A magazine of Interest and entertainment for younger women.

American Interiors
A report on the latest fashions in home decoration by Paul Gell.

Book List
Peter Forster

Dream Holidays
Plans for the summer by Evelyn Gibbs.

Present from London: 6 - Miss Todd wears her Paris hat

Introduced by Vera McKechnie.

Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC television film)

(to 16.00)

Stranger than Fiction: Vanished streams and strange statues
Another film in a series about the unusual and the curious.

Country Close-Up
The first of a new monthly series of film programmes about the countryside.
Introduced by Ion Trant.
See page 4

Dead Man's Shoe
A film for older children
The Range Rider finds a secret plan for a gold mine that belongs to a girl living on a nearby ranch. Bad men capture the plan, but the Range Rider foils the gang.

(to 18.00)

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

From the story by W. W. Jacobs.
Adapted by Aileen Mills and Douglas Cleverdon.
From the BBC's West of England television studio

When it comes to a question of an uncle promising to leave his money and property to a favourite nephew, the nephew is often inclined to be a little touchy if his claim is threatened by an outsider. Especially if the outsider is a grasping domineering widow who intends to marry the uncle, come what may. But nephew Alf, just back from a three-months sea voyage, has other ideas- to save both his uncle from matrimony, and to secure his future; though even ingenious plans don't always work just as intended.

involving Bill Maynard, Terry Scott, Shirley Eaton, Pat Coombs, Hugh Lloyd, The Coronets.
Written by Lewis Schwarz and Eric Merriman.
(Shirley Eaton appears by permission of London Film Productions, Ltd.)

A comedy by Gadfan Morris.
From the BBC's television studio in Cardiff

There's an old theory that people will believe anything if it's fantastic enough, but when it seems that Sam Lewis intends to enter the Duet for Male Voices in the local Eisteddfod in company with a singing pig, credulity is stretched to its limit. And yet there can be no denying that Sam is rehearsing in the pig-sty, and that on the entry form for the competition he has written just "Samuel Lewis and Friend". And there have, after all, been more unlikely things in Wales than a pig that sings.....
Gadfan Morris has written several comedies which are best described as extravaganzas. There is a touch of the bizarre about them which goes beyond the limit of mere comedy. "The Price of a Wife" and "Home Winner" were in this vein and "The Singing Pig" is no exception.

Last Saturday was World Health Day. Its theme this year was the fight against disease-carrying insects, and this programme considers the importance and progress of that fight.
Evidence is provided by Professor H. G. Baity of the World Health Organisation and Professor G. Macdonald C.M.G., Director, the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene.
(Film sequences by arrangement with the Shell Film Unit and the Films Division of the United Nations)

Television cameras visit the Royal Albert Hall, London, for part of the final concert of the 1956 BBC Light Programme series.
BBC Show Band
Directed by Cyril Stapleton
Eric Delaney and his Orchestra, Kenny Baker's Dozen and leading stars of the world of dance music and entertainment.
Master of Ceremonies, Bob Monkhouse

A weekly magazine programme of films and film personalities.
Introduced by Peter Haigh.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down