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Introduced by Hugh Ross Williamson.
A comment on some of the bad schools of the last century illustrated by extracts from BBC telerecordings of drama productions.
Nicholas Nickleby: Dotheboys Hall with Esmond Knight as 'Squeers'
and Vanity Fair: Miss Pinkerton's Academy with Joyce Redman as 'Becky Sharp'

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugh Ross Williamson
Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby):
Esmond Knight
Becky Sharp (Vanity Fair):
Joyce Redman
Arranged by:
Rosemary Hill
Producer:
Ronald Eyre

A programme of pets for people with pets.
Peter West and Stanley Dangerfield go to Leeds where they are invited to a special session of an Obedience Training School for dogs.
Also featuring
The Goon
and This week's special item: Pigeons
A fortnightly series edited by Stanley Dangerfield
From the Carlton (Old) Barracks, Leeds

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter West
Presenter/editor:
Stanley Dangerfield
Producer:
Humphrey Fisher

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

Contributors

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

Written by Sidney Nelson and Maurice Harrison.
[Starring] Wilfred Pickles

Contributors

Writer:
Sidney Nelson
Writer:
Maurice Harrison
Producer:
G. B. Lupino
Wilfred Caxton:
Wilfred Pickles
Mabel Caxton:
Mabel Pickles
Sally Caxton:
Mary Webster
Charlie Haskell:
Richard Curnock
Miss Brearley:
Evelyn Lund
Willie:
Peter Hodoson
Sam Widgeon:
Allan Bracewell
Buddy:
Jay Evans
Mortimer Benson:
Wensley Pithey

For thirty minutes life is seen through the eyes of Mum and Dad, Vi, Lil, Nell, and Eileen - four sisters with four husbands. They are the Gladden family, and they all live within a stone's throw of each other in the East End of London, with eight children and a budgerigar.
Introduced by Robert Reid.
Written and produced by Stephen Hearst.
See page 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Reid
Photographed by:
Charles de Jaeger
Film editor:
Ian Callaway
Writer/producer:
Stephen Hearst

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Dramatised for television by A.R. Rawlinson
with Peter Sallis as Samuel Pepys

The action is set in the City of London and in Westminster in 1660.

Contributors

Author:
Samuel Pepys
Dramatised by:
A.R. Rawlinson
Producer:
Chloe Gibson
Music composed by:
Christopher Whelen
Film sequences photographed by:
Douglas Wolfe
Film Editor:
James Colina
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Samuel Pepys:
Peter Sallis
Elizabeth Pepys:
Susan Maryott
Jane, the maid:
Susan Spear
Clerk:
Colin Broadley
Hawley:
Noel Davis
William Bowyer:
Howard Lamb
George Downing:
Martin Sterndale
Will Shepley:
Bruce Stewart
John Crew:
Richard Williams
The landlord's daughter:
Patricia Key
Small boy:
Maurice Bennice
General George Monk:
John Arnatt
Sir Edward Montagu:
Manning Wilson
John Pepys, Sam's father:
Frederick Peisley
Mistress Pepys, Sam's mother:
Kathleen Williams
Pall Pepys, Sam's sister:
Patricia Heneghan
Clerks, officers and troopers in General Monk's army, servants, landlord and customers of The Swan Tavern, citizens at the bonfire celebrations:
[artists uncredited]

The Sportsview Unit looks back on the world's greatest sports stars in action.
Tonight:
John Cobb and the World Title fight between Jack Johnson and Stanley Ketchel
Introduced by Raymond Glendenning.

Contributors

Racing driver:
John Cobb
Boxer:
Jack Johnson
Boxer:
Stanley Ketchel
Presenter:
Raymond Glendenning
Devised and written by:
Paul Fox
Devised and written by:
Ronnie Noble
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill

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