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A weekly agricultural magazine for those who live by the land introduced by John Cherrington.

Harry Hoggan interviews Margaret Warnock of Eastfield of Coulter, at Biggar in Lanarkshire, about her visit to Wyoming and Minnesota.

From the Farm Front
Stories and pictures presented by A. C. Burton.

Ploughing: 2
John Hawkins demonstrates correct plough setting.

Farm Visit
Teleri Phillips calls at Llwyn Farm, Llanddewi Brefi, near Tregaron, Cardiganshire, and is shown around by Ieuan Jones.

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Interviewer:
Harry Hoggan
Interviewee:
Margaret Warnock
Stories and pictures presented by (From the Farm Front):
A.C. Burton
Item presenter (Ploughing):
John Hawkins
Item presenter (Farm Visit):
Teleri Phillips
Farmer (Farm Visit):
Ieuan Jones
Director:
David Martin
Producer:
Hilary Phillips
Film sequences:
The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit

Outside Broadcast cameras of the BBC Television Service take you on a visit to A Local Newspaper to find out how it is run and to discuss some of the problems that have to be faced week by week.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.

(The subject of next week's "Spotlight" will be announced at the end of this programme)

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Dimbleby
Producer:
Ivan Gilman

Around the Shops
Some household goods selected as meriting special attention.
Shown by Margaret Douglas.

Housework with Ease
Demonstrated by Doris Robertson of the Scottish Council of Physical Recreation.
From the BBC's Scottish television studio

Flower Arrangement
Constance Spry shows how to make the best use of dried flowers and leaves.

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

(to 15.15)

Contributors

Item presenter (Around the Shops):
Margaret Douglas
Item presenter (Housework with Ease):
Doris Robertson
Florist/item presenter (Flower Arrangement):
Constance Spry
Presenter:
Joan Gilbert
Producer:
Ann Shead

A serial in eight parts adapted for television from the book by E. Nesbit and produced by Dorothea Brooking

The action of the serial takes place in the year 1906.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on March 17, 1957)

Contributors

Author:
E. Nesbit
Adapted by/Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Film Cameraman:
Peter Sargent
Film Editor:
Ron de Mattos
Bobbie:
Anneke Willys
Dr. Forrest:
John Stuart
Phyllis:
Sandra Michaels
Peter:
Cavan Kendall
Mrs. Viney:
Hilda Barry
Mother:
Jean Anderson
Workman:
Paddy Ward
Woman passenger:
Kathleen St. John
The old gentleman:
Norman Shelley
Perks, the porter:
Richard Warner
Man passenger:
Michael Segal

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Macdonald Hastings and this week: Cy Grant.

Contributors

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

Billy Cotton calls Wakey, Wakey! in The Billy Cotton Band Show
with Alan Breeze and Kathie Kay.
Also involved
The High-Lights, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes and a guest star from the world of entertainment.

Contributors

Presenter/Bandleader:
Billy Cotton
Musicians:
The Billy Cotton Band
Singer:
Alan Breeze
Singer:
Kathie Kay
Singers:
The High-Lights
Dancers:
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Scriptwriter:
Jimmy Grafton
Choreographer/Associate Producer:
Leslie Roberts
Production:
Bill Cotton, Jnr.

by St. John Ervine
[Starring] Margaretta Scott, Anthony Bushell and Kynaston Reeves
From the BBC's West of England studio
See page 5

Robert Carson in St. John Ervine's famous play is Vicar of St. Michael and All Angels in the southern industrial town of Combermere; his wife Sanchia is a doctor.

They are a happy and well-matched couple but events come to show the truth of Robert's remark to Sanchia that "your idea that a husband and wife can keep their careers in separate compartments is all very well in theory, but in practice, it doesn't work." For Sanchia's pet project, a birth-control clinic, bitterly resented by a neighbouring clergyman, becomes an issue which affects Robert's chances of advancement in the Church, and family affairs are further complicated by the activities of Bob, son of Robert's first marriage and a militant left-wing pacifist. The date, bear in mind, is 1937.

Contributors

Author:
St. John Ervine
Producer:
John Irving
Designer:
Desmond Chinn
June Hanvey:
Linda Dixon
Anne:
Patricia Burness
Miss Orley:
Constance Chapman
Sanchia Carson:
Margaretta Scott
The Rev. Robert Carson:
Anthony Bushell
The Bishop of Winterbury:
Kynaston Reeves
Bob:
Ian Holm
Chief Inspector John Lindsey:
Charles Saynor
Inspector Futvoye:
Billy Poeton
Mrs. Armitage:
Elsie Wagstaff
The Rev. Arthur Jefferson:
Michael Hitchman

A challenge on railways and railway architecture chosen by John Betjeman and John Gray.
The Experts:
C. Hamilton Ellis, Author and Consultant on Mechanical Antiquities
Canon Roger Lloyd
John Summerson, Curator, Sir John Soane's Museum
Chairman, John Betjeman

Contributors

[Objects] chosen by/chairman:
John Betjeman
[Objects] chosen by:
John Gray
Expert:
C. Hamilton Ellis
Expert:
Canon Roger Lloyd
Expert:
John Summerson
Presented by:
Nancy Thomas

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More