BBC Television presents Edition 12 of its House Magazine.
Introduced by Alex Macintosh assisted by Maria Hanson.
Giving news and features about BBC Television and people who make it - and the people it makes.
Contents:
Programmes to come
Studio news and show talk
TV stars off duty and a wide variety of other items

Introduced and conducted by Pedro de Freitas Branco.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Renata Tarrago (guitar)
Before an invited audience in the BBC studios, Maida Vale, London.
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by R. F. Delderfield.
A fortnightly series of programmes set in a West-Country seaside town.
From the BBC's West of England television studio
R. F. Delderfield writes on page 5

Sportsview film cameras bring you the highlights of the week-end's sport.
Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.

The members this week are: Peter Ustinov, Dr. J. Bronowski, Alan Bullock, James Fisher.
Question-Master, Norman Fisher

Children's Television Club
Wilfred Pickles and Mabel invite you to join them at the Children's Television Club meeting in Manchester.
Among those present are:
The Senior Scout Class Winner of the 1956 All-England Soapbox Derby
Jean Fenton, Brenda Whelan and Enid Salmon (six hands at one piano)
Conker and
Spot the Celebrity
A quiz devised by Phoebe Snow.
From the BBC's North of England television studios

Kidnapped: 1: The House of Shaws
by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Adapted and produced by Joy Harington as a serial in six parts.
Dramatised by Kenneth Anderson.
Period 1752
(Willoughby Gray appears by permission of Sapphire Productions, Ltd.)
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Sunday at Six: The Best Book in the World
The Rev. Paul Morton-George continues the story of the making of the Bible
William Caxton was printing books in England in 1476, but twenty years earlier the Bible had already been printed in Germany.
(The extract from the film 'The Story of Printing' is shown by arrangement with the Central Office of Information)

(to 18.10)

Malcolm Muggeridge questions Father Trevor Huddleston, Lord Hemingford, and Laurens van der Post on this topical and vital issue.
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[Starring] Jack Benny
with Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Sheldon Leonard and the Sportsmen Quartet.
(A film series)

Television's most popular panel game with Isobel Barnett, Bob Monkhouse, Gilbert Harding and a guest with Eamonn Andrews 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)

Book and lyrics by A.P. Herbert
Music by Vivian Ellis
Adapted for television and produced by Francis Essex.
[Starring] Brian Reece, Edmund Goffron and Sally Bazely
with Betty Paul, Edmund Donlevy and Anona Winn
(Brian Reece is appearing in Cabaret at Quaglino's Restaurant, London)
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'Bless the Bride'
An Enchanting Musical at 8.30
In this, the most endearing of all musicals, A.P. Herbert presents us with the Willow family - of formidable size even by Victorian standards. Our interest is centred on Lucy, who is twenty and about to be married to the Honourable Thomas Trout. She would never dare to admit it, but she doesn't think that she loves Thomas, for, imprisoned within the impenetrable fortress of the family tree, she has never been kissed before.
On the very day before her wedding she discovers love. Not, unfortunately, from her affianced, but from a dashing French actor who sweeps her off her bewildered feet and, before the family can muster even a faint 'tally-ho', has carried her off to France.
From here on the complications are not over-serious, and it need only be said that sixty minutes later not only has true love won through, but the family emerges without undue loss of British dignity.
Throughout the play Vivian Ellis has generously sprinkled his pepperpot of musical genius. "This Is My Lovely Day", "I Was Never Kissed Before", "Ma Belle Marguerite", "Table For Two"-one need not continue.
Nine years ago I remember sitting enchanted by the stage production at the Adelphi Theatre, and I believe that our television adaptation has kept all the charm of the original, while lending to it the vast resources of two of the most modern studios in the country.
I recently sat in Sir Alan's study rather apprehensively while he read our script. "I see that in this scene you have given Pierre the word "moist to say", he said. He surely would not know that word. He would say "wet". "He turned a page". And here he says "bloom on the grapes"; would he know such an unusual English word?"
"But sir", I said, "the second is one of your own lines".
"Really", said Sir Alan. "In that case you may have your 'moist back'."
(Francis Essex)

A play by John Coulter.
Adapted by Rita Greer Allen.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents "The Sponger"
(A CBC telerecording)
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Dr. Erik Routley talks about some hymns and they are sung by a group of singers from Oxford.