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Happy Holidays
The second of a series of four programmes giving suggestions and practical advice on finding the holiday you will enjoy.
Your holiday guide, Douglas Fleming brings a panel of experts:
Sheena Hilleary, T.C.J. Hammerton and L.E. Kieran to help you to choose your Holiday Abroad.

and
A Woman's Work
Discussed by some who work in Midland industries.
Introduced by Bill Hartley.
From the BBC's television studio in Birmingham

Contributors

Presenter (Happy Holidays):
Douglas Fleming
Panellist (Happy Holidays):
Sheena Hilleary
Panellist (Happy Holidays):
T.C.J. Hammerton
Panellist (Happy Holidays):
L.E. Kieran
Arranged by (Happy Holidays):
Brenda Horsfield
Producer (Happy Holidays):
Frederick Knapman
Presenter (A Woman's Work):
Bill Hartley
Producer (A Woman's Work):
Philip Lewis

Vera McKechnie introduces

Suzanne Villar who talks about children's clothes

John Slater who tells a story about a lifebelt

Elton Hayes singing some songs to his small guitar

Sandy Sandford and some deaf children who performed at the Christmas party given by the National Institute for the Deaf

Bengo
The adventures of a Boxer puppy.
Drawn by Tim.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Item presenter:
Suzanne Villar
Storyteller:
John Slater
Singer/guitarist:
Elton Hayes
Comedian:
Sandy Sandford
Artist (Bengo):
Tim (William Timym)
Editor/Producer:
Peter Newington
Assisted by:
Ronald Eyre

with Digby Wolfe presents Zoe Gail and Jack Billings, George Martin, Gary Miller, Jimmy Rogers, Albert and Les Ward and the Television Toppers.

Contributors

Presenter:
Digby Wolfe
Dancer:
Zoe Gail
Dancer:
Jack Billings
Comedian:
George Martin
Singer:
Gary Miller
Singer:
Jimmy Rogers
Musical comedians:
Albert and Les Ward
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Directed by:
Larry Gordon
Orchestra conducted by:
Eric Robinson
Producer:
Alastair Scott-Johnston

(See above)

The ringmaster George Lockhart (left) [photo] introduces highlights of this twenty-eighth international circus from the King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester

Circus Orchestra directed by Bonelli

[Photo caption] The picture on the extreme left shows Pauline Schumann riding side-saddle on the white stallion 'Yusif' in her beautiful and exciting equestrienne act

Contributors

Presenter/Ringmaster:
George Lockhart
Equestrienne act:
Pauline Schumann
Circus orchestra directed by:
null Bonelli
Presented for television by:
Ray Lakeland

(Eighth series: third edition)
from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Featuring Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra with Alfred Davies and Julie Reaby, Jack Orton-Smith and Norma Noble, The Maurice Jay Formation Team from Wood Green, London.
Hostess, Patti Morgan

Contributors

Musicians:
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Dancer:
Alfred Davies
Dancer:
Julie Reaby
Dancer:
Jack Orton-Smith
Dancer:
Norma Noble
Formation dancers:
The Maurice Jay Formation Team
Hostess:
Patti Morgan
Producer:
Richard Afton

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