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The two most important foods in Malaya, rice and fish, are produced largely by Malays. This programme about Malay village life shows how many Malays earn their living, and how they and their families may spend their leisure time.
Introduced by Zain Azraai.

Contributors

Presenter:
Zain Azraai
Producer:
Peggie Broadhead

Family Affairs

Photographing Children: Out of Doors
Lisa Sheridan shows how to make the most of the family camera this spring and summer.

Married to a Gypsy
Audrey and Tony Butler-tell Elizabeth Robinson about the Romany way of life.

Mothering Sunday
British and American versions of an old custom, discussed by people who keep it today.

Introduced by Betty Lait.

3.15 Tell Me Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
Letters should be sent to Dr. Winifred de Kok, [address removed]

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Item presenter (Photographing Children):
Lisa Sheridan
Interviewee (Married to a Gypsy):
Audrey Butler
Interviewee (Married to a Gypsy):
Tony Butler
Presenter (Family Affairs):
Betty Lait
Producer (Family Affairs):
Beryl Radley
Presenter (Tell Me Doctor):
Dr. Winifred de Kok

A serial adapted from the novel by Elisabeth Kyle

(Michael Balfour is appearing in "The Iceman Cometh" at the Arts Theatre; James Cairncross and Joe Greig in "Salad Days" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Elisabeth Kyle
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
David Goddard
Mick Fairbairn:
Frazer Hines
Mr. Fairbairn:
James Cairncross
Mrs. Fairbairn:
Katherine Page
Mr. Almond:
Tim Hudson
Archie Almond:
Andrew Irvine
Lindy Gaunt:
Shandra Walden
Mrs. Almond:
Barbara Cavan
Mrs. Kippen:
Betty Henderson
Mr. Kippen:
John Dunbar
Captain Gaunt:
Michael Balfour
Lucky:
Joe Greig

A series of wild-life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.

H. G. Hurrell lives on the southern edge of the moor and has unique opportunities both for observing and for keeping animals. In this programme he illustrates some of the results of his work as a camera observer by film taken on his own Devon doorstep.
From the BBC's West of England studio
(Previously televised on February 5)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Guest/Filmmaker:
H.G. Hurrell
Producer:
Nicholas Crocker

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and Rory McEwen, Marion Grimaldi

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer/guitarist:
Rory McEwen
Singer:
Marion Grimaldi
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

Another in the series of fortnightly programmes in which artists new to television are presented by Eric Robinson.
This week's artists include: The Four Buddies, Cyril Humphris, Roy Rivers, Terry Turner, Billy Russell's Comedy Chimpanzees
Presented by Sylvano Orchestra conducted by George Clouston
(Leader, David McCallum)

Contributors

Presenter:
Eric Robinson
Group:
The Four Buddies
Performer:
Cyril Humphris
Unicyclist:
Roy Rivers
Performer:
Terry Turner
Musicians:
Sylvano Orchestra
[Orchestra] conducted by:
George Clouston
[Orchestra] leader:
David McCallum
Scriptwriter:
Freddie Robertson
Producer:
Albert Stevenson

A dramatised documentary by Elaine Morgan

A black furrow in a once-green valley - a site for opencast coal mining, fiercely opposed by the local people, who are miners themselves. The action is set in Wales, but the problems and conflicts raised are common to all parts of coal-bearing Britain.
Special material by courtesy of the National Coal Board
See page 5

Contributors

Writer:
Elaine Morgan
Producer:
John Elliot
Director:
David E. Rose
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Film Cameraman:
James Balfour
Film Editor:
Ian Callaway

A series of outside broadcasts from hospitals in England, Scotland and Wales.

From Stratton, near Bude, in Cornwall.
The series is introduced by a physician in the Department of Medicine in a London hospital.

Contributors

Presenter:
A physician [name uncredited]
Film Sequences:
West Regional Film Unit
Film Editor:
Leslie Robertson
Director (London):
Tom Millett
Producer:
Peter Webber
Series prepared by:
Bill Duncalf

A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party
Members of the panel including The Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, M.P., Sidney Dye, J.P., M.P. and Mrs. Phyllis Stedman answer questions put by members of the audience in the Library Hall, Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
Chairman, Francis Williams
Introduced by Dr. Gordon Evans, Prospective Parliamentary Labour candidate for Buckingham

Contributors

Panellist:
The Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, M.P.
Panellist:
Sidney Dye, J.P., M.P.
Panellist:
Mrs. Phyllis Stedman
Chairman:
Francis Williams
Presenter:
Dr. Gordon Evans

'Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind'
Gilbert Harding, Sir Miles Thomas, David Daiches, Ludovic Kennedy are invited by Lionel Hale to identify some similar quotations and then to discuss their merits.

Contributors

Panellist:
Gilbert Harding
Panellist:
Sir Miles Thomas
Panellist:
David Daiches
Panellist:
Ludovic Kennedy
Presenter:
Lionel Hale
Presented by:
Michael Mills

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