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Backyard Poultry-Keeping: 6
W.R. Wooldridge, Scientific Director of the Animal Health Trust, discusses some more causes of disease in laying birds.

Guest of the Week

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

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Our Miss Pemberton: 4: Mirror, Mirror
Written by Philip King and Falkland Cary.
A story of life today in a small town.
(Natalie Kent is appearing in 'The Shadow of a Gunman' at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)

(See top of page and facing page)

From St. Helen's Ground in Swansea

For the Very Young
David Enders tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.30)

David Attenborough describes his adventures travelling through the islands of Indonesia in search of rare and interesting animals.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on October 12, 1956)
See page 6

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
A fortnightly series of programmes presenting news and views from the world of sport.

The strange tale of Uncle Harry's balloon and how it flew all over the world.
Told by Ian Hobbs and Rex.
(to 18.00)

Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

Shirley Abicair invites you to Go Round Merry with her and her guests Humphrey Lyttelton and The Coronets.
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[Starring] Fred Emney
with Betty Driver, Edwin Styles, Robin Richmond, Roger Avon and "Mr. Earlsfield".

A film directed by John Ford and based on four sea stories by Eugene O'Neill.
[Starring] John Wayne, Ian Hunter, Thomas Mitchell and Wilfred Lawson

Crashing through heavy seas and threatened by enemy action, a rusty tramp-steamer struggles to make port with a cargo of ammunition. For some of the crew the sea is an escape-for the others a life-long enslavement...
See facing page

The Experts:
Hugh Shortt, Curator, Salisbury Museum
Nicholas Thomas, Curator, Devizes Museum
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
v. The Challengers: The Royal Museum, Canterbury and the Museum, Carlisle
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

Followed by Weather; Road Works Report; Close Down