Family Affairs

Children's Books for Christmas
Marghanita Laski

Your Children's Play: 3: Seven-to-eleven-year-olds
Phyllis Hostler

Family Milestones: 2: Silver Wedding
with Natalie Kent, Hugh Paddick

Introduced by Betty Lait
(Hugh Paddick is appearing in "For Amusement Only" at the Apollo Theatre, London)

and
Tell Me, Doctor?
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.

(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)

Zoo Quest
David Attenborough describes his adventures travelling through Borneo in search of rare animals.
(A BBC telerecording)

5.30 The Watch Tower
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton
A play for older children
(Paul Whitsun-Jones is appearing in 'Kismet' at the Stoll Theatre, London)
In 1940, when England stood in peril of invasion and defeat by the Germans, enemy bombers poured over the coast in hundreds. Many were shot down. What happened to the pilot of one of them is the story of "The Watch Tower".

(to 18.00)

Starring Vera Lynn
from the Television Theatre, Hammersmith
with Rawicz and Landauer, The Keynotes, Dennis Spicer
with guest artist: Ernst Naser and his zithers
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes.

(Daniel Spicer is appearing at the Savoy Hotel, London)

A visit to the Royal Festival Hall, London, to see part of this unusual musical occasion.
The Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra and the Hurwitz Music Ensemble
Conducted by Lawrence Leonard
Guest conductors: Norman del Mar and Malcolm Arnold
Yvonne Arnaud (piano), Moyra Fraser, Jenny Johnson (bass coloratura), Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Introduced by Gerard Hoffnung.
Soloists: Gerard Hoffnung, Jim Powell, John L Wilson, Nigel Amherst

Overture for symphony orchestra, organ. rifles, three vacuum cleaners, and an electric floor polisher - Malcolm Arnold

Andante for the Surprise Symphony (with additional surprises) - Haydn

The Lift Girl - Donald Swann (with original words by John Betjeman) (accompanied by the composer)

Mazurka - Chopin

Piano Concerto to end all Piano Concertos - Franz Reisenstein

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A play by Richard Llewellyn
[Starring] Gladys Young and William Devlin
From the BBC's Welsh television studio
See facing page

A programme of paintings and music.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down