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter (Look):
Peter Scott
Guest/Filmmaker (Look):
Heinz Sielmann
Producer (Look):
Brandon Acton Bond
Writer (Pieces of Eight):
Patricia Rowan
Designer (Pieces of Eight):
Norman James
Producer (Pieces of Eight):
Barbara Hammond
Peter Johnson:
Michael Caridia
Belinda Johnson:
Caroline Denzil
Aunt Clem:
Anne Pichon
The Stranger:
Anthony Doonan
Mr. Coombe:
Geoffrey Bellman
Miss Wimple:
Barbara Hicks
Mr. Rafflings:
Gordon Harris
Police Sergeant:
Stanley Rose
Police Constable:
A. Shepherd

by Robert Kemp.
From the BBC's Edinburgh studio.

8.30 Frontiers of Science: 4: The Queen in the Hive
A series of programmes in which scientists show what they are doing and why they are doing it.
Programme introduced by David Attenborough.
The research of Dr. Colin Butler on bees has shed some new light on one of the great problems of zoology-the organisation of an insect community.

Contributors

Writer (The Asset):
Robert Kemp
Producer (The Asset):
James Crampsey
Designer (The Asset):
Roy Stanley
Lulu:
Marillyn Gray
The Asset:
Douglas Murchie
Betty:
Margaret Love
Birdie:
Margot Steel
Harry the Swick:
Lea Ashton
Presenter (Frontiers of Science):
David Attenborough
Film sequences (Frontiers of Science):
C.P. Abbott
Producer (Frontiers of Science):
James McCloy

BBC Television cameras visit the Cafe Royal to cover after dinner speeches by: The Rt. Hon. Sir Norman Birkett, Q.C., Tommy Trinder, Charles Forte.
Chairman of the N.S.C. Committee, Len Hutton
Programme introduced by Brian Johnston.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Johnston
Speaker:
The Rt. Hon. Sir Norman Birkett
Speaker:
Tommy Trinder
Speaker:
Charles Forte
Speaker:
Len Hutton
Presented for television by:
Antony Craxton

A series of six plays by Berkely Mather.
(A BBC telerecording of last Saturday's broadcast)

Followed by The Weather and Close Down

Contributors

Writer:
Berkely Mather
Director:
Peter Lambert
Producer:
Tony Richardson
Marlow:
Fred Griffiths
Frisby:
Donald Bradley
Kiko Watts:
David Lodge
Soutar:
Peter Fling
Eileen:
Billie Whitelaw
Clemmo:
Larry Taylor
Chief Det-Insp Charlesworth:
John Welsh
Coppy:
Phil Mansel-Durham
Det.-Sgt. Spence:
Nigel Davenport

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About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More