A film programme of his outstanding contribution to British films.
Introduced by Kenneth More.
Told by Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Flora Robson, Margaretta Scott, Sir Ralph Richardson, Vivien Leigh, Muir Mathieson, Sir Carol Reed, Ann Todd, David Lean and concluded by Sir Laurence Olivier with scenes from some of his films: "The Private Life of Henry VIII", "The Ghost Goes West", "Things to Come", "Rembrandt", "Fire Over England", "Lady Hamilton", "The Fallen Idol", "The Third Man", "The Sound Barrier", "Summer Madness", and "Richard III".

(Scenes from the films televised by courtesy of London Film Productions, Ltd, who co-operated with the BBC in preparing the programme)
(To be repeated on Friday at 4.0)

[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen

Brian Reece says Let's Make a Date.

The Song that Made the Star

Lee Lawrence with "Clue in View"
You too can be a detective.

Scored for the Screen
The theme and scene from a recent film.

The Better Half
A well-known comedian's wife introduces her husband.

The members this week are Begum Shaista S. Ikramullah, Dr. Julian Huxley,
Malcolm Muggeridge, Peter Fleming.
Question-Master, Alan Melville

Joan Davis in a film in this series.

Sooty: Sooty's All Star Variety
with Harry Corbett.

Children's Newsreel

Jesus of Nazareth: Part 4
A cycle of eight plays on the life of Our Lord.
Written and produced by Joy Harington.

(to 18.00)

Max Wall invites you to join him in half-an-hour of music and laughter.

A television play by Philip Mackie.
[Starring] Griffith Jones and Sarah Lawson
The action takes place at the Paultons' home in North-West London
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on July 17 1955)

Another film in a series about the unusual and the curious.

Including scenes from films televised by courtesy of British Lion Films and Twentieth Century-Fox
(Richard Burton appears by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust Ltd)

Part 1 of Bible Background - a shortened version made by the British and Foreign Bible Society, of a longer film made in America.
Tonight's film tells the story of the Bible from New Testament times to the Middle Ages.
Part 2: March 18 followed by The Weather and Close Down