BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras visit Kempton Park Racecourse to see some of the principal races on the first day of the January Meeting.

2.0 Weybridge Novice Steeplechase over two-and-a-half miles

2.30 Lonsdale Handicap Hurdle over two miles

3.0 Easter Hero Handicap Steeplechase over three miles m

Harry Middleton identifies the runners and riders in the Paddock before each race.

The fourth of a new weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland studio
A pamphlet giving notes on these exercises (price 9d.) and a folder for Women's Television Notes (price 1s. 9d.) may be obtained, post free, from [address removed]

Bruce Seton in a film from this series.

For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.05)

by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television in thirteen weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley

In which takes place a famous meeting between Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Murdstone. And in which David is sent from Dover to Canterbury where he is a new boy in more senses than one.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on October 19, 1956)

Presented by the Don Harper Quartet.

Jess Yates invites you to join him for news and views from the world of films.
and Off the Set; Come and Meet a Star
(to 18.00)

Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

[Starring] Joan Davis in the film series I Married Joan

McDonald Hobley invites you Up for the Cup.
A new fortnightly test of knowledge, skill, and cunning between football supporters' clubs.
Linesman, Leslie Welch
Devised and written by Dennis Yates.

Per Host, the Norwegian explorer, shows another film he has taken during his travels in the remoter parts of the world.
(See below)

by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Constance Cox and Ian Dallas.
[Starring] Joyce Redman and Alan Badel

The action takes place in Mr. John Pooler's house, Fulham; Becky's house in Curzon Street; and Mr. Osborne's house, Russell Square. Time: 1816
(Alan Badel appears by courtesy of British Lion Films, Ltd.)

On the eve of the Latvian Independence Day BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras visit a hostel at Westwells, in Wiltshire, where men who have been forced to leave the Baltic countries and the Ukraine are able to accommodate their families until they can find "a home of their own".
Introduced by Max Robertson.

People who make the news face questions from people who write the news.

(A BBC telerecording)
Followed by Weather and Close Down