Newyddion am Gymru a Chymry.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace only)

Pigion o newyddion y mis
yng Nghymru , gan gynnwys ffilmiau o ddigwyddiadau yn yr wythnosau a aeth neiblo
Cyflwynir yr eitemau gan
Aled Rhys Wiliam
Y rhaglen dan ofal
T. Glynne Davies a Wynford Jones
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace only)

(to 13.20)

Direct from Milan.
Presented by the Italian Television Service

Seven days in thirty minutes
Recalling the week's outstanding events on film, with personalities, reports, and expert analysis.
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.

Vilem Tausky conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader, William Armon)
in a programme of light music
with June Bronhill, Oleg Briansky, Monia Liter, Kevin Scott, Patty Berrard, Maria Charles, Betty Laine, Jeanne Lusby, Joy Swanson, Margery Woodhams, Jean Lanceman, Norma Morgan, Diana Rees, Irene Robinson, Patricia Whitmore, Derick Davies, David Oddie, John Stoddart, Martin Taylor
Introduced by Roy Williams.

(June Bronhill appears by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company, Ltd.)
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(This programme is being broadcast simultaneously in the Light Programme)

The Brains Trust meets this afternoon to answer your questions.
The members this week are: Professor A.J. Ayer, F.B.A., Pamela Hansford Johnson, Dilys Powell, Michel Saint-Denis.
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)

The 'catcher' in a trapeze act has a difficult and responsible role. Alex, an expert catcher, is working with a new act when he is accused of allowing his old partners-Corky's parents - to fall to their death; he loses his confidence and refuses to perform. 'The show must go on!' but the aerialists are the star attraction, and how can they work without a catcher?

with Sweep and Harry Corbett.

The exciting wartime adventure
by C. E. Webber
Based on the novel by Ian Serraillier

(Gordon Tanner is appearing in "Be My Guest" at the Winter Garden Theatre, London)

An animated cartoon film telling the story of a boy at Christmastime - the candlemaker's son who failed in his duty and then was allowed to put things right.

(Film shown by arrangement with Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd.)
(to 18.20 app.)

The Rt. Rev. Dr. George MacLeod believes that we cannot celebrate the birth of Christ without remembering the refugees and war victims and undernourished children of 1957.
The last of three Advent programmes on the theme 'Christ comes to our World'.
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland

Starring Peter Lawford as 'Nick' and Phyllis Kirk as 'Nora' in the first of a new film series with Asta the dog.

Asta unearths some vital clues, but his cleverness only results in his being held as a hostage.

The famous farce by Ben Travers.

Between scenes, a song or three by the Whitehall 'Palm' Trio: Miss Beryl Ede (contralto), Mr. Thomas Watt (harmonium), Mr. George Chisholm (tenor trombone)
(Brian Rix, Basil Lord, Leo Franklyn, Larry Noble, Peter Mercier, Cicely Paget-Bowman, Diana Calderwood and Hazel Douglas are appearing in 'Dry Rot' at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
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The Adventures of a Friendly Duckling.
Story told by Johnny Morris.
Filmed and directed by Bertil Danielsson for the Swedish Television Service

Bertil Danielsson is a Swede who spends the summer on one of the 60,000 islands in the Stockholm archipelago. In this film he shows how he found and reared a young tufted duck which had become separated from its family there one spring. Tufty is fed on ants' eggs, mussels, and other delicacies, and becomes great friends with the Danielsson family and their dog.
This film was a prizewinner at the Radio and Television Festival in Taormina, Italy, this year.

A new television presentation of parts of Handel's famous oratorio.
With Patricia Clarke (soprano), Pamela Bowden (contralto), John Holmes (bass),
The Ambrosian Singers, The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Conductor, David Willcocks
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The Rev. Vernon Sproxton considers this great phrase, familiar to many people, from Handel's 'Messiah'.
Followed by Weather and Close Down