This is the first day of the great annual Welsh festival, which is being held this year at Aberdare in Glamorgan.
BBC Outside Broadcast cameras are in the Eisteddfod Pavilion to televise part of the choral competitions.
Organised by the British Amateur Athletic Board in conjunction with the News of the World.
From the White City Stadium, London.
BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras bring you highlights from the Rover Cycling Club Meeting at Salford Park Sports Stadium, Birmingham.
The events include:
500 yards sprint for the Brooks Trophy and the 5-mile scratch race for the Dunlop Trophy
The second day's play at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
For the Very Young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(A BBC Television Film)
From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
Every summer in Denmark farmers offer free holidays to schoolchildren who live in towns. In this exciting film you can see the adventures of Greta and Peter, who spend their holiday on a farm by the sea.
The story is told by Anne Lloyd.
(Previously televised in February 1956)
From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
(to 18.30 app.)
Presenting stop-press news and some of today's big sporting moments on film.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
with Kenneth Horne in the chair and Carole Carr, Josephine Douglas, Bruce Seton,
Eric Sykes finding the links between the challengers.
Special investigators: Pauline and Larry Forrester
with Terry-Thomas and Joan Regan, David Berglas, Ormonde Douglas, Moris, Marty, and Mitch, Billy Baxter, Jimmy Day, Gerry Singer, The Show Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers.
(Joan Regan is appearing at the Empire, Finsbury Park, London)
A summer search with Christopher Chataway.
This programme tries to find out what life would be like for a young townsman if he left the hustle and bustle of the big city and went to live in the country.
Written and directed by Stephen Hearst.
A series of four programmes
See facing page and page 9
A feature film.
[Starring] Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day and George Sanders
Sent to Europe to cover the political situation in 1939, an American reporter investigates the activities of an international group fighting against peace, and narrowly misses death in the course of his adventures in London and Amsterdam.
