Background to The Royal
A film on Norfolk farming, giving a picture of the main agricultural interests of Norfolk, the home of this year's Royal Show.

Livestock at The Royal
Television outside broadcast cameras look in on some of the judging, and Walter Stewart discusses outstanding livestock exhibits with judges and exhibitors.

Introduced by John Higgs.

This film shows you the wild life along the banks of an African river, the fascinating birds and the more sinister inhabitants, crocodiles and the monitor lizards that rob the crocodiles' nests. These reptiles are cruel; but the beautiful and the ugly both are true and exist side by side in Nature.
(This film was previously shown in evening transmission on March 8)

Boys of the world-famous Fram Gymnastic Club defy the laws of gravity in an outstanding display of skill and precision.
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A day in the life of one little hedgehog.
The story is told by Sylvia Peters.

Another visit to the Lawn Tennis Championships.

Presenting Henry Hall and his Orchestra in the first of a new fortnightly series
Starring Frankie Howerd, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Patti Lewis, Donald B. Stuart, The Petersen Brothers.
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Television cameras take you across the waters of Mount's Bay in Cornwall to visit St. Michael's Mount, the home of the St. Aubyn family for over three hundred years and one of the wonders of Britain for centuries.

A play by R.C. Sherriff.
[Starring] Peter Cushing and Helen Shingler

The action takes place in early autumn at the Prestons' home in Bromley, Kent.
(A BBC Telerecording of the broadcast on August 12, 1956)

The Viking ships now preserved at Oslo were some of the finest sea-going craft ever built. Glyn Daniel and George Naish, of the National Maritime Museum, tell the story of the earliest boats in Northern Europe and how they developed into ships that were capable of crossing the Atlantic.

A BBC television film of some of the highlights of the day's play at Wimbledon.

followed by Weather and Close Down