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A weekly agricultural magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by Ted Owens.

Education for Agriculture: Peter Evans Williams, formerly Principal of the Leicestershire and Rutland Farm Institute and now farming on his own account, investigates present day agricultural education. The programme includes visits to Leeds University, Harper Adams Agricultural College and the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture.

Scottish Dairy Show: Harry Hoggan reports from Glasgow.

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Ted Owens
Reporter (Education for Agriculture):
Peter Evans Williams
Reporter (Scottish Dairy Show):
Harry Hoggan
Film sequences:
The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit
Cameraman:
John Bird
Film Editor:
Iris Lewis
Director:
John McGonagle
Producer:
Hilary Phillips

About the Home

Cookery Club
Eric Morrell, Chef de cuisine of a London club shows how to cook a Fillet of Sole with mushrooms and shrimps.
Ingredients:
Two 11 lb. filleted Dover Soles 16 button mushrooms
2 oz. shrimps or prawns
1 teaspoonful finely chopped shallot Lemon juice; salt
For Sauce:
3/4 oz. butter or margarine
3/4 oz. plain flour
Stock from cooked fish
Method:
Butter dish for cooking of fillets of soles, and sprinkle with chopped shallots; then put in the folded and prepared fillets. Add juice of lemon, salt, shrimps or prawns.
Cover with buttered paper, bring to boiling point, and place in oven till cooked (about 6 minutes at 340°c).
Prepare mushrooms and cook in a little butter and lemon juice. Place 3/4 oz. butter in pan, allow to melt, then add 3/4 oz. flour, and cook until a sandy texture. Remove fish from oven and make sauce from the liquid. Allow to simmer while preparing serving dish.
Keep fish warm. Pipe dish with duchesse potatoes and brown under grill. Place fillets on prepared dish, then decorate with mushrooms. Finish sauce with a little cream and pour over fish.

Around the Shops
Some household goods which merit 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.

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

3.15 Our Miss Pemberton: 19: Missing from Home
Written by Sheila Hodgson.

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Presenter (About the Home):
Joan Gilbert
Chef (Cookery Club):
Eric Morrell
Item presenter (Around the Shops):
Margaret Douglas
Item presenter (Housework with Ease):
Doris Robertson
Producer (About the Home):
Ann Shead
Writer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Sheila Hodgson
Editor (Our Miss Pemberton):
Philip King
Editor (Our Miss Pemberton):
Falkland Cary
Producer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Richard Gilbert
Geof Patterson:
Terence Soall
Mrs. Carter:
Natalie Kent
Mary Pemberton:
Margot Boyd
Barry Hale:
John Symonds
Paul Bassett:
Roderick Lovell
Edgar Hale:
Edward Higgins

The adventures of the famous Western Stagecoach Service
with Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie, the Wells Fargo special investigator.

A new driver insists that he can cope alone without any help from the man from Headquarters. But perhaps it's just as well that the official, Jim Hardie, goes along for the ride.

Contributors

Jim Hardie:
Dale Robertson

Another play by S.G. Hulme Beaman
(BBC telerecording)

Contributors

Writer/Illustrator:
S.G. Hulme Beaman
Voices:
Rosemary Miller
Voices:
Peter Hawkins
Voices:
Noel Coleman
Voices:
Roy Skelton
Puppeteer:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly Gibson
Puppeteer:
Elizabeth Thorndike
Puppeteer:
Bob Bura
Puppeteer:
John Hardwick
Puppets/Producer:
Gordon Murray
Settings:
Andrew Brownfoot

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

Contributors

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

Cyril Stapleton presents Show Band Parade
featuring his Show Band in popular music of yesterday, today, and tomorrow with Petula Clark, The Southlanders, The Peter Crawford Trio, Tony Gibbons, Sheila O'Neill, Bob Stevenson and The Dancers, The Show Band Singers
Directed by Cliff Adams

Contributors

Presenter/bandleader:
Cyril Stapleton
Singer:
Petula Clark
Singers:
The Southlanders
Singers:
The Peter Crawford Trio
Singer:
Tony Gibbons
Dancer:
Sheila O'Neill
Dancer:
Bob Stevenson
Singers:
The Show Band Singers
[Singers] directed by:
Cliff Adams
Production scenes staged by:
Alfred Rodrigues
Producer:
Graeme Muir

The News Chronicle offers £7,500 to 'Go Getters'
A new competition based on 'Be Your Own Boss' televised each week direct from the public hearing in London as contestants answer the question 'How would you spend £5,000 to get ahead?'
See page 7

Contributors

Judge:
Sir Frederic Hooper
Judge:
Mrs. Gerald Legge [Raine McCorquodale]
Judge:
George Woodcock
Chairman:
Kenneth Horne
Director:
Derek Borrell-Davis

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