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Your Own Time
A light-hearted magazine for younger women.
Introduced by Robert Gladwell.

I'd Like to Know
Roma Fairley finds out about the urgency and excitement behind a topical cartoonist's 'deadline'.

Music for the Young in Heart
played by The Nat Temple Trio

Beauty Spot: Necklaces and Necklines
Pat Bowden shows you her choice.

An excerpt from a new musical film 'Les Girls' (by courtesy of M.G.M.) and Miss Bluebell talks about Les Girls Bluebell of Paris.

Quick and Easy Dressmaking: 29: Cocktail Dress
A French design filmed by Radio-diffusion-Television Francaise.
Demonstrated by Diana Crutchley.
Full instructions for making this Cocktail Dress are printed in the dressmaking supplement in this week's Radio Times.
A folder to hold all women's Television Notes printed as supplements in Radio Times can be obtained from [address removed]. Price 2s. post free. (Crossed postal order, please - not stamps.)
See page 57

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Contributors

Presenter (Your Own Time):
Robert Gladwell
Item presenter (I'd Like to Know):
Roma Fairley
Musicians (Music for the Young in Heart):
The Nat Temple Trio
Item presenter (Beauty Spot):
Pat Bowden
Item presenter (Les Girls Bluebell of Paris):
Miss Bluebell
Producer:
Joyce Bullen
Presenter/Dressmaker (Quick and Easy Dressmaking):
Diana Crutchley

Eamonn Andrews opens Playbox
Helped by Janet Brown and Ted Taylor with the music, Tony Hart with the drawings and the games in which two young teams take part.
Also
The Inter-Regional Quiz Championship
Cardiff challenges for the 'top of the league' position.
Positions to date:
Bristol: 70 points
Glasgow: 66 points
Birmingham: 60 points
Written and produced by Vere Lorrimer and Cliff Michelmore.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Co-presenter:
Janet Brown
Musician:
Ted Taylor
Drawings:
Tony Hart
Writer/producer:
Vere Lorrimer
Writer/producer:
Cliff Michelmore

Dave Morris invites you to join him in Club Night
Four Hands at the piano: Jimmy Leach and Harry Hayward
The Singing Clubmen
In Arrears: The 'Know-all' himself: Dave Morris

Contributors

Comedian:
Dave Morris
Pianist:
Jimmy Leach
Pianist:
Harry Hayward
Singers:
The Singing Clubmen
Scriptwriter:
Dave Morris
Scriptwriter:
Frank Roscoe
Producer:
Ronnie Taylor
Cedric:
Joe Gladwin
The Wacker:
Fred Ferris
Pongo Bleasdale:
Leonard Williams
Snuffy Hargreaves:
Frank Bass
The Secretary:
Dennis Lawes
The Steward:
Billy Smith
Fred the Fiddler:
Norman George

Written by Sidney Nelson and Maurice Harrison.
[Starring] Charlie Chester as Educated Evans, the famous character created by Edgar Wallace

Contributors

Writer:
Sidney Nelson
Writer:
Maurice Harrison
Character created by:
Edgar Wallace
Additional Dialogue:
Bernard Botting
Additional Dialogue:
Charles Hart
Producer:
Eric Fawcett
Mrs. Boltons:
Dorothy Summers
'Educated' Evans:
Charlie Chester
Det.-Sgt. Miller:
Jack Melford
The Hon. Frithington-Evans:
Fred Kitchen
Lady Brenda Herbans:
Georgina Cookson
Man in Pub:
Michael Balfour
Gertrude:
Myrtle Reed
Mrs. Wilkes:
Mal Bacon
Old Sam:
Leonard Sharp
Emma Toggs:
Patricia Hayes
Anatole:
Alfie Bass
Inspector Pine:
Keith Pyott
His Grace:
Hugh Barnett

A Francis Durbridge serial in six episodes.
[Starring] Stephen Murray, Dorothy Alison, Raymond Huntley
See page 9

Contributors

Writer:
Francis Durbridge
Producer:
Alan Bromly
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Clive Freeman:
Stephen Murray
Lucy Freeman:
Dorothy Alison
A voice:
Gerald Cross
Anna:
Marianne Walla
Janet Freeman:
Angela Ramsden
Mrs. Denby:
Iris Baker
Detective Inspector Kenton:
Raymond Huntley
Sergeant Brooks:
Edwin Brown
Sergeant Williams:
Frank Pemberton
Laurence Hudson:
John Sharplin
Ursula Wayne:
Anna Barry
Detective Superintendent Wilde:
Ernest Hare
Ruth Catthorpe:
Annabel Mauls

There are still many millions of Indians in South America who live today as primitively as their forefathers did centuries ago.
This film shows how the descendants of the old Inca Empire, who live in the high places of the Andes, are being helped by the Agencies of the United Nations to make a new and better life for themselves.
Commentary written by Paul Rotha and spoken by Colin Wills.
(Previously televised on November 28, 1956)

Contributors

Commentary written by:
Paul Rotha
Narrator:
Colin Wills
Photography:
Jorge Ruls
Editor:
Alf Chapman
Producer:
Anthony de Lotbinlere

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