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

Ploughing - 3
John Hawkins of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering demonstrates making finishes.

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

Handling Potatoes
Stephen Mitchell of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering demonstrates the Stillage System.

Farm Visit
John Cherrington talks about his own farm at Tangley, near Andover.

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter/Item presenter (Farm Visit):
John Cherrington
Item presenter (Ploughing):
John Hawkins
Stories and pictures presented by (From the Farm Front):
A.C. Burton
Item presenter (Handling Potatoes):
Stephen Mitchell
Director:
David Martin
Producer:
Hilary Phillips
Film sequences:
The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit

A visit by outside broadcast cameras of the Welsh Television Unit to the tinplate works at Clydach near Swansea.
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas.

Today most of Britain's tinplate comes from huge modern stripmills, but there remain in South Wales a diminishing number of the old-style handmills. Here an old and honourable craft is still practised in the production of fine Welsh tinplate.
(The subject of next week's Spotlight will be announced at the end of this programme)

Contributors

Presenter:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Producer:
Selwyn Roderick
Producer:
Elwyn Thomas

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 31)

Contributors

Author:
E. Nesbit
Adapted by/Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Film Cameraman:
Peter Sargent
Film Editor:
Ron de Mattos
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Roberta:
Anneke Willys
Peter:
Cavan Kendall
Phyllis:
Sandra Michaels
Engine driver:
Edward Higgins
Mother:
Jean Anderson
Mr. Gill, the Stationmaster:
Donald Morley
Perks, the porter:
Richard Warner
The Old Gentleman:
Norman Shelley
District Railway Supervisor:
Clive Dunn
The Lovenian:
Denis de Marney
Mrs. Viney:
Hilda Barry
Also taking part:
Irene Richmond
Also taking part:
Stella Kemball
Also taking part:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Also taking part:
Madge Brindley
Also taking part:
Janet Bruce
Also taking part:
Leonard Kingston
Also taking part:
Anthony Broughton

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Musician:
Cy Grant
Singer:
Elizabeth Larner
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
Singer:
Alan Breeze
Singer:
Kathie Kay
Singers:
The High-Lights
Dancers:
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Script:
Jimmy Grafton
Choreographer/Associate Producer:
Leslie Roberts
Production:
Bill Cotton, Jnr.

by Kyle Crichton
Suggested by the book "My Philadelphia Father" by Cordelia Drexel Biddle and Kyle Crichton.
[Starring] Robert Beatty, Maureen Swanson, Daniel Massey in an excerpt

Televised by arrangement with Emile Littler, direct from the Cambridge Theatre, London

(See page 5)

Contributors

Writer/Author (My Philadelphia Father):
Kyle Crichton
Author (My Philadelphia Father):
Cordelia Drexel Biddle
Director:
Wallace Douglas
Costumes:
Anthony Holland
Settings:
George Jenkins
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
John Lawless:
John Wentworth
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle:
Robert Beatty
Cordelia Biddle:
Maureen Swanson
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle:
Gwynne Whitby
Livingstone Biddle:
Leo Maguire
Tony Biddle:
Vaughan Scott
Aunt Mary Drexel:
Marjory Hawtrey
Cousin Lucy:
Jacqueline Ellis
Emma:
Lisa Barnett
Joe Mancuso:
Alan Browning
Angier Duke:
Daniel Massey
Spike O'Malley:
Desmond Jeans

The experts are challenged to identify details from famous masterpieces.
The Experts: Professor Ellis Waterhouse, Michael Ayrton, Bryan Robertson
v.
The Challengers: Musees des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and Antwerp
Chairman, John Betjeman

Contributors

Expert:
Professor Ellis Waterhouse
Expert:
Michael Ayrton
Expert:
Bryan Robertson
Chairman:
John Betjeman
Presented by:
Nancy Thomas

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