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A weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

A pamphlet giving notes on these exercises (price 9d.) and a folder for Women's Television Notes (price 25.) may be obtained, post free, from [address removed] (Crossed postal order, please--not stamps.)

Contributors

Exerciser:
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by:
Ann Shead
Presented by:
Desmond O'Leary

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

In which Mr. Peggotty embarks on "The Beginning of a Long Journey" and in which Betsey Trotwood astonishes her nephew and with the help of Traddles and Mr. Dick determines to "meet reverses boldly".
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on November 16, 1956)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Stuart Burge
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Mrs. Steerforth:
Mary Hinton
Rosa Dartle:
Gwendoline Watford
Daniel Peggotty:
George Woodbridge
David Copperfield:
Robert Hardy
Miss Clarissa Spenlow:
Nora Nicholson
Miss Lavinia Spenlow:
Joan Hickson
Miss Dora Spenlow:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Jip:
Champion Golden Days Penn Rose of St. Lucia
Mrs. Crupp:
Vi Stevens
Richard Babley ('Mr. Dick'):
Richard Goolden
Miss Betsey Trotwood:
Sonia Dresdel
Mr. Francis Spenlow:
Andre van Gyseghem
Thomas Traddles:
Bernard Cribbins

where Patricia Lewis introduces a light-hearted entertainment with Eddie McDonald,
Joan Manning, Tony Raine, Jack Train, Peter Cavanagh, The Blonde Toppers and Nat Temple and his Orchestra.

Contributors

Presenter:
Patricia Lewis
Singer:
Eddie McDonald
Singer:
Joan Manning
Pianist:
Tony Raine
Comedian:
Jack Train
Impressionist:
Peter Cavanagh
Dancers:
The Blonde Toppers
Musicians:
Nat Temple and his Orchestra
Designer:
George Djurkovic
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Producer:
Richard Afton

McDonald Hobley invites you Up for the Cup.
A fortnightly test of knowledge, skill, and cunning between football supporters' clubs
With Leslie Welch the "Memory Man" and Robin Richmond at the electric organ.

Contributors

Presenter:
McDonald Hobley
The Memory Man:
Leslie Welch
Organist:
Robin Richmond
Devised and written by:
Dennis Yates
Presented by:
Kenneth Milne-Buckley

by Sir Walter Scott
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Vincent Tilsley
[Starring] Maxine Audley and Robin Bailey

The action takes place at Greenwich Palace; in the City of London: and at Cumnor, near Oxford. Time: 1575

Contributors

Author:
Sir Walter Scott
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Producer:
Chloe Gibson
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Elizabeth I, Queen of England:
Maxine Audley
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester:
Robin Bailey
Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex:
Manning Wilson
Bowyer, Usher of the Black Rod:
James Roughead
Walter Raleigh:
Stuart Hutchison
Edmund Blount:
Howard Lamb
Edmund Tressilian:
Paul Eddington
Richard Varney:
Anthony Newlands
Wayland Smith:
Alan Edwards
Dr. Doboobie:
John Wood
Zacharias Yoglan:
Paul Hardtmuth
Amy Robsart:
Ann Firbank
Janet:
Margaret Tysack
Anthony Foster:
Robert Hunter
Other parts played by:
Owen Berry
Other parts played by:
Clive Goodwin
Other parts played by:
McArthur Gordon
Other parts played by:
Patricia Key
Other parts played by:
Raymond Lloyd
Other parts played by:
Derek Nimmo
Other parts played by:
James Page
Other parts played by:
Graham Roe
Other parts played by:
Lionel Wheeler

Men and women from Asian countries put questions to The Rt. Hon. Sir Norman Birkett on "Justice and the Law".
Chairman, Anil de Silva

A recording of this meeting of Asian Club will be broadcast in the regular weekly series in the Far Eastern and Eastern Services of the BBC.

Contributors

Panellist:
Sir Norman Birkett
Chairman:
Anil de Silva
Producer:
Philip Daly
Producer:
Rex Moorfoot

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