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A weekly agricultural magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by John Cherrington.

Beef from Grass
Harry Hunt visits the Grassland Research Institute at Hurley and interviews the Director, Dr. William Davies, about the production of beef from leys.

Guest Speaker: Dr. C.P. McMeekan, Director of the Animal Husbandry Research Station of the Ruakura, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Farm Visit
Teleri Phillips visits Gwilym Thomas, Chwaengoch, Llanerchymedd, Anglesey.

From the BBC's Midland studios

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Interviewer (Beef from Grass):
Harry Hunt
Interviewee (Beef from Grass):
Dr. William Davies
Guest speaker:
Dr. C.P. McMeekan
Item presenter (Farm Visit):
Teleri Phillips
Farmer (Farm Visit):
Gwilym Thomas
Film Sequences:
The BBC's Agricultural Film Unit
Cameraman:
John Bird
Editor:
Iris Lewis
Film Sequences:
The Welsh Film Unit
Director:
Philip Lewis
Producer:
Hilary Phillips

The recent United Nations conference on the Law of the Sea ended in deadlock, chiefly owing to disagreement about the extent of Territorial Waters. Today's programme examines some of the claims that were made and how they could affect this country.
Introduced by Peter West.
(The subject of next week's Spotlight will be announced during this week's programme)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter West
Producer:
Ivan Gilman

About the Home

Cookery Club
Evelyn Rose, Cookery Editor of Family Doctor, shows how to make an American Raisin Spice Cake, a recipe that originated in the North of England.
From the BBC's Northern studios

The Season's Best
Frances Perry shows this month's best value in flowers, fruit, and vegetables.

Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

3.15 Our Miss Pemberton: 31: Comings and Goings
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):
Evelyn Rose
Item presenter (The Season's Best):
Frances Perry
Producer (About the Home):
Ann Shead
Writer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Sheila Hodgson
Producer (Our Miss Pemberton):
Richard Gilbert
Geof Patterson:
Terence Soall
Mary Pemberton:
Margot Boyd
Paul Bassett:
Roderick Lovell
Percy Carter:
Vincent Goodman
Agnes Avery Brown:
Damaris Hayman
Willie Tibbetson:
Kim Grant
Betty Tibbetson:
Julia Worth

Another play by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Settings by Andrew Brownfoot from illustrations by S.G. Hulme Beaman
(A BBC telerecording)

Contributors

Writer/Settings based on illustrations by:
S.G. Hulme Beaman
Voices:
Margaret Ward
Voices:
Peter Hawkins
Voices:
Noel Coleman
Voices:
Ivan Owen
Puppeteer:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly Gibson
Puppeteer:
Elizabeth Thorndike
Puppeteer:
Bob Bura
Puppeteer:
John Hardwick
Puppets/Producer:
Gordon Murray
Settings:
Andrew Brownfoot

Look around with Derek Hart.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Macdonald Hastings and this week, Noel Harrison,
Maggie Fitzgibbon

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer/guitarist:
Noel Harrison
Singer:
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

(Next episode on Monday)

Contributors

Script:
Bill Naughton
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Director:
Morris Barry
Megs Turner:
Nancy Nevinson
Gwyneth Turner:
Gillian Gale
Jim Turner:
Philip Ray
Hughie Turner:
Barry MacGregor
Detective Gunn:
Robert Lankesheer
Detective Smith:
Ronald Wood
Policeman:
Michael Stainton
A drunk:
John Herrington
Mrs. Brown:
Olga Dickie
Joe Trimmer:
George Roderick
Station Sergeant:
Michael Logan

from the Television Theatre.
with Semprini, The Keynotes also introducing A Guest Artist and The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes.

Contributors

Singer:
Vera Lynn
Pianist:
null Semprini
Singers:
The Keynotes
Dancers:
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Choreographer/Associate Producer:
Leslie Roberts
Orchestra conducted by:
Eric Robinson
[Orchestra] leader:
David McCallum
Script:
Freddie Robertson
Producer:
Albert Stevenson

An on-the-spot investigation by Outside Broadcast cameras ashore, afloat, and underwater with frogmen and echo-sounders into the story of the Loch Ness Monster. How far can modern scientific equipment probe a mystery that first hit the headlines of the world's press twenty-five years ago this month?
See page 7

Contributors

Commentator (on board ship):
Raymond Baxter
Commentator (underwater):
Mark Terrell
Commentator (ashore):
Jameson Clark
Producer (on board ship):
Peter Webber
Producer (on shore):
James Buchan

A new play by George Ross and Campbell Singer.
Televised direct from the Westminster Theatre by arrangement with Peter Bridge in association with E. P. Clift.

Contributors

Writer:
George Ross
Writer:
Campbell Singer
Setting:
Victor Friendly
Director:
Anthony Sharp
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
Sir Norman Tullis:
Raymond Huntley
Geoffrey Harrison:
John Barron
Julian Armstrong:
Ralph Michael
Joyce Anderson:
Jennifer Wright
Malcolm Turnbull:
John Boxer
Harry Dodds:
Trevor Reid
Jonathan Travis:
Oliver Johnston
Charles Pleydon, M.P.:
Richard Vernon
Stanley Griffiths:
Raymond Mason
Martin Meadows:
Charles Morgan
Sergeant Roberts:
Edward Palmer

In matters of conscience You are the Jury
This programme aims to put the arguments for and against:
Boxing
Denzil Batchelor and Kenneth Harris ask the questions
and
Dr. The Rt. Hon. Edith Summerskill, M.P., Trevor Philpott, W. Barrington Dalby, Jack Petersen give the answers.
In the chair, Lindsey Platt
Produced by Kenneth Brown from the BBC's Manchester studios

Contributors

Interviewer:
Denzil Batchelor
Interviewer:
Kenneth Harris
Panellist:
Edith Summerskill, M.P.
Panellist:
Trevor Philpott
Panellist:
W. Barrington Dalby
Panellist:
Jack Petersen
Chairman:
Lindsey Platt
Producer:
Kenneth Brown

BBC Television

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