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

The Picture and the Painter
Adrian Hill talks about paintings and introduces S.R. Badmin, R.E., R.W.S.

Flower Calendar
This month: The Bergamot
Evelyn Gibbs

What an American thinks of British Women
Robert Abernethy, NBC reporter

For Your Entertainment
Tollefsen (accordion)

Introduced by Vera McKechnie.

Quick and Easy Dressmaking: 20: Beach Dress
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.) A folder for Women's Television Notes may be obtained from the same address-price 2s.

Contributors

Presenter (Your Own Time):
Vera McKechnie
Presenter (The Picture and the Painter):
Adrian Hill
Guest (The Picture and the Painter):
S.R. Badmin
Presenter (Flower Calendar):
Evelyn Gibbs
Interviewee (What an American thinks of British Women):
Robert Abernethy
Accordionist (For Your Entertainment):
null Tollefsen
Producer (Your Own Time):
Joyce Bullen
Dressmaker/Presenter (Quick and Easy Dressmaking):
Diana Crutchley

A serial play in six parts from Captain Marryat's novel
Adapted and produced by Naomi Capon
[Starring] Timothy Bateson as Peter Simple, Thomas Heathcote as Terence O'Brien

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast of January 13)

Contributors

Author:
Captain Marryat
Adapted by/Producer:
Naomi Capon
Peter Simple:
Timothy Bateson
Thomas Heathcote:
Terence O'Brien
Peter's father:
Peter Bull
Lord Privilege, his grandfather:
Kynaston Reeves
His uncle:
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Savage:
John Phillips
Sailor:
Patrick Cargill
Waiter:
Peter Diamond
Midshipmen - Fletcher:
Gawn Grainger
Midshipmen - Robinson:
David Edwards
Midshipmen - Thompson:
Cavan Malone
Dolly, an actress:
Denise Hirst
Landlady:
Madge Brindley
Mrs. Trotter:
Rosamund Greenwood
Mr. Trotter:
Joe Greig
Other parts played by:
Terry Baker
Other parts played by:
Kenneth Gilbert

Another adventure of the champ of the chumps with Raymond Rollett as Pushful, Bob Harris as Pieface.
At the piano, Tom McCall

(Raymond Rollett is appearing in "Love is Laughter" at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; Bob Harris is in "Salad Days" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Script:
David Edwards
Pianist:
Tom McCall
Presented by:
Vere Lorrimer
Pushful:
Raymond Rollett
Pierface:
Bob Harris

Laurens van der Post, in a series of six programmes tells of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert that he has made with the collaboration of the BBC.
He undertook the journey to fulfil a vow, made in his childhood, to seek out the remnant? of the first men of Africa - the Bushmen - who were reputed still to be living a Stone Age existence.
(This series was previously televised last summer)

Contributors

Presenter:
Laurens van der Post
Film Cameraman:
Duncan Abraham
Film Cameraman:
A. A. Englander
Film Editor:
Maurice Harvey
Presented by:
Andrew Miller Jones

Sit back in your chair And we'll take you there to see how
The World comes to Wales at Llangollen
where the Eleventh Festival of singing and dancing is being held this week with representatives of twenty-five countries taking part.
Outside broadcast cameras of the BBC's Welsh Television Unit are in the field adjoining the Pavilion, on the hillside, and in the streets of the little town on the banks of the River Dee.
The men - and the woman - on the spot: Hywel Davies, Berkeley Smith and Jacqueline Mackenzie

(See page 5)

Contributors

Reporter:
Hywel Davies
Reporter:
Berkeley Smith
Reporter:
Jacqueline Mackenzie
Producer:
David J. Thomas
Assistant Producer:
Meurig Jones
Series Editor:
Peter Webber

Written by Jenifer Wayne.
'...any person claiming kinship with the late Algernon Barfield of Mill House, Cotton Green, Bucks, is asked to communicate with Messrs. Wootton and Grey, Solicitors, of High Street, Cotton Green...'
But could you prove your claim?
The second of a series of programmes on Law and Order.

Contributors

Writer:
Jenifer Wayne
Producer:
Peter Lambert
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse

The first of a series of six programmes featuring the music of famous stage and film productions.
Recalled by 'The First Nighter' - Peter Graves
(See columns 1 and 2)

A series of six programmes featuring the music of famous stage and film productions
with Frank Chacksfield and his Studio Orchestra
Vanessa Lee, Elizabeth Larner
Denis Martin, John Harvey, Clive Dunn, Jefferson Clifford

Diana Courtenay, Marjorie Holt, Margaret Fraser, Ingrid Levin, Norma Morgan, Diana Rees, Janet Waters, Patricia Whitmore, Bowles Bevan, Robert Bowman, Derick Davies, John Delaney, John Mitchinson, John Stoddart

The Dancers: Jennifer Gayes, Anne Lascelles, Olga Purves, Stanley Holden, David Lusby, Arthur Wilman

Rowan Ayers writes on page 7
(John Harvey is appearing with Vernon Adcock and his Orchestra at the Rowel Bandstand, Weston-super-Mare)

Contributors

The First-Nighter:
Peter Graves
Musicians:
Frank Chacksfield and his Studio Orchestra
Singer:
Vanessa Lee
Singer:
Elizabeth Larner
Performer:
Denis Martin
Performer:
John Harvey
Performer:
Clive Dunn
Performer:
Jefferson Clifford
Performer:
Diana Courtenay
Performer:
Marjorie Holt
Performer:
Margaret Fraser
Performer:
Ingrid Levin
Performer:
Norma Morgan
Performer:
Diana Rees
Performer:
Janet Waters
Performer:
Patricia Whitmore
Performer:
Bowles Bevan
Performer:
Robert Bowman
Performer:
Derick Davies
Performer:
John Delaney
Performer:
John Mitchinson
Performer:
John Stoddart
The Dancers:
Jennifer Gayes
The Dancers:
Anne Lascelles
The Dancers:
Olga Purves
The Dancers:
Stanley Holden
The Dancers:
David Lusby
The Dancers:
Arthur Wilman
Script:
Frank Baker
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Production numbers staged by:
Denys Palmer
Musical Associate:
James Turner
Producer:
Charles R. Rogers

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