Programme Index

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Meeting Place
Two successful candidates discuss Local Elections.

Beauty Spot
Alice Hooper Beck offers suggestions for the sunny days ahead.

Old Ben
Told by Anne Sheppard.

Bioscope Fairground entertainments of sixty years ago
Armand Georges, with an electric bioscope, showing the first animated pictures-and memories of portable theatres.

Introduced by Barrie Edgar.

Songs I Remember
Anona Winn
At the piano, Vic Hammett

Introduced by Isobel Barnett.

Contributors

Item presenter (Beauty Spot):
Alice Hooper Beck
Storyteller (Old Ben):
Anne Sheppard
Item presenter (Bioscope Fairground entertainments of sixty years ago):
Armand Georges
Presenter:
Barrie Edgar
Presented in Birmingham by:
Phil Lewis
Singer (Songs I Remember):
Anona Winn
Pianist (Songs I Remember):
Vic Hammett
Presenter:
Isobel Barnett
Producer:
Richard Gilbert

Bengo
The adventures of a Boxer puppy.
Drawn by Tim.

Strange Music
Charles Gradwell shows and plays some ancient musical instruments from his collection.

Space Port: 6 - The Base on the Moon
Dr. R. Clifton Jennison and Kim Allen look at some of the best models received since the last programme.
You can see the completed model on which are some of the best rockets, land-trucks, figures, control towers, beacons, radar installations, etc., made by children during the series.

Olympic Outlook: The Modern Olympic Games: 1896-1936
The second of the series in which Geoffrey Dyson, Chief Coach to the A.A.A., sketches in the background to this year's Olympic Games.

Contributors

Artist (Bengo):
Tim (William Timym)
Presenter/musician (Strange Music):
Charles Gradwell
Presenter (Space Port):
Dr. R. Clifton Jennison
Presenter (Space Port):
Kim Allen
Programme presented by (Space Port):
Trevor Hill
Presenter (Olympic Outlook):
Geoffrey Dyson

TV's most popular panel game
With Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Alan Melville, Bob Monkhouse and Gilbert Harding 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:
Barbara Kelly
Panellist:
Alan Melville
Panellist:
Bob Monkhouse
Chairman:
Gilbert Harding
Devised by:
Mark Goodson
Devised by:
Bill Todman
Presented by:
T. Leslie Jackson

Billy Cotton introduces The Tin Pan Alley Show in which songs, news and personalities from Britain's centre of popular music are brought to you by Line Renaud, Dennis Lotis, Shani Wallis, Johnny Brandon, Bert Weedon, Gillian Lynne, April Olrich, Terence Theobald, Terry Gilbert.
The Concert Orchestra and George Mitchell Singers conducted by Stanley Black
(Line Renaud appears by arrangement with Henry Hall)

Contributors

Presenter:
Billy Cotton
Singer:
Line Renaud
Singer:
Dennis Lotis
Singer:
Shani Wallis
Singer:
Johnny Brandon
Guitarist:
Bert Weedon
Dancer:
Gillian Lynne
Dancer:
April Olrich
Dancer:
Terence Theobald
Dancer:
Terry Gilbert
Production numbers staged by:
Alfred Rodrigues
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Singers:
George Mitchell Singers
Conductor:
Stanley Black
Production:
Francis Essex

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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