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

Dry Stone Walling: Jack Hargreaves of the Farmers' Weekly reports on the Annual Competition of the Settle region of the West Riding (Yorkshire) Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs.

Crofting: Harry Hoggan visits the crofting township of Achvrail, Rogart in Sutherland, and meets crofter John J. Monro, who describes how he makes a living from his croft.

Film sequences by the BBC's Agricultural Film Unit
and Scottish and North Region Film Units

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Ted Owens
Reporter (Dry Stone Walling):
Jack Hargreaves
Reporter (Crofting):
Harry Hoggan
Interviewee (Crofting):
John J. Munro
Cameraman (The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit):
John Bird
Film Editor (The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit):
Iris Lewis
Film sequences:
The Scottish Region Film Unit
Film sequences:
The North Region Film Unit
Director:
John McGonagle
Producer:
Hilary Phillips

Spotlight takes you Out and About

The exhibition is being held in Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, and shows the variety of careers open to boys and girls leaving school. Today outside broadcast cameras visit some of the stands which are attracting people's interest, and are also in the arena for a special display arranged by the Scottish Council of Physical Recreation.

Contributors

Commentator:
Alex Allan
Commentator:
John Lindsay
Director:
James Buchan
Producer:
T. S. Allan

About the Home

Cookery Club
Guest cook, Nell Heaton shows how to make a top-hat souffle.

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: 23: Life and Hope
Written by Sheila Hodgson.
A story of life today in a small town.
(Kim Grant is appearing in "The Boy Friend" at Wyndham's Theatre, London)

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Presenter (About the Home):
Joan Gilbert
Cook (Cookery Club):
Nell Heaton
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
Doctor Gilbray:
Donald Bissett
Willie Tibbetson:
Kim Grant
Mary Pemberton:
Margot Boyd
Avis Douglas:
Jocelyne Rhodes
P.C. Meggitt:
Frank Hickey
Mrs. Hyde-Wright:
Edith Stevenson
Paul Bassett:
Roderick Lovell

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer:
Rory McEwen
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

Cyril Stapleton presents Show Band Parade featuring his Show Band in popular music of yesterday, today, and tomorrow with Eve Boswell, The Mudlarks, Jackie Lee, Bob Stevenson, Sheila O'Neill, The Dancers and The Show Band Singers.
Directed by Cliff Adams

Contributors

Presenter/bandleader:
Cyril Stapleton
Singer:
Eve Boswell
Singers:
The Mudlarks
Singer:
Jackie Lee
Dancer:
Bob Stevenson
Dancer:
Sheila O'Neill
Singers:
The Show Band Singers
Show Band Singers directed by:
Cliff Adams
Production scenes staged by:
Alfred Rodrigues
Producer:
Graeme Muir

The News Chronicle offers £7,500 to 'Go Getters'
Televised each week direct from the public hearing in London as contestants answer the question 'How would you spend £5,000 to get ahead?'
Judges: Sir Frederic Hooper, The Viscountess Lewisham (Mrs. Gerald Legge), George Woodcock
Chairman, Peter West

Contributors

Judge:
Sir Frederic Hooper
Judge:
The Viscountess Lewisham (Mrs. Gerald Legge)
Judge:
George Woodcock
Chairman:
Peter West
Presented for television and directed by:
Derek Burrell-Davis

by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.

The authors have written a modern 'Beggar's Opera' as Gay did in 1728: that is to say they have taken contemporary problems - overcrowded slums, neglected children, juvenile delinquency - and put them in a contemporary setting, a derelict bomb-site in the East End of London.
See page 6

Contributors

Writer:
Caryl Brahms
Writer:
Ned Sherrin
Music arranged, composed and conducted by:
Max Saunders
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Repetiteur:
Cyril Gell
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Lucy Lockett:
Sandra Alfred
Charlie Boy:
Bernard Collins
Nipper:
David Franks
Ginge:
Colin Spaull
Perce:
Maurice Bennis
Spike:
John Pike
Mrs. Heath:
Della Batchelor
Jock:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Zeke:
George Hancock
Mack Heath:
Alec McCowen
Mr. Grundy:
Charles Lamb
Polly Peachum:
Sally Smith
Angel Face:
Leonard Monaghan
Danny:
Danny Green
Miss Pestridd:
Rose Hill
Mrs. Diver:
Virginia Winter
Mrs. Trapes:
Doris Yorke
Mrs. Filch:
Violet Gould
Ma Lockett:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Inspector:
George Hagan

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