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Look and Choose
An enquiry into bedroom furniture.
Conducted by Joan Yorke including a visit with Isobel Barnett to the Furniture Exhibition at Earls Court.

Quick and Easy Dressmaking
The second showing of the film of the nightdress demonstrated last Wednesday.

Contributors

Presenter (Look and Choose):
Joan Yorke
Co-presenter (Look and Choose):
Isobel Barnett
Director:
Bill Wright
Producer:
Monica Sims

Vera McKechnie in "Studio E" introduces

George Cansdale and his animal guests

John Stater who tells a story about a pomegranate

Neville Duke, D.S.O., O.B.E. and Bernard Wilkie who talk about the first models you have sent them for the airport

Janet Brown on her way to a fancy-dress party

Bengo
The adventures of a Boxer puppy drawn by Tim.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Item presenter:
George Cansdale
Storyteller:
John Stater
Item presenter:
Neville Duke
Item presenter:
Bernard Wilkie
Item presenter:
Janet Brown
Artist (Bengo):
Tim (William Timym)
Edited and produced by:
Peter Newington
Assisted by:
Ronald Eyre

by Ronald Millar
[Starring] Cicely Courtneidge, Robertson Hare, Naunton Wayne
A special performance from the Duchess Theatre, London
See page 6

The Kilpatrick family, of St. John's Wood, could be described even at the best of times as somewhat bizarre. Father is an ardent worker for the British Culture Council-art organisation devoted to teaching Morris dancing to Burmese washerwomen and dropping copies of Quentin Durward to Malayan communists. Mother - forced to cope with her eccentric husband, her adopted daughter Serena, and her younger daughter Barbara - takes the line of most resistance and fills her life with a perpetual if slightly 'butterfly' concern for the welfare of her family.

But it is with the eve of Serena's wedding that this comedy by Ronald Millar is mostly concerned, for into the pre-marriage preparations is projected a wealthy but recently deceased business man, who as an all too solid ghost and a lifelong bachelor, becomes personally concerned in this hilarious tangle between the quick and the dead...
At 7.45

Contributors

Author:
Ronald Millar
Director:
Charles Hickman
Decor:
Michael Weight
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
Serena Kilpatrick:
Jill Raymond
Barbara Kilpatrick:
Margaret McCourt
Isabel Kilpatrick:
Cicely Courtneidge
Sir William Benedick-Barlow:
Naunton Wayne
Jason Kilpatrick:
Robertson Hare
Joe Tilney:
Warren Stanhope
Blodwen:
Viola Lyel

Jack Payne introduces Off the Record.
featuring Vera Lynn, Eddie Calvert, Lee Lawrence, Michael Holliday, Billie Anthony with ex-R.S.M. Brittain, Gerry Brereton and George Melly with Mick Mulligan and his Band, The Concert Orchestra and The George Mitchell Singers.
Conducted by Stanley Black

Contributors

Presenter:
Jack Payne
Singer:
Vera Lynn
Trumpeter:
Eddie Calvert
Singer:
Lee Lawrence
Singer:
Michael Holliday
Singer:
Billie Anthony
Commands spoken by:
R.S.M. Brittain
Singer:
Gerry Brereton
Singer:
George Melly
Musicians:
Mick Mulligan and his Band
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Conducted by:
Stanley Black
Producer:
Bill Cotton, Jnr.

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