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Your Own Time
A light-hearted magazine for younger women.
Introduced by Robert Gladwell.

It's a Woman's World
Introducing Enid Chanelle director of a chain of fashion stores, to prove the point.

The Silent Enemy
An excerpt from the new film about Commander Crabb and interviews with Captain Quinton Whitford who knew him and William Fairchild who directed the film.
(Film excerpt by courtesy of Romulus Films)

Catch a Rising Star
Jeremy Lubbock, new young singer and pianist.

An Egg for Easter
Roma Fairley watches a chocolate manufacturer at work.

3.15 Christ Did Not Stop at Eboli
This short film tells of a struggle against illiteracy and ignorance In Southern Italy. It depicts the day-to-day life in a village to the south of Eboli, beyond which, according to the old Italian saying, Christ did not go.
(Previously televised on September 4, 1955)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Gladwell
Item presenter (It's a Woman's World):
Enid Chanelle
Interviewee (The Silent Enemy):
Captain Quinton Whitford
Interviewee (The Silent Enemy):
William Fairchild
Singer/Pianist (Catch a Rising Star):
Jeremy Lubbock
Item presenter (An Egg for Easter):
Roma Fairley
Arranged and presented by:
Lorna Pegram

Eamonn Andrews opens Playbox
Helped by Tony Hart with the drawings and Ivan Owen with the games in which two young teams take part.
Including:
The Playbox Detective Agency
in which you can try your hand at detection.
Written by Vere Lorrimer.
and
The Inter-Regional Quiz Championship: The Final Eliminator
In a top-of-the-table play off Birmingham meets Cardiff for a place in the Final.
Written and produced by Cliff Michelmore

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Drawings:
Tony Hart
Co-presenter:
Ivan Owen
Writer (The Playbox Detective Agency):
Vere Lorrimer
Director:
Leonard Chase
Writer/producer:
Cliff Michelmore

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Maxine Daniels, Noel Harrison

The State Visit to the Netherlands of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
This evening the Queen and the Duke are the guests of the Netherlands Government at a dinner, and later at a reception, given in their honour at the Binnenhof in the Hague.
It is hoped to include in Tonight at 7.0 app a relay, through the Eurovision network, of their arrival at the Treveszaal.
A relay from the reception may also take place during the evening.
The scenes in the Hague described by Richard Dimbleby.
Presented for television by courtesy of Nederlandse Televisie Stichting.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer:
Maxine Daniels
Singer/Guitarist:
Noel Harrison
Producer:
Donald Baverstock
Commentator (State Visit):
Richard Dimbleby

A telerecording of this top American show
Starring Dinah Shore
with star guests: Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford
and The Steiner Brothers, The Skylarks Vocal Group, The Harry Zimmerman Orchestra
See page 9

Contributors

Presenter/Singer:
Dinah Shore
Singer:
Frank Sinatra
Singer:
Peter Lawford
Dancers:
The Steiner Brothers
Vocalists:
The Skylarks Vocal Group
Musicians:
The Harry Zimmerman Orchestra

Max Robertson introduces Sportsview
Television's sports magazine invites you to meet the Heavyweight Champion of the World
Floyd Patterson in person
Tonight's programme also includes:
The Lincolnshire Handicap
Film of this afternoon's first big race of the season
and
Sportsreel
A film round-up of sporting events round the world.

Contributors

Presenter:
Max Robertson
Interviewee:
Floyd Patterson
Editor:
Paul Fox
Editor:
Ronnie Noble
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill

A television play for one character.
Written and produced by Ken Hughes.
[Starring] Anthony Newley

Alone in his room, Sammy has three hours in which to raise the £200 that will save him from disaster. As the minutes pass he grows more desperate in his race against time, and in his attempt to forestall that fateful knock on the door...
(Anthony Newley appears by permission of Warwick Film Productions, Ltd.)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Ken Hughes
Designer:
Norman James
Sammy:
Anthony Newley

A film made by Vitold de Golish during his expeditions in Upper Burma, when he lived with the Naga head hunters, with the elephant - worshipping Kayahs, and with the Padaung tribe whose women have their necks stretched and supported by long spirals of copper.
Narrated and produced by David Attenborough.

Contributors

Filmmaker:
Vitold de Golish
Editor:
Larry Toft
Narrator/producer:
David Attenborough

Bernard Miles invites some interesting personalities to read with him passages from the Bible in an attempt to recapture the spirit and meaning of this book in familiar and unfamiliar words.

His guests tonight are: Barbara Kelly, James McKechnie, Helen Starns

Contributors

Presenter:
Bernard Miles
Reader:
Barbara Kelly
Reader:
James McKechnie
Reader:
Helen Starns
Presented by:
George Angeloglou

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