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Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
A weekly series of exercises to music.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Our Miss Pemberton: 5: A Narrow Escape
Written by Sheila Hodgson.
A story of life today in a small town.

(to 15.00)

Contributors

Presenter (Keep Fit):
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by (Keep Fit):
Ann Shead
Presented by (Keep Fit):
Desmond O'Leary
Writer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Sheila Hodgson
Editor (Our Miss Pemberton):
Philip King
Editor (Our Miss Pemberton):
Falkland Cary
Producer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Richard Gilbert
Geof Patterson:
Terence Soall
Barry Hale:
John Symonds
Avis Douglas:
Jocelyne Rhodes
Miss Copley:
Aimee Delamain
Mary Pemberton:
Margot Boyd
Betty Tibbetson:
Julia Worth
A stranger:
Michael Ely

Look around with Cliff Michelmore and Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Cy Grant, Diane Todd and Special this week: Twenty-one Years of Television: Memorable Moments: 1956-1957

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer/guitarist:
Cy Grant
Singer:
Diane Todd
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

David Nixon says It's Magic and introduces a thirty-minute mixture of mystery and music with Howard de Courcy, Percy Press, Sheila Holt, Tom Gillis and a panel of well-known guests to see fair play.

Contributors

Presenter/magician:
David Nixon
Conjurer:
Howard de Courcy
Conjurer:
Percy Press
Assistant:
Sheila Holt
Dancer:
Tom Gillis
Orchestra director:
George Clouston
Orchestrations:
Alan Bristow
Producer:
Graeme Muir

The Sportsview Unit looks back on the world's greatest sports stars in action.
Tonight's stars: Jack 'Kid' Berg, Harold Larwood
Introduced by Raymond Glendenning.

Contributors

Presenter:
Raymond Glendenning
Guest/boxer:
Jack 'Kid' Berg
Guest/cricketer:
Harold Larwood
Devised and written by:
Paul Fox
Devised and written by:
Ronnie Noble
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill

by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television by Vincent Tilsley

In which Ralph swears that he would not give his nephew one grasp of his hand to save him from the loftiest gallows in Europe; and in which Nicholas promises that, sooner or later, there will come a day of reckoning.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Vincent Tilsley
Director:
Eric Tayler
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
A footman:
Robert Bryan
Alphonse:
Colin McClean
Mrs. Nickleby:
Gillian Lind
Kate Nickleby:
Jennifer Wilson
Mrs. Julia Wititterly:
Veronica Turleigh
Mr. Henry Wititterly:
William Mervyn
Ralph Nickleby:
Malcolm Keen
Sir Mulberry Hawk:
Douglas Wilmer
Lord Frederick Verisopht:
Jack May
Mr. Pluck:
Victor Platt
Mr. Pyke:
Graham Crowden
Nicholas Nickleby:
William Russell
Newman Noggs:
Richard Wordsworth
Smike:
Brian Peck

Jack Payne introduces stars and personalities who are Off the Record
together with the latest news from the record industry.
Max Bygraves, The Deep River Boys, Lita Roza, Jimmy Young, Lorrae Desmond, Camilleri, Kenny Baker's Half-Dozen, The Concert Orchestra and the George Mitchell Singers.
Conducted by Stanley Black

(The Deep River Boys are in Variety at the Chiswick Empire, London; Max Bygraves is in "We're Having a Ball" at the London Palladium and was specially filmed for this programme)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jack Payne
Singer:
Max Bygraves
Singers:
The Deep River Boys
Singer:
Lita Roza
Singer:
Jimmy Young
Singer:
Lorrae Desmond
Accordionist:
null Camilleri
Musicians:
Kenny Baker's Half-Dozen
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Conductor:
Stanley Black
Producer:
James Gilbert

Television Tomorrow is discussed by:
Sir Kenneth Clark, K.C.B.
Dr. Hilde Himmelweit, Reader in Social and Industrial Psychology at London University
Dr. J. Bronowski
Dr. Glynne Wickham, Head of the Drama Department, Bristol University
Chairman, Robert McKenzie

(Also broadcast in the Home Service)

Contributors

Chairman:
Robert McKenzie
Panellist:
Sir Kenneth Clark
Panellist:
Dr. Hilde Himmelweit
Panellist:
Dr. Jacob Bronowski
Panellist:
Dr. Glynne Wickham
Producer:
Catherine Dove

Seven years of Television across the continent of Europe
In 1950 viewers in Britain saw their first live programme from another country when BBC cameras went to Calais. Today twelve European countries are joined in a permanent link and this film reminds us of the highlights in that seven-year story.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.
See page 6

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Dimbleby
Editor:
Ron Spillane
Producer:
Alan A. Richardson

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