Newyddion am Gymru a Chymry.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace only)
yng nghwmni'r Deon, y Tra Pharchedig Eryl Thomas
Ceir gair hefyd gan yr Esgob, Y Gwir Barchedig Glyn Simon
Y telediad yng ngofal David J. Thomas
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace only)
(to 13.40)
A weekly date with Percy Thrower and his gardening friends.
This week he advises on: Planting blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes; cutting down chrysanthemums which have finished flowering; watering and care of a cyclamen plant.
His guest today is: Arthur Billitt who shows how a lot of colourful plants and shrubs can be grown in a backyard with the help of special but inexpensive cultivation methods. In this visit he shows the methods and tells of the preparatory work to be done during the winter for planting out next spring.
Produced by John Farrington in the BBC's Midland television studio
(A BBC telerecording)
Derek Oldham introduces Suzanne Rozsa, Alexander Young, Julian Bream, David Parkhouse and the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon) under its conductor Gentry Gerald.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
Seven days in thirty minutes
A television news feature recalling the week's outstanding events on film, with personalities, reports and expert analysis from studios at home and abroad.
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.
The members this week are: Barbara Wootton, Reg Butler, Gwyn Thomas, James Fisher
Question-Master, Norman Fisher
Questions should be addressed to: The Brains Trust, [address removed]
Sound-track to be repeated on Monday at 3.30 (Home)
Gambino, the great lion-tamer, is excited at the prospect of his son, Tony, joining the act, but when the lad arrives it is clear that he has no interest in the circus. Not until Gambino is lying helpless at the feet of one of his fiercest beasts does Tony realise his true destiny.
Assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett.
The exciting wartime adventure by Ian Serraillier.
Adapted by C. E. Webber into seven episodes.
with Father Agnellus Andrew O.F.M.
In this third visit, the Abbot and the youngest monk tell Father Agnellus why boys and men want to become monks.
(A BBC telerecording)
(to 18.15)
The Rt. Rev. Dr. George MacLeod believes that many people today regard Christmas almost sadly as 'just something for the children', 'a commercial racket', 'an excuse for a party': but even in a scientific age is man so self-sufficient and can God be ignored?
The first of three Advent programmes on the theme 'Christ comes to our World'.
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland
See page 4
Alan Melville introduces 'On Stage - London'
A programme of excerpts from current British stage successes.
Featured this week:
At the Drop of a Hat
An after-dinner farrago at the Fortune Theatre with Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Televised by arrangement with E.P. Clift and Jack Minster
The Boy Friend
at Wyndham's Theatre
with Patricia Webb, Anthony Hayes, Sheila Bernette, Ann Wakefield, Millicent Martin, Carole Gray, Betty Huntley-Wright, Eleanore McCready,
James Campbell, Norman Warwick, Brian Blades, Larry Drew, John Rutland, Beryl Cooke, Kim Grant, Stan Edwards.
Televised by arrangement with the Players Theatre
(See above and pages 4 and 9)
by Elmer Rice
Adapted for television by Ian Dallas
[Starring] Eli Wallach
A new production of Television Drama's most successful play.
The play takes place in the Law Offices of Simon and Tedesco, New York.
plays
Waltz in C sharp major, Op.64...Chopin
Mephisto Waltz: The Dance in the Village Inn...Liszt
Sir Cedric Hardwicke continues thinking of the men who failed Christ, one by denying him and another by washing his hands of him.
A film series by arrangement with Milo Film
Followed by Weather and Close Down
