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Room for Improvement: 3 - Kitchens
John Siddeley demonstrates ideas for solving problems of decoration and furnishing put to him by viewers.
Including information about sinks, boilers, cookers, refrigerators, and storage units.
Introduced by Molly Weir.

3.15 Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
From the BBC's Midland television studio

All instructions for exercises demonstrated by Eileen Fowler since January 1957 (which she is repeating on Monday afternoons till mid-June) and previously published in a pamphlet and in supplements to Radio Times, are reprinted in a new pamphlet obtainable from [address removed]. Price 2s. 6d. post free. Postal orders, please, not stamps.

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Item presenter (Room for Improvement):
John Siddeley
Presenter:
Molly Weir
Producer:
Monica Sims
Exerciser (Keep Fit):
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by (Keep Fit):
Ann Shead
Music arranged and played by (Keep Fit):
Helen Shields
Presented by (Keep Fit):
Desmond O'Leary

Elizabeth Lanchbury introduces Studio E, Your Monday Magazine

Camp-Fire Cooking: 3 - In a Pot
with Jack Cox.

Competition Results
Peter Dorp shows the winning pictures made from odds and ends.

Story Time
A tale from abroad.

New Books
Dorian Williams with books about horses and riders.

Visit to Brussels
A film of the preparations for the International Exhibition.

Dancing Round the World: Central Europe

Uncle Stan Unwin in his workshop

I Want to Meet...
The international ballerina Beryl Grey

Kim the Keeshond

Contributors

Presenter:
Elizabeth Lanchbury
Item presenter (Camp-Fire Cooking):
Jack Cox
Item presenter (Competition Results):
Peter Dorp
Item presenter (New Books):
Dorian Williams
Comedian:
(Uncle) Stan Unwin
Interviewee (I Want to Meet...):
Beryl Grey
Editor:
Ursula Eason
Presented by:
Leonard Chase

Contributors

Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Mervyn R. Pinfield
Script:
Bill Naughton
Story Associate:
Sheila Hodgson
Story Associate:
David Campton
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Jim Turner:
Philip Ray
Charlie, apprentice:
Barry Steele
Simpson:
Maurice Durant
Allerdyce:
John Forbes Robertson
Tom Turner:
Brian McDermott
Mary Tennison:
Patricia Mort
Lacey:
Harry Littlewood
Hazel:
Anne Pichon
Doris:
Jose Read
Mrs. Childs:
Betty Cooper
Joseph Starr:
William Sherwood
Robin Starr:
Michael Murray
Mannion:
Anthony Woodruff
Mackie:
George Cormack

[Starring] Charlie Drake
with Valentine Dyall
and Robert Dorning, Ken Wilson, Penelope Bartley, Kenneth Kove, Howard Lang, Paul Hardtmuth, Vilma Ann Leslie, Arthur Mullard, Kenneth Mosley, George Weedon

Contributors

Scriptwriter:
S.C. Green
Scriptwriter:
R.M. Hills
Scriptwriter:
Charlie Drake
Designer:
George Djurkovic
Devised and produced by:
George Inns
Comedian:
Charlie Drake
[Actor]:
Valentine Dyall
[Actor]:
Robert Dorning
[Actor]:
Ken Wilson
[Actress]:
Penelope Bartley
[Actor]:
Kenneth Kove
[Actor]:
Howard Lang
[Actor]:
Paul Hardtmuth
[Actress]:
Vilma Ann Leslie
[Actor]:
Arthur Mullard
[Actor]:
Kenneth Mosley
[Actor]:
George Weedon

The main competitive events in this major ballroom-dancing promotion are included in two direct outside broadcasts this evening, from the Empress Hall, London
Junior Tournament Grand Finals and Professional Championship: 2nd Round
Music for dancing by Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
See also 10.50

Contributors

Musicians:
Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
Commentator:
Peter West
Commentator:
Sylvia Peters

says Eamonn Andrews to ?
Original music written by James Turner and played by the orchestra
Conducted by George Clouston
("This Is Your Life" was devised by Ralph Edwards)

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Scriptwriter:
Peter Moore
Material supplied by:
Ray Marler
Music written by:
James Turner
Conductor:
George Clouston
Devised by:
Ralph Edwards
Director:
Vere Lorrimer
Producer:
T. Leslie Jackson

Each week Television's Window on the World opens on Places - Problems - Personalities in the News

Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.

Including the first live demonstration of V.E.R.A. from the BBC Research Centre in Nightingale Square.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Dimbleby
Edited and produced by:
Rex Moorfoot
Associate Producer:
Charles Wheeler
Associate Producer:
David Wheeler

Introduced by Peter Haigh and Derek Bond.
Film Newsreel of the stars at last night's party for 'The Mousetrap' shortly to be made into a film by Romulus
Maurice Elvey talks about British comedies of the thirties
Alan Adair reports direct from Paris
The Roving Eye visits a cinema in London
Interviews with personalities and excerpts from the latest films in London including:
'Thunder Road', Robert Mitchum's first independent production featuring Robert Mitchum and his son, James and Teacher's Pet, with Doris Day and Clark Gable.
(Films by courtesy of United Artists and Paramount)
See page 4

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Haigh
Presenter:
Derek Bond
Item presenter:
Maurice Elvey
Reporter:
Alan Adair
Director:
Richard Evans
Producer:
Alan Sleath

A direct outside broadcast from the Empress Hall, London.
Professional Championship Semi-Final
Amateur Championship Grand Final
Richardson Cup
Latin-American and Demonstration Sections
Professional Championship Grand Final
The declaration of results and prize-giving
Music for dancing by the orchestras of Victor Silvester and Joe Loss with the Band of the Grenadier Guards
Director of Music, Major F. Harris

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter West
Commentator:
Sylvia Peters
Musicians:
The Victor Silvester Orchestra
Musicians:
The Joe Loss Orchestra
Musicians:
Band of the Grenadier Guards
Director of Music:
Major F. Harris
Television Presentation:
Robin Scott

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