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The Northern Scene: Durham
The city seen through the eyes of some women who live there.
Introduced by Rosalie Williams.
From the BBC's North of England studios

Quick and Easy Dressmaking
The second showing of the film of the beach dress demonstrated last Wednesday.

I've Just Been Reading
Margaret Lane suggests some new books for your library list and introduces a personality connected with one of the books.

Contributors

Presenter (The Northern Scene):
Rosalie Williams
Film sequences (The Northern Scene):
The BBC North Region Film Unit
Director (The Northern Scene):
Charles Farmer
Producer (The Northern Scene):
Olive Shapley
Presenter (I've Just Been Reading):
Margaret Lane
Producer (I've Just Been Reading):
Ann Shead

Vera McKechnie in Studio 'E' introduces

Round the World in Eighty Seconds
Arthur Garratt talks about cables and sends messages direct from Studio 'E' to faraway lands.

Tommy Reilly who plays the mouth-organ

Sandra, Kathie, and Rajani show you the holiday clothes they bought on a shopping expedition with Suzanne Villar.

Gordon and Colville show you how not to go camping

Holiday Snaps
with Neville Maude who tells you how to get the best out of your camera.

(Gordon and Colville are at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Skegness)

Contributors

Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Item presenter (Round the World in Eighty Seconds):
Arthur Garratt
Mouth-organist:
Tommy Reilly
Item presenter:
Suzanne Villar
Comedians:
Gordon and Colville
Item presenter (Holiday Snaps):
Neville Maude
Edited and produced by:
John Hunter Blair

Laurens van der Post in a series of six programmes tells of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert that he made in collaboration with the BBC.
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

'The price we pay for money is paid in liberty'
Who Said That?
Alan Melville questions John Betjeman, Anne Fleming, Judy Montagu, Gilbert Harding in a light-hearted enquiry into the origins and merits of some provocative quotations.

Contributors

Chairman:
Alan Melville
Panellist:
John Betjeman
Panellist:
Anne Fleming
Panellist:
Judy Montagu
Panellist:
Gilbert Harding
Presented by:
Kenneth Milne-Buckley

The last programme of the present series.
[Starring] Charlie Drake

featuring Warren Mitchell
and Robert Dorning, Ossie Waller, Ann Greenland, Peter Sinclair

Contributors

Script:
George Wadmore
Script:
Charlie Drake
Script:
Maurice Wiltshire
Incidental music:
Jackie Brown
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Devised and produced by:
George Inns
Comedian:
Charlie Drake
[Actor]:
Warren Mitchell
[Actor]:
Robert Dorning
[Actor]:
Ossie Waller
[Actress]:
Ann Greenland
[Actor]:
Peter Sinclair

(See below)

Old-Time Music-Hall from the City Varieties, Leeds
(By arrangement with Harry Joseph)
presents:
Arthur English, Jimmy Paige
Assisted by Carol Payne, Harold Smith, Alf Smith, and Dennis Lawes

Dawn White, Donovan and Hayes, Barbara Simpson, Jim Couton

Chairman, Leonard Sachs

Contributors

Chairman:
Leonard Sachs
Comedian:
Arthur English
Performer:
Jimmy Paige
Assisted by:
Carol Payne
Assisted by:
Harold Smith
Assisted by:
Alf Smith
Assisted by:
Dennis Lawes
Performer:
Dawn White
Acrobats:
Donovan and Hayes
Performer:
Barbara Simpson
Performer:
Jim Couton
Musical Director:
Alyn Ainsworth
Producer:
Barney Colehan

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