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Your Own Time
A magazine of interest and entertainment for younger women.

The Pleasures of Painting: 5: Oils
Adrian Hill

It's a Woman's World
Introducing women to prove the point.

News Strikes Home
Reporter: Geoffrey Johnson Smith

For Your Entertainment
Kay Cavendish

Introduced by Pauline Tooth.

and
Quick and Easy Dressmaking: 15: Beach Outfit with Summer Skirt and panties
A French design filmed by Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
Demonstrated by Diana Crutchley.

A pamphlet, containing photographs, gives instructions for making the garments to be described in this second Quick and Easy Dressmaking series. This pamphlet is available (price 1s.) from [address removed] (Crossed postal order, please - not stamps.)

Contributors

Presenter (Your Own Time):
Pauline Tooth
Item presenter/Artist (The Pleasures of Painting):
Adrian Hill
Reporter (News Strikes Home):
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Pianist (For Your Entertainment):
Kay Cavendish
Producer:
Joyce Bullen
Dressmaker/Presenter (Quick and Easy Dressmaking):
Diana Crutchley

Lenny the Lion with Terry Hall.
Joan Regan, Don Saunders, 'Rusty', 'Hunt the Howlers' and Professor Jeremy who knows all the answers.
'Hunt the Howlers' is devised by Johnny Downes and written by Tony Hart.

Contributors

Ventriloquist:
Terry Hall
Singer:
Joan Regan
Comedian:
Don Saunders
Music:
The Bert Hayes Sextet
Producer/'Hunt the Howlers' devised by:
Johnny Downes
Writer (Hunt the Howlers):
Tony Hart

including:

The Cycling Chimps with Molly Badham

Orang-Utan's Bath Night with Frank Farrar

The Alsatians of the City of Glasgow Police

Birma and Valentino with Kay Smart

International Sheepdog Competition

A Lion in the House with James Walton

From the arena of the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

(Kay Smart appears by permission of Billy Smart's New World Circus, Ltd.)

Contributors

Trainer (The Cycling Chimps):
Molly Badham
Trainer (Orang-Utan's Bath Night):
Frank Farrar
Entertainer (Birma and Valentino):
Kay Smart
Trainer (A Lion in the House):
James Walton
Commentator:
Peter West
Orchestra Director:
Louis Freeman
Producer:
James Buchan

by Mary Webb
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Constance Cox
[Starring] Daphne Slater, Patrick Troughton
with Olga Lindo, Nora Nicholson, Henry Oscar

The action takes place at Beguildy's house at Plash Mere and at Sarn's Farm in Shropshire in the year 1812.
See page 7

Contributors

Author:
Mary Webb
Adapted by:
Constance Cox
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Mr. Beguildy:
Henry Oscar
Mrs. Beguildy:
Olga Lindo
Jancis Beguildy:
Petra Davies
Gideon Sarn:
Patrick Troughton
Prue Sarn:
Daphne Slater
Mr. Sarn:
Beckett Bould
Mrs. Sarn:
Nora Nicholson
Parson:
Graham Stuart
Tivvy:
Charmian Eyre

You are cordially invited to Rooftop
Girls-Glamour-Gaiety with The Nemecs, Janet Brown, Kay Porter, Maurice French and Joy, and The Television Toppers, Eric Robinson and his Orchestra.

Contributors

Performers:
The Nemecs
Comedienne:
Janet Brown
Performer:
Kay Porter
Roller skaters:
Maurice French and Joy
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Musicians:
Eric Robinson and his Orchestra
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Setting:
Douglas Smith
Devised and produced by:
Richard Afton

A special emigration edition.
Made in co-operation with the Commonwealth Governments

New Zealand
A diesel engineer finds comradeship in a mountain rescue.

Rhodesia
An English nurse finds her vocation.

Australia
Max Robertson interviews the Bates family.

Canada
A test pilot regains his wings.

Contributors

Interviewer (Australia):
Max Robertson
Research:
Mina Tedder
Film Editor:
Leslie Robertson
Producer:
Pamela Wilcox Bower

BBC Television

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