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Family Affairs

Decay in Children's Teeth - 1
Professor Alexander MacGregor

Families of Other Lands: Israel
by Pearl Binder.

Introduced by Gwen Farrow

and
It's a Small World: Queen Mary's Art Treasures
(A BBC film previously shown on June 20, 1954)

Contributors

Item presenter (Decay in Children's Teeth):
Professor Alexander MacGregor
Item presenter (Families of Other Lands):
Pearl Binder
Presenter:
Gwen Farrow
Producer:
Beryl Radley
Commentator (It's a Small World):
Olive Gregg
Cameraman (It's a Small World):
Ken Higgins
Producer (It's a Small World):
David Attenborough

by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A serial in five parts adapted for television by Josephine Smith Wright

The action takes place in the late nineteenth century.
(Laidman Browne is appearing in "A Dead Secret" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adapted by:
Josephine Smith Wright
Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Designer:
Laurence Broadhouse
Film Sequences:
The Children's Film Unit
Mary:
Mollie Maureen
Mrs. Errol:
Mary Holland
Mr. Wilkins, a groom:
Peter Collingwood
The Earl of Dorincourt:
Laidman Browne
Cedric Errol:
Richard O'Sullivan
Mr. Thomas, a footman:
Ivor Salter
Minna, 'Lady Fauntleroy':
Margaret Gordon
Other parts played by:
Nelly Griffiths

in which Richard Murdoch introduces Frank Paul and Robert Nathan, Erica Yorke, Mai Bacon
and The Harry Engleman Players
Conducted by Harry Engleman
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter/Additional material:
Richard Murdoch
Telepath:
Frank Paul
Telepath:
Robert Nathan
Singer:
Erica Yorke
Comedienne:
Mai Bacon
Musicians:
The Harry Engleman Players
Conductor:
Harry Engleman
Script:
David Campton
Script:
Richard Wade
Producer:
Barrie Edgar

from the Television Theatre
with Semprini, The Keynotes also introducing Guest Artists
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes

Contributors

Singer:
Vera Lynn
Pianist:
null Semprini
Singers:
The Keynotes
Dancers:
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Choreographer/Associate Producer:
Leslie Roberts
Orchestra conducted by:
Woolf Phillips
Script:
Freddie Robertson
Producer:
Albert Stevenson

by Janet Allen.
[Starring] Fay Compton with Mary Kerridge
From the BBC's Welsh television studio
See above

at 8.45
Harriett Coates is the most powerful character in tonight's play, but she does not appear in the cast: she has in fact been dead for some years before the play opens.
Since Harriett's presence is strongly felt throughout the action, Kind Cousin is a ghost story; but it is also more than that. Janet Allen, the author, has drawn a strong picture of conflicting loyalties in the setting of an old manor-house in the country.
There is the dead woman's sister, Sarah, now in possession of the house but prevented by illness from caring for it as her sister would have wished; there is Abby, the housekeeper, watchful of her mistress's interests; there is Anna, the kind cousin, the poor relation about whom so little is known, slowly and insidiously taking possession of the manor; and Harriett herself, though dead, still possessing the house more strongly than any of the living.

Contributors

Author:
Janet Allen
Producer:
Dafydd Gruffydd
Designer:
Donald Horne
Abby, the housekeeper:
Marjorie Forsyth
Sarah Coates:
Fay Compton
Anna the kind cousin:
Mary Kerridge
Dr. Weston:
Frank Forsyth
Edward, Sarah's nephew:
Ian Colin
Nora, his wife:
Mary Quinn
Nurse Halliday:
Margaret Anderson

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