A magazine of interest and entertainment for younger women.

Did You Know?
A slight case of science
Dan Aitken

Man's Eye View: 2: Sales Talk
Told by James Drake with acknowledgment to John Cadell.

Learning by Degrees
Some intriguing subjects to study in your spare time discussed by Evelyn Gibbs.

Serenade
Anthony Hayes

Introduced by Vera McKechnie.

(Anthony Hayes is appearing in 'The Boy Friend' at Wyndham's Theatre, London)

Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)

The Zoo on the Hill: The Hare and the Tortoise
Jim Pestridge visits Dudley Zoo and with Donald Risdon, the Zoo Manager, discusses speed on land, sea, and in the air.

For Older Children
Flame Across the Prairie
The fierce Mojave tribe, led by Chief Sky Eagle, are in revolt. Settlers are panicked into selling their farms, but the Cisco Kid and Pancho arrive to investigate. They find a sinister force at work and uncover the true reason for the Indian raids.

(to 18.00)

followed by The Weather

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.

A forty-five minute Variety show from the King's Theatre, Hammersmith.
Presenting June Birch, Ronnie Carroll, Gina and Gerardo, Jen Jackson, Esme Levante, Janie Marden, Billy Maxam, The Music-Hall Boys, Don Tannen, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes.

(Don Tannen is at the Savoy Hotel, London; Esme Levante is at Murray's Cabaret Club, London)

A comedy by Ian Hay.
From the BBC's West of England television studio
(Constance Chapman appears by permission of the Rapier Players, Ltd.)

At 8.15
Old Adam Baxter is something of a local legend at Broxborough, with his fine learning and his books and his Saturday-night gatherings of friends who come to hear him read Shakespeare or Homer, or to discuss any subject that is to be found in the Encyclopaedia - at least the first nine volumes of it. Ask us about anything from Aaron to Pragmatic Sanction and we're infallible; but put up one that comes between Prairie Oyster and Zymotic and we're sunk.
But there are other gaps in the apparent learning of Adam Baxter, as some of the not so friendly members of his Saturday circle are anxious to demonstrate-though their success, if success it can be called, brings an even more surprising revelation... R.A.

One hundred years ago today Sir Henry Bessemer announced his invention of a steelmaking process which was to prove the bed-rock of modern industrial life.
Robert Reid and Langton Highton show film of the process and discuss the man, his many inventions, and their influence on the world of the nineteenth century.
From the BBC's North of England studios

talks to you on his eighty-sixth birthday.
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A weekly magazine programme of films and film personalities.
Introduced by Peter Haigh.

At the piano, Joseph Cooper
Followed by The Weather and Close Down