(A BBC telerecording)
The first of two visits to the Wentworth Club, Surrey, to see play during the qualifying rounds.
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 Television Film)
[Starring] Amos 'n' Andy in a second showing of the film Classified Ad
From the Wentworth Club, Surrey.
A Mile of History
The "Roving Eye" Camera goes for a trip down the Thames to the Pool of London and the Tower.
Diary of a Dog
A film that shows you how to give your dog a full and happy life.
The Friday Western: The Needle Rock Mystery
For Older Children
Outlaws are threatening a rich gold mine, guarded by the Cisco Kid and Pancho. An explosion gives Cisco the idea for an ingenious ruse to turn the tables on the bad men and save the mine.
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Events, comment, people including Jacqueline Mackenzie.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
Raymond Baxter at the submarine base H.M.S. Dolphin sets the scene for tomorrow's Saturday-Night Out, when for the first time BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras bring you pictures from inside a submarine as it travels under water.
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[Starring] Joan Davis in the film series I Married Joan
Every fortnight, in a topic of her choice, Jeanne Heal talks with visitors to the studio.
Some of the artists who are appearing in James Brennan's Summer Revue at the South Pier, Blackpool.
Hylda Baker, Albert Ward and Les Ward, The Dandy Brothers, Renita Kramer, The Dancing Maids.
Laurens van der Post, in a series of six programmes, tells of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert he has recently made with the collaboration of the BBC.
He undertook the journey to fulfil a vow, made in his childhood, to seek out the remnants of the first men of Africa -the Bushmen-who were reputed still to be living a Stone Age existence.
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by Vincent Tilsley.
A series of half-hour plays about famous men and women who were known to the world by names other than their own.
The name by which the principal character is commonly known will be revealed only towards the end of the story.
with her zither.
People who make the news face questions from the people who write the news.
A film report from Stockholm introduced by Peter Dimmock.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down